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Originally Posted by plthijinx (Post 818047)

did you drive to the levee? was it dry?

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!

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Originally Posted by plthijinx (Post 818047)

did you drive to the levee? was it dry?

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:

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 818061)

well, no, once i got laid on a levee

eta: and it was in a chevy!

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Originally Posted by plthijinx (Post 818063)

well, no, once i got laid on a levee

eta: and it was in a chevy!

It was the rye that made you do it.

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Originally Posted by Lamplighter (Post 818074)

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?

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 818085)

: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!

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 818041)

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.

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

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The announcement on Monday that the Weather Channel Companies,
owners of television’s Weather Channel and weather.com, would buy one of its rivals,
Weather Underground, set off howls of displeasure on social media
platforms and around water coolers across the nation.
The purchase price was not disclosed.
<snip>
The controversy illustrates the deep national divide between those people
who just want to know if it’s going to rain, and people who really, really,
care about the data underlying the weather.

Christopher Maxwell, a manager at a solar energy company in Richmond, Va.,
is in the really-really-cares-about-the-weather camp. He said he saw the
Weather Channel deal as a sad sellout for Weather Underground.
<snip>
Weather Underground was founded in 1995 in Ann Arbor,
where it grew out of the University of Michigan’s online weather database.
The name was a winking reference to the radical group that also had its roots in Ann Arbor.

Mr. Maxwell said he appreciated Weather Underground’s fanatical devotion to data,
and how it drew information from so many thousands of weather stations
run by users that he is able to determine “microclimates” of variation that
can prove important in getting the most out of a new solar installation.

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

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8. Guess who bought them out... BAIN CAPITAL, Comcast and the Blackstone Group!

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.