In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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If I had the money right now for it, I'd buy two 6TB hard drives that I could back up every single thing I have floating around on 4 computers (2 are broke) and about 5 external drives, and have them backed up twice. Get myself a quick little laptop that has HDMI out for a TV screen and then I could throw away about 70% of my tech stuff right there. I'm sick of having all of this shit.
I'm huge into retro gaming too, and I have literally 10 XBox consoles since they're awesome to mod. They're all in working order and I had planned many years ago to make them for friends and family and never got around to it. You have any idea how much space they take up and how heavy they are combined?
I've also got more old tube TVs than I care to admit. Since I never thought I'd be moving, I was kind of hoarding them because as they become more and more scarce, they will become valuable again one day. I've never noticed the difference, but some hard core gaming enthusiasts swear by them for older games. The new TV's have a controller input lag that wasn't present on the old TVs. I figured 10 or 15 years from now I could sell them for big bucks. Now I have to figure out how to get rid of them.
And aside from my tools, that's just the tip of the iceburg of the list of stuff that I actually want to keep.
I've got to find a way to get some boxes without paying ridiculous prices at Home Depot for them. I threw all of mine out a few years back when I got rid of about 50% of what I owned, again figuring that I was never going to move. At least I can organize stuff and box it up and put it in the attic that I won't be touching before I move.
The big stuff is a no brainer. I think I'm actually going to get rid of every single piece of furniture I have except for one couch, a rocking chair that has sentimental value, a full size bed and maybe a dresser or two. Everything else is getting curbed.
Hopefully wherever I move has some appliances. I'll take with me whatever it doesn't have, but I really don't feel like hauling any of that stuff either.
Just.... way too much crap. Way to much crap to sift through. Way to much crap to think about moving...
If I knew I'd have more money than I will when it's all over, I'd probably just leave with whatever clothes I was wearing and a backpack and never look back.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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No rain today but it is thinking about it. Clouds have rolled in so it might tonight again.
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I awoke to a GIANT THUNDERCLAP that immediately knocked out the power in my house, and exclaimed FUCK as I got to my feet and was on my way to the door to get my generator out of the garage since my basement would start flooding within 20 minutes with no power to the pump with how hard it was coming down.
2 seconds later, the power came right back on.... 
Knocked out my computer and crap laptop I had powered up though. They both seem to be fine.
I actually took a 2 1/2 minute video of what the sky was doing. If it weren't such a chore with my old tech, I'd upload it right now. It's the second time I have seen this phenomena in my life now... the first being only a few years ago when down visiting my brother.
After the loud thunderclap that knocked out the power, there was just a constant semi-loud rumbling that droned on endlessly. I've heard rolling thunder before, but this just wouldn't let up. Now that the major storm has passed, I can still hear it going in the distance almost 30 minutes later.
It's so cool looking, but so eerie at the same time because it's not something I'm used to seeing. The sky pretty much stays light the whole time, powered by what must be a million tiny electric jolts that arent' powerful enough to make a large bolt downward, but just kind of hang out in the clouds and make noise, with only the occasional bolt coming down. And the rain wasn't the only thing keeping me from filming it outside either... The few bolts that did occur after the blast looked dangerously close and looked like they touched ground.
Hopefully that's over now. My generator is in good working order and I have enough gas to power it for several hours so I could pick up more if needed. The only problem I have now is that the most obvious place to have housed it would have been my back porch, but it's too heavy and would make so many vibrations that I'd be afraid it would knock the whole thing down now. So I'd have to run it in the garage and have my extension cords exposed to around 30 feet of rain.
It would probably be fine. They're in good shape. I just don't like the idea of mixing electricity with water. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
This late in the year, (mid-May) we just got an astonishing inch of rain. You have to realize that our rainy season basically ends by mid-March. Only 0.1" of rain was predicted.
This just goes to show what whacky weather we've been having. All of that cold air swooping down from Alaska and causing rain here ... must mean that Alaska is really warming up. Once Alaska (and the Arctic in general) have warmed up - which may be two to seven years from now I guess - I think we'll go back to being nonstop hot and dry
Hmm... what I posted was just a logical guess about Arctic temperatures at the moment, but
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It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean this weekend as carbon dioxide hit its highest level in human history
Saturday’s steamy 84-degree reading was posted in Arkhangelsk, Russia, where the average high temperature is around 54 this time of year. The city of 350,000 people sits next to the White Sea, which feeds into the Arctic Ocean’s Barents Sea.
Anomalously hot day on the coast of Arctic ocean: Arkhangelsk, Russian just recorded +29°C (at 11.00 UTC). That's only 500 km east of Finnish border. #RussianHeatwave pic.twitter.com/Ax97zt9XP6
— Mika Rantanen (@mikarantane) May 11, 2019
In Koynas, a rural area to the east of Arkhangelsk, it was even hotter on Sunday, soaring to 87 degrees (31 Celsius). Many locations in Russia, from the Kazakhstan border to the White Sea, set record-high temperatures over the weekend, some 30 to 40 degrees (around 20 Celsius) above average. The warmth also bled west into Finland, which hit 77 degrees (25 Celsius) Saturday, the country’s warmest temperature of the season so far.
The abnormally warm conditions in this region stemmed from a bulging zone of high pressure centered over western Russia. This particular heat wave, while a manifestation of the arrangement of weather systems and fluctuations in the jet stream, fits into what has been an unusually warm year across the Arctic and most of the mid-latitudes.
Above average temperatures so far this year across the entire #Arctic, especially near Alaska (>5°C anomalies)... pic.twitter.com/oOvhWjKP6R
— Zack Labe (@ZLabe) May 13, 2019
In Greenland, for example, the ice sheet’s melt season began about a month early. In Alaska, several rivers saw winter ice break up on their earliest dates on record.
Across the Arctic overall, the extent of sea ice has hovered near a record low for weeks.
Data from the Japan Meteorological Agency show April was the second warmest on record for the entire planet.
These changes all have occurred against the backdrop of unremitting increases in carbon dioxide, which has now crossed another symbolic threshold.
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There was one storm in Buffalo, I know I posted about it before, that came in three waves of nonstop lightning mixed with frequent extra-crisy giant bolts of lightning. It came in three waves; the first one was about 15 miles away* and had us all at our second-floor apartment livingroom window watching it like a show, the second wave (which was closer, and stronger) had us backed away from the window while the fluorescent lights flickered on and off due to the EMFs, and the third and worst one had us looking at each other wondering when (if) it was going to stop. It was truly Biblical and like the end of the world. Awesome phenomenon.
*Not sure if you know this trick but you can estimate the distance away from you by any sound/light phenomenon such as lightning or explosion: since light travels nearly-instantaneously but sound travels much slower, the gap between he moment you see the flash versus when you hear the sound gives you an indication of distance. Start counting seconds the moment you see the flash; if you get to five seconds before you hear the first of the rumble that's one mile, if you get to ten seconds that's two miles etc.
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Yeah. I know the trick.
Impossible to tell about the rumbling light show since the sound and light were constant. I wish I could have gotten a better vantage point than from the back windows of my porch like I did when I was visiting my brother. Everyone has to smoke outside of his complex, so I was out where you could see almost the entire sky. The rain and the light show was much further away so the thunder was much more muted, but you could see it basically lighting up half of the night sky. Since I wasn't getting rained on I just stood there watching it in awe for about 15 minutes after I had finished my smoke.
Honestly, I can't recall off the top of my head if the few lightning bolts that I did see were instantaneous or not because I was startled when they came down since they looked to be reaching the ground and they appeared to be extremely close, as in like the next block over, over the rooftops of the neighbors behind me. Honestly didn't even think to count. I had just woken up after a huge thunderclap and short power outage. I'm surprised I thought to even grab my tablet. I just knew what I was going to see though without even going outside yet, just based off of that constant rumbling. That's not a sound you easily forget.
How long ago was the Buffalo incident? Is this something relatively new, or has stuff like this gone on forever? I'm not one that easily gets creeped out, but when you hit 40 and you're witnessing something like this that you've only ever seen once in your life only a year or two prior, you get to wonderin'.
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Oh, this was many decades ago ... at least 40 years ago. I'd never seen anything like it before, even tho Buffalo has very changeable violent weather (like much of the midwest) - heat waves, blizzards, tornadoes, violent thunderstorms. But that particular storm was a oner; we ALL remember it because that last wave was accompanied by a feeling of deep foreboding and unease.
Been told that sometimes happens because there are a lot of positive ions floating around but don't know that for sure. My sister passed underneath a tornado cloud that was at ground level. Between the rain, the darkness under the cloud (this was daytime but it was black as night) and the cloud itself whose base was literally at the height of the hood of her car she could't see to drive, and the thing she remembers most is the intense feeling that there was a malevolent presence hovering right over her. Someone on her jury panel happened to be driving the same road at the same time, and brought that feeling with her the next day, so it wasn't just her.
Anyway, expect more of the same in the future. Especially persistent (like months-long or even years-long) unusual weather patterns and storms which don't pass thru in an hour but persist for hours and hours. That's because the jet stream is slowing down, and since the jet stream drives the storms/ heat waves/ cold fronts from west to east they'll tend to sit on top of wherever they are.
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Rain arrived. So, it's an umbrella kind of day.
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Two Grey Whales, a mother and calf got stuck in Boundary Bay last week. Caught as the tide was going out. Wildlife Rescue were called and watched for a while. Luckily momma and calf got out of the bay and back into open water. 
Same thing happened the week before in Washington state. Different outcome. Whales couldn't get out and unfortunately even with human help died.
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Quote:Meaning you watched them? From your balcony, or on-site?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Two Grey Whales, a mother and calf got stuck in Boundary Bay last week. Caught as the tide was going out. Wildlife Rescue were called and watched for a while. Luckily momma and calf got out of the bay and back into open water.
Same thing happened the week before in Washington state. Different outcome. Whales couldn't get out and unfortunately even with human help died.
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Not that anybody would have noticed, but since sometime Wednesday evening or afternoon, I have been unable to login.
I tried on my mobile phone, which I mostly use to post now, and I had thought I also tried on a desktop computer.
It was a weird symptom. My password has not changed for either 7 or 12 years. I put in the correct email and password, and then I was forwarded to the main page - which is normal - but my username was not displayed in place of the login/sign in links - which is unusual.
I tried with incorrect passwords, and the login screen does not forward, but returns to itself, keeping the correct email address but with the password field blank. All of that is normal. So it seems the software is recognizing the correct password and matching email address, but then was not allowing me to BE logged in, nor to post or reply.
So I sent an email to HAKEN. This morning he rebooted the database (or similar). My mobile phone device continues to exhibit the same behavior, but now I find that I can login with a desktop computer at the library.
I am posting this here so that it can be known and/or referenced by anybody who ends up with a similar problem, but OBVIOUSLY cannot post about it while they are unable to login. I don't recall if this has happened to me before at this site.
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