What's more current than the weather?

[glatt]

Sometimes you just have to take your chances. Couple weeks ago, I was camping and there was a violent thunderstorm. Nowhere to go, so we all just sat under the tarp at the picnic table and experienced the storm. Lightning was striking very close, but not close enough that it hit any of us.

Odds are a tornado will miss you, even if there is one around.

[xoxoxoBruce]

If you sit in a swivel desk chair wear a seatbelt, because the tornado will just spin you around real fast.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Damn it, I'm rusting.
By the way, today is Saint Swithin's Day. If it rains today it will rain for 40 days and 40 nights.

[Gravdigr]

St Swithun's day if thou dost rain
For forty days it will remain
St Swithun's day if thou be fair
For forty days 'twill rain nae mare

If you're gonna make me learn stuff, at least spell it write.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Damn it, I'm rusting.
By the way, today is Saint Swithin's Day. If it rains today it will rain for 40 days and 40 nights.

Let's trade, hm?

I mentioned a couple times how hot and dry it's been since... forever it seems. Crispy, right? Out here is a beautiful national park, Olympic National Park, home of the largest, wettest temperate rainforest in the continental United States, 200 inches of rain a year. It's so hot and dry, the fucking rainforest is on fire, has been for weeks, and is expected to remain uncontained until the end of September.

Now in its third month, the Paradise Fire has consumed nearly 1,600 acres of forest, making it the largest since the park was founded. According to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Web site, officials don’t expect to have the fire contained until Sept. 30.

[Gravdigr]

I lost my waggly hand ears on 9/11, you insensitive bassturd.

[Undertoad]

Well, El Nino to the rescue! Supposed to be a big one.

[infinite monkey]

I didn't know about that BigV. Ouch. You guys are like known for rain. I've loved all the rain this summer. Also, I haven't had to run the A/C units nearly as much, which saves precious dollars on my too high electric bills. Except for some area small flooding issues, I don't see a downside to the rain. A couple of bozos took their kayaks out on the flooded river yesterday and one lost his kayak and had to climb a tree while his buddy hung onto a branch, while still in his kayak, while they wasted precious tax dollars trying to save their dumbasses. The names of the ignoramus maroons have not been released. Probably so they won't be laughed at to their faces the rest of their lives.

[glatt]

Rain is just fine. Keeps things green. Keeps the reservoirs full. In the past, my biggest concern with rain was finding a dry time on the weekend to mow the lawn, but now I've got the kids mowing the lawn and they can do it any time during the week when the grass gets dry. Good stuff.

[fargon]

What they both said^

[BigV]

gah.

6:20 pm, thermostat says 88 degrees in the house. I have a window fan with a temperature display, that one says 93 degrees.

I'm melting.

[xoxoxoBruce]

That corner of the country is going to have to get more familiar with A/C in the future. It's a good thing you have all those hydro dams to make cheap power. Wait, we have to tear them down for the fish. Have to BBQ the fish outside then, too hot in the house.

[Gravdigr]

I came in the other morning at 2:30 in the a.m. and the thermometer read 82 degrees (outside, inside it was 70).

[BigV]

Sounds refreshing. But, is it expensive, electricity wise?

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by BigV

Sounds refreshing. But, is it expensive, electricity wise?

In the deepest hottest parts of summer we'll break $100, but, usually the worst is no more than $125. It's pretty rare to go any higher.

/knock wood/counting my lucky stars

Popdigr insulated the shit outta this house when they owned it, back in the mid 70s. Went through some TVA program that came and inspected the house, did the leak test around doors and windows with the smoke machine. Then he had shit blown in all the walls/ceilings/crawl spaces, top to bottom.