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Post by spindrift on Aug 2, 2009 11:41:26 GMT
Today we have a perfect summer's day. My outdoor thermometer reads 34degrees in a very sheltered spot. This is after a week of incessant rain.
To celebrate we're going to lunch at a 17c inn at Ovington and we'll stroll along the River Itchen's banks afterwards.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 14:34:30 GMT
I think you sent the rain to us.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 15:06:56 GMT
Another warm day here...
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Post by spindrift on Aug 2, 2009 20:04:51 GMT
The sun went in shortly after I wrote the above..... but see my thread about visiting the pub
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2009 23:57:01 GMT
Will do!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2009 18:43:06 GMT
Paris is above 30° these days. Tempers will grow short as temperatures rise.
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Post by rikita on Aug 5, 2009 22:46:45 GMT
had rain and strong winds the first days of my holidays, but since then good weather. overcast but dry last week, so good for climbing. now it is really hot, and i wonder if friday, when i go cycling again, might not almost be a bit too hot.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 6, 2009 2:46:03 GMT
We are having a very loud lightening and rain storm right now and it is 7:30 pm. It reminds me of one that we had about a 2 years ago this August 24th.
Kirk had said early in the week that he was thinking about going to my cardiologist(this probably should be in Free Clinic). Why??? Well it seemed that he was having some discomfort in his chest. Which by the way he had been having on and off for , oh, 5 months or so. Long story short, we got him in to do a stress test on Friday the 24th of August. Yep, failed big time. 4 hours later, two stynts in his major descending artery. Overnight in the hospital . Anyway, I came home about 8:00 pm that night, tired, upset, happy, mad (cause he hadn't said a word to me about it). Couldn't get my garage door opener to work. Had to get the neighbor to come and help me manually put the door up. It was lightening, thundering, raining buckets. Got in the house, dining room light was on. Left the house at 7:00 am to get to the hospital. Knew I hadn't left the light on. Well, apparently there had been a huge lightening strike air to air over our complex. I had no phone, no bedroom tv, no garage door opener, no desktop computer( Kirk's). What mess!!. To this day, we are certain, that we took some kind of lightening strike. It was bizarre, because the surge protector that my laptop is plugged into, the phone cord was plugged in also. The desktop, well, we never really figured that one out. We did learn from a computer guy that basically said, doesn't matter, lightening will travel and the best defense is to turn off and unplug. Don't know if that is true.
Oh, btw, May of that year we were in Paris for two weeks and I don't even want to think about him having a heart attack, but it could have happened( he was 97% blocked). I guess things happen for a reason. Or don't !!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2009 3:46:28 GMT
What an ordeal t63,glad he's ok. When I first read your post I didn't see the 2 years ago part and was very concerned. Phew. We've had a good many heavy thunderstorms of late. They always get my attention. Have an enormous amount of respect for these natural weather phenomena. Along with the storms,lots of heat,intermittent downpours, not very unusual for this time of year here. Have been getting more work of late ,several calls regarding major prune jobs which is great as I was worried about my NY budget and it appears I'll be in good shape to have a worthwhile trip and not be destitute upon my return. Paid vacations were great but I could never work in the private sector,AKA, a"straight job" again I don't think.
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Post by rikita on Aug 6, 2009 21:36:50 GMT
the only thunderstorm i had recently was while cycling. else it is nice here. kind of cool today, which actually was nice. was a lot warmer where bf lives, he was complaining about the heat (i didn't see a problem with it, as he had his webcam on and due to the heat not much clothing on)...
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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 7, 2009 10:26:06 GMT
(I come late to this thread). Kerouac2, the photo of the volcanic craters in the Auvergne looks something like where we live in Michoacán, México. (I have so far not located any specific shots of craters around here.)* *Well, maybe this one, taken during a brush fire in the dry season. The smoke is from the brush fire, not volcanic activity.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 7, 2009 10:53:50 GMT
Don Cuevas - I love that picture (I can only see the first one). So that crater is near where you live?
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Post by Don Cuevas on Aug 7, 2009 13:21:12 GMT
Don Cuevas - I love that picture (I can only see the first one). So that crater is near where you live? Spindrift; the first crater is from a post by Kerouac, up-thread. The second is a view of volcanic mountains (extinct), across the valley from where we live. The third is of a possible shallow crater in the ridge 2 kms west of our house. It may actually be a wet weather stream place rather than an actual crater. But there's a partial crater just above the highway near a local seafood restaurant. If you have Google Earth, if you start it and do a search on "Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico", and pan across to Cuanajo or west t Uruapan, you will see many craters. (I'm not sure why you see only one picture. Mine are from Public Albums on Picasa Web Albums.) EDIT: Using my Safari browser, only one image appears! Before, I was looking at all in Firefox. (?!) But I can get them to appear, although not in the post itself, by right-clicking on the little icons for missing graphics, and telling it to open in a new window or a new tab. (Now I see two. Probably not all page elements have loaded before the server has been able to fulfill the request. Anyway, that sounds like a good explanation, even if it's wrong.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 7, 2009 14:38:59 GMT
I think Picasa is blocking them, as when I try with View Image, I get the dreaded 404 -- The requested URL /_Dp8GJpYQxRg/Skv1tjmRgGI/AAAAAAAAQYw/d-UOg3dlbKs/s1024/IMG_1928.JPG was not found on this server.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2009 17:44:17 GMT
The volcanos of Auvergne are so perfectly symmetrical and peaceful that one almost wishes that one of them would wake up.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 8, 2009 19:23:59 GMT
One day I shall explore the Auvergne.
Thanks DonC.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2009 12:36:33 GMT
Daily torrential downpours continue accompanied by thunder and lightening. Generally last about half an hour,midday,sometimes late afternoon. Am hoping I can dodge today as I have to do something I put off all week. I have to deliver 35 signs to same number of addresses that read SAVE CHARITY HOSPITAL (the battle rages on). I'm hoping they are all in the same part of town,PLEASE.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 9, 2009 21:41:11 GMT
Just to give you a break from DDOS, here is a rather rare happening in Tucson. This was in 2007 in January.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 10, 2009 21:20:03 GMT
T63 - lovely picture. I'm sure people were startled to see the snow.
What are your winters like?
Casimira - were they all in the same part of town?
Today in England it's raining and getting chilly.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 11, 2009 2:34:43 GMT
Spindrift Our winters are like nothing else. Really, much sun, some rain and generally in the mid 70's's to low 80's. Nights can get into the 50's and in the deep winter months, we can have teens, 20''s 30's at night and we will be in the mid 60s.during the day. Casimira, no the snow was all over town. People find it hard to believe but we have a mountain ranges around Tucson. To the north of us and we can see it, are the Catalina Mountains, to the east the Rincon Mountains. In the Catalina Mountains, we have a ski lift and we do have skiing in January February if the weather is conducive. This past season, the lodge and the lift were open in November. The range is 8,000 - 12,000 ft. In the picture below, you can see many bare spots. We had a devastating fire in 2003 started by some stupid idiot on one of the trails, he threw down a cigarette butt and it was not out. The fire literally burned the town of Summerhaven down. It was beautiful!!!!, lush, huge trees, just a paradise. We could stand out on our patio (see the picture in the thread what do see??) and see the fire. Everyone was concerned that it would come down the foothills, where there are $1 million houses. Here is a picture from 2008
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Post by imec on Aug 11, 2009 12:42:25 GMT
Summer has FINALLY arrived in Manitoba - sunny and around 30 all this week. Of course, I'm heading to Toronto...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 12:51:32 GMT
Well, we'll be expecting you to post a picture of your view from there, imec
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 12:54:35 GMT
Yes Spindrift,pretty much,it took some time because there were different addresses and unless you know how the streets are numbered you can end up going around several blocks because we have so many one way streets. Thanks for asking.
I am going tubing today (floating in an inner tube) down the Bogue Chitta River ,north of here across the lake. It's our Tuesday potluck gang and we are taking a picnic along. It will be so nice to just float. I am waiting on my ride as we speak.
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Post by spindrift on Aug 11, 2009 13:39:39 GMT
T63 - how hot does it get in summer?
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 11, 2009 13:51:39 GMT
Spindrift:
It has been as hot as 117 degrees. The average is about 105 degrees.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2009 15:45:43 GMT
Summer has FINALLY arrived in Manitoba - sunny and around 30 all this week. Of course, I'm heading to Toronto... Seriously?! It's almost the middle of August. When is summer over? I don't know how you hardy souls do it!
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Post by Jazz on Aug 11, 2009 18:17:20 GMT
Summer has FINALLY arrived in Manitoba - sunny and around 30 all this week. Of course, I'm heading to Toronto... Imec, be sure to bring a raincoat and umbrella, we are having storm after storm (violent!!!) and many days of drizzle. We are also just beginning 'summer', last evening was about 28 and the first sultry 'summer' evening of the year. Bixa, our 'summer' usually lasts until the first or second week of September.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 18:24:57 GMT
I just went to eastern France for 3 days with plenty of rain and then returned to sunny Paris.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 11, 2009 19:41:51 GMT
*squeak* Jazz, you mean to tell me that summer is only a month long? I could never bear it. It was always my dream to move where there was a 365 day growing season, & I achieved that. 'Course, I didn't know that involved 180 days without rain.
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Post by Jazz on Aug 11, 2009 20:02:43 GMT
*squeak* Jazz, you mean to tell me that summer is only a month long? I could never bear it. It was always my dream to move where there was a 365 day growing season, & I achieved that. 'Course, I didn't know that involved 180 days without rain. This has been a very strange summer. Usually we have two weeks of 'spring' in May, then overnight go into three months of disgusting heat and humidity, 30-35. This year 'spring' began in May and lasted until last week. Personally, I loved it since I hate brutally hot weather. Our city is lush and green because of the excess of rain. I don't understand what is causing all of the violent thunderstorms. But, they are primal and beautiful, often clearing up after only an hour or so. The other positive note of the long spring is that it kept the putrid smell of the rotting garbage down during our 6 week city workers' strike. (now over, thank god) While I love our changing seasons, each year I am disliking winter more and more. How beautiful to be where you are and you chose wisely. Toronto is very cold in the winter, a damp cold. I was brought up in northern Ontario and while the temperature was much lower, it never felt so cold as it often does here. I cannot cope with even thinking about Trav63's temperatures of 105!!!!!! What are your temperatures like there Bixa, do you have 'seasons'?
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