Jump to content

klw

Members
  • Posts

    4,493
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by klw

  1. Blog post:

    The sea was angry that day, my friends - like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli. I got about fifty feet out my door and suddenly, the great beast appeared before me. I tell you it was ten stories wide if it was a foot. As if sensing my presence, it let out a great bellow like a freight train. I said, "Easy, big fella!" And then, as I watched it struggling, I realized that something was obstructing its circulation. From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great storm.  Well then, from out of nowhere, a huge tidal wave lifted me, tossed me like a cork, and I found myself right on top of it - face to face with the funnel cloud. I could barely see from the waves crashing down upon me, but I knew something was there. So I reached my hand in, felt around, and pulled out the obstruction.  A hotel roof.

     

    • Like 2
    • Haha 4
  2. 8 hours ago, powderfreak said:

    What a torch zone the Champlain Valley is... low to mid 80s still. 

    Once into the hills east of the Spine, it cools off pretty decently... low 70s here along the valley waterways in the interior.

    YFYDsSF.png

    Burlington is a great place to visit and is so close to Vermont!

     

     

  3.  

     

    3 minutes ago, Lava Rock said:

    screw fashion. cut-off jeans ftw. My dad used to wear them and used a rope as a belt

    DILF Khakis and GILF shorts for the win.

     

    Either would work today.  It is a COC day up here today!  The air felt great this morning with all the windows open.

    • Haha 1
  4. 1 hour ago, STILL N OF PIKE said:

    anyone not installing ? (I.E Cheap)

    I thought about getting the fans out of the basement the other day but haven't yet.  I am still being stopped by my wife from opening the windows at night due to the pollen.  I may or may not be opening them for an hour or two in the morning before anyone else gets up.  I am saying I have been but ain't saying that I am not.

  5. 3 hours ago, wxeyeNH said:

    Not to hijack this thread but May is about over.  Speaking of electricity.  I pay 14.7 cents Kwh.  I have a Prius plug hybrid.  First 25 miles pure electric and then the hybrid engine.  Just drove from my house up to Plymouth center NH and back.  25 miles and that uses up a battery worth of electric.  Takes 6 Kwh to recharge.  So that is .88 cents of electricity.  What does the average car get  25miles per gallon, maybe 35?  That would have cost me  $2.79.  Most of my driving is within 25 miles a day but even once I use up the all-electric still getting well over 50mpg.  Love this car  (except it's front wheel drive and has a low base) and in NNE that is a no go you need a truck or at least all wheel drive.

    FWIW Toyota put out a AWD Prius for 2019 model.  It gets about 5 mpg less than the FWD but is still over 50 mpg.  Base height would be the only issue.  I only run into needing to take the Subie for my 60 mile (each way) commute through NNE on about 5 days a winter so far.

    • Like 1
  6. 3 hours ago, powderfreak said:

     

    I've been to Dracula's Castle... my wife's family is Romanian and her grandparents still live there along with some cousins.  

     

    You wife's grandparents live in Dracula's Castle?  cool!

    • Haha 1
  7. 4 hours ago, powderfreak said:

    God f*cking dammit there goes that argument :lol:.

    No way in hell she's going anywhere on the mountain though.  I've heard the even bigger tourist draw is those looking to visit base camp, which it appears celebrities are now doing.  

    I guess in 20 years Richard Branson will be taking people like her into space for tourism, and then we can have that discussion... only a matter of time. 

    Per Daily Mail, she already took a helicopter out to Kathmandu.

  8. 13 minutes ago, weathafella said:

    “I woke last night to the s ounce of thunder....how far off I sat and wondered....,started hummin’ a song from 1962.......”

    "I chased the heat of her blood like it was the holy grail
    Descend beautiful spirit into the evening pale
    Her appaloosa's kickin' in the corral smelling rain
    There's a low thunder rolling across the mesquite plain
    But there's just dry lightning on the horizon line
    It's just dry lightning and you on my mind"

  9. Special Weather Statement

    Special Weather Statement
    National Weather Service Burlington VT
    915 PM EDT Thu May 23 2019
    
    VTZ009>012-019-240200-
    Western Rutland-Eastern Rutland-Windsor-Western Addison-Orange-
    915 PM EDT Thu May 23 2019
    
    ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE...SOUTHERN
    ADDISON...RUTLAND AND WINDSOR COUNTIES...
    
    At 915 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Ira, moving
    east at 45 mph.
    
    Winds in excess of 40 mph are possible with this storm.
    
    Locations impacted include...
    Rutland, Chester, Woodstock, Killington, Ludlow Village, Rutland
    City, Wallingford, Rutland - Southern Vermont Airport, Benson,
    Pomfret, Plymouth, Hartland, Chittenden, West Rutland, Ira, West
    Castleton, Mount Holly, Sharon, Poultney Village and Mount Tabor.
    
    This storm may intensify, so be certain to monitor local radio
    stations and available television stations for additional information
    and possible warnings from the National Weather Service.
    
    LAT...LON 4323 7274 4326 7282 4330 7282 4331 7325
          4353 7324 4362 7330 4362 7337 4357 7340
          4359 7343 4377 7335 4380 7298 4389 7276
          4378 7220 4370 7231 4360 7234 4357 7238
          4338 7242 4331 7240 4323 7243
    TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 289DEG 40KT 4353 7309
    
    $$
    
    Clay
    

     

    https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=VTZ012&warncounty=VTC027&firewxzone=VTZ012&local_place1=West Norwich VT&product1=Special+Weather+Statement&lat=43.7567&lon=-72.3648#.XOdMqHopChA

  10. As I posted in another thread, Eye in the Sky reported this morning that they got 3.22 inches overnight at the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury which was the second most in 24 hours in May, only behind the flooding T-storms in 2011.

×
×
  • Create New...