posted on April 28, 2005 08:56:30 PM new
Auction ended on 4-21. Package arrived yesterday. Seller was Mothernature. Item was 1 week of beautiful weather. I opened the box and imediately the national Weather Service announced that yesterday and today would be severe weather, including a chance of tornados. Obviously, the seller put the wrong labels on the right packages, and I received the one that belonged to someone in Georgia, and they received mine. Today, we had severe thunderstorm warnings in my county (Tulare) plus two adjacent counties, Kings and Fresno. Nickel size hail, strong winds, ligtning and thunder and torrential downpours. What really burns my butt, besides mothernatures incompentence, is that there are a bunch of rednecks somewhere in Gerogia sitting in their backyards guzzling beer and barbequeing ribs while we had to order takeout from KFC because of the bad weather. My question is, who should I neg? Mothernature, a Georgia resident at random,
Classic because he's snickering at my misfortune, or Lucy because she watched the storm detour around her house on the coast and head straight toward me.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 28, 2005 11:31:01 PM new
I wouldn't count on Georgia for having perfect weather. We just had quarter-sized hail a few days ago, and it's been near freezing at night! Whazzup with this crazy weather?!?
posted on April 29, 2005 12:53:56 AM new
We are having sunny warm weather here. Record highs for April...of course it's only 65 degrees. The ice has finally...just today...disappeared from the lake and the ducks and geese are back. The trees are budding and things are greening up. These are the days we think about all winter long.
posted on April 29, 2005 03:37:43 AM new
Okay, so who sent the 6 inches of snow last weekend, with rain and hail to follow every day since!! That was definately not what I ordered!
posted on April 29, 2005 11:28:05 AM new
It's so nice outside today --
Perfect weather to go:
Tiptoeing thru the bluebonnets, holding hands with a scumbag Saudi prince...
"I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the Mother in me."—Guess Who? Washington D.C., April 14, 2005
posted on April 29, 2005 05:20:16 PM new
I know this can happen, because I did it about 2 years ago. I had several "Janes" ships, planes , armored vehucles etc. Well I got the labels on switched. One buyer sent it back to me & the other sent his wrong copy to the other buyer. I paid for all shipping costs which weren't too much as they were Media Mail. Got pos fdbck from both buyers.
A beautiful day here in strawberry landalthough a bit breezy. Which is normal for the spring here.
Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine
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posted on April 29, 2005 05:24:35 PM new
the HECK with Strawberries Sanmar - send me some real Tomatoes! We're still several weeks away from harvesting ours.
posted on April 29, 2005 06:48:15 PM new
Sanmar--ditto to the beautiful day up here in our mountains. Cool but sunny and lovely. Oh pleassssssssssse, no more winter!
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posted on April 29, 2005 07:16:34 PM new
Roadsmith...I thought spring had finally arrived here in California until this storm rolled in Wednesday night. We received over an inch of rain in a very short period of time. It's only the second time I can recall that the NWS has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for this county. After I posted that last night, I discovered that several funnel clouds had been spotted close by. The NWS had stated that conditions were favorable for a tornado, but luckily none of the funnels straightened out and touched down. Just a totally different type of weather than we're used to here. The thought of a tornado scares the hell out of me. Gimme an earthquake any day.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 29, 2005 09:18:43 PM new
The Wed. night/Thursday all day storm we had gave us a ton of rain and new snow on our higher peaks and ridges. Made me grumpy, sitting inside all day with the cold rain just pounding away, and now and then sleet and a few snowflakes. Gad.
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posted on April 29, 2005 09:28:50 PM new
What was really bad, was that the storm rained out one of the local swap meets. Now there's another coming in tomorrow night that's threatening the other one on Sunday. Although the NWS says there won't be much precipitation with this one, only a 20% chance of rain, I've been watching the satellite pix and is sure looks juicy to me. There will be some high winds with this one, so at your altitude, you better batten down the hatches.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on April 29, 2005 09:55:19 PM new
The 'eye' was directly overhead here and I watched all that nastiness swing from the west(Kerman) to the south(Visalia). Seems like we have gotten rain with sunshine quite a bit recently. Makes for killer rainbows! Even double rainbows.
If you trace south from Mendota(where the San Joaquin river turn from west to north bound), west of Tranquillity, and then Down to south of Five Points there is an area of extreme micro-climes. I have seen sudden blizzards of golf ball size hail flatten thousand of acres of crops(but it never snows there). Messes up traffic awesomely, too. The violent down-drafts and under-developed funnel clouds catch even experienced pilots unaware, thus a large number of crash landings in an area with no commercial airports.
The entomology program I once worked for lost two men, one an experience pilot, and a dispersal aircraft when it corkscrewed in west of Firebaugh. Trying to fly over the Sierra Nevadas and running out of altitude in a valley too narrow to turn around in eliminates many bold pilots around here, the micro-climes is another trap.
posted on April 29, 2005 10:36:10 PM new
Usually when a storm hits the coast, a cyclonic rotating low pressure system will fling it ashore at point conception. The most violent part will come over the coast range and follow the exact path you described. By the time the low pressure hits the coast and pushes the storm to our side of the valley, it has calmed down quite a bit. This one came in fast and strong about midnight and hit us hard about 2 A.M. The capes were at almost 1000 Joules in Merced at one point and about 800 here, setting the stage for lightening, thunder and the snowball effect that leads to the severe thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes. I watched the radar images as that thing headed this way, a little faster than originally predicted, and realized that we were about to experience what the folks on the west side see so often. And yes, I know what you mean about small craft pilots. It's a wonder we have any crop dusters left in the Valley.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
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