Malacka11

43 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

fall shit

Stuff like this makes one appreciate humanity being able to pull off even a fraction of the civ engineering feats that we've achieved 

Now begins real dunes season

Little room to complain with our recent history locally, but some thunder would've been nice today especially since it's more normy filler weather for the rest of the week

I have resigned myself to this winter being an interesting vibration for sure. I don't care if it's 70 for Christmas... just please don't let us transition to that straight out of the only wintry period that really delivers of the entire season. No issues if it stays 65 the entire winter, just not the bait and switch. Watch, this year we're gonna get 30" on the 22nd and it'll vanish in two days...

Definitely thankful for every chance now that we're back in normie weather mode, hopefully we get something decent and not too much crapvection early

Hyped to see how the train ends up later, was "worried" about a near total shut out but from my model hawking it looks like the action may at least start as far north as 88ish.

On the one hand, rooting for IYBY inundation is a special kind of masochism for obvious reasons, especially with flash flooding being a proven concern for my building's parking lot. But I also can't recall the last time I personally experienced the sort of train where the ~GV+ genuinely just keeps rolling through overhead for hours. At least I don't have a basement to worry about...

Surprisingly badass looking as it rolls through, in places the scud is nearly touching the ground

200 tornadoes, 200 inches of snow next

I'm here for it

Northern burbs next?

Is that twinsies on that one northern cell?

Damn literally everything is brotating down there

Wanted to share this too, a severe warned storm from the top of some decent sized hill near Athens. Saw a power flash actually, but idk how strong of winds it takes to blow something around there compared to here. All I know is the winds hit absolutely crazy up there. Was terrified of lightning but that never became an issue, rolled through in <30 minutes

On 7/30/2026 at 7:31 AM, A-L-E-K said:

brutal

knew it was bad but this is bad bad

 

Just got back from athens, second to last day there were fires everywhere. In the first pic, you can see smoke from much larger fires in the background. The one pictured was put out within an hour or two of starting. One of the first things I saw just an hour ago after hopping off the plane was a video of two wildfire helicopters near Athens colliding, allegedly killing two of four crew... just kind of hits because we quite literally could have seen those guys amongst the dozens of copters flying around that afternoon 

7 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

Popcorn

Literally came to say I've been jonesing for a nice towahs everywhere around you evening, the cell north of the city looks cool from here, hope more comes through later   

Back end still moving like a sloth on ket

Hoping to reel a storm or two in today or at least a nice show in the vicinity

The low-level clouds turboing by is just absolutely crazy

I'll be happy if we get some thunder later just not loving the late September vibes outside rn

13 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

 

 

Oh no the bermuda triangle death algae

Severe is one thing as it is, but I'm actually scared of flooding because the Saturday night or whatever storms that rolled through had my exhaust entirely submerged overnight, like the tips were at least two inches underwater as were the bottoms of my doors. Fortunately I still drive the tornado intercept shit box worth roughly the gas in its tank but my understanding is an outbreak miss south might mean more qpf up here, which may not work out great. Like half of my complex's parking lots were underwater because the storm drains were backing up. I saw the hydrological outlook or whatever and it was not too encouraging

4 hours ago, Jackstraw said:

This is the banter thread so here's some banter

There are some things in life that are difficult to do yet one must do them. Things that, no matter how painful, no matter how difficult of a decision, yet one must gather up the strength of ones heart and mind and do them. This is my torture, my pain, and my confession that yes, I must root for the Knicks in this series. After decades and decades of absolute hatred of them and especially their fans I must, I cant help it. I would root for the Bull's before the Knicks even though they probably killed us more with MJ than the Knicks ever have...but, it's those damn Knicks fans.  Spike Lee snapping his towel at Reggie, McEnroe "accidently" spilling his drink onto the court during a crucial fast break, Spikes (joking) KKK comment when the Knicks came to Indy in one of the playoff meetings (I laughed right along with him lol), Ben Stiller getting all manly in your face to whatever Pacer was 15 feet from him (how can that guy even think he's intimidating lol?). I was at one Pacer/Knicks playoff game in Indy and KNICKS FAN was sitting next to me. He laughingly told me we weren't bad for an "ABA" team. I told him they weren't bad for a team that could've had Dr. J for FREE (had to educate that young man lol).

Yet I must root for them and as much as I hate to say it, it is because of their fans. They deserve it. As long as it's been, I get it more than most. I know what it's like to have that golden ring of a championship within your reach, only for fate (or the Pacers in their case ) to take it. So I'm here to confess I've been rooting for the Knicks (damn that hurts every time I say it) to take the Western Team (their balls don't count) in 7. Oh and Wu Tang will be the half time show tonight so there's that 

(The Pacers will be back with a huge chip next year, look out!)

Confession off 

They owe you huh

How we feeling about things out west chicago gang

3 minutes ago, Malacka11 said:

Fuck load of car alarms just fell for it. I did too not gonna lie

 

twice in 45 seconds now dude I thought it was kinda past already

And a third time... and fourth time... can pick out the same two or three car alarms over and over