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tggzzz:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on July 18, 2022, 06:57:31 pm ---In the interests of science you should now go and get absolutely plastered, test your hydration and report back.

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Fortunately such testing is easy: just look at the colour as you piss up a rope.

grizewald:

--- Quote from: Saskia on July 18, 2022, 09:58:58 pm ---need to order wood for heating for winter. prices are going through the roof. will try to obtain a chainsaw later this week ...
probably a Husqvarna ...

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Swedish chainsaws FTW!

GreyWoolfe:

--- Quote from: Cubdriver on July 18, 2022, 09:19:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: grizewald on July 18, 2022, 09:14:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Saskia on July 18, 2022, 09:03:41 pm ---having had 2 minor hurricanes (average wind speed 160 and 165 mph, gusts to 190 / 195) coming my way I cannot concur. This is nothing you want to experience first hand.

[video]

You do NOT want to be caught in that ...

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Totally agree. I have no desire to be anywhere in the path of a hurricane. Experiencing a Texan mega storm from a respectable distance is another matter though. Just the sheer ground shaking volume of almost constant horizon to horizon thunder and lightning is a truly visceral experience.

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Yeah, hurricanes are not fun, and I say that based on what we get here which is usually on the wane compared to when they make landfall further south.

-Pat

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Been through a few of them including Andrew.  I owned a mobile home in Hollywood Florida then and had an old convertible.  Went further north to stay with friends and we put the convertible under the overhang on the front of the house and wrapped it up with a tarp.  Got back home afterward and was fortunate to have no damage but did have a piece of roof from someone else's house on my porch.

Mrs GreyWoolfe was chased twice by tornadoes when living in Texas.  She much prefers hurricanes as would I.  She says you have days to prepare, not a blink of an eye.

tggzzz:

--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on July 18, 2022, 07:30:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: tggzzz on July 18, 2022, 05:16:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on July 18, 2022, 03:28:36 pm ---For the record, the temp here in Chelmsford, UK is 37C in the shade.
Edit:
Just picked SWMBO up from work and its now 39C  :phew: And its currently 32C in my lab with all the windows and curtains closed.

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37.1 in Brizzle. My temp is 37.

Just about to walk to the local shop to get some sparkling water. I expect the tarmac is ~55C. I may be some time[1]

[1] after Warren Oates, who followed that idiot Scott to his death.
But Scott was well-bred, so he was a better example[2] of a hero than Shackleton - who stunningly managed to lead his men to safety.

[2] Bloody "Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori" attitude.

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i really hate to be that guy.  but was just watching an episode of "gunsmoke" and saw warren oates.

you probably meant lawrence oates?

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Clearly my brain is melting.

grizewald:

--- Quote from: mnementh on July 18, 2022, 10:03:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: grizewald on July 18, 2022, 09:14:01 pm ---
--- Quote from: Saskia on July 18, 2022, 09:03:41 pm ---having had 2 minor hurricanes (average wind speed 160 and 165 mph, gusts to 190 / 195) coming my way I cannot concur. This is nothing you want to experience first hand.

[video]

You do NOT want to be caught in that ...

--- End quote ---

Totally agree. I have no desire to be anywhere in the path of a hurricane. Experiencing a Texan mega storm from a respectable distance is another matter though. Just the sheer ground shaking volume of almost constant horizon to horizon thunder and lightning is a truly visceral experience.
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Yes... as is watching a dumbass in a shoebox car get washed off into the guardrails trying to drive through a flash-flood passing over the highway.  :o

mnem
The plains are unforgiving of fools; just like mother ocean.

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I still remember wondering why the drains at the sides of the road were so huge the first time I visited Texas.
Later that week it rained....

 :D

I have a great respect for the settlers who, long before air conditioning, made their new homes in Texas. It's a brutal, unforgiving place and I can imagine that the only people who survived at the start were as tough as nails.

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