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Interesting weather, yesterday.

General Discussion
#1

I was briefly entertained, yesterday, by a squal that blew threw the Feather Creek Ranch, with rain, hail, and gusts of wind that spiked to 72 miles per hour, putting my new anemometer to the test. The only damage to the railroad was pine needles and small branches on the track. Several trees lost their tophamper, one Ponderosa Pine loosing the top third of its once eighty foot height. That chunk landed in a nearby 100 year old apple tree. Several eucalyptus trees that were planted by a previous owner for privacy screening no longer serve that function, having been shorn of a lot of their branches, cluttering the driveway.

Power has been out since 1530 PDT when the squal hit, I’ll get pics posted as soon as I can get my PC running again. I’m posting from a 7 inch Android tablet. I’m sure that some of our tech geniuses can do it from this platform, but I can’t, and at 0330, I’m not in the mood to learn. :slight_smile:
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#2

It is a great moment in life when you can truly enjoy the fury of nature. Wow! Sounds impressive.

#3

“it’s not nice to fool Mother Nature”!

But it can be fun to watch…:wink:

#4

Not quite as severe up here, but severe enough.

#5

My second garden layout here in London was clobbered by heavy Belgian roof tiles torn off the roof by Hurricane Force winds . The tiles did not blow all the way from Belgium , you understand . Small tornados touched down in several places during a violent thunderstorm recently , but that is commonplace .

Insurance covered the roof , but not the layout , and I have to say how happy I was not to be out in it because a couple of tiles bent LGB track beyond repair , smashing the raised bench structure below it .

The wind sorted out most of what was left of the benchwork . The Great Storm of 1987 .

Of course , we do not get Hurricanes in England . Ever . They hit Wales and Scotland quite often , but the scenery there has grown accustomed to high winds . Around the London area we had winds of 90mph a couple of weeks back . But hurricanes ? Nah , it’s just severe gales or storms because we don’t give them girly names .

You can’t really go anywhere in the world without meeting weather , I blame Al Gore and his Algorithms re global warming . He shouldn’t have stirred it up . The world was OK until he started melting icecaps and glaciers . Actually , I haven’t noticed the sea rising up my back garden yet . Perhaps he was wrong . Oh , I just thought , he can’t have been , it was all in a book called “An Inconvenient Truth” .

Anyway , my sympathies go out to those who awake to find a garden of mixed recyclables ,

after all of the work that goes into getting the trains somewhere to run it is rather unpleasant .

Steve , as you are an ex matelot , you should have known you had to tie things down . You are lucky it didn’t roll , too . Maintain your heading cockswine .

#6

Steve, I hope all is repairable! On this side it just rained and rained! This is a nice summer in Western Washington, Cold, Gray Clouds, Wind and Rain! Lets see before we moved up here there was a Lady who came up here from So Cal and had 15 months of not seeing the Sun! May be I should have stayed down there! But then there are inside projects you can do when it is like that!

Paul

#7

Still no electricity. Got the fallen branches piled up, waiting my turn at the chippir. Good practice for “The End Of The World As We Know It,”. :slight_smile:

#8

Steve , git yer poccket knife out an’ practise a bit o’ whittlin’ .

Mike

#9

Steve Featherkile said:

Still no electricity. Got the fallen branches piled up, waiting my turn at the chippir. Good practice for “The End Of The World As We Know It,”. :slight_smile:

At least you’re still smiling or are you just kidding us?

#10

Still smiling, HJ, for now. It appals me just how mush we depend on electricity. I figure that if the Trons don’t start flowing, today, I’ll have to empty out my reefer, and SWMBO just filled it in anticipation of the grandkids visit.

#11

Yes, Steve… We are certainly reliant on the modern miracles. But, thankfully they are a great asset and sure hope you get power back on today…

Hope all the damage can be lived with or repaired…

#12

Glad to hear you are OK.

#13

Lou Luczu said:

Glad to hear you are OK.

Thanks, Lou, I’m OK, just frustrated. I was out this am cleaning pine needles off the track and thought, this would be a good place for some cribbing. Nope, no power for the table saw. Then I thought maybe I can get some soldering done on my lighting project. No joy there, either. Aaarrrggghhhhh

#14

Steve Featherkile said:

Lou Luczu said:

Glad to hear you are OK.

Thanks, Lou, I’m OK, just frustrated. I was out this am cleaning pine needles off the track and thought, this would be a good place for some cribbing. Nope, no power for the table saw. Then I thought maybe I can get some soldering done on my lighting project. No joy there, either. Aaarrrggghhhhh

Tell you what; when our power goes off I hit the couch with reading material and don’t give a toot. Unless it’s too close to meal time.

#15

I dunno. I still have projects to do that don’t require lectricity.

Just a little light from some oil lamps and I can keep working on something.

#16

Rats, 'nother front, 'nother power outage. Maybe if they used 18 gauge wire the fix would last.

#17

Steve, I can sympathize with you. We used to get a lot of power outages here. I called the power company’s customer service number once to inquire why we lost power so often and the neighbor’s across the street didn’t loose power. The operator told me that wasn’t true. I told her it was, because I was sitting in the dark, watching my neighbor across the street watch television.

#18

David Maynard said:

Steve, I can sympathize with you. We used to get a lot of power outages here. I called the power company’s customer service number once to inquire why we lost power so often and the neighbor’s across the street didn’t loose power. The operator told me that wasn’t true. I told her it was, because I was sitting in the dark, watching my neighbor across the street watch television.

In some places North of the 49th we have advanced to Smart Meters i.e. this hydro meters are so smart they report a hydro failure.

When they installed the meter I forgot to ask how this happens. When the power fails there is no power to transmit via the built-in radio gizmo, is there?

They also have a unique feature, they have a tendency to cause fires - all the meters in Saskatchewan are being recalled/replaced because there have been too many instances.

#19

They threatened us with those meters a year ago, but so far have failed to follow through. Too many fires, I guess.

#20

Hans-Joerg Mueller said:

David Maynard said:

Steve, I can sympathize with you. We used to get a lot of power outages here. I called the power company’s customer service number once to inquire why we lost power so often and the neighbor’s across the street didn’t loose power. The operator told me that wasn’t true. I told her it was, because I was sitting in the dark, watching my neighbor across the street watch television.

In some places North of the 49th we have advanced to Smart Meters i.e. this hydro meters are so smart they report a hydro failure.

When they installed the meter I forgot to ask how this happens. When the power fails there is no power to transmit via the built-in radio gizmo, is there?

They also have a unique feature, they have a tendency to cause fires - all the meters in Saskatchewan are being recalled/replaced because there have been too many instances.

No such luck, the gas meter versions have long life batteries inside, they work even when the main power is down, and I believe the electric meters also have a back up battery to store recorded data. Its probably an issue with the batteries that causing the fire problems.