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#26 Pappy

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Posted 14 December 2021 - 08:38 AM

One hurricane a few years ago, I forget which one, did a complete loop-de-loop and did a double-whammy, slamming the same places twice before it finally curved northeast  and went away.

Pablo, this inspired (for the lack of a better word) me to look up a few things. Scientist estimate the earth is 4.5 billion years old. The National Weather Bureau has been in existence since 1880 (141 years). So that's .000000031% of the time earth has been here. So this could be a common occurrence for Mother Earth and it could have happened before even in your life time but you just don't remember it. 

 

Do you realize that almost every record high and low temperatures were broken every day in 1881.  :D


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 09:24 AM

:shok:  :)

 

Hre is my definition of GOOD weather - when the blades in my heat pump are not spinning  :good:


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 09:56 AM

I feel your pain, Pablo. Myself, if it wasn't for heating bills I wouldn't mind winter. We have basically two month's of hard winter and two month's of hot summer heat.


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Jim "Butch" Dunaway 
 
I don't always go the extra mile, but when I do it's because I missed my exit. 
All my life I've strived to keep from becoming a millionaire, so far I've succeeded. 
There are three kinds of people in the world, those that are good at math and those that aren't. 
No matter how big of a hammer you use, you can't pound common sense into stupid people, believe me, I've tried.

 


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 09:56 AM

 

 

Peoples memories of how things use to be can be a little distorted. 

 

 

True. I remember having to walk to school through a snowstorm, with snow ten feet deep, uphill, both ways, barefooted.

 

I have a relative living in north central Wisconsin. They have 18 inches on the ground, but 300 miles south, in Illinois, we have yet to have a measurable snowfall. And the snow would be higher up there except that their earliest snowfall was followed immediately by a rainstorm that melted it all off. 


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 10:03 AM

My favorite one-liner from this thread:

 

"Buying a blower is the best way to change weather patterns" LOL


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 10:28 AM

 

True. I remember having to walk to school through a snowstorm, with snow ten feet deep, uphill, both ways, barefooted.

My dad did the same thing but he had a headwind both directions on top of that. LOL

 

When I say peoples memories are a little distorted, there are guys who still think the muscle cars of the 60's and 70's were a lot faster than the cars today. Hell, they got 4 cylinder cars that will take off and leave them old muscle cars.


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Jim "Butch" Dunaway 
 
I don't always go the extra mile, but when I do it's because I missed my exit. 
All my life I've strived to keep from becoming a millionaire, so far I've succeeded. 
There are three kinds of people in the world, those that are good at math and those that aren't. 
No matter how big of a hammer you use, you can't pound common sense into stupid people, believe me, I've tried.

 


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 02:53 PM

I'm in 427 Chevelle at a stop light and it's rattling the windows with the rough idle.   Kid pulls up a Mustang and says "I bet that thing is fast".   I told him "it's noisy and fun to drive, but your Mustang will blow my doors off" .


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 03:35 PM

When Dave Feidler was still alive, he used to hang out at Road America a lot. He would buy a season ticket every year. One year I took him for a ride around the track in my '04 Mustang during the lunch break, and we got into a little contest with a racer in a '66 Shelby GT-350. He could get around me on the straights, but I always caught him in the breaking zones, then would dive under him in the corners. Dave couldn't believe I could stay with him. He videoed it and promised me a copy, but died before he could make one. 

 

Fifties and sixties muscle cars have an aura about them. It isn't about the speed. Us old guys want to relive those days, and younger ones want to experience it for the first time. 



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Posted 14 December 2021 - 04:07 PM

For many decades a covert weather modification program has been carried out by governments around the world. It is hard for most people to accept because we have been told "...you can't control the weather", "..it is just the weather" etc. for all of our lives.

 

LBJ in 1962 shed light on the emerging technology when he stated "He who controls the weather controls the world."

 

I don't expect anyone to believe me, but you can go here and see for your self the technology at play. "The Dimming" documentary does not cover all the tools but it does cover the most widely used.


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Posted 14 December 2021 - 05:04 PM

This is an interesting article on tornadoes. This tornado was nothing new, just a bad one.

A catastrophic EF-5 tornado has not been documented in the United States in more than eight years, the longest span between "5-rated" twisters in historical records dating to 1950.

The nation's last EF-5 tornado struck Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013.

The previous record spanned nearly eight years to the day, between the F-5 twister that tore through Moore and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on May 3, 1999, and the EF-5 tornado that nearly wiped out the entire town of Greensburg, Kansas, on May 4, 2007. (The original Fujita Scale was updated to the Enhanced Fujita Scale and implemented in the United States on Feb. 1, 2007.)

EF-5 tornadoes are among the rarest cyclones on the planet. In the U.S., there have been only 59 EF-5 twisters since 1950, according to NOAA's Storm Prediction Center. That works out to an average of less than one EF-5 tornado in America each year. However, some years have reported multiple tornadoes of this intensity, while there have also been multi-year stretches without a single 5-rated twister such as the current eight-plus-year streak.

An EF-5/F-5 tornado has been documented in 19 states, ranging from as far north as Fargo, North Dakota, to as far south as Central Texas and as far east as Ohio near its border with Pennsylvania.

Alabama and Oklahoma have recorded the greatest number of tornadoes with a rating of 5 on the Fujita/Enhanced Fujita Scale, each with seven such twisters since 1950. Iowa, Kansas and Texas have each seen six EF-5/F-5 tornadoes.

1974 leads the way with the most EF-5/F-5 tornadoes in a single year, when seven such twisters were reported during the Super Outbreak of April 3. Among that day's 5-rated tornadoes, three struck Alabama, two hit Ohio, and Indiana and Kentucky each saw one.

Just over 37 years later, six EF-5/F-5 twisters touched down in the spring of 2011. Four occurred during the April 27 Super Outbreak in Alabama and Mississippi, each reporting two EF-5 tornadoes that day. The year's other two EF-5s struck Joplin, Missouri, and El Reno/Piedmont, Oklahoma, on May 22 and 24, respectively.

Any twister can turn deadly if people in its way are caught unprepared. However, those rated a 4 or a 5 on the Fujita/Enhanced Fujita Scale have historically killed the greatest number of people. In fact, 50.48% of all tornado deaths over the 20-year period from 2000 through 2019 were caused by EF-4 or EF-5 twisters, according to data from the SPC. The remaining 49.52% of the deaths were from tornadoes rated EF-0 to EF-3.

All 15 tornadoes in U.S. history that were blamed for 100 or more deaths received a rating of EF-4/F-4 or EF-5/F-5, according to the SPC.

 


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All my life I've strived to keep from becoming a millionaire, so far I've succeeded. 
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No matter how big of a hammer you use, you can't pound common sense into stupid people, believe me, I've tried.

 


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Posted 12 March 2022 - 05:51 PM

This morning we woke to a 2" blanket of snow, I love it.

 

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JoJo wasn't overjoyed but he's adjusting well

 

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Good slot car building weather 


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Posted 12 March 2022 - 09:47 PM

I got rain, a 1/2" of snow, then more rain here in NH. But I got 5" of snow on Wed. too.


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Posted 12 March 2022 - 10:38 PM

We got 4"- 6" last night. The same time in 94 we got 3'+. Don't mind the winter, I can build slot cars without prejudice. In the summer, it's hard to justify. All 72 hours of summer we get here.

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Posted 12 March 2022 - 10:39 PM

Sorry, it cut me off.
I try to enjoy the 72 hours of summer out side.

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Posted 13 March 2022 - 09:22 AM

Oh, you poor guys! (sic)

 

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The bottom of the door on the grey house is three steps up from the ground. The drift in front of my garage is almost up to the door handle.

 

"Helena (MT) got six inches last night". Harry Volkman, Chicago weatherman of the 60's and 70's, describing the snowfalls around the Midwest. I'm sure she enjoyed every inch. 


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Posted 13 March 2022 - 09:41 AM

only thing to do is build chassis until late may/june when the snow and mud are gone


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Posted 13 March 2022 - 12:54 PM

JoJo loves the sweater but rejected the booties. After a long walk in slush without them, his paws weren't cold or dirty  :pardon:


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Posted 13 March 2022 - 10:00 PM

This morning on the way to the Florida Slot Car Series (FSCS) flexi race in Melbourne FL the temps had plunged into the low 50's, Brutal, just Brutal!! :D


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Posted 13 March 2022 - 10:52 PM

:laugh2:


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Posted 14 March 2022 - 01:28 AM

The Inuit have 30 different terms for various types of snow. The term they use most often in more Fin white $hit!


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Posted 14 March 2022 - 01:00 PM

This morning on the way to the Florida Slot Car Series (FSCS) flexi race in Melbourne FL the temps had plunged into the low 50's, Brutal, just Brutal!! :D

 

That would have been a heat wave here. We've had a couple false spring days already. 50 F is a sign for us to open the doors & windows for better ventilation. :) It's currently 44 F. & I do have one door to the outside open...


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