Good morning!!!!

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Good morning! Got up early to help Whipper with coyotes. They run when I shine the flash light in the area she is barking at. 69˚ South wind.

My buddy had to get up and shoot his shotgun at the coyotes the night before. This is near Port Lavaca.

Trying to get the tiller going. Did not park it with avgas.....

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Lake Oroville started flowing into the emergency spillway at about 9AM today. Just a trickle at first, but it's slowly building. So far everything's holding up fine. Here's a helicopter video taken between 9:00 and 10:00 this morning that gives a pretty good idea of the flow rate and positioning of the various dam pieces.

I've been keeping one eye on the lake and listening for radio broadcasts of trouble, and so far there have been none. Hopefully this is another Y2K type fiasco and all the doom'n'gloomers will be disappointed that everything works as planned and that thousands of people and millions of dollars worth of property aren't destroyed.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Lake Oroville started flowing into the emergency spillway at about 9AM today. Just a trickle at first, but it's slowly building. So far everything's holding up fine. Here's a helicopter video taken between 9:00 and 10:00 this morning that gives a pretty good idea of the flow rate and positioning of the various dam pieces.

I've been keeping one eye on the lake and listening for radio broadcasts of trouble, and so far there have been none. Hopefully this is another Y2K type fiasco and all the doom'n'gloomers will be disappointed that everything works as planned and that thousands of people and millions of dollars worth of property aren't destroyed.

Hope they put rebar in that spillway. And, some huge rip rap at the bottom to break the fall of the flow.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 61F this morning clear and windy from south. Air was so humid and warm, roads were wet until 10AM! Winds pick up temp rose to 86F. Left early to meet bike ride group, finished ride at lunch time. After lunch and nap, got tree planted (Autumn Blaze). Wife wanted to go play golf, but course was till full from tourney today so that got nixed.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Hope they put rebar in that spillway. And, some huge rip rap at the bottom to break the fall of the flow.

There's plenty of evidence that there's rebar in the concrete of the spillway, but the telephoto shots of the damage and the tremendous scale of the spillway itself make it pretty difficult to see something as small as 1" across. That hasn't kept the armchair engineers from rounding up their lynch mobs and going after anyone with an informed position. Makes me sick to see the way people behave, especially when the dam's doing everything it was designed to do and oh so many innocent people are ignorantly grateful of that fact.:duh:

 

[Buppies]

55 high of 74 today gusty winds developing tonight thru tomorrow.

RNG agree with your comments above

 

[Buppies]

Another big storm in the NE snow and lots of it. Thomas if it keeps on you will need a snowmobile to get to work. I think I see more snow for you Wednesday or Thursday of this upcoming week

 

[Eric Salop]

Good morning all. No coyotes here, although my daughter did say this morning that the courtship sounds of the local foxes had kept her awake for an hour last night.

The east wind was bitter yesterday. Not much fun being outside, so we spent much of the day in the house. I thought that I had been putting enough money away to start taking things easy, then along came a whole series of unexpected bills. Considered mortgaging the property to try and release enough cash to keep going. Thank goodness the financial woes were only a game of Monopoly with our grandson.

 

[daugen]

Thank goodness the financial woes were only a game of Monopoly with our grandson.

You know, trying to buy Trump Place is really expensive...

silly warm out, 60 degrees going up to 76 today. I should be heading straight outside but I have a pecan cake with vanilla icing to make. Box cake but I sprinkle some extra crushed pecans in the mix and some on top of the icing. Headed to a party at the local nursing home.

Planted my first three nut trees yesterday, three tiny little tree twigs I bought at Tractor Supply, American Hazelnuts. The big stuff is due in next week.

Have a very nice Sunday and those dealing with snow take it easy.

 

[daugen]

quite the weather forecast for coastal New England and Canada

"The storm has the potential to bring 1 to 2 feet (30 to 60 cm) of snow to parts of central and northern New England and parts of the Maritime Provinces of Canada," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski said.
Locally higher amounts can occur in parts of central and eastern Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.