Tom12309

Pelting in the Dorptown.  They plowed and I have a wall at the end of the driveway.  Easy 4 inches here, total cement from the looks of it.

Well, I had that January joke wrong at the doc's.  This morning is January weather.  30 degrees, rain in the Dorptown.  Though it is starting to rattle a little. 

Must have been quite the gradient today from some of your posts.  Doubt it made it above 36-37 today in the Dorptown.  At the chiro this morning, remarked on the 35 degree rain.  "That's January weather there, that is."  Doc's heavily into alpine skiing.  Just gives me a look.  I'm like, I probably shoulda said that *after* you adjusted my spine.  

When my dad was a forced laborer in Germany during WWII he said they saw those planes rivering over during the daylight raids.  He said the beating they could take and keep flying was amazing.  He said they'd be returning one propeller stopped and big holes in the wings and fuselage.  He described the fighters on them as like flies on cows.

I should take a pic of the Halloween stuff I saw in the local Home Depot while I was renting their paver saw.  Who buys 30 foot tall plastic ugly crap for their yard?  If you're going big on Halloween have creativity and do it yourself. 

Pine tree on the other side of my neighbors yard got the top 50 feet blown off it by CG as the first batch just got to us.  I was walking back upstairs to the office with a cup of coffee and it was so loud I almost flinched the coffee on myself.  The one cat that is deaf as a post woke up from a nap on the couch and peered out the window to see what was going on.

20190904_132445 by Tom Ambros, on Flickr

We got about three inches in the Dorptown from a cell that developed and dumped right over us staying about stationary.  In about an hour.  My cellar hasn't had water in it for at least five years or so but I'm  mopping tonight.  Follow up line added some but probably not more than a half an inch or so.  For a while there it was raining  in all the windows on every side of the house before I  closed them.

Difference between a lake and a pond is sunlight reaches the bottom of a pond and there are no thermal strata in a pond.  

It may pick up east of here but that line looked great until it hit the hills in western Schenectady county.  10 miles later we got a few breezes and maybe a quarter inch of rain.  Pffffthhh.

Weather terminology can be so confusing.  The weather app on my phone's text discussion: "A slow moving cold front will zip across the Northeast and off the coast this afternoon."

They do a 500 mile ultra marathon bike race in Furnace Creek.  I read a ride report and there was a picture of one of the riders slumped in the entryway to a convenient store eating ice with the caption "thank God for AC"

Headed out on the bike this morning got a mile down the road big flash thought "Halluie?" heard the roll thought "Aural halluies are always been voices commanding me what to do, that was lightnin' bucko" so I uied and headed home.  I am more likely to be hit by a car then struck by lightning but since its 2-0 cars I'm thinking lightning is looking to even things up.

The mosquitoes were driving me a little nuts when I was weeding the garden, I had sprayed a product called Repel on an old hat and they weren't bothering me around my head but were clouds of them all around my arms and legs.  So I went back in and got an old T-shirt and sprayed that stuff all over it.  They left me alone.  It is intended to be sprayed on clothing and gear, used as indicated it really seems to work.   

Garden gauge had well over 1.5 inches in my Schenectady back yard.  

Around here the fields have dried out to where the farmers can get the equipment in to plant corn.  June 9th seems late.

I'm sort of getting tired of going for a bike ride in the morning and my arms numbing out where the nerve signal won't get to my hands so they can shift gears.  That's March type stuff, not May.

A proposal made is for a qualifying system.  How many of those experienced people that died were held up by crowding from less accomplished types?  I don't know but I speculate it contributed.  That and that they seem fixated on bagging the trophy to the extent they discarded some basic principles, not the least of which is the one that at time checks you turn back if you haven't hit your markers.  Would suck if they did but got fatally delayed trying to get back down because too many people.

I saw it expressed as "no self reliance, no decision making, no discovery" which I think put it well.  If it's worth being able to say you walked to the top of Mount Everest under those conditions then fine.  Me, I respect my brother's daughter who climbed all over New Zealand and the Tetons with her boyfriend way more.  No labels or titles, all experiences.

There was the guy that rode his bicycle over from Sweden, waited for weather to attempt Everest, got within a few hundred yards of the summit on his one chance, realized he didn't have time to get there and get back down so he turned back, returned to camp and got on his bike and rode home.

16 minutes ago, weatherwiz said:

I would love that climate during the winter lol. I used to really love winter and cold didn't bother me too much but over the last several years I really can't tolerate it anymore. 

You blaspheme!

HTFU installment number 1.  Went to Margaretville yesterday, rode a 55 mile group ride with 5000 feet of climbing, five climbs first three on dirt the first with the last half mile averaging 20 percent.  Nearly all the climbing in 35 miles.  Paved descents in graupel was like getting your face shot peened.  Average temperature about 35 degrees, 15-20 mph west wind gusts to 30.

Feeling good about completing it well ahead of several of my club stalwarts until I saw one account.  One guy from the club rode to the ride, did the ride, rode home.  160+ mile day, 10000+ feet climbing, started at 4am home at 5pm.

Yesterday.

I ain't complaining about the weather any time soon.

Looking forward to a bike ride down in Margaretville tomorrow.  40 degrees with a 20 mph west wind for 55 miles and 5500' elevation, good times.  Beats what the Rasputitsa organizers are going through right now, though, relocating the route at the last minute off roads that haven't melted out or are under a foot of flowing water.  That ride's going to be hardcore this year!

Now this is April - the Albany NWS discussion talks about low level cold coming south down the Champlain valley.  47 degrees in Schuylerville, ten miles away in Saratoga its 66.  10-15 degree drop per hour seen.  Good stuff.

Some people got into it because it was fascinating and they wanted to understand it even the not real windy overcast 50 degree days in April.  It's a big complex system that no human built.  How is that not interesting in even its most mundane aspects?

The picture I saw looked like there was staging up so maybe they were working on something and it went terribly wrong.  What a loss for everyone but I feel so bad for the people for who it was their church.

On 4/6/2019 at 7:54 PM, wxeyeNH said:

March 7 1970?   Carly Simon's song.  You flew your lear jet up to Nova Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun, your so vain"

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Yup.  Me, three sibs and my mom in a Pontiac station wagon.