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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: mensa180 on June 11, 2009, 12:09:52 AM
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The forums are back, hurray! :aok Everyone fine at HTC? I heard there was a pretty bad storm down there.
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LOL maps n everything :rock
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i got that screen after i tried to relog to fix the weirdo lag.. sumthin got hit by litenin' somewhere, i figured..
as i said to squaddies on our squad forums:
htc, move to a place that dont get cb's like that... howbouts, northern california, or western washington state? :D
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that one was just the first big one, a second just passed thru at 2am local.
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I think they need to move into Cheyenne Mountain!
That way even a H-bomb wouldn't disrupt service.
Plus the con would be a lot closer! :)
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dont seem to have that problem in new england! :D
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or old England !
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We still have no power at the office and our phone system is still down. It was quite a storm. I haven't seen sustained winds that strong outside of an actual hurricane. I got caught on the road when it hit and it looked like a scene out of the movie Twister.
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theres more on the way from what I'm hearing at work today. (Im at UPS mesquite) saw reports of wind gusts from 60 to 80+ last night all over dfw. a pretty good one to say the least. glad ya ll are safe
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Don't laugh, I had to commute to work in that crap :mad:
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I had to leave my bike at work and get a ride home... I'm not that badarse
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I'd always thought you guys in Dallas would get those with some frequency. I know up here in Tulsa we're lousy with them this time of year. Some weeks in spring or early summer we might have 3 in a week like that, and maybe one tornado warning a week also, not to mention the hail and high winds. Even the weather people on the news quit getting all panicy about them after a while.
I always assumed that Dallas had really similar weather and had just adjusted to the severe thunderstorm like we have. I never spent any amount of real time there, so I never really knew for sure. It has just always been my assumption that Dallas gets very similar weather to us. I figured you guys would be used to it by now.
Have I been wrong in my assumption all these years?
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I'd always thought you guys in Dallas would get those with some frequency. I know up here in Tulsa we're lousy with them this time of year. Some weeks in spring or early summer we might have 3 in a week like that, and maybe one tornado warning a week also, not to mention the hail and high winds. Even the weather people on the news quit getting all panicy about them after a while.
I always assumed that Dallas had really similar weather and had just adjusted to the severe thunderstorm like we have. I never spent any amount of real time there, so I never really knew for sure. It has just always been my assumption that Dallas gets very similar weather to us. I figured you guys would be used to it by now.
Have I been wrong in my assumption all these years?
Yup. The DFW Metroplex has what we locals like to call "The Bubble" which 99% of the time "deflects" all rain/storms away from DFW. Dallas during summer is as close as you can get to Hell IMO.
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well keep your heads down and enjoy family time round a candle talking...
I love it when we have power outs...
modern life ceases for awhile and proper time kicks in,
the old war spirit comes out and everyone helps each other and its kinda fun
<S> stay safe and happy
Jimmy
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What was it George Carlin once said about electricity (other than it being organized lightning)? If you want to screw up today's world, just take it away.
And another one: "When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent."
Quotation of George Carlin
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I'd always thought you guys in Dallas would get those with some frequency. I know up here in Tulsa we're lousy with them this time of year. Some weeks in spring or early summer we might have 3 in a week like that, and maybe one tornado warning a week also, not to mention the hail and high winds. Even the weather people on the news quit getting all panicy about them after a while.
I always assumed that Dallas had really similar weather and had just adjusted to the severe thunderstorm like we have. I never spent any amount of real time there, so I never really knew for sure. It has just always been my assumption that Dallas gets very similar weather to us. I figured you guys would be used to it by now.
Have I been wrong in my assumption all these years?
We get thunderstorms frequently. We had a few yesterday as well but the one the other day wasn't a typical one even though on the radar map it doesn't look very different from a run of the mill summer storm. This one had some really freakish winds. Everybody in my neighborhood had their roofs totaled by golf ball size hail a couple months back and that storm was nothing compared to this one. Over 500,000 electrical customers lost power. We finally just got power back to the office early this morning but 120,000 electrical customers are still without power. This UPS truck pulled over during the storm about a mile from our office and was blown over.
(http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/wfaa/2009-06/0610ups_inside.jpg)
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We get thunderstorms frequently. We had a few yesterday as well but the one the other day wasn't a typical one even though on the radar map it doesn't look very different from a run of the mill summer storm. This one had some really freakish winds. Everybody in my neighborhood had their roofs totaled by golf ball size hail a couple months back and that storm was nothing compared to this one. Over 500,000 electrical customers lost power. We finally just got power back to the office early this morning but 120,000 electrical customers are still without power. This UPS truck pulled over during the storm about a mile from our office and was blown over.
Yeah, that's some good stuff there! We had a 70 mph wind storm come through today, but it only lasted a couple of hours, luckily there was no hail in the town proper. I don't much fear tornados but that hail is something else entirely.
Summer is the worst time to be without power, I feel for you there.
I'd still much rather live in a place with a severe thunderstorm season than a place with a wildfire season.
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Wasn't me..... I was at College Station (Aggie Land) getting my youngest Daughter signed up for her classes at A&M. She is majoring in Meteorology though if it helps in the future.
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At least the dar only showed severe thunderstorms iso tornado's.
CM#2