TY, Classic! I just went out to buy a pack of smokes (heh!), and immediently noticed two large plumes of smoke rising from the mountains just south of town. Meanwhile, a really scenic area just west of Durango has also started to burn. It was less than an acre an hour ago and has now spread to 30. The local radio stations are giving updates every half hour on all the fires. So sad. In addition to the property loss, there is the loss of so many beautiful places and National Forest land.

Welcome back, SamIam. :)

Glad to hear from you, Sam.

Is Bullitt out fighting this lot, do we know?

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It's supposed to be a record breaking 102 in the city today. When did I move to the deep south?

We've secretly drugged Infinite Monkey and transported her to a new location: let's see if she notices....

*snort*

Can you try again? Cancun would be fine. ;)

.

Hahahah.

99...

Supposed to hit 103 by 5. At 8 pm it'll cool off to 97. :thepain:

100...

RFN

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My car's gonna be about 975 degrees. I even tried to park in a bit of shade.

Don't think we'll hit 103 in 9 minutes though.

You coulda made muffins while you were working.

Glad you're Back SamIam ...fill us in on your adventures, please. Allegedly our high was a mere 96 today, but the City less than two miles away hit 104......

Yeah, okay, that's pretty hot. Ugghhhh.


FWIW the forecasters are saying it looks like an el Nino is going to develop over the next six months or so. MoFo drought for us and New Year storms for the west coasts of the Americas.

Satan called, he said to turn up the A/C.

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This was less than 10 minutes earlier:

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uggghhhh. What is the humidity?

Still no power here 12 hours after a crazy, spectacular T-storm. Was at a welcome party for new staff and the wind tossed all the tables and tents around like confetti. Now my electronics are all low on battery ... nooooo

Starbucks time. IF Starbucks has power ... :rolleyes:

So much for Starbucks. Going to be 100 today and we've been warned we're likely to run out of tap water. Filling water containers, gonna be checking up on neighbors in this building full of seniors. And dragging my wind-up radio out of storage! Knew it'd come in handy one day ...

To clarify ... my building isn't entirely full of seniors, because I'm here. And hopefully a few other non-senior types. :p:

Could be worse Doc ,
This could be your weather

:lol2: bring it .... especially Godzilla on Wednesday. He'll get everyone over the hump!

RFN:

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That storm last night. Holy shit! Worst storm I've been in. My boy was still at camp when it hit there. It blew a couple logs off the final evening bonfire and into the woods. Staff put it out, and my kid and 300 other people spent the night in the dining hall. There's still no power and my phone is just now finally connecting to the internet. At least it's only 95 today and not 105.

Brighouse gala was rained off. We were on our way over with Soph whose cheerleading squad were doing a display in the gala, when the rain turned heavy again and she got a phone call to say the rest of the gala had been cancelled.

Earlier in the afternoon, it had been glorious sunshine, then total downpour then glorious sunshione again before going back to total downpour.

Diverted off to the tunnel field with carrot and Ruby and let them have a run about. Got totally and completely drenched, for the fourth time today.

We've been relatively unscathed here in Northowram and Stump Cross, but Briggers, Heb and Elland have all flooded badly.

Hail storms with with hail big enough to smash car windows the other day, and then the River Calder broke its banks and flooded several towns that run along its path. We've had a couple of deaths. Including one guy who had to abandon his car and then was killed trying to get to safety.

Just saw on the news that during the worst of it, Gateshead up in Northumberland, which has also been hit by bad floods, got a month's worth of rain in 2 hours.

I heard VA/DC got hit hardest, although there was a confirmed tornado in OH. Some areas there may not get power back until July 7. :eek:

Still no power here. But as long as there's running water I'm a happy camper (sorry, Glatt! But I bet the boys had a good time, right?)!

The "Waldo Fire" west of Colorado Springs, CO is being called
the most destructive fire in the state's history, with loss of > 340 homes.

This is the "heat periphery" of the fire at about 6 pm MST today.

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The pic below is simply the Google map of approx the same area.

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For those interested in such wildfires, here is a link to
the Incident Information System that gives up to date information on US fires.

Oh, no. I've been following the High Park fire west of Fort Collins - my daughter is out there - but hadn't heard about the Waldo Canyon fire. 32,000 evacuated already.

Thanks for the link, Lamplighter. It's a definite bookmark.

On a happier note: power's back on! Hooray!:jig:

There are so many, millions without power. I was lucky, power back on around 7 last night, just a few hours out. I was at work as it hit my area. Got caught in a torrential downpour as it hit my woork as I was heading out. Mom and dad power out for a day. This was a biggie. I hope our eastern dwellars are ok. Thinking about you all. Check in, ok?

Also I meant to say good to hear you and yours are ok, glatt. :)

Camping in bad weather just adds to the experience,
Glad every body is ok

Scary weather over there. Glad the kids are ok glatt.

Who do we have on the East coast?

Is any of that is going to get far enough west to help with the fires?

At first, I read this as, "Why do we have an East coast?"

Glad everyone's doing okay. Weather's going to kill us all in the end.

I slept on the basement floor last night. It's unfinished, and at least once during the night I had to brush a camel cricket out of my hair. But it was cool and I slept well. Nobody else in the family wanted to sleep down there next to the furnace and cobwebs and stuff, so they all sweated it out on the livingroom floor. It was in the 90s in our bedrooms overnight, so sleeping up there was pretty much out of the question.

Our street is pretty much unscathed, but just a couple blocks away some folks got hit real bad.

The storm was pretty terrifying, but now it's just really boring. Sitting here in the heat looking at eachother. Not much is open, and it's not safe to drive around with all the traffic lights out and people who think that means the same as having a green light.

Hoping we get power today.

Hope so, Glatt. Hope you at least have running water in the meantime. Maybe you should spend the day cleaning out the basement, getting rid of the cobwebs and stuff so the family will sleep down there - because you just know that, if you do, the power will come back on just as you finish ... :right:

@Zen, the weather here moves from west to east, so unfortunately none of the rain from these storms will hit the wildfires out there. Probably just as well - the lightning in this storm system would've started new fires. It was crazy.

no power sucks. our lights flickered yesterday from a lightning strike up the road but that was it. surprised it didn't shut off for a while because i'm working all weekend, as murphy's law would have it.

glad y'all are alright glatt! hope you get your power back on soon!

i do love a good lighting storm though but not when i'm flying in it!

vermont's been pretty dang warm, but no real storms up this far north. and a good thing, too - if we lose power, if i lose my fans, i will be just miserable beyond wwwwooooords.

Power! Woot!

Woot! Woot! And you didn't have to do the magical-thinking clean-out-the-basement thing! :D

Another big windy storm as I type. Hot weather makes the storms so unpredictable but imminent. I don't think it will be the magnitude of Friday, but it is exciting to see the river and the trees from my back porch. Lights just flickered so I'm hoping no repeat of power loss. I do love a storm, though.

Flash flood warning just came through my phone. The ground is so dry it pools, and runs straight into rivers and streams. I'm high on the levee so I'm safe.

did you drive to the levee? was it dry?

The hill behind mum's house is waterlogged from all the rain. It's seeping through the back wall of her house, as well as the floor of the two back rooms. Pain in the arse.

I live on the levee. Dad and mom just called. Dad says "So you wanted a storm? Was that to your liking? (He is teasing) and I agreed that it was good and I watched from my back porch.

Omg, this time a big old tree came crashing down and they are now again electric-lacking. Sheesh. The tree has been there forever. Dad is gonna take pics.

I ask if there is anything I can do and of course "we are fine. Just wanted to note the irony" kind of thing. My 'rents rock!

They sound awesome.

You beat me to it!! I was just going to ask her if she drove her Chevy! :p:

That's all you get from levees? ;) For one thing you might've asked what happens 'when the levee breaks'. Zeppelin.

I'm familiar with both songs and I gotta say: the levee is neither dry nor will it break. :lol:

well, no, once i got laid on a levee

eta: and it was in a chevy!

omg. Perfect. :lol:

It was the rye that made you do it.

:lol2: nah, the whiskey....well that and the chick knew what she was doing!

whew!

Coulda been the whiskey
Mighta been the gin
Coulda been the three or four six packs
I don't know but look at the mess I'm in
My head is like a football
Think I'm gonna die
Tell me me oh me oh my
Wasn't that a party?

:lol: These chicks in Chevys on levees ... heard this one before :lol:

um ladies? i drive a chevy. truck. 4 door. um...just sayin.



couldn't resist the comment....sry!

I was driving through northern Indiana during that fucking storm. One of the craziest things I've experienced. In ten minutes it went from nothing to a 80 - 90 mph hailstorm that forced every car to pull over.

Visibility went to shit and there is nothing like watching hail being pelted at your window at 90 mph. I thought a few cars were going to be flipped over...

Weather Underground is the weather-map that I have occasionally used in posting here.
It is a fantastic web site, with lots and lots of detail.
Here is a example:

BUT now this:
Democratic Underground
JOHN SCHWARTZ and BRIAN STELTER
7/3/12

Fans Howl After Weather Site Buys Out Rival

And here is one of the published comments to this article:

Mum's house is in a dreadful state. The smell of damp is overpowering. her landlords came round to look and were shocked at how bad it is.

Not as dramatic as the flood that took out her living room carpet and furniture a few years ago, but still bad. It's been like a very slow flood. The whole back of the house is waterlogged. Back rooms unusable. Including the kitchen. She tried cleaning up a bit in there and, having not used the oven for a couple of weeks, was horror struck to discover a thick layer of fluffy mould inside. Pans in the cupboard have got mould on them and the food in the cupboards has all been thrown.

It's looking like they may need to do some fairly major work on the house, which will mean she has to find somewhere else to stay for a few weeks. Bit difficult with elderly dog in tow. I live in what is effectively a two roomed house (not including bathroom) with a puppeh. Martin and family have room, but have two dogs (both bitches, one unspayed as yet) and two cats, and a set of high stone steps leading up to their house (difficult for Dan).

Also means they may decide to put her rent up if they have to spend a bunch of cash getting the house sorted.

Still: she's upbeat because at least they're aware and have seenit and were very insistent that this needed sorting. Apologised to her for her having to put up with so much etc. They're decent folk.