It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
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Lars Eighner wrote: > It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of > freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 > p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
Lars Eighner wrote: > It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of > freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 > p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
> In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads are slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has stopped, for now.
Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock season".
Tim Wright wrote: > Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads > are slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has > stopped, for now.
> Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock > season".
Ever see the record(s) for biggest-quickest temp changes? They're insane, I tellya. IIRC, the record is something like 100 degrees in less than two hours. Whatever the numbers are, have I mentioned that they're insane? :)
>>Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads >>are slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has >>stopped, for now.
>>Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock >>season".
> Ever see the record(s) for biggest-quickest temp changes? They're > insane, I tellya. IIRC, the record is something like 100 degrees in > less than two hours. Whatever the numbers are, have I mentioned > that they're insane? :)
> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in the
country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
> Lars Eighner wrote: > > It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of > > freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto > > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the > > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many > > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 > > p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
> > In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
> Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads are > slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has stopped, for now.
> Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock season".
On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:38:03 GMT, Tim Wright <tlwrigh...@verizon.net> wrote:
> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in the >country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and >you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done >before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before >you can get down. >I don't miss it.
Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road, Searchin' in the sun for another overload? Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine? Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
Les Albert wrote: > On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:38:03 GMT, Tim Wright <tlwrigh...@verizon.net> > wrote:
>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in the >>country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and >>you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done >>before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before >>you can get down. >>I don't miss it.
> Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road, > Searchin' in the sun for another overload? > Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine? > Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
> Les Albert wrote: >> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:38:03 GMT, Tim Wright <tlwrigh...@verizon.net> >> wrote:
>>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in the >>>country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and >>>you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done >>>before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before >>>you can get down. >>>I don't miss it.
>> Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road, >> Searchin' in the sun for another overload? >> Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine? >> Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line? > No, just your run of the mill telephone man.
It does rather provoke the question, what kind of lineman was the Wichita line. I cannot think of any lines in Texas that are the county's responsibility. In Austin we have a municiple electric service which is fairly rare, and in rural areas we have electric co-ops, which aren't part of county government. I think there once were telephone co-ops, but telephone service has largely been swallow by SBC, and in a few tiny places by General Telephone. The state has an interagency telephone network, but I think they use SBC's lines and it is nothing to do with county. So what was the Wichita lineman up to?
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> In article <yCOlf.21708$Oq3.13286@trnddc05>, > Tim Wright <tlwrigh...@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Lars Eighner wrote: > > > It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of > > > freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto > > > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the > > > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many > > > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 > > > p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
> > > In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
> > Same in Dallas. It's now 22F, with a wind chill of 7F. Roads are > > slicker than greased owl shit. At least the precip has stopped, for now.
> > Saturday it was 89F and sunny. We call this "thermal shock season".
In article <jlefp15u5fgmqg1rbmf008up7b63m8h...@4ax.com>, Les Albert <lalbe...@aol.com> wrote:
> Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road, > Searchin' in the sun for another overload? > Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine? > Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
You should post this in the thread where Opus is too embarrassed to admit which performer he paid to see twice.
Lars Eighner wrote: > In our last episode, <t2Plf.21718$Oq3.4407@trnddc05>, the lovely > and talented Tim Wright broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
>>Les Albert wrote:
>>>On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 04:38:03 GMT, Tim Wright <tlwrigh...@verizon.net> >>>wrote:
>>>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in the >>>>country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the north, and >>>>you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry and get done >>>>before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops 20-30 degrees before >>>>you can get down. >>>>I don't miss it.
>>>Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road, >>>Searchin' in the sun for another overload? >>>Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine? >>>Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
>>No, just your run of the mill telephone man.
> It does rather provoke the question, what kind of lineman was > the Wichita line. I cannot think of any lines in Texas that are > the county's responsibility. In Austin we have a municiple > electric service which is fairly rare, and in rural areas we > have electric co-ops, which aren't part of county government. > I think there once were telephone co-ops, but telephone service > has largely been swallow by SBC, and in a few tiny places by > General Telephone. The state has an interagency telephone > network, but I think they use SBC's lines and it is nothing to > do with county. So what was the Wichita lineman up to?
Tim Wright (tlwrigh...@verizon.net) wrote: > There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in > the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the > north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry > and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops > 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
> I don't miss it.
How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
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Tim Wright wrote: >> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out >> in the > country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the > north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to > hurry and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp > drops 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>> There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in >> the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the >> north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry >> and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops >> 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>> I don't miss it.
>How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please >don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
Some people can see differences in cloud shape or colour on the two sides. Sometimes the sky on one side of the front has no clouds and even us colour blind guys can see it.
Calgary is famous for its "chinook arch" where the incoming warm front tunnels under the dreary cold clouds. I don't know whether the arch shape is real or an artifact of perspective. But that's a warm front, not a cold one. I expect that a lineman would learn the equivalent images for cold fronts. http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary/search?id=chinook-arch1
> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of > freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 > p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
> In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
<yawn> See my posts on the blizzard of '75 and the cold snap of '85
Bill "although it has been in the mid 40s overnight here in the bay area, cold for this time of year, and I've been a wee bit uncomfortable" Turlock
Lars Eighner wrote: > It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of > freezing rain/sleet/snow. Big emergency. More than 100 auto > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 > p.m. It might get as cold as 24 F before morning.
*Am I the only person who receives the following type of lists from Texans* The example below is but one of many. Nope, nuttin' from any other country, state or city...only Texas.
One was forwarded to me and several others (everyone else on the CC was from Texas). I had some fun with it. ----- I reply with the following: (I kept the whole text, below) My Subject Line: "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall." Hebrew Proverbs, 16:18
Then, (above the list, below):
Hello, I'm George W. Bush and I endorse the following: Further, I urge all non -Texans to petition their elected officials to change the name of the country from: "The United States of America", to: "Texas".
1. It would save billions of dollars in ink on all Federal documents and currency. (Could could save on paper and too - Everything would be be smaller? You know, fewer letters?) 2. Do we really need fifty stars on the flag? If we only have one star on our flag, anyone can make their own flag. 3. Isn't is obvious? Everyone from The Bronx to Puget Sound secretly wishes they were a Texan. Let's formalize it!
(Next, we must change the spelling of "nuclear" to "nuculure".)
----- Well, I got murdered. The dozen people on the CC sent my amended note to a dozen other people (Texans)...I was getting hate mail for days. ----- So... 1. am I the only person who only receives the following from Texans about Texas? 2. If so, what is it about 'Texas' (and no other place) which generates this type of bravado? 3. It appears they are bragging to each other, (Why?) - - - (I'm usually part of a CC which is all about Texas for Texans)?
[I'm not asking Lars to explain or defend. This was a convenient time to inject my curiosity]
Michael >>>-------> The 'list': ___
When you're from Texas, people that you meet ask you questions like, Do you have any cows?" "Do you have horses?" "Bet you got a bunch of guns, eh?" They all want to know if you've been to Southfork. They watched Dallas.
Have you ever looked at a map of the world? Look at Texas with me just for a second. That picture, with the Panhandle and the Gulf Coast, and the Red River and the Rio Grande is as much a part of you as anything ever will be. As soon as anyone anywhere in the world looks at it they know what it is. It is Texas. Pick any kid off the street in Japan and draw him a picture of Texas in the dirt and he'll know what it is. What happens if I show you a picture of any other state? You might get it maybe after a second or two, but who else would? And even if you do, does it ever stir any feelings in you? In every man, woman and child on this planet, there is a person who wishes just once he could be a real live Texan and get up on a horse or ride off in a pickup. There is some little bit of Texas in everyone. Did you ever hear anyone in a bar go, "Wow...so you're from Iowa? Cool, tell me about it?" Do you know why? Because there's no place like Texas. Texas is the Alamo. Texas is 183 men standing in a church, facing thousands of Mexican nationals, fighting for freedom, who had the chance to walk out and save themselves, but stayed instead to fight and die for the cause of freedom. We send our kids to schools named William B. Travis and James Bowie and Crockett and do you know why? Because those men saw a line in the sand and they decided to cross it and be heroes. John Wayne paid to do the movie himself. That is the Spirit of Texas. Texas is Sam Houston capturing Santa Ana at San Jacinto. Texas is "Juneteenth" and Texas Independence Day. Texas is huge! forests of Piney Woods like the Davy Crockett National Forest Texas is breathtaking mountains in the Big Bend. Texas is the unparalleled beauty of bluebonnet fields in the Texas Hill Country. Texas is the beautiful, warm beaches of the Gulf Coast of South Texas. Texas is the shiny skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas. Texas is world record bass from places like Lake Fork. Texas is Mexican food like nowhere else, not even Mexico. Texas is the Fort Worth Stockyards, Bass Hall, the Ballpark in Arlington and the Astrodome. Texas is larger-than-life legends like Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Willie Nelson, Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Landry, Darrell Royal, ZZ Top, Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell, Nolan Ryan, Sam Rayburn, George Bush, Lyndon B.Johnson, and George W. Bush. Texas is great companies like Dell Computer, Texas Instruments and Compaq. And LOCKHEED MARTIN AEROSPACE,! Home of the F-16 Jet Fighter and the JSF Fighter. Texas is NASA. Texas is huge herds of cattle and miles of crops. Texas is skies blackened with doves, and fields full of deer. Texas is a place where towns and cities shut down to watch the local High School Football game on Friday nights and for the Cowboys on Monday Night Football, and for the Night In Old San Antonio River Parade in San Antonio. Texas is ocean beaches, deserts, lake s and rivers, mountains and prairies, and modern cities. If it isn't in Texas, you probably don't need it. No one does anything bigger or better than it's done in Texas. By federal law, Texas is the only state in the U.S. that can fly its flag at the same height as the U.S. flag. Think about that for a second. You fly the Stars and Stripes at 20 feet in Maryland, California, or Maine and your state flag, whatever it is, goes at 17 feet. You fly t! he Stars and Stripes in front of Pine Tree High in Longview or anyplace else at 20 feet, the Lone Star flies at the same height - 20 feet. Do you know why? Because it is the only state that was a republic before it became a state. Also, being a Texan is as high as being an American down here. Our capitol is the only one in the country that is taller than the capitol building in Washington, D.C. and we can divide our state into five states at any time if we wanted to! We included these things as part of the deal when we came on. That's the best part, right there. Texas even has its own power grid!!
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In article <slrndpfch6.31jq.use...@goodwill.io.com>, Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote:
> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of > freezing rain/sleet/snow.
1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
> Big emergency. More than 100 auto > accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the > morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many > staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 > p.m.
Followed by the shelves collapsing at 4:01 pm. -- D.F. Manno | dfm2a3l...@spymac.com
In article <t2Plf.21718$Oq3.4407@trnddc05>, Tim Wright <tlwrigh...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Les Albert wrote:
> > Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road, > > Searchin' in the sun for another overload? > > Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine? > > Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line?
> No, just your run of the mill telephone man.
Hey baby I'm the telephone man I can do it where you want it, I can do it 'cus I can, I can do it in the bathroom, I can do it in the hall, I can do it in the bedroom, I can hang it on the wall. -- D.F. Manno | dfm2a3l...@spymac.com
Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote: > In Austin this is major winter storm disaster.
Hey apparently people are actually learning a little. There were only 5 cars stranded on Spicewood springs this morning. During the last ice storm there were over 20. For those of you not familiar with Austin Spicewood springs has a hill that is damn near vertical and generally freezes up when the weather gets like this. For some reason Texans think you can drive up ice. I sat there at the light this morning and watched two trucks try it even after watching another fail and slide off the road.
Opus the Penguin <opusthepenguin+use...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim Wright (tlwrigh...@verizon.net) wrote: > > There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in > > the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the > > north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry > > and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops > > 20-30 degrees before you can get down.
> > I don't miss it. > How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please > don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
They tend to look cold and blue. No really. Sometimes they really do come in with a wall of bluish clouds that just look evil and cold. Can be quite ominous.
In our last episode, <dfm2a3l0t2-B8E3F2.10585308122...@news.x-privat.org>, the lovely and talented D.F. Manno broadcast on alt.fan.cecil-adams:
> In article <slrndpfch6.31jq.use...@goodwill.io.com>, > Lars Eighner <use...@larseighner.com> wrote: >> It got below freezing around noon. We've had about a 1/4 of >> freezing rain/sleet/snow. > 1/4 what? Inch? Foot? Mile?
Inch. Collisions so far: 725.
>> Big emergency. More than 100 auto >> accidents. School in the city delayed by two hours in the >> morning, and more parochial and rural schools are closed. Many >> staples were stripped from the shelves in the local store by 4 >> p.m. > Followed by the shelves collapsing at 4:01 pm.
-- Lars Eighner use...@larseighner.com http://www.larseighner.com/ If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. - Anita Koddick
Opus the Penguin wrote: > Tim Wright (tlwrigh...@verizon.net) wrote:
>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in >>the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the >>north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry >>and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops >>20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>>I don't miss it.
> How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? (Please > don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map are real.)
Some times there is a wall cloud, some times it's just getting darker in the distance, and you can tell that the wind has picked up out there. The first few times it happens you kind of go, "Huh, I wonder what that is?" After a while you start going, "Crap, I gotta get done and down in the truck before I freeze my ass off!"
Tim Wright (tlwrigh...@verizon.net) wrote: > Opus the Penguin wrote: >> Tim Wright (tlwrigh...@verizon.net) wrote:
>>>There were times, decades ago, when I'd be up a phone pole out in >>>the country, bright sunny day, shirt sleeve weather. Look to the >>>north, and you could see the cold front coming. You try to hurry >>>and get done before it hits, but that never happens. Temp drops >>>20-30 degrees before you can get down.
>>>I don't miss it.
>> How can you see a cold front coming? What does it look like? >> (Please don't tell me those arrows and things on the weather map >> are real.)
> Some times there is a wall cloud, some times it's just getting > darker in the distance, and you can tell that the wind has picked > up out there. The first few times it happens you kind of go, "Huh, > I wonder what that is?" After a while you start going, "Crap, I > gotta get done and down in the truck before I freeze my ass off!"
Followed seconds later by a <clunk!> "Aw, crud."
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"bill van" <bill...@separatethis.canada.com> wrote in message
news:billvan-717950.21172007122005@news.telus.net... : In article <jlefp15u5fgmqg1rbmf008up7b63m8h...@4ax.com>, : Les Albert <lalbe...@aol.com> wrote: : : > Were you a lineman for the county driving the main road, : > Searchin' in the sun for another overload? : > Did you hear you singin' in the wire, did you hear through the whine? : > Were you the Wichita Lineman who was still on the line? : : You should post this in the thread where Opus is too embarrassed to : admit which performer he paid to see twice.
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