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Post by xenaswolf on Feb 5, 2006 17:02:35 GMT -5
Yeah what is that stuff out there? Is that what they call blue? Never seen it in the sky here...well ok once long ago....and that shiny round thing is back...I'm telling ya, its the end of times LOL
Did ya see the weather outside in Detroit? LOL at least they will be inside, so they can't blame any mistakes on weather!
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greenmann
spending too much on rocks
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Post by greenmann on Feb 5, 2006 21:41:51 GMT -5
Yup, it was GORGEOUS today... my sis an I took a nice long walk in a park in West Seattle (Spring is coming! The osoberry are starting to unfurl, the skunk cabbage is blooking, and the Alder are earning their "red" nickname!), then did some beach walking out at Alki Point... gorgeous... and waddyaknow? Alki has the same types of rocks we keep getting at the beaches out on the coast  Well, minus the agates... some nice red and yellow jaspers, and some other stuff... maybe tomorrow if its still sunny out I'll grab the camera. But todays weather was a godsend, especially in contrast to what we had yesterday! |
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thehawke
freely admits to licking rocks
My Lord and Master
Member since January 2006
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Post by thehawke on Feb 6, 2006 0:20:50 GMT -5
instead, they can blame the mistakes on the horrendous referreeing.
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Post by LCARS on Feb 8, 2006 3:08:17 GMT -5
We took a HULLUVA beating here on Vancouver Island when the last few storms rolled through the Pacific Northwest!  When I was doing the last GPS contest here, the first big storm came ashore at about 11:45pm on Jan 27. The storm surge was about 3' (1m) and the tides were maxing out around the same time so it actually prevented us from being physically able to find one of our target positions, which after midnight was under water 30% of the time the waves were crashing on the rocks. The 70-90km/hr (40-55mph) + gusting winds prevented us from even aproaching it until morning when the tide was out & the storm died down to just raging hail missiles with sideways gusts into your face.  The second storm arrived while my team was aproaching the summit of the second tallest peak on the Saanich peninsula. The sky turned dark, the wind picked up & a coastal blizzard insued while we searched for a lock&lock container burried under a rock in the general vicinity of a hundred other possible rocks with the temparature dropping rapidly & the bad weather picking up steam by the minute. We had to run for cover after we found it to photograph the instruction sheet, rehide it & get the H-E-Double hockey sticks outta there before the accumulating hail/sleet/snow made the descent from the rocky peak too dangerous! Power was out in alot of areas & for quite awhile in some remote areas. Several outages have occured in each storm since & it seems like no matter what came down in the last storm, the next storm always finds a way to knock more trees down! To add even more metaphorical significance to how bad the last few storms were, UPS (uninteruptable power supply) for my computer completely failed during the last storm (from all the work it's had to do lately) so now I have to buy another one. It would have still been under warranty if I hadn't "modified" it by replacing the crappy battery it came with for two better ones that gave it 40% more power-out run time. D'oh!! At least I know that as soon as I buy a new UPS power supply, we won't have another storm here for a year ;D |
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Well, minus the agates... some nice red and yellow jaspers, and some other stuff... maybe tomorrow if its still sunny out I'll grab the camera. But todays weather was a godsend, especially in contrast to what we had yesterday!
