If the truck's a rockin', Ike's a knockin'......
Sitting in Sullivan, MO, this morning, and its pouring out, and the wind is blowing. Checked the forecast for the area, just heavy rain and wind, so will probably sit here for a couple hours untill most of it passes, then head for Fort Worth, TX. Have bounced all over this week, including a very rough bobtail ride from St Louis to Indy yeasterday to pick up this load. By my quick figures, should have over 3000 miles once I get this off Monday morning, and that is since Tuesday night.....
Referring to something in my last post, torque is an amazing thing, taking off fully loaded from a stoplight, the frame will twist on this truck pretty good. I've seen some trucks in the semi class of tractor pulls where the cab was at about a 30 degree angle with the ground, due to the torque.......
Best wishes to Ed in the recovery.....
Randy in Sullivan, MO
Randy Vos
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Hi
met some old and new friends in deshler today.the weather guessers say ike is going to come along this front and dump more rain on us tommorow and monday.The garrett sub had a flash flood warning today.Carl said parts of his yard were wet too.Matt had a good time at G+G house but what was on tv was just ugly.Cw thanks for the pizza.
stay safe
joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
Tom
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It is better to dwell in the corner of a roof than to share a house with a contentious woman! (Solomon)
A contentious woman is like a constant dripping! (Solomon)
Modelcar wrote: My family opened a Standard Oil Co. station {ESSO}, in 1938 and I remember the signs: 6 gal. for $1.00...!!
Quentin, I miss those days. I remember my Grandfather could get a Dollars worth of Gulf Regular gas in his '51 Henry J...and he'd get over a half tank of gas!
....Jen, of all things....Weather forecast in todays paper has a "chance" for some rain tomorrow and maybe Monday and then sunshine......
Today we had 89.9 degrees and plenty of humidity. Yard is back to growing nice again.....Have had a about 1.7" of rain earlier this week. Just enough to get stuff growing again. In fact, did a mowing today.
Rice......In the spring and times in winter when we get copious amount of rain {and perhaps the ground is frozen}, there is a pond forms back on the fairway behind us and we might be able to slip in a little rice.....other than that, no flooding right here....
Edit: Yes, read Ed's entry on the other thread and was surprised to see him get his power back today, and so glad they are all ok.
Quentin
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mookie, thank you so very much for the update on Ed!!!! Now my mind is at ease!! Sounds like you had a very interesting day. Nice to hear Reporterette Mookie is back on the beat.
Here is our Saturday Night Pizza Fest menu:
1. Anchovie
2. Cheese w/extra cheese
3. Goetta
4. Hawaiian
5. Pepperoni/mushroom
6. Supreme
7. Calzones
Desserts: chocolate cake, and the following dessert pizzas: apple, cherry, peach
Mookie, I hope you can send some of that rain our way: the rain predicted to be in aparently as fizzled out completely. It got up to 94 here today, and we currently are at 91. Maybe I should have gone to the Y with Sarah, and gotten into the pool.
You all enjoy your pizzas, calzones, and desserts; and have a good evening, and take care.
Was out today - if you didn't read the Houston thread, Ed called while we were out & reported every one is wet and ok. No power of course, so now we sit and wait some more.
Joe, Quentin, anyone else up in that area - you may want to start thinking about planting rice - you are going to get our storm and Ike, too. Something about lemons and lemonade.
Watched some NS ponies in our yard. Wonder if they are going to get to go east anytime soon. Lots of coal headed east, so not sure what anyone will do with it - if there is too much rain. No trains south during our 3 hour watch, with the exception of one COFC - might have been going to St Joe. (water there too.)
And a refreshing 79 and sunny here today - We got about 1.5 rain over 2.5 days - just nice a gentle for the most part. Now cotton ball skies. Don't y'all start packin' to move here, now.
And my last note of interest - I saw a GP 25. Ya gotta love those reference books!
That's all the news from the true Midwest!
Mook
....Oil companies should be ashamed of themselves....{but we know that's impossible}, as here {1600 miles distant}, gas prices early this morning as I headed 2 miles away for breakfast: $4.25 and $4.29....What has changed from a decade or two ago when we also had massive storms....Did we see instant {get rich prices}, change immediately, not that I remember.
I can understand if refineries are badly damages there would be time that shortages would set in and some price increase would be applied.....but overnight....Believe that's outright greed.
Tom....My family opened a Standard Oil Co. station {ESSO}, in 1938 and I remember the signs: 6 gal. for $1.00...!!
Mookie, Mutt said, "I bet no one is wanting to wear a campaign button that says:
'I Like Ike"'!
And, I'm like you: sitting here wringing my hands, with worry for everyone down there, and praying for them all at the same time.
Sitting here wringing my hands for all that's worth.
Looks like Ike is on a campaign trail - will cover many places of forum favorites. Lincoln is looking pretty nice this morning!
Back to hand wringing.
Mookie
morning
rain and more rain coming into nw ohio.They say whats left of Ike could be up here by tommorow.We are keeping Ed and Texas in our prayers.Defiance didn't take care of the wet football last night so they are now 3-1.Next week Van Wert.
....Humid, a bit of wind....light covering of clouds and 73 degrees about an hour ago.
Ed was on here untill rather late last night and of course at that time still had power. Sounds like they had a pretty good chance of riding it out. Lets all hope they are all safe this morning.
Sounds like massive distruction in the area. Unknown how many people in low areas didn't evacuate.
Good Saturday morning, everyone. Going to be a hot, muggy day around here today: calling for a high of 92. And it looks like the remnants of Ike will go to the north of us tomorrow. Praying for Ed, his family, and everyone else in Ike's path.
Got coffee ready, and fresh juices are made, along with lemonade, hot water for tea, and there's some muffins, cinnamon rolls, pancakes, waffles, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, biscuits and gravy on the warmer bar.
CNW 6000 wrote: Mookie wrote:Dan - you are getting married in a.....gasp......cast???? Actually...I just got a soft brace that will suffice so no, I won't! The honeymoon week will feature me in the cast, however. It's better to have to 'deal with' the brace/cast than to have had the tendon snap. It can always be worse, I just hate to be told not to do things.I will grab a small plate of fish and then get ready for the bachelor party tonight. Hopefully it won't make CNN or an episode of COPS.
Mookie wrote:Dan - you are getting married in a.....gasp......cast????
Actually...I just got a soft brace that will suffice so no, I won't! The honeymoon week will feature me in the cast, however. It's better to have to 'deal with' the brace/cast than to have had the tendon snap. It can always be worse, I just hate to be told not to do things.
I will grab a small plate of fish and then get ready for the bachelor party tonight. Hopefully it won't make CNN or an episode of COPS.
my buddy will give you 20 bucks if you draw my outline here in the parking lot....
Dan
Dan Ouch!!!. Wedding photographers have ways to hide that kind of thing.Poor mamma had to stand on 4 catalogs when we got our engagement picture taken.CW thanks for lunch.A big red sounds good right now.
Well, Dan, that should make for some interesting wedding photos! Will the air cast match your tux?(just kidding, Dan!) Had to think of something to make you chuckle a little bit.
It's really muggy here, but I haven't noticed any pecip in our area, and the street out front is dry. Wonder who is getting the rain around here.
Our Friday Fish Fry is now under way:
Fish Menu:
1. Bass
2. Catfish
3. Cod
4. Perch
5. Rolled Oysters
6. Scallops
7. Butterfly shrimp
Side Dishes:
1. Corn on the cob
2. Fries
3. Mushrooms
4. Hushpuppies
5. Baked beans
6. Cole slaw
Desserts:
1. Chocolate cake
2. Yellow cake w/caramel icing
3. Apple cobbler, cherry cobbler and peach cobbler
Beverages:
Iced tea, lemonade, Dr Pepper, Coke, RC Cola, Mountain Dew (regular and diet), Sprite, Sierra Mist, Orange and Big Red
You all enjoy your meal, and have a good, safe afternoon.
.....Seems humidity is the operative word for today.....Temps are to rise only in the mid 70's. Continues cloudy and just a mist of moisture at times. The grass is a growing...! Greening up again too.
Cool and drizzly this morning. Should be nice today, but humid. Some updates:
-Partially torn Achille's Tendon now requires use of an AirCast boot for 3 weeks. I'm not happy!
-8 days and counting to the wedding. I can't believe it's practically here already!
Off to work!
Quentin - I had the same experience with the temperature this morning. Imagine my pleasant surprise to check the thermometer and find it in the 60's instead of the 30's....
Rainy here this morning. That's not a problem, though. We haven't gotten drenched this summer, just kept nicely watered.
I'll be in the corner with my bearclaw and tea.
we've had a steady light rain since 5 am this morning.going to muggy and wet today.St. Marys comes to defiance to play football.Going to be a mudfest.Time for a nap.Cw thanks for breakfast.
.....I was just over on the thread that has concerns for Ed down in Houston....He seems to feel they will have a better chance staying right where they are after he's made some preps to set out the coming weather system. We of course hope and pray it will be ok for them.
My surprice this morning here is the temp....72 degrees about an hour ago. That's considerable higher than it was yesterday at this time.
Cloudy and no wind....quiet.
Looks like just a little light rain overnight....we need it.
So that starts our day. All have a good weekend....Tom watch that lightning. I'm surprised to hear of so much of that down in the Carolina's. Seems we've had a below normal amount of lightning this summer season.
Edit: We received more rain overnight than I thought we did: .08".
Good Friday morning, everyone. No rain yet, was a quiet night around here, weather wise. But, the rain is on it's way, from the northwest. We might see a little bit of stormy weather, but looks on the weather map, that that will stay just to the north of Louisville. Then, Sunday night, we're supposed to start seeing some remnants of Ike. Sure do hope that Ed and family will manage to be all right, along with everyone else in their area.
Coffee, juices, hot water for tea are ready for everyone, and our doughnuts, danishes, muffins, cinnamon rolls, pecan rolls, bagels and bear claws are on the front counter.
We have some trees that are showing their reds, yellows, gold and brown color. (Seems like it's been for about two months now.)
You all have a good morning, and please, everyone take care, especially our friends to the southcoast Gulf area!!
mudchicken wrote: (I do miss the color in Tree's neck of the woods)
I'll try to remember to take the camera along next time I run. Some trees are already showing a little color.
Looking at sn** in the higher elevations this weekend. We'll take the moisture any way we can.
Guess we'll have to clean the dregs out of the bottom of the gatorade vat before firing-up the industrial Sterno Drum underneath it and putting the cider in.
The flies are having their last hurrah before winter and Nigel is busy snapping at them. Scotties get a little spastic when they discover bees are not like flies. Won't be long before the Aspen start turning. (I do miss the color in Tree's neck of the woods)
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