Well - a very Happy Birthday to our own Mudchicken! I'd wonder if he'd ever make it up this way on business, but the Adirondack was surveyed (and built) back in 1892, and I don't think we're planning on doing anything but fix it up (a challenge in and of itself).
Enjoy that tea and steak!
My 'oak' trousers have that "distressed" look now. Interesting touch....
Nice weather on tap here for a bit, anyhow, and hopefully for the weekend. Another couple of days on the railroad. Railfan trip on Saturday, but I'm not going along (we need the help on our own runs). They're stealing our ALCo, though. We get 'stuck' with our ex-PRR Geep. Maybe I can catch a cab ride - haven't ridden in that one yet. Depends a lot on who we have for the rest of the crew.
Edit - Just looked at the radar for the mid-section of the country. Ouch! Plenty of red (tornado watches) all the way from Kansas City to Canada. A couple of tornado warnings in the mix, too. For those of you in that area, make sure your weather radio is up and running!
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tree68 wrote: Edit - Just looked at the radar for the mid-section of the country. Ouch! Plenty of red (tornado watches) all the way from Kansas City to Canada. A couple of tornado warnings in the mix, too. For those of you in that area, make sure your weather radio is up and running!
We just endured a tornado warning here- I think the storm went by south of us, though. Nothing but a brief heavy shower, now the sun's trying to shine.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Brian, hope you don't have any more tornadic weather tonight! But, just in case, get yourself and Joanie in a SAFE PL,ACE!!
Well, I don't know about everybody else, but I am certainly very disappointed that we haven't seen Mudchicken come in here yet!! At least I've saved a porterhouse steak, for when he does drop in.
For everybody else, supper is on the warmer bar. So just fill your plate, and head on out to the picnic tables, out on the patio! I've pushed the button, to extend the awning, so we can have some shade out there. Should be a little bit cooler out on the patio.
Just an update for those that caught my thread about my job situation. I got a chance to talk to the new boss and tell him I will quit if I'm not treated right and boy did that tighten him up . We resolved our differences and I think things will improve greatly. And I am finally going to get some badly needed help (I have been doing what 3 people used to do) and more money, and a share of the company. I'm glad I didn't loose my cool and quit.
Than means I can spend a little more time in here soon.
Everyone have a great day, and those in hostile weather country stay safe !!!!
blhanel wrote: tree68 wrote: Edit - Just looked at the radar for the mid-section of the country. Ouch! Plenty of red (tornado watches) all the way from Kansas City to Canada. A couple of tornado warnings in the mix, too. For those of you in that area, make sure your weather radio is up and running!We just endured a tornado warning here- I think the storm went by south of us, though. Nothing but a brief heavy shower, now the sun's trying to shine.
Glad you're ok. I noticed that warning and said a quick prayer that you guys would be safe!
The radar actually looks pretty tame for a high risk day. The SPC has got all of those tornado watches out, but there are only a few tornado/severe warnings. Things will probably get going stronger soon though with peak heating occurring right now. Hopefully it won't get too bad.
Willy
Afternoon, all......
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's usually a bad thing if one suddenly sees the side of the trailer one is pulling in the mirrors of the semi, right?? Was fighting the wheel during my time behind the wheel today just to keep the rig centered in the lane.
Local news has said that there was a tornado on the ground in Wisconsin Rapids about an hour ago, and more of the same is due for us later today and tonight.
Happy birthday, Mudchicken, have a good one, and keep the shiny side up. Will take some dinner and rest, more behind the wheel training tomorrow........
Randy Vos
"Ever have one of those days where you couldn't hit the ground with your hat??" - Waylon Jennings
"May the Lord take a liking to you and blow you up, real good" - SCTV
chad thomas wrote:Randy, I think trailer in your mirrors is better then trailer in your FRONT window.
The company usually frowns on tailgating, so I hung way back on the freeway as much as I could. At least I wasn't the guy who rolled the tanker of corn syurp on the freeway yesterday, took a few hours for them to clean up that mess........
chad thomas wrote:Randy, I meant YOUR trailer
If it's coming through the windshield or side windows, I probably would not be alive by then. Nobody wants a jackknife to happen.......
rvos1979 wrote: chad thomas wrote:Randy, I meant YOUR trailer If it's coming through the windshield or side windows, I probably would not be alive by then. Nobody wants a jackknife to happen.......
Randy, my Dad had his trailer pass him several years ago. Granted he was only pulling an 8 footer, but looked over at my Mom, and said: "That looks like my trailer"!! (it was!!)
And no, noboby wants the other to happen!!
Being Crazy,keeps you from going "INSANE" !! "The light at the end of the tunnel,has been turned off due to budget cuts" NOT AFRAID A Vet., and PROUD OF IT!!
Dan
CNW 6000 wrote:I guess we don't hear from Sir Chicken on his birthday today. I hope he's enjoying it! Our 'fearsome storms' all died out thus far. So much for predictions of doom and gloom!
Now, now, let's not get give the meteorologists too hard of a time. High risk days are notorious for being busts since they usually involve extreme conditions that are very difficult to forecast. That was the case today and things didn't work out. Generally though, I've been impressed with the forecasters this year, so they can be allowed a few inaccurate forecasts here and there.
CNW 6000 wrote: Our 'fearsome storms' all died out thus far. So much for predictions of doom and gloom!
I dunno - at 8:55 EDT there are still some pretty nasty looking cells all through the watch areas. Central Missouri looks like it's getting hit pretty hard.
tree68 wrote: CNW 6000 wrote: Our 'fearsome storms' all died out thus far. So much for predictions of doom and gloom!I dunno - at 8:55 EDT there are still some pretty nasty looking cells all through the watch areas. Central Missouri looks like it's getting hit pretty hard.
I agree. Even though it wasn't as intense as your usual high risk day, there were and still are some nasty storms going on.
We had one heavy cell go through here about midnight and we lost power. I stayed up for a while until the storm passed over and then saw some flashing lights from the street. They were squads and a fire truck doing nothing more then checking out a downed power line. To dark for me to check out the cause, but it may have been from a downed tree or heavy branch.
Power came up about 15 minutes ago and while turning off lights and the TV I thought I would boot up check the weather map and stop here for milk and cookies.
Everything has moved well to the east so it appears to be all over but the sweep up. Haven't heard from family up on the farm. Heavy storms went through Lincoln County, WI, but for us it is usually no news is good news.
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
Good Friday morning, everyone. It's a hot morning around here. It's 81, 82, and it's not even 6:30 yet!! Around 11, 12 noon, we're to have storms roll in, until about 5, 6:00 this evening.
Looks like we won't have to worry about desserts today. I've got doughnuts of all kinds, shapes and sizes laid out on trays on the counter, so help youselves to as many as you want. Larry, even got bear claws for ya!! And, there's also plenty of all the birthday cakes I made yesterday. I've put a couple of slices of each kind of birthday cake up to save for Mudchicken, whenever he does come in.
I'll be in and out of the Diner this morning. Think I'll grab me a couple of cream filled long johns, and head to the garden with my coffee.
Long johns ^ ? With cream filling ^? Oh Yum....was going for the leftover cake, but have been momentarily distracted!
Sounds like Wisconsin didn't fare too well with weather last nite - some tornados, but don't know where for sure. Maybe someone from "up there" will fill us in.
Have a new pair of bino-Q-lars for my train watching. Driver bought me a pair of 16x50 4.1' Nikon. I brought them in to work with me so they aren't in the hot car all day. I can sit in my office and read the printing on a mail piece on a co-workers desk about 20 feet away - right down to the zip code! I am going to be able to tell the color of the yard masters....uh.....eyes - yeah, eye color when he is in the yard office.
Actually, I just want to be able to identify the engines that never quite make it out to the watch site. They just come out right to the edge of the sight on the old ones.
(besides who would want to know his eyes are hazel.....)
Still looking for Ze Chicken - we need him for a roast..........in his honor, of course.............
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
.....16 by 50...! J, those are pretty strong....Don't look at anyone too close as you might see clear thru them....
Seriously, I have 10 by 50's and I thought they were pretty decent. You should be seeing really well with them scanning around the length of the train looking for "thingeys", etc....
It's 80.1 here at 7:30 when I looked at our instrument....I was shocked...! I was wondering if today was a day to turn on A/C or maybe we could open windows.....Boy, not from that figure. Still high and dry here too....! Still, just a bit of wind too.
Quentin
Well, thanks, CW, for the bearclaw. I'll be over in a booth reading the paper and sipping some tea.
Things look pretty quiet, weather-wise, but it's already very warm and humid here, a perfect recipe for thunderstorms to fire up this afternoon, which is exactly what's forecast.
At least the weekend is supposed to be nice.
cherokee woman wrote:Looks like we won't have to worry about desserts today. I've got doughnuts of all kinds, shapes and sizes laid out on trays on the counter, so help youselves to as many as you want.
Looks like we won't have to worry about desserts today. I've got doughnuts of all kinds, shapes and sizes laid out on trays on the counter, so help youselves to as many as you want.
(Comes in and grabs half a dozen doughnuts and a big mug of coffee )
Sacto just gave me a stomach ache and a sugar rush all at the same time.
FYI - I heard 38 degrees in western Nebraska overnite. They have all the fun!
We didn't even get a drop of rain! At least I haven't heard of anyone being seriously injured from those storms (-yet!) which is good news. It got chilly here this morning. Thermometer said 57 F this morning which was a change from the same time yesterday of 81 F!
Gotta go teach a fitness class...back later!
I just looked at NWS radar for Louisville and at least there's nothing severe (at this time) heading towards you CW. Just some rumbles of 'donner und blitzen' plus some rain to follow.
In her absence () I'll put the sub sandwich bar up for your lunching pleasure! There's wheat, white, Italian herb, and Foccacia bread plus meats, vegetables, and condiments. There's also some chips for snacking on. For dessert I've got some fresh baked white chocolate and macademia nut and some peanut butter cookies.
Thanks, Dan. Yeah, the rain came down pretty hard for a few minutes, with thunder and lightning. Now, it's moving on east, believe they said about fifty miles per hour. Thanks for putting out sub sandwiches on the bar for lunch.
PSA: (not exactly, just to all our Diner family; yeah, it really is!!)
Mutt and I have mentioned the fact that we have a weather radio (NWS). We would strongly urge everybody who can, to get one. It's saved our behinds several times. Some may think it's a pain in the behind, but they're very much worth the money.
Some scanners have the weather service on them; but you can't listen to other things on the scanner, if you have it locked on the weather. With some of the recent outbreaks of severe weather in various localles, we just thought we would post this. I'm sure a lot of people are very aware of the NWS radio, we just want to make sure that people are MORE aware.
(We have a small battery powered NWS weather radio, that stays on 24/7/365, since we had our own problems a year or two ago. We make sure it has fresh batteries in it all the time (rechargable batteries work wonders.) We may not have much money, but that is something that is always taken care of.
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