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Yeah just had a close strike here too.

We thunder already.

Ha, will do.

Congratulations! Let me know when your book hits the press. I'm always game for a good yarn.

lol, whatever the season, he can b$%tch his way to a jack.

I'm afraid I don't have a peer-reviewed source handy. I don't indulge in such Rapture cult classics as contrails, HAARP weather control and flatardation, so odds are wherever I came across the CME stuff probably merited at least the benefit of a doubt. Wanna say it came up as part of an interview with Sir Roger Penrose, but he's more a pure math/physics guy, so I could be off base.

Re: humanity's rise during climate quiescence, apparently we're in a relatively quiet period as far as coronal mass ejections the last 10-15K years or so. I guess they somehow extrapolated from ice samples that Carrington event level CMEs (and even more powerful) were relatively common not that long ago. You want to talk about something that could impede human advancement, there you go. A lot of things had to go right to get us where we are now. A staggering number of things. And not much has to go wrong to send us right back where we came from.

What he said.

The really high impact storms tend to be few and far between, even on the Cape and islands. For much of the 19th and early 20th century, most people were probably not even aware that they were getting hit by the remnants of a tropical system. It had been such a long time since a major strike that people largely wrote off the threat of hurricanes by the 1930s. It will be interesting to find out how woefully unprepared we are and how badly underfunded our utilities' storm sinking funds are when the next cat 2 or 3 hits us squarely on the chin.

We beach. And as you can see, we in SNE also have picnic tables

Man, this may be the best day of summer so far. Just spectacular.

Ain't nothing wrong with COC.

Your friends against me...and the Revolution.

This bores me. Is anyone up for a game of basketball?

We drizzle.

If you had to solve a simple equation like that to unlock your refrigerator, a surprisingly large percentage of the American populace would starve. Our obesity epidemic would be much improved at the least.

That looks insane.

Nah, Eek relieved himself next to the thermometer, so we toss.

I've only seen one this summer. It's been great for my peace of mind when swimming, that's for sure. As a kid there were summers where the jellies were so thick one could barely hazard entering the water. We used to impale them with sticks on the shore and put them on rocks to bake.

A nice little parting rainbow after a beautiful day.

Not exactly COC, but a beautiful summer day with a nice breeze at any rate. We accept gratefully.

Yellow jackets are arseholes. Just had my third unprovoked sting in a month. But they messed with the wrong guy. I found their nest. I borrowed my neighbor's bee suit. They'll be provoked this time, make no mistake.

Mmmm, beer nest.

Seeing as I have a nest I need to destroy, this is both timely and highly useful. Many thanks!