Chewbacca Defense

Anytime anyone say "can you/anyone say......" I always think of Bloom County and the Mr Rogers strips:

When the Nisqually quake hit, we were living in the Willamette Valley, and my wife and I worked about a mile from each other in Corvallis. I worked in a building that was on a ground level concrete foundation, and my wife worked at the OSU Credit Union there on 9th and Spruce, which had 1 level under ground. I didn't feel a thing. My wife (who was pregnant at the time) said all of the sudden she felt really unsteady, and thought she was going to pass out. a little more time passed and a picture started tapping on the wall by her, and she noticed people in the lobby were looking around trying to figure out what was happening. At that point she realized it might be an earthquake but had not idea it was so far away. Never felt one myself (that I remember), I lived in LA until I was 4, and we had a big one during that time period. My mom initially thought my brothers were roughhousing until the shaking got going then went into a panic trying to round us all up (she's from Georgia and had never been in an Earthquake). My dad (born in California) just stood by the sliding glass door watching the water slosh out of our pool. On the weather side, the past couple of mornings have been quite foggy. I am really over the smoke and dry weather. My poor puppy is not going to know what to do when the rains really get going. She was born in late April, but was never in a position where she *had* to go outside before the late spring rains stopped. The one or 2 times we have been outside during brief showers here she look at her back very confused and bites at the air LOL

Yeah that's what you call a hard reboot on the 'ole noodle. Any time you see a player go down and their hands do that or their arm stick out in front of them, they are 100% lights out. It's called the fencing response position. If he suffered a head injury last week he absolutely should NOT have been out there, and this is exactly why. Taking a blow to a brain that is already bruised/injured does exponentially more damage. This *could* end his career. As much as I love football, this kind of sh*t really pisses me off!

What the heck happened....I have Tua as my backup QB, and his status went from questionable to doubtful to out back to questionable...never seen a player status change so much in a game. Gonna have to find some highlights (or maybe lowlights is more appropriate)

That would be a direct hit for my sister. She is about 3-4 houses in from the water on the mainland behind Sullivan island (just south of Isle of Palm). I'm sure she will ride it out. She designed her house (she got her degree in Architecture from UVA, masters from Tulane) The last time I questioned her about riding out a hurricane, she went into a 5 minute speech about all of the design features and structural reinforcements she designed into the house. Plus its on stilts. There is nothing but some storage rooms on the "ground" floor.

Probably why I don't do puzzles....

I was just getting ready to post this exact link LOL

Nasty stuff, I spent a fair amount of time on Long Boat Key as a kid. My godmother had a place on the water (ocean side), and some distant cousins still have a place in the same condo complex. Looks like they will for the most part be on the lee side of island for this storm. My god mother had some crazy evacuation stories. She had a fishing boat in Long Boat and a motor yacht and a couple of condos in West Palm Beach (yeah she was loaded). One time in the early 80's they had to evacuate in t he middle of the night from Long Boat and decided to go to West Palm. Half way to West Palm they got news the storm's track had shifted, so they had to turn around and try to get back to Long Boat. They got the fishing boat out of the water, but not the yacht. In the end, the storm fizzled as it came ashore, the yacht rode out the storm and it was a long sleepless night sitting in traffic. One of many reasons I could never live down there. Yeah I know we have a big 9.0 lurking for us, but its gonna happen, we pick up the pieces and move on. Living down in Florida you have to deal with this on a very regular basis. No thanks.

I highly recommend Spain....anywhere really. I went to Madrid and down to Toledo, and my Mother in law went to Barcelona and absolutely loves it. A friend of mine is British, and they always head to the Spanish Mediterranean coasts for their vacations. Scotland is amazing too.

Off topic, but certainly @Jginmartini and @TigerWoodsLibido would appreciate this....big update last week to MSFS2020 last week addressing winds and the flight model. I'm watching a real life A320 pilot flying around in Ian, left Fort Lauderdale, went to Havana, and is currently trying to land in Key West. The graphics with the clouds and bands of rain is incredible. The wind simulations is also pretty incredible. He had to abort on his first attempt with a 50+kt gust. He said the most he has landed in (in real life) is 45 kn, and the simulator was pretty much what he would expect to feel. If you have the time, V1-Simulations is the guy.

Yeah, I am having to water certain sections, I reverted a strip of flower bed back to lawn and I am building up some low spots in my front yard, so I am having to water those daily. Most of my back yard stays pretty damp thanks to an underground spring that runs along the back of the property.

Never ridden on the sit on top, but I did get to ride one of the standup models. My godmother had a 3-5 acre lake in her front yard (her property was about 30-40 acres), and her son brought his jet skis out one weekend when I was about 8 or 9. Fortunately (for me) it was his nephew and not me that figured out that when you cut power on those you lose steering. We were racing across the lake, and there was a dock in the middle. When he realized he was headed for it, he cut power and turned the handlebars. Plowed right into it. Filleted his leg open pretty good and destroyed the jet ski. That lesson came in very handy many years later when I worked Marine Patrol in Oregon running jet boats up and down the Willamette. On the weather side of things, got down to 51 last night, and lots of mid-level smoke in the air this morning.

Looks like NOAA Gulfstream IV just finished a recon flight and is headed back to the barn. https://www.flightradar24.com/NOAA49/2d9dea7e

Just stepped outside for lunch, and yeah its kinda yucky up here too. My wife and I are battling a cold that has turned into a nasty cough, and the smoke is definitely NOT helping.

We moved to Bellingham from the Willamette Valley July 2003, so that was our first Halloween up here, and yeah, my kids were pretty miserable. My wife and I were also pretty miserable trying to figure out how to fit coats and sweaters underneath Halloween costumes. Our kids were about 12, 6 and 3 at the time. That was our second big reminder that we were not living in the WV any more. The first reminder was (since we moved here July 1) how incredibly bright it still was at 9-10 PM at night. We would be driving around exploring, look at the time and see it was 8:30-9 and we still had to get home get the kids bathed and in bed!

64 degrees and .01" in the rain bucket.

I drove down Barkley yesterday and things were looking pretty ugly. That is usually an incredible stretch of road.

Definite feeling of fall in the air. Chilly both mornings this weekend, and even this afternoon, the air feels chilly despite the 75 degrees temp this afternoon. Loving it!

But....but.....what about Stampede Pass? Does his time living there not count? oh wait....

We had some drops make it to the ground with the band of moisture that passed through earlier this morning. It wasn't even enough to get the ground wet, but it did cool the air and reduce the smell of smoke for an hour or so. Back to very warm and smoky now. Feels a lot warmer than what the thermometer is saying (75).

Check out the rotation over the west side of Vancouver island

Just went out with the dog and we have ash falling up here in Bellingham. Definitely ready for this to be over!

Did the tour of Puget Sound today car shopping for my son. Coming down the canyon into the Skagit flats conditions went to in a hurry (not that they were great in Bellingham). We hit Marysville around 1pm to fairly heavy ash fall, but it was a cool 73 degrees. We struck out there and headed on to Kirkland. The temp jumped to the upper 90's as we hit Bellevue. Other than the stifling heat, the smell of smoke was not too strong. We then went on down to Renton, it was a few degrees cooler, but I think the smoke was a little worse. We ended up back in Kirkland and picked up a car we looked at there, and started driving north around 9:45 this evening. It was hard to tell what the smoke was doing for the most part, but it seemed to be down to streetlight level around Lynnwood and again in Burlington/Mt. Vernon. My son graduated from a 1998 Subaru Impreza with over 300k miles to a 2016 Subaru Forester with 70k miles. All of this Subaru test driving has me seriously considering selling my Vee-Dub and getting a Subie. When I got the vee-dub, I got the TDI anticipating that I would have a commute. Instead I now work remote full time, so it doesn't really make sense to keep a car meant to drive long distances. I saw mention on the Whatcom weather FB page that there is a chance of thunderstorms tomorrow?

Got down to 49 last night and the smoke came back with a vengeance.