Okay, open Forum, off-topic, or whatever (grab a cup and sit)

[vsmith]

We'll I see blue skys outside, but some clouds, we're supposed to get rain eventually.

Got off real fortunate these yesterday, I was driving home yesterday when I got behind someone doing 40 %$^# mph on the freeway! I signalled and began to move over and around this idiot when they changed lanes right back in front of me!!!! at 40mph !!! So I move over yet one more lane and accelerate pasted them and back into the second lane, I guess I cut the idiot pretty close 'cause next thing I see are flashing red and blue lights! CHP. I pull off the freeway and explained to the officer what happened, he knew because he must have been right behind us, he gave me a warning and informed me, and THIS is what I want EVERYONE here to know, that if when I pulled back in front of the idiot if I had hit my brakes, which I've seen others out here do, that I would have been subject to arrest and impound of vehicle!!!!!! I didnt know that!!! Wow!!!! i just wanted to get as far from that knucklehead driver as could get, I wasn't thinking of harrassing them, the fact that the officer saw the bonehead change lanes in front of me is why I got off with a warning and not a day in traffic school. Later Vic

[Anonymous]

Was it Ponch, John or both?[:D]

[vsmith]

It looked like John, Didnt you know, out here Ponch has been busy selling desert land as vacation homes[D)][?]

[vsmith]

OK I had to share this, the newest preview for "the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" is on Amazon right now so I have to post a link...it might be pretty good afterall!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/103-4496129-2259840

[vsmith]

This is way too cool not to share..this is a short film made by a guy using only his home computer and commercially available software, so sit back and enjoy ...

Driving in LA.....on the 405!

www.405themovie.com/view.asp

[powlee]

Vic
That 405 film was ace.

[Anonymous]

Vic, that movie would not have been possible without Dwight D. Eisenhower, he devised the interstste highway system with keeping in mind it might have to be used as an airstrip. He learned this from watching the German Army use the autobaun in the transportation of military goods. Ours was built in the event War, during the cold war.

See Mom I did learn somthing in school[:D]

[vsmith]

Heads up for LA forum readers...

UCLA is going to show Buster Keatons masterpiece "The General" this Saturday with full blown live organ accompanyment but Dig-nabbed I found out too late and couldnt get great seats! Oh Well at least I still got tickets! they are in the balcony but they are still good seats!!! This saturday at 2pm! Contact UCLA Royce Hall for info!

I'd call now if your interested!

[Tom The Brat]

The 405 movie's great[wow]

Very appropriate ending[:-,]

[Anonymous]

In Australia if Iv'e got it right a boomer is a large male kangaroo in full flight; hopping in long powerful leaps and his feet barely touch the ground. This has been inuse in this country for more than a century so i gues thi is another thing the yanks have copied from us aussies.

Did you know that this type of travel is the most efficient a ground animal can have in all the world.

Talking about calling names what goes down in one country can mean something different in another country and we should all react that way not only in what we write but in what we understand of what is written.

For instance Brian you are a galah and joe you are a dingo. I defy you to take offence at that as you have no idea of what it means and i also defy the powers that be to delete the words "galah" and "dingo"as they have threatened to do. They have no idea of what they mean either so how can they regard themm as offebsive.

I hold both these blokes in high regard so they will know i didn't mean it; just using it as an example.

regrds Ian

[Capt Bob Johnson]

I had assumed that the SSBN was called a "boomer" because of the big boom the missile would make if they ever had to fire them in earnest! I leave it to the Curmudgeon to set us all straight on that choice of slang. I do know that a FFG was called a fig, and a carrier a bird farm!

[Anonymous]

Ian, speaking of kangaroos, I saw this movie clip on T.V. of a guy feeding a kangaroo in a petting Zoo like setting next to a sign that said" Don't Feed The Animals" So of course the idiot was feeding them. Another Kangaroo got upset because he wasn't being fed or they feeding one of his mates/Sheila and messed that dude up bad he had to have several stitches. I just thought to myself what a Dumb A$%!

[Tom The Brat]

I seem to recall a misile carrying sub being called a boomer, but TOC is the expert. Oh, yea, a big male kangaroo... (I watch PBS)

[vsmith]

WILL IT STOP [censored][censored][censored] RAINING !!!!!!!!!!





I had enough of this at 30 [censored] inches, its been raining since Friday and I'm sure I'm at over 40 inches at my house now!

[Anonymous]

vsmith
BOY THE PEOPLE ON THE WEST COAST are haveing their problems, looseing their houses, big sink holes ,i would move out and never go back . ben

[Anonymous]

Vic, better breakout the dehumidifyer in the garage to protect the layout!

Did your heat vents fill up with water? Mine did earlier in the year because of rain.[V]

Really sad was the little girl who was crushed by a boulder when the hillside gave way and it went into their house!

[grandpopswalt]

A Destroyer is called a "tincan" and submariners are respectfuly called "sewerpipe" sailors. Marines call sailors "swabjockies" and sailors call marines "jarheads" or "seagoing bellhops". That about exhausts the printable names I can think of.

Walt

QUOTE: Originally posted by Capt Bob Johnson

I had assumed that the SSBN was called a "boomer" because of the big boom the missile would make if they ever had to fire them in earnest! I leave it to the Curmudgeon to set us all straight on that choice of slang. I do know that a FFG was called a fig, and a carrier a bird farm!

[Curmudgeon]

Boomers....41 for Freedom boats....
Hey, all youse Cally-forn-eee-ans.
Guess what?
Our Seattle weather has been re-routed to you.
This is EXACTLY what we got for the last 2 months, but it's been DRY and SUNNY.
You ever want to move to Seattle, that is what you get!
But, as a general rule, we have figured out how to build and drain around it.
TOC

[TurboOne]

Hey guys, came in from the trenches actually. We have had so much rain that it almost went over the patio. I have a huge pond in the backyard. Neighbors backroom addons flooded. So I dug a trench on both sides of the house. The back patio roof looks like a waterfall. It was five feet wide yesterday, incredible waterfall. We also had a dam crest in north San Diego, it looks incredible.

Got about 10 minutes of trains in this weekend, with the rain seems like it never is going to end. We have about 3 more inches coming tonight, and more on thursday. Take care all, have to check the waterflow, and see if the fish started appearing yet.

Tim

[TurboOne]

Hey I need coffee this morning, where is the coffee. [:D] [:D] [:D]

I see sun outside. It has stopped raining for now. My trenches worked, the backyard is not a pond, even after all the rain last night.

Thanks to those who wrote to check on us. No tornado set down, just a few funnel clouds. Nothing like the midwest gets fortunately.

How is Vic in LA, they got more water then we did ?

Sink whole's all over town, there is one 20 ' accross, whole neighborhood is evacuated.

Bad time to own a house on a cliff, many are tetering or have lost part of yard. There is one house in LA that the whole pool slid down the mountain.

Take care all

Tim

[vsmith]

One house with a sliding pool? Last count I had was 6! This has been a loony winter down here. at least 2 dozen homes at risk of sliding. The problem here is that we simply dont get this much water falling on the city, not since '93 and that was considered a fluke, maybe we are seeing a more seasonal cycle starting with wetter winters than in the past. As it is the summers are far more humid than I can ever remember. Winters next?

I had 2 inches of flowing water in my backyard Monday, my front porch looked like the backside of Niagra Falls. and still my stupid dog would sit out on the back porch and run around in the rain even though we has a nice warm doggy bed in the garage.

All we get is rain, some more rain, a little more rain, some dry rain, then some windy rain, cold rain, warm rain, and did I metion , rain? I estimate we have passed 40+ inches at my house near the foothills.

Devils Gate resivour near my house has water over the spillway, this has only happened twice since the dam was built in 1920, both times have been this winter. Also overflowing are Castaic, Piru, San Gabriel resivours hopefully a lot of this will help refill Lake Mead and Lake Powell in Arizona and Owens and Mono lakes up north where we get our drinking water from. Hanson and Santa Fe flood control dams have big stores of water behind them and all the concrete lined drains we call rivers are high. And more rain is forcast for this weekend....[:0]

[Anonymous]

I've seen floooding in areas around my place I've never seen before. Not in the 15+ years I've lived down here.

News yesterday even said there was a new lake in Death Valley. But, Mead and Powell are pretty much untouched so far. Owens valley gets most of its water from the eastern side of the Sierras so it should be in much better shape.

I'm ready for some sun to be sure. According to LA news, the rain last night pushed us over the top. It's now the wettest rainy season on record. And we haven't gotten to the normal rainy part of the winter yet.

And yes, another news article indicated So Cal has 5X the rain as Seattle so far.

Normal rain fall for our town for this point in time is 4.5". We just passed the 30" mark. Heck, i got 5.5" in the last 5 days. I know, no great amount for some folks, but So Cal is just not architeted for this kind of rain fall.

Oh, and it slipped my mind. Lets not forget the tornados that crused through the southwest side of town on Saturday.

Ole Ma Nature, sure on a rampage this year. Here and around the world.

[Curmudgeon]

May not be scientific, but after the big Indonesian quake and the report that the earth wobbled on it's axis, I told everyone up here to stand by and watch the weather.
Ocean currents make the weather, hence the El Nino effect, and sure enough, it all shifted to Soggy So Cal.
And away from us.
Wonder if it's permanent?
TOC

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't place bets on that. The el Nino this year is much smaller than in other years, and we started our abnormal rain fall, long before the incident in the Indian ocean.

But, I'll blame it on that anyway. ;)

[TurboOne]

The sun is out for now, still raining most of the day. Trench has worked, I can rest a little, and maybe do some benchwork tonight.

Matt [yeah][wow] on 4 stars.

Take care all, Vic and Steve hope all is well. Vic what is left of your backyard ?

Tim

[Curmudgeon]

Yeah, but the Pacific Northwest A) didn't go dry, B) didn't go warm, and C) melt virtually ALL the snow until after!

[Anonymous]

Well I not sure when the last elnino effect was but it brought warm weather to Ohio the last time, 45 degree averages I believe not this time though.

Turbo, I actually thought of ditching my membership here and starting of to get rid of the stars and the post number, the wife comes in and checks on me periodically and it just proves how much I'm really here....UH OH! got to go here she comes[:D]

[vsmith]

Hey Matt congrates on the 4th star!

Tim, back yard is still there, just lots of weeds since it rains every weekend I cant get the mower out.

it looks like some clear weather for a few days, finally!

[Anonymous]

lot's of strange weather planet wide lads, methinks you should be lobbying your politicians in the states re the Kyoto agreement, time to stop pumping all of that CO2 into the atmosphere. How much are you paying for petrol?, around £4-00 per gallon here so the majority of us have frugal cars. We only have one atmosphere, we are getting the warnings now, time to listen! I suspect that people a couple of hundred years from now will look back at this time and call it the 'time of the a***holes'.
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]
Cheers

[TurboOne]

Vic, I mowed as soon as we got back from Vegas. Wanted to have a chance against the weeds. I lucked out that I cleaned up a whole trash can full of leaves on the side of the house. My trenches wouldn't have worked if I didn't clear that the day before the storms hit.

Nice and sunny out so far, no clouds. Maybe we can dry out a little bit before the next one hits.

Curmudgeon you can have your weather back now. Us SoCals are returning it to you, free. [:)]

Kimbrit, I think the weather is caused by all the people who use hair dryers. Messed with the eco system. Stop drying our hair, weather goes back to normal sunshine.

Steve, how did you come out so far. Hope all is well.

Matt, thanks for being around over 1000 times. You have been funny, a great sense of humor, great with sharing your ideas, and the coffee and smoothies were great fun while talking. [:D]

Take care all,

Tim