David Maynard said:
Ah, the paid, professional, weather guessers. I would love to have a job, where I could consistently be wrong, and I didn’t have to worry about my continued employment.
Yep, they can’t predict rain at all but in Southern California we have strong winds in the fall & winter called “Santa Ana’s” and the weather guys on TV can predict them almost to the second.
Around here, if the weather guesser says there's a 20% chance of rain, we figure that means its going to rain 20% of the time, and we plan accordingly. 
What I don’t get is how they can say a 100% chance of rain and then either we don’t get it or they change the forecast to some lesser percentage. Either way, it clearly was not a 100% chance.
They have a big union…they are the same in the UK…
The biggest joke ,was one year a woman rang the Met Office and said she had heard of a hurricane due in the UK…They denied it.
Result. a few hours later …one hurricane and thousands of trees destroyed and millions of dollars of damage to buildings.
Don’t think they will ever live that one down! Still - - hurries in the UK?..who would have believed it…?..
Oops!
I’m glad they were wrong about today. Was supposed to be heavy rain all day. Rain stopped about 9, the sun came out and everything is drying up. I think I’ll continue yesterday’s annulled service.
Bob Russell said:
Looks like the backyard railroad is on hold for now, 3rd straight day of 100+ temps with no end in site. Best I have been able to do is keep the plants watered and happy. I will be amazed if my small Maple tree makes it.
What’s a little heat stroke among friends b;-)
Did some very basic work outside in the mid day sun… Thought I was gonna die ! =-O
What did Noel Coward day about Mad Dogs and Englishmen?
I don’t care if it gets hot today. I’m breaking out the trains later for some evening Fathers day fun…lots of Ice Tea (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
I’m with you Bob. I’m going to do the same. It’s 1630 here now and it’s 99ºF. It should drop about 10ºF by 1900, then it’s a GO! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Daktah John said:
I’m glad they were wrong about today. Was supposed to be heavy rain all day. Rain stopped about 9, the sun came out and everything is drying up. I think I’ll continue yesterday’s annulled service.
John, yea I ran my dinner train for probably 2 hours, an E8 with 3 streamline Aristo passenger cars. I just needed, needed, a train fix.
I got caught in the rain for the second day in a row. Had run a set-out train and a passenger train. Was finishing the second weigh freight when the humidity shot up and the sky got dark. Dropped the cars from the way freight inside then came back out full throttle to sweep the industries, Didn’t make it, and because I was hurrying had a derailment that left the train out even longer in the rain.
All of the cars except one are plastic, so no rain isn’t really a big problem. It’s just that they are always dusty and rain drops leave odd looking markes when they dry in the dust. So, for the second day in a row, I blotted dry every car.
This is fun, right?
Daktah John said:
I got caught in the rain for the second day in a row. Had run a set-out train and a passenger train. Was finishing the second weigh freight when the humidity shot up and the sky got dark. Dropped the cars from the way freight inside then came back out full throttle to sweep the industries, Didn’t make it, and because I was hurrying had a derailment that left the train out even longer in the rain.
All of the cars except one are plastic, so no rain isn’t really a big problem. It’s just that they are always dusty and rain drops leave odd looking marks when they dry in the dust. So, for the second day in a row, I blotted dry every car.
This is fun, right?
I feel your pain! I hate when that happens. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cry.gif)
For those who are on water restrictions, and even for those who are not, but are tired of waiting for hot water at their faucets, we installed one of these on our hot water heater.
Now, instead of standing at the sink letting the water run waiting for hot water, it is hot in an instant and all that water is saved. I think it also saves gas because how many times have you turned on the hot water, and got tired of waiting for it so just used the cold coming out and when the hot finally gets there, you’re already done? Ours was under $150 on Amazon.
I have a recirculating pump, so 9 seconds to hot max at any tap, including the outdoor bbq.
(I lived in a house where it was minutes to hot water, no more).
It draws under 100 watts and runs intermittently on a timer.
You can actually retrofit these without too much difficulty.
Greg
When my sister remodeled her home the water heaters were removed and insta hot, inline heaters were put where ever needed. They have built in recirc circuits so there’s no cold before hot.
John
Still no end to this heat wave, 105 right now which means mid 90’s at around 7:30pm. Living in Southern California is not all its cracked up to be. Fall and Winter we have the Santa Ana winds blowing 70mph through the yard leaving a huge mess and when its done throw in a rain shower or two. Summer is just to hot so that leaves a short time in Spring so its a lot of down time 3/4’s of the year. Oh well maybe this high pressure will break down soon and move out.
Fontana is not what people from other states think of when they think of Southern California.
I’m a native Southern Californian, and San Bernardino county is way inland to me, and hot. That far inland in San Diego is the Anza Borrego desert.
Most people think of the California beaches or at least costal communities, where it’s 68 degrees right now in Carlsbad. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-innocent.gif)
Greg
So, San Berdu is not SOCAL? What is it, then? (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)(http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Clearly you do not live in California Steve.
When you think of sunny southern california, which of the 2 pictures do you associate with?
A hint, the one without the car is in Fontana.
I’ll take the one with the girl car, please. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Joe, yes, the car may be less maintenance. (http://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
