The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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I just went ot to talk to a neighbor. I moved to Texas at age 12, and I am now 59. When I say "it's hot," I know what I'm talking about. I came in and checked the interwebs. Heat index of 119F. That's 48C. It honestly feels like walking into an oven when I walk outside.

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caseydog said:
I just went ot to talk to a neighbor. I moved to Texas at age 12, and I am now 59. When I say "it's hot," I know what I'm talking about. I came in and checked the interwebs. Heat index of 119F. That's 48C. It honestly feels like walking into an oven when I walk outside.

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I remember days like that in San Antonio. You'd be in Luby's or somewhere, having a nice bit to eat, in the A/C, feeling good, then get finished, get up, open the door and the hot air would just pile into the restaurant, like some kind of heat avalanche. It would literally push me back a step or two sometimes, and would usually make my stomach instantly upset.
 
TastyReuben said:
I remember days like that in San Antonio. You'd be in Luby's or somewhere, having a nice bit to eat, in the A/C, feeling good, then get finished, get up, open the door and the hot air would just pile into the restaurant, like some kind of heat avalanche. It would literally push me back a step or two sometimes, and would usually make my stomach instantly upset.
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Having a nice bite to eat... in Luby's :scratchhead:

But yeah, you know the feeling. It does hit you like a wall of heat. I can see my mailbox from my office window. I don't care what's in it, I'll get it after the sun goes down, when it's only 90-something.

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rascal said:
48 deg c wow, that's hot. I know the feeling stepping into that intense heat. High of 15 c here today. Saw the mess Laura left, could have been a way lot worse.

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Laura could have done a lot worse. The dirty side of the storm mostly hit wide open land, with very few people. I hope those people are okay, but if the storm had landed 50 miles West of where it did, a lot more people would have been impacted.

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caseydog said:
Laura could have done a lot worse. The dirty side of the storm mostly hit wide open land, with very few people. I hope those people are okay, but if the storm had landed 50 miles West of where it did, a lot more people would have been impacted.

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Quite weird watching live shots from a plane circling above Laura, prop plane c130?? I was fascinated watching it.

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rascal said:
Quite weird watching live shots from a plane circling above Laura, prop plane c130?? I was fascinated watching it.

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Yes, NOAA hurricane hunter planes are turbo props. They work the best. A tubofan, like you would find in a commercial airliner, could be overwhelmed by the amount of water entering the engine.

The Air Force uses C130s, but they can't go as low into a storm as the NOAA Lockheed Orions. The C130s have to fly much higher.

These crews are AMAZING!!!

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caseydog said:
I don't know. That's just not my kind of food. I ate there on high school band trips. Not since then.

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...and Bill Miller's BBQ. We lived in San Antonio from Feb-91 through Oct-92, and I still have a big plastic insulated cup from there.

Oh, and Jim's, kind of like a Shoney's. Loved that place. Last meal I had before heading up I-35 for the last time was breakfast at Jim's.
 
Well, as of 8:15 PM, it is down to 100F. It is supposed to get down to 80F overnight. Woohoo!

I am sleeping in my office again tonight, and the low will be 72F. It's only money, right?

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TastyReuben said:
...and Bill Miller's BBQ. We lived in San Antonio from Feb-91 through Oct-92, and I still have a big plastic insulated cup from there.

Oh, and Jim's, kind of like a Shoney's. Loved that place. Last meal I had before heading up I-35 for the last time was breakfast at Jim's.
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I'm going to assume the food at Jim's was better than the food at Shoney's. I think I've heard of Jims, from when my parents lived in San Antonio. I ate a lot of good food in San Antonio, paid for by my dad. He got his return from me parking my 5.0 Mustang in the driveway behind his cars. He would run to the store, and my keys were always on the kitchen island. He'd get out of sight of the house, and I'd hear that Ford 5.0 HO engine wind out -- and smile thinking, "maybe he really is my dad." :D

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Tomorrow the boys will go to their mom for two days, and then we will have them for another 5 days. So we've had them for a full month minus two days then.
It's been better than the last holiday, no need to call the police this time. But it's nonetheless exhausting. The oldest had his intake at the new clinic on thursday, we should know soon if he can go there. We hope and hope, we're both close to a burnout.
Today we're trying to end the holiday on a high note by going to a zoo, hopefully they will enjoy it.
 
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