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11-19-2013, 10:37 PM
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The future is unwritten
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11-20-2013, 07:22 AM
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Tornadoes are so freaky. This picture is right up there with the famous pictures of the stalks of straw blown through a telephone pole. |
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11-20-2013, 01:51 AM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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One of the things I love about my country is that the weather is rarely lethal.
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11-20-2013, 08:31 AM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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The pinpoint path of destruction always amazes me as well. One house in a tornado's path will be gone, completely leveled to the ground, and the house next door will appear untouched. At least with flooding, you know that all your neighbors got equally screwed.
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11-20-2013, 10:15 PM
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Read? I only know how to write.
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If its roof is not properly attached, it will lift off. Then the entire structure has been compromised - will easily fall like stacked cards. Those houses across the street apparently had hurricane straps. Those roofs did not fly. So those houses remained intact. Visit a house being framed. Atop each stud are two horizontal 2x4s. It is called the plate. Observe outside corners. Do those 2x4s overlap? Or just butted together. If corners are not properly constructed, then the house will fall like cards. If those 2x4s are not overlapped, then butted walls easy separate. Also half way up corner 2x4s MUST be blocks. So that intersecting walls are also joined half way up (4 feet). If these required construction practices do not exist (maybe half of homes are not done this way), then the house is an easy victim of any severe storm. And so across the street (on the edges of those Time Magazine pictures) was another block of houses that remained intact. A devil is found in those details. Since I don't entertain the devil, then god recently visited me. But that's another topic. |
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11-20-2013, 10:53 AM
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To shreds, you say?
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Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet!
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Or a redneck divorce...
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11-23-2013, 07:03 PM
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NSABFD
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If this is right? Will be lots of rednecks in the ditch on the way to Grandmaws house for Turkey.
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11-23-2013, 07:36 PM
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still says videotape
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Looks like a couple inches of effect snow tonight, but maybe something significant for the holiday.
Where I'd like to be: http://www.killington.com/winter/multimedia/webcam
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11-25-2013, 04:21 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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RFN.
Well, RFfifteenminutesago. 35°, & falling.
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11-26-2013, 11:00 PM
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Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian
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We've had a light snowfall, very snow-globe, although the snow is heavy and will likely bring tree limbs down. Hopefully it won't result in power outages.
I'm surprised at how mild the whole Winter Storm Boreas thing is so far. I guess Boreas lost some momentum crossing the midwest.
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11-30-2013, 06:27 PM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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Google Public Alerts: Special Weather Statement in Southwest Washington
Powerful Cold front to move through the Pacific Northwest Sunday and Monday. Active for next 14 hours National Weather Service A "blue norther" is also coming down thru the Canadian Rockies You all look out now... winter'll be in your neighborhood next. |
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11-30-2013, 07:23 PM
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The refrigerator was too full to store the turkey broth I made yesterday, so I put it in the pot out on the back stoop under an inverted recycling bin, weighed down with several bricks to keep animals out. Anyway, the broth was frozen this morning.
Winter is here. |
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11-30-2013, 08:10 PM
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still says videotape
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Cross country skied three straight mornings. Same conclusion.
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12-04-2013, 07:57 AM
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Person who doesn't update the user title
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Grass fires across New South Wales
Winter blizzards (2 fronts) from Utah to Minnesota PDX is setting new records in the low 20's - clear and cold The City has opened emergency shelters. Blankets and coats given out to the homeless And with a low front hanging off the coast, we may get freezing rain in the near future and/or black ice on the roadways ... a favorite time of the year |
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12-04-2013, 02:26 PM
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The Un-Tuckian
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74° here today.
Freaky.
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