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Ever seen a grown man naked. [/Airplane]

I'm literally listening to Harvey on the retro broadcast of Channel 7's coverage of the Blizzard of '78 from the weekend after, on Youtube. The amusing part was the anchor cut Dukakis short from telling too long a story to get to a young Harvey. He mentioned a "dual center", one near the surface and another high up in the atmosphere, contributing to the strength of the blizzard. I'm no expert but maybe someone could clarify, but does that sound similar to the "dual lows" some of these models are producing?

Our self loathing.

Great, we have a surprise birthday party for my SIL reserved at a club Saturday night here in RI. What is the % chance this thing can go forward? 5/40/80%?

ERINEB? (Eastern Rhode Island Not East Bay)

Yeah I am close to I-95 and the state does a good job on many of the roads in my neck of the woods, but you are bound to hit some rough roads going to Newport. Aquidneck Island tends to be neglected by Providence for state highway repairs, and then you have Newport proper which was settled and planned with horses and pedestrians in mind, the road conditions reflect this needless to say! Fun fact: the first jail sentence handed down for an automobile speeding ticket in the US was given in Newport in August 1904. For going the outrageous speed of 15 miles per hour.

Woke up to gusts over 50 here next to the airport with transformer sparks lighting up the sky every 5-10 seconds, but somehow still have power. All of Warwick Neck is out, had to break the news to my poor brother-in-law in Aruba to see if anything needs to be saved from their freezer. Can only imagine the south shore based on how fresh the breeze is here!

Agreed, I'm just curious how much it costs over say a 20 to 25-year period for disaster repairs and how much of the overall utility cost pie that takes up. Like is there even a worthwhile offset in cost by eliminating these events. Google did not help me out with a bottom-line estimate of disaster costs just related to electric.

As a civil/site designer we generally propose all new subdivisions with underground power/no poles. But it doesn't help when the power connecting to the substation for the development is conveyed by poles 2' away from overhanging trees. Until somehow all the money needed is spent to convert existing overhead lines to underground, this will be a perpetual problem.

You lucked out. What part of NK are you in? My buddy near South County Trail lost power around 10:30.

A screwhole here most of the day, but accommodating my wife needing to drive to her doctor's appointment at least. Brushed a trace off the car about 15 minutes ago.

6"-7" OTG it appears, hoping we get cold in time to crank closer to a foot total. The slush held us back a bit this morning.

The second most unfortunate thing to happen in a Brentwood.

Geez I just got dressed to go to my downstairs office and my pants are back off already.

Massive flakes falling with the flip occurring here near the airport.

Nasty line forming to the south about to head right up my keister.

Looked like we had a 57 mph gust at the airport. I had one of those Bagsters for waste in my yard awaiting pickup since last Wednesday, good thing the Waste Management truck came by around 11am! Just in time...

Great, Baghdad Bob is now in Nicaragua. Just what we need.

Some of the darkest clouds moving crazy fast I've seen in awhile. We're going to get croaked shortly.

Lights just flickered, 34 with gusts to 46 currently. About a quarter inch of rain.

Duh, obviously a girl...

Good advice and something I'll put to the front of my mind tomorrow. Up until now my "trigger" to keep from slicing was making sure my hips and waist rotation were the very first movement on my takeaway as opposed to my hands moving the club back. With that no longer preventing the slice it feels like a mindset change to ingrain this at the top of my swing is needed. However as with all things I need to take a lot of practice swings before the round and ingrain this so I don't need to think about it intently DURING my live swings.

I am commiserating right now because when being fitted for clubs several weeks back my spray chart on the simulator was brutal. Three balls to the left of center and about 100 sliced to the right. I hit the rest of my clubs decent like you as well, seems a directional driver problem. I have a "shamble" format tournament tomorrow which is great as I can start playing my own ball from the best drive, however my hope is there will only be passing showers. If we get into the real heavy stuff...

Google is not giving me an Orange, LA just an Orange, TX on the state line. I presume this means the land south of Orange, TX on the LA side just east of Port Arthur? I'm seeing a Johnson Bayou and Mae's Beach in this area.

My wind has definitely not died down since the rain ended before 5, and in fact seems gustier.