My guess is partly luck!
Good job on the driving Willy. The more practice, structured practice, you get the easier (somewhat!) you're road test should be. Always be on the lookout for the other guy-he usually looks like me! LOL!
CW I wonder how the perch/pepperoni pizza will taste today...and don't worry about the fox paws the other day, fox is good with ketchup!
Larry I'm glad that it was much ado about nothing for the most part by you. I had some friends up near where the F2/3 twister was Thursday. It's pretty bad up there. Super slow day at work today...maybe I'll take an extended lunch!
Dan
....Willy, I've noticed locations on RR's various times spotting "bad spots" and allowing one to wonder how they {M/W}, folks let conditions like that for some time before anything is done to overcome it....Makes one wonder how trains with some speed pass over those areas without causing trouble.
Especially, when one witnessess a rail "pumping" up and down in the mud, etc....{low ballast}, I'd think that would be a pretty good danger spot to create a broken rail. But, for the most part, they seem to get along without trouble most of the time.....I sure wonder how.
Quentin
Good Saturday morning, everyone! Sure does look like it's going to be a beautiful, cooler day around here. Our current temp is in the low 60s, and I even had to pull the covers up over myself last night!
Coffee is ready, and there's fresh juice and hot water for cocoa and tea, and if anyone wants hot chocolate, I'll heat some milk for you.
On the warmer bar this morning: sausage patties and links, buttermilk pancakes, whole wheat pancakes, plenty of syrup, and we've got fresh strawberries you can put on your pancakes, if you wish. There's also scrambled eggs this morning, and turkey bacon.
Joe, glad you and Matt had a great time on your "camp-out"!!
Everyone have a great day, and hope to see everyone back in here tonight for our combined SATURDAY NIGHT PIZZA FEST AND FISH FRY.
Willy2 wrote: many of those were in the northeast, including around Larry's area. Hopefully we'll here from him soon and make sure everything is okay up there.
It looked really nasty coming across the lake, but didn't amount to much here, although many did lose power.
I was standing on our pumper when it came through, filling tankers for a bad fire. Just got home. It'll make for a long day on the railroad tomorrow....
Night, all!
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howdy
sorry haven't been in today. had a good time at our campout. matt is really tired.the storms blew through here today but we didnt get too much rain out of it but its alot cooler now.we need to get stuff for matts ballgame around tommorow then off to bed.
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").
MC -
Happy Birthday!!
Hey, I figgered that out...will wonders never cease?
Hope all is well. Carry an industrial size chapstick I guess. Weather has been strange here in the east too. Been going crazy. All sorts of things flying at me since Balto.
Drop me a note.
LC
The Storm Prediction Center storm reports page shows that there were about 300 reports of severe weather today and many of those were in the northeast, including around Larry's area. Hopefully we'll here from him soon and make sure everything is okay up there. Out of all those reports, there weren't any tornado reports, so that's a good thing.
We've got nice weather here. Storm chances will come back on Sunday afternoon and last off and on through Wednesday. Typical summer weather for Nebraska.
Spent the day in Fremont today and saw 13 trains. There wasn't really anything out of the ordinary except that one train had a green signal go red right in his face. I was expecting an emergency brake application, but he was still far enough away from the signal that it looked/sounded like he just braked hard.
Union Pacific really needs to fix some of the track up in Fremont. There are some pretty big bumps and dips. What concerns me is that they don't have a slow order for this or anything. They just go zipping right on by like it's as smooth as can be. It seems like a recipe for disaster to me.
Yesterday I did my first interstate driving. It was for Driver's Ed so I had a good instructor next to me to make sure I did everything right. It was on Interstate 80 right in the middle of Omaha and during rush hour. I did fine and he says that once I've finished the classroom work (which will be on Wednesday), I'll be ready to get my license. That means I'll finally be able to train watch without dragging my mom or dad along! I'm sure they'll be happy about that!
Ok, I kind of got carried away with the typing there. Sorry if I put anyone to sleep with that exciting tale of the past couple of days.
Willy
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Brian, Lance and everyone else: Looks like I forgot what day this was!! Please accept my apologies. I was out this evening, and just got home a little bit ago. I will make it up to everyone tomorrow. Along with it being our SATURDAY NIGHT PIZZA FEST, we will also make it a SATURDAY FISH FRY also. So everyone can have a little bit of fish and pizza tomorrow night. (I'll include extra anchovies on the anchovie pizza: Jay will love that!!) And I'll also put extra toppings on the other pizzas (not fish related).
I am so very sorry, guys and gals!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
mudchicken wrote:German food for delayed birfday dins to-nite, Jaegerschnitzel,spatzle, dumplings, red cabbage and cucumber salad - Ja! (and then a beer sedative)
German food for delayed birfday dins to-nite, Jaegerschnitzel,spatzle, dumplings, red cabbage and cucumber salad - Ja! (and then a beer sedative)
MC made a special request.
And maybe the fish aren't biting?
mudchicken wrote:// Staggers back in.Mooks: Already burnt to a crisp (no roasting needed)...dontcha just love fying asparagus in yer teef?. Our western Nebrasky job just got stopped for two weeks. BNSF way too busy to spare a flagman. P8-11 tracklayer on the loose out here.Jay: For openers, (1) contractor almost jacking pipe under wrong railroad, (2) High-Wide-Heavy load striking bottom of new lightrail overpass (dumb trucker stunt),(3) RTD forgetting to abandon a freight line before sticking in dedicated light rail here in Denver.Dan: if you put corn down out here yesterday, it's somewhere east of Omaha by now. 60-100 MPH winds most of yesterday. Lotsa broken trees. Dorothy and Toto en-route to St. Louis from Land of Ahs.... I have a sandblasted dirt tan too!CW: Lurch is named for the "You rang?" Adams Family gag and also that is what the truck does when you put it into gear. The linkage on this thing cannot be right. It goes back to Ford to fix.LM: Hope your fire company can fight a fire on the fly. (cute card!, can they pitch a bar of soap my way before the engineer hits the water please?)Tree: Worked in ME and Baltimore in past years. Who knows?Randy, Chad, carl, Unihead, willy, joe, tinshoes & Co. - ThanxGerman food for delayed birfday dins to-nite, Jaegerschnitzel,spatzle, dumplings, red cabbage and cucumber salad - Ja! (and then a beer sedative)//Back to da salt mines... Frazzled Feathers
// Staggers back in.
Mooks: Already burnt to a crisp (no roasting needed)...dontcha just love fying asparagus in yer teef?. Our western Nebrasky job just got stopped for two weeks. BNSF way too busy to spare a flagman. P8-11 tracklayer on the loose out here.
Jay: For openers, (1) contractor almost jacking pipe under wrong railroad, (2) High-Wide-Heavy load striking bottom of new lightrail overpass (dumb trucker stunt),(3) RTD forgetting to abandon a freight line before sticking in dedicated light rail here in Denver.
Dan: if you put corn down out here yesterday, it's somewhere east of Omaha by now. 60-100 MPH winds most of yesterday. Lotsa broken trees. Dorothy and Toto en-route to St. Louis from Land of Ahs.... I have a sandblasted dirt tan too!
CW: Lurch is named for the "You rang?" Adams Family gag and also that is what the truck does when you put it into gear. The linkage on this thing cannot be right. It goes back to Ford to fix.
LM: Hope your fire company can fight a fire on the fly. (cute card!, can they pitch a bar of soap my way before the engineer hits the water please?)
Tree: Worked in ME and Baltimore in past years. Who knows?
Randy, Chad, carl, Unihead, willy, joe, tinshoes & Co. - Thanx
//Back to da salt mines...
Frazzled Feathers
You maybe "Frazzled" but very glad you did make it in!!!!!!!
We can DEFINITELY toss in a bar of soap if it will help!
There have been several times that we would have liked to toss the engineer in, along with the bar of soap!!
Uh, not sure about fighting fires on the "fly", all our pumpers had PTO'S and had to be parked
when using the pump.
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!!
In spite of the fact that we don't see a lot of severe weather here, my weather radio is on 24/7 (in no small part because I'm a weather geek, too...). In addition, I have my fire pager set up to alert on the county fire dispatch weather alert, too, so if I'm out and about I get alerted, too.
Some scanners are S.A.M.E. capable - they will remain in alert mode until a weather alert is received. Almost all currently available weather radios are S.A.M.E. capable, which means you can set them up to alert only for specific areas, a lot less noisy since most weather radio transmitters cover numerous counties, and very often one weather office controls several weather radio transmit sites. My daughter doesn't have hers locked down to her home county, so she hears when I get an alert three counties away. S.A.M.E. codes are available on-line, and often come with the radios.
My weather radio displays the type of alert and the duration remaining, so I know there's a severe thunderstorm warning for the next hour and a half, even if I missed the initial alert. A valuable feature.
An added benefit of a weather radio is almost instant forecasts. Leave it in alert mode most of the time, but if you want the current forecast or conditions, just listen in for a bit. If you listen for a little while, you'll get the rythm of the broadcasts so you'll have a better idea what to expect when you do turn it on.
As CW says - a valuable asset, especially if you live in an area subject to nasty weather.
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.
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.
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!
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!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
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 )
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.
"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
.....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.
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.............
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.
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.
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.
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.
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