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Post by jerrysmith on Dec 24, 2012 15:50:43 GMT -5
Here's a direct quote from Accuweather:
Dec 24, 2012; 8:48 AM ET A significant outbreak of severe weather with damaging winds and tornadoes is expected across the South starting late on Monday night.
At 3PM, it's now 66 outside, late in December. Not good. Please take careful tonight and tomorrow.
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Post by nanichris on Dec 24, 2012 18:32:15 GMT -5
We have the storm shelter to jump into if necessary.
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Post by jb on Dec 25, 2012 9:24:14 GMT -5
We have the storm shelter to jump into if necessary. We are just going to wait it out here!  |
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Post by jerrysmith on Dec 25, 2012 9:25:04 GMT -5
We have the storm shelter to jump into if necessary. We are just going to wait it out here! LOL...Good place to be today, John. |
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Post by nanichris on Dec 26, 2012 8:48:50 GMT -5
Actually it was quiet here at Wagging Tails Cottage....except for the fact that someone (maybe a neighborhood dog) was up on the road. My dogs were quite vocal about telling him to NOT come in their yard. I woke up a few times to the sound of gentle rain on my metal roof, but no big wind or torrential rain. Thank goodness!
So how was it out in "lost wages" j.b.?
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Post by jb on Dec 26, 2012 10:23:59 GMT -5
...So how was it out in "lost wages" j.b.? Just a very heavy overcast. No rain! Upper 40s during the day. |
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Post by jerrysmith on Dec 26, 2012 10:34:31 GMT -5
Having been there in June, it's hard for me to imagine LV as even lukewarm, much less cold,
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Post by nanichris on Dec 26, 2012 14:35:12 GMT -5
Know what you mean Jerry. Seems as if my boss ALWAYS had to go to LV in the summertime. Then they would want to take everything but the kitchen sink with them on the airplane. Nothing like trying to take off with a heavly loaded plane and the temps up near 100 degrees. For those who don't really care about airplanes, that makes the take off run really long. There were a couple of times I wondered if we were going to drive back home rather than fly. But the good old girl always lifted off; even if the climb was REALLY slow. It would be nice to shiver a little out there. I was usually ready to just sit down and melt into a puddle of sweat. Don't know how you take it j.b.
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Post by jerrysmith on Dec 26, 2012 15:05:04 GMT -5
Know the feeling, Chris. It was June-July in 1967 when I took my pilot training in a 100hp C150. The CFI and I plus full fuel tanks brought that little bird pretty close to gross weight, and on a hot, humid summer day it would use a lot of runway. Then, on the day I soloed, when he got out of the plane and I took off alone, the plane practically leaped off the runway, and we almost had to shoot it down to make it land.
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Post by jb on Dec 26, 2012 21:19:15 GMT -5
I've been here since '73 and they don't get any easier. For my body, the dry heat is so much better to deal with. Humidity does me in.
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Post by nanichris on Dec 27, 2012 9:41:53 GMT -5
I've always heard that the dry heat is easier to handle. But I've been in Arizona and Nevada in the summer. Had to work on a plane in Arizona, and we had to put our tools in a bucket of water to be able to touch them. THAT, to me is not good....dry heat or not.
I think you must be a tough ole bird, j.b.
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Post by jb on Dec 27, 2012 9:46:14 GMT -5
...I think you must be a tough ole bird, j.b. I do cry at girl movies. ;D You are right about those tools. Been under the vehicle and reached out for one and screamed profanities. |
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Post by jerrysmith on Dec 27, 2012 11:41:34 GMT -5
When I toured Hoover Dam, I had to let the AC blow for a while on the steering wheel before I could drive off.
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Post by nanichris on Dec 27, 2012 15:44:16 GMT -5
I've often wondered what it must have been like when the pioneers went out West with NO air conditioning. It was bad enough for the men, but can you imagine trying to live out of a Conestoga wagon, doing the washing, cooking, and taking care of a couple of kids with maybe a baby in diapers? Those women either loved their husbands a lot, or they were desperate to find a place where the family would have some land. They sure didn't go thinking it was going to be a vacation. Stronger stuff than I'm made of let me tell you!
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Post by jerrysmith on Dec 27, 2012 16:30:39 GMT -5
I've often wondered about why people went west, too, Chris. I mean, how awful could it have been around home to make people pack up everything and deliberately go out into a known wilderness?
I could see moving maybe over into the next county or even state, but certainly not into the desert or Sierras. it's like they wanted to get away from everything, regardless of the risk. And not just a few; there were thousands.
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