Rain

[Pegleg Smith]

We have been in the middle of a drought for years out here. So today the first of 5 days of rain starts. Guess what? That's right, I get calls for roof mounted equipment! I have been on roofs all day long in a drenching rain. The most important call is from a florest shop that needs a compressor for her flower walk-in. I told her maybe sometime next week after the rain lets up.
There's snow on the mountains all around our valley. It really looks pretty......as long as I don't have to live in that stuff. The rain is bad enough.

[Analog]

We have been in the middle of a drought for years out here. So today the first of 5 days of rain starts. Guess what? That's right, I get calls for roof mounted equipment! I have been on roofs all day long in a drenching rain. The most important call is from a florest shop that needs a compressor for her flower walk-in. I told her maybe sometime next week after the rain lets up.
There's snow on the mountains all around our valley. It really looks pretty......as long as I don't have to live in that stuff. The rain is bad enough.



Does baby need a bottle? I've been working in this stuff for two months. It's like being a small appliance technichian and telling the customer "let's just take this thing in the shower, turn the water on full bore, and see what I can do". You California crybabys are too much. You guys consider inclement weather to be a cloudy sky. Never fear little surfer, we'll have fun, fun, fun til your daddy takes your T-stat away........



Now that was funny.........:D :D

[jmac00]

:D:D:D:D


SORRY, I'm having a tough time feeling sorry for you peg :D we have about an 2" of snow and right now the weather guessers are saying next wednesday it's suppose to hit a record high of 55*

damn, 55* in the middle of January ???? I'll take it

[Pegleg Smith]

:D:D:D:D


SORRY, I'm having a tough time feeling sorry for you peg :D we have about an 2" of snow and right now the weather guessers are saying next wednesday it's suppose to hit a record high of 55*

damn, 55* in the middle of January ???? I'll take it


55!!???! That's somewhere near absolute zero isn't it? Damn....I can handle 120 degree days with nice nights but under 70 degrees is time to break out the winter woolies! See, there are millions of people in California who came here for our good year round climate, like my parents did in '65.

[JohnnyB]

Your a Marine right? You ADAPT, OVERCOME, IMPROVISE! Semper fi do or die!

[Pegleg Smith]

Your a Marine right? You ADAPT, OVERCOME, IMPROVISE! Semper fi do or die!
I fought in the tropics. We Marines do a lot better if we can get a tan while holding back the enemy hoards. That's why sunlamps and tanning booths were invented.
You will notice that Marines are usually found in warm climates. We let the Army go to the snowy places.

[BaldLoonie]

Hey Peg, come out to Indy next weekend. We'll put you on a roof when it drops to 0. Maybe we can add a -20 or -30 chill factor while we're at it :chill

Oh but before we get the cold wave, we'll be near 60 with flooding rains mid week. Don't like the weather? Wait a day! :eek:

[Pegleg Smith]

This rainy weather is terrible for my tan.

Man...if you have never seen flash floods in the southwest then you have no idea how terrible Mother Nature can be. And the way the surf is pounding into the shore developments...:eek: My town is located on a flat plane with a mountain real close. Our local dry wash/river wasn't running last night when I went over the bridge, yesterday. The Los Angeles river was bank to bank and deep! So were some of the others I crossed. The Santa Ana river was running fast and moving a lot of debris. Today's storms added to the terrible power of the rivers. California needs to enforce some basic building codes against building in flood plains. Land is so valuable out here that people buy property where ever it is offered and suffer the consequences years later.
I have been responding to roof leak calls all day. These aren't installs I did but some of my best customers call me for all kinds of various and assorted problems. Most of the equipment I work on is mounted on the roof out in the open for any thing to happen. Have you ever seen lightning struck equipment? Makes you get off the roof and wait until it's not raining anymore.
There are trees blown over or broke in two all over the town I live in. Big, mature trees. They sure can do a lot of damage. A river undermined a mobile home earlier today and the news was there to film it. It stayed in place a long time but finally collasped into the wash.
You guys in the East might not be able to comprehend this. You have rainfall all year round. We don't. We are living in a desert. The textbook definition of a desert. It is dry most of the year with brief periods of rainfall. We have very hot summers and usually mild winters. However, there are weather cycles and we are moving into the wet cycle. Should last a couple of years or so. Then it will be back to dry conditions.

[JohnnyB]

Marines kill,. what happens if they run out of people to kill in the tropical warm climates. You will have to adapt to lower temperatures so that you can still kill and keep heven stocked with fresh soles,. god loves the marines.;)

[Pegleg Smith]

Marines kill,. what happens if they run out of people to kill in the tropical warm climates. You will have to adapt to lower temperatures so that you can still kill and keep heven stocked with fresh soles,. god loves the marines.;)

OOOOhhhRRRaaahhh!!!!!!
I got pulled out of Vietnam, way back when, and it was 95 degrees in Danang. I got sent to Japan where there was 6 inches of snow on the ground when we landed! Damned cold!! All of our uniforms were taken from us in Okinawa before we went into Vietnam. All my jungle camoflauge was taken from me in Danang except for one uniform, which is all I had to wear. That light weight uniform was so fricking cold!! It was also illegal to wear battle dress in Japan. I stayed about a month in Japan before I was sent to the Phillipines where the weather was balmy and more to my liking. I didn't much care for Japan. But the Phillipines was Soddam and Ghorrmora for a 19 year old Marine corporal with back pay due him. I had a lot of fun there!;)

[Collin]

Saw a landslide on TV tonight due to the rains.

Fricken' scary!:eek:

[jmac00]

Saw a landslide on TV tonight due to the rains.

Fricken' scary!:eek:

damn big land slide, I was wondering if my ex-wife was in there :rolleyes::confused::D

[Mr.BagTek]

Wondering or hoping???:devil

[jmac00]

Wondering or hoping???:devil




uuuum. okay :D

[Pegleg Smith]

There are several landslides around here. One of them is very serious. La Conchita is a small town in Ventura County, maybe 1100 residents. Several houses were swept away in a land slide and rescuers are looking for those missing. Several kids and some adults.
Other areas have suffered as well. Houses on hillsides are threatening to slide after their foundations were washed away. One house with a guy and his kids did slide. They were pulled out, covered with mud, by passer-bys while some asshole with a video camera filmed the whole thing. When an emergency happens, I find it unacceptable for one person to stand there with a camera when other people are franticly trying to find survivors. That shows a definate flaw in a person's character, standing around filmimg, while doing nothing to help those in need.
The news just showed a giant boulder in Topanga Canyon. It is sitting on the only road into the canyon and it is as tall as the telephone poles. The dynamiters say the rock is still too wet to blow it apart.

The weather guessers say this is the wettest 15 days since 1877! But there is blue skys on the horizon. Tomorrow the rain should be gone and by Friday we should have Santa Ana winds blowing. Those are dry winds and blow at gale force. What fun!! I've had my ladder blown over from those winds more than once. I tie my ladders off when and where I can. But it is not always possible.