Good morning!!!!

[ronjhall]

Need to get coffee started brewing. 64° with partly cloudy skies this morning. Heading to 74° with mix of sun and clouds. Not much planned.
Good Morning All.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning! 45F @ 5:00AM. Partly cloudy skies. High 61F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph.

At this rate it sounds like February is going down in the history books as a pretty wet month on both ends of the country, with lots of rain in the west and snow in the east. Hope folks can remember how to deal with it, as in some areas it's been awhile since there's been so much.

Wow Drew, bet somebody got called on the carpet for that one. :duh: They oughta give you a refund for your trouble.

Lake Oroville is only a few inches below the emergency spillway level, but last night outflows were cut back by 10,000 CFS as inflow rate dropped. As such there's some wiggle room to play with and the emergency spillway may stay dry. The best source I've found for photos, and what seems to me at least to be some level headed analysis, is called Metabunk, and there's a good thread on the Oroville Dam spillway failure. It's a forum similar to TBN, and well moderated to keep discussions polite and on point. It turns out that the spillway crack pictures that my neighbor mentioned as being from 2003 were actually from 2013, but that hasn't stopped one county supervisor from making accusations of mismanagement at the dam. Of course the local media has picked up on it and it could get ugly, especially if next week's rains result in property damage below the dam.

Just learned that Highway 70 is closed due to flooding east of here in the Feather River Canyon. Likely won't open again until the water level drops at the dam. Earlier in the week the road was closed while a landslide was cleared, and a woman decided to drive around the traffic cones at night and hit a parked front end loader. Apparently she was drunk and lost her life in the collision.

Not much progress to report at the van mechanic's as personnel issues continue and the focus seems to be on fixing up junk Subaru cars to flip for pocket change. I did test fit the one headlight I've mounted, and it looks OK but would look better with a bit of alignment tweaking. So I'll tackle that this weekend and hopefully finish that job.

 

[sodamo]

67°F and no rain since midnight.
Was able to get on the roof and tie in the solar panels. Very pleased with the production they showed. Have to switch gears from panel stall action as the solar company has chosen Tue to install my new batteries. Have to prep the area for that. Have to disassemble current battery box so they can be removed. Will have to build new box for slightly larger footprint. I will be assisting the unloading and loading with my forks. My 12 old batteries are 315 lbs each. 18 New ones 249lbs each.

Be safe
Have a great day

 

[daugen]

RNG, any new pictures of the bluemobile?

had to chuckle, the latest review of my Subaru Outback said the V6 was too powerful for the car and it
had much too fast tip-in. Yes to the latter, and to the former, the CVT really does max out power/torque of the
engine and frankly if you floor it from start, one could get whiplash, it really takes off. Jump off the line is very strong, and clearly a couple of those reviewers with heavy feet couldn't modulate the power easily. The take rate on this engine is less than 10% but it makes the car much quieter and less strained. For most folks, not a good choice, stick with four cylinder. Too bad their four doesn't make 200hp instead of much less, then you would not need a 268hp flat six. Actually a pretty neat engine that has never had an oil consumption problem. Now the fours...that's an issue for some. Not a car to own if you don't check your oil level occasionally. So far the car has been great.

And I'm headed out to wash the car and truck on a nice sunny day. I'll think of all you guys about to get that next snow storm.
As i'm sweating in the sun. Now I sound like Ron with his you really should be here weather forecasts.


Wow Drew, bet somebody got called on the carpet for that one. They oughta give you a refund for your trouble.

long story, very bumpy road, hopefully fixed, and I think they are going to include a few bags of planting fertilizer or something that I think
might have cost them two bucks. I'm reserving judgement until it gets here. They whined at me that all they were asking me to do was send the
trees back when I had partially, and then fully, explained to them this stuff is heavy, and had a hard time putting it back on the pallet, and balancing it on the large plastic bucket they used on one end of the pallet to hold the trees up. Took me over an hour until I thought it was finished, and then it looked half-butted compared to how it came to me, but tough. Apparently the other buyer demanded they take them back and inspect them and reship so they are going back to the orchard company anyway.

I had to give the young man I was dealing with a lesson in how to conduct customer service, as they never said they were sorry at any time.
Just expected me to fix the problem. When i was done...a letter of apology written quite contritely I might add arrived.
Talk about a place where two eyes should sign off on the shipping label. Just the luck of having two 24 tree orders getting put down next to each other I guess.

 

[daugen]

I can just imagine Farmer having 80,000 of the wrong chickens arriving, guinea fowl anyone?

 

[txdon]

Here is a pic I took for RNG today.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Here is a pic I took for RNG today.View attachment 498445

Love it, Don! Think maybe I need one o' them fancy computerized embroidering machines? :laughing:

 

[mpham]

mpham and L4New, I think you will be using your buckets for this snow by early next week. When the mounds in the shopping centers get so high you can't see around the corners. Though I think for most of us the winter has been very light so far. I see Texas may get more snow; what do they call it? winter whiplash

44 degrees with the sun coming out

Yes. It looks like we have three more storms in the forecast. Up to a foot tomorrow.

 

[farmer2009]

Currently 68. While cloudy a very nice day for February. But I'm stuck inside doing taxes. They get done Monday and I'm not as close as I need to be.

Chicken coops are washed and ready for decaking but that will have to wait. Uncle Sam comes first. .

Drew. Don't have to worry about that. All this company hatches here are chickens. 1.1-1.2 million birds a week. 52 weeks a year. And they are building new barns. 43x600. Wife has told me not to even think about it. 4 barns a mear 1.3 million dollars turnkey. Have a buddy doing dirt work for a set now.

RNG. Thanks for the info on the dam. Too bad they didn't fix the spillway when it was a crack. Although they may have been thinking that they may never need it again. .

 

[Looking4new]

Yes. It looks like we have three more storms in the forecast. Up to a foot tomorrow.

I just finished a 5 hour snow plowing of my driveway plus 4 neighbours. I also made a new snow dump in a clearing for me.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! Got up early to help Whipper with coyotes. They run when I shine the flash light in the area she is barking at. 69˚ South wind.

My buddy had to get up and shoot his shotgun at the coyotes the night before. This is near Port Lavaca.

Trying to get the tiller going. Did not park it with avgas.....

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Lake Oroville started flowing into the emergency spillway at about 9AM today. Just a trickle at first, but it's slowly building. So far everything's holding up fine. Here's a helicopter video taken between 9:00 and 10:00 this morning that gives a pretty good idea of the flow rate and positioning of the various dam pieces.

I've been keeping one eye on the lake and listening for radio broadcasts of trouble, and so far there have been none. Hopefully this is another Y2K type fiasco and all the doom'n'gloomers will be disappointed that everything works as planned and that thousands of people and millions of dollars worth of property aren't destroyed.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Lake Oroville started flowing into the emergency spillway at about 9AM today. Just a trickle at first, but it's slowly building. So far everything's holding up fine. Here's a helicopter video taken between 9:00 and 10:00 this morning that gives a pretty good idea of the flow rate and positioning of the various dam pieces.

I've been keeping one eye on the lake and listening for radio broadcasts of trouble, and so far there have been none. Hopefully this is another Y2K type fiasco and all the doom'n'gloomers will be disappointed that everything works as planned and that thousands of people and millions of dollars worth of property aren't destroyed.

Hope they put rebar in that spillway. And, some huge rip rap at the bottom to break the fall of the flow.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 61F this morning clear and windy from south. Air was so humid and warm, roads were wet until 10AM! Winds pick up temp rose to 86F. Left early to meet bike ride group, finished ride at lunch time. After lunch and nap, got tree planted (Autumn Blaze). Wife wanted to go play golf, but course was till full from tourney today so that got nixed.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Hope they put rebar in that spillway. And, some huge rip rap at the bottom to break the fall of the flow.

There's plenty of evidence that there's rebar in the concrete of the spillway, but the telephoto shots of the damage and the tremendous scale of the spillway itself make it pretty difficult to see something as small as 1" across. That hasn't kept the armchair engineers from rounding up their lynch mobs and going after anyone with an informed position. Makes me sick to see the way people behave, especially when the dam's doing everything it was designed to do and oh so many innocent people are ignorantly grateful of that fact.:duh:

 

[Buppies]

55 high of 74 today gusty winds developing tonight thru tomorrow.

RNG agree with your comments above

 

[Buppies]

Another big storm in the NE snow and lots of it. Thomas if it keeps on you will need a snowmobile to get to work. I think I see more snow for you Wednesday or Thursday of this upcoming week

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. No coyotes here, although my daughter did say this morning that the courtship sounds of the local foxes had kept her awake for an hour last night.

The east wind was bitter yesterday. Not much fun being outside, so we spent much of the day in the house. I thought that I had been putting enough money away to start taking things easy, then along came a whole series of unexpected bills. Considered mortgaging the property to try and release enough cash to keep going. Thank goodness the financial woes were only a game of Monopoly with our grandson.

 

[daugen]

Thank goodness the financial woes were only a game of Monopoly with our grandson.

You know, trying to buy Trump Place is really expensive...

silly warm out, 60 degrees going up to 76 today. I should be heading straight outside but I have a pecan cake with vanilla icing to make. Box cake but I sprinkle some extra crushed pecans in the mix and some on top of the icing. Headed to a party at the local nursing home.

Planted my first three nut trees yesterday, three tiny little tree twigs I bought at Tractor Supply, American Hazelnuts. The big stuff is due in next week.

Have a very nice Sunday and those dealing with snow take it easy.

 

[daugen]

quite the weather forecast for coastal New England and Canada

"The storm has the potential to bring 1 to 2 feet (30 to 60 cm) of snow to parts of central and northern New England and parts of the Maritime Provinces of Canada," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.
Locally higher amounts can occur in parts of central and eastern Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.