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     Hootowl |
I was in one of those during a moto gp weekend in Austin. I thought the rv was going to fall over. | ||
| Court |
This was my experience . . . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_outbreak_seq uence_of_June_1966 The June 8th was the one I recall . . . . that's where I learned . . that the description "sounds like a thousand jet engines" . . was precisely right. https://www.weather.gov/top/1966TopekaTornado
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| Aesquire |
Newsom is a Racist war criminal... and he needs to explain why Grandpa died when the power to his oxygen concentrator stopped, and couldn't reach his bottles in time, because it was more important to give tax money to build windmills than fix the power lines, so PG&E ( power grab & extort ) shut off the power rather than risk being sued for starting the annual fires, after Newsome's Party made the rule it could do so. But he won't. Wouldn't be PC. And let's take a moment to pray, or at least empathize, with the victims of the latest California Fire Season. https://www.fire.ca.gov/ And for the brave fire fighters. | ||
| Aesquire |
Derecho, huh. Learned a new word. Thanks. I knew about the "mesoscale convective system" aka big thunderstorm front with sustained downwash ( as opposed to short down bursts ) But never heard the word Derecho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcus_cloud These are interesting, but not usually happy making. OTOH I have wanted to fly this phenomena in Australia for years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning_Glory_cloud Which is an unusual Atmospheric Wave phenomena, which glider pilots have used to soar quite long distances. Or to high altitudes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_wave aka gravity wave aka stationary wave. These can flip a plane, ( if you fly through the rotor ) even tear one apart, but are prized by glider pilots for the smooth, strong, lift they produce. ( if you ride the right part ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlan_Project https://perlanproject.org/ Team going for near space with the really Big Ones. | ||
| Blake |
Hey Court. You're not in Kansas anymore.  | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Pwnzor |
Now is still a good time to buy PG&E stock. I bought in at $5.25 a few months ago  | ||
| Aesquire |
My question is, what happens to your investment if the People's Republik Of Kalifornia "nationalizes" PG&E? I haven't researched the company, so I'm just guessing the price drop isn't from a stock split, but is instead from the change in rules in CA on suing the power company for fires and requiring sporadic power sources. If could be a great deal. I assume the CA legislators get big bribes ( I always so assume ) and the company is somewhat protected from being taken by force by the Governor, and there are millions of customers already conditioned to pay high rates. ( like me, here in NY ) | ||
| Hootowl |
They are going through bankruptcy currently. Seems the state blames them for not breaking the law by removing dead plants from the areas surrounding their transmission lines and causing wildfires. I would not want to be a business owner in CA. Not sure what happens to shareholders in a bankruptcy, unless you’re a GM shareholder - then you get shafted. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/california-wil dfires-cover-1-million-acres-week-storms-expected- fan-flames The Governor is going to blame the fires in Global Warming and Trump. I'm going to blame the Greenies and the California government. This, with a few name changes, has been documented in this thread for 8 years. They used to blame Bush, then you. Greenies and Cali gov. haven't changed policy and the fires keep coming. THEY say each year is worse. Note that nothing they do would actually stop the Fire Season. But realistic ecological forest management would prevent much of the massive loss. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/an_ol d_indian_trick.html | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/why_w ont_the_press_ask_the_party_of_science_this_one_li ttle_question_about_fossil_fuels.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/laura-rapidl y-strengthen-category-4-strength In the tradition of this thread, fake apocalypse, future certain apocalypse, and real weather... Real Big Weather! Best of luck to locals! And locals means Gulf coast. | ||
| Hootowl |
Not the whole gulf coast. I'm really close to where it will make landfall. As soon as it does, it will become a cat 1, then almost immediately a tropical storm. Since it will hit slightly to the East of me (just North of Houston) I'm on the clean side of the storm, and we're projected to get 1/2 inch of rain over two days. I have no doubt that beach front structures will be damaged due to wind and storm surge, but the strength of these storms severely diminish after landfall. I'm actually hoping for more rain. It's been pretty dry here. Projected wind velocity is 12 MPH at my house. | ||
| Hootowl |
No rain or wind here in Spring TX. It turned East, as they usually do, when it hit land. Another Tesla autopilot crash. https://www.foxnews.com/auto/tesla-on-autopilot-hi ts-police-car-as-driver-watches-movie-on-cellphone "It shows automation is never going to take the place of the motoring public paying attention" I disagree. It shows that automation is currently not capable of taking the place of people paying attention. If you are using current lane keeping technology while not watching the road, you are a moron. I have driven across the country on AP, and it is good, but it's not "watch a movie on my cell phone" good, and Tesla doesn't bill it as such. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/china _has_politicized_science_dont_let_it_happen_here.h tml | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/08/the_g reen_road_to_blackouts.html | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2020/08/solar-p anels-are-starting-to-die-what-will-we-do-with-the -megatons-of-toxic-trash/ | ||
| Hootowl |
My Tesla now uses street signs to determine the speed limit, rather that relying on what google maps claims as the speed limit. I’ve noticed that google maps is wildly inaccurate, especially on state highways and smaller roads. | ||
| Aesquire |
Mom's Prius uses GPS database. On the exit ramp (35) from rt390 (65) the hud jumps from 65 to 35 back to 65 and I've seen other discrepancies. The dynamic/radar cruise control is a bit spooky. Automatic braking & acceleration. Since I usually use a safe following distance it doesn't bother me but I occasionally get a "why is this slowing down?" moments anyway. Lane assist seems to do nothing. So at least a few generations less advanced than your Tesla. | ||
| Hootowl |
I experience some of those same issues. For example, when a surface street begins running close to the freeway, the cruise set speed will go from 75 to 35, or whatever the surface street limit is. Even though it only happened three or four times on my ~5000 mile trip, it was still very annoying, not to mention dangerous. Street sign recognition should help. | ||
| Aesquire |
So, if I tape a paper 95 over the signs I can watch Teslas race automatically? That's just too evil a prank... How about changing the incoming highway to a city to 25 and outgoing to 60? ( really Bad Idea ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/the_w oolly_rhinos_climate_change_cult.html I didn't know the wooly rino was extinct, since D.C. is full of them, as is Albany. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/0 9/03/pope-francis-planet-catastrophic-state-enviro nmental-disorders/ Opinion excommunicated.  | ||
| Glitch |
Almost posted this on the other thread. Some thread mingling and some topic drift happening.  ...anyway... Precession of the earth prolly has more to do with it than we might think. Some people don't even know, and when I use that in a debate I'm told to stick to the science. The science of what exactly? I wonder to myself... | ||
| Glitch |
The Sahara used to be tropical, so who changed the climate back then? | ||
| Aesquire |
Sheep. You could take that as metaphor, but it's simpler than that. Sheep create deserts when man over grazes an area. or the other way around depending on ego. | ||
| Chauly |
I always understood that the Carthaginians pretty much deforested North Africa, that may have tipped something... | ||
| Hootowl |
My understanding is that the collision of africa, asia, and the resultant mountain building and rain shadow caused the dry conditions in northern africa, as well as the arabian peninsula. |
