The house is getting dark.
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Sunset already? But it's summer!
Oh...
Afternoon showers again. Happens every summer. You'd think I'd get used to it.
Never discount the possibility that you might live through it.
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@BicycleBuck Currently under a tornado warning here. My spouse is (was?) at the beach!
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@BicycleBuck We had one yesterday. 20 glorious minutes of rain to bring the temps down by 15 degrees. Not another storm for 100 miles.
Today...back to normal. 97 and now high humidity thanks to the storm.
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@BicycleBuck Just got heavy rain and thunder, then a bit of hail... had it been a little stronger it may've knocked the power out so we could all go home... but alas...
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@ibRAD We just got ridiculous rain at 2:00. It'll probably make it to you soon if it hasn't already.
edit: and rolling through Havelock at 2:50
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@Taylor-Martin said in The house is getting dark.:
@BicycleBuck Just got heavy rain and thunder, then a bit of hail... had it been a little stronger it may've knocked the power out so we could all go home... but alas...
That's a big concern. This storm is full of lightning. I'm working from home on a project which is due tomorrow. I can't afford to have either the power or the internet to go out.
Never discount the possibility that you might live through it.
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@Jarrett I'm in Trenton at the moment, Just starting here!
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@BicycleBuck I could use that rain
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@Brickman said in The house is getting dark.:
@BicycleBuck I could use that rain
I shouldn't complain. We're behind for the year.
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@BicycleBuck I grew up down south and had a love/hate relationship with summer storms. I loved that they gave you a break from the hellish heat, even if it was just for a little bit, but hated that after the storm the humidity was made even worse than it normally was. almost to the point of feeling vindictive.
Mr.Ontop. Keepin' it real since before your were you were born probably.
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@Mr-Ontop Hear hear. I'm going to Gadsden Saturday morning to do a long-ish race through the woods and obstacles. I've never attempted an obstacle race outside of fall/winter. Humidity is usually at its peak around 7am. My start time is 9, and most of it is under heavy tree cover, so no breeze. I was kind of hoping for no rain all week, because at least then it dries out!
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@ash78 Where in Gadsden are they hosting that? In some parts of town you may have natural incentive to run faster because of the meth heads.
Mr.Ontop. Keepin' it real since before your were you were born probably.
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@Mr-Ontop LOL, touche!
Up at Noccacula Falls Park, aka the "nice part of town." They've really made it pretty nice in the last few years -- 15-20 miles of MTB and running/hiking trails all over the place, all in great shape. The race has been going on since 2010 and Gadsden actually bought it from the organizers around 2015 to help keep costs down. So it's nicer AND cheaper than doing something like Spartan. Less commercialized. Plus you get to swim under a waterfall, which is pretty unique.
It's gotten a cult following in the past few years, people come from all over the place (mostly Southeast, but some even from overseas). www.barbarianchallenge.com
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@ash78 My aunt lives right up the street from there. It is nice, but it is also a crossroad of nice and "run if you hear the banjos playing" If you run up Tabor road, it's actually pretty nice.... if you are on the Lay Springs road side after about a mile, then you'd better be careful. It's chock full o' crazy. I'm not even kidding about that, not even a little.
Mr.Ontop. Keepin' it real since before your were you were born probably.
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@Mr-Ontop Absolutely -- a lot of Lookout Mtn is kind of like that, it goes from touristy to sketchy instantly. I used to climb and hike a lot around Sandrock, Griffin Falls (near Collinsville), Oneonta, you name it...
Beautiful areas, but definitely a mixed bag on who you're going to run into. Especially when you're hanging out deep in the woods with no cell coverage
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@ash78 Believe it or not, Collinsville is a lot better than it used to be... Or at least it was the last time I went there.
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@BicycleBuck For the love of god hit save
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@Taylor-Martin said in The house is getting dark.:
@BicycleBuck For the love of god hit save
One of my screens is for a remote desktop connection to a virtual machine that is running models. No worries there. The second screen is for ArcGIS Pro to make maps. That one autosaves with every major change. The third screen is for a tracking spreadsheet and Chrome. The spreadsheet is open from our server and it auto-saves, so no worries there either.
The biggest concern is going offline and not being able to work!
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"Afternoon showers every summer...."
I wish. It's dry as a bone here and only getting dryer.
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@ttyymmnn said in The house is getting dark.:
"Afternoon showers every summer...."
I wish. It's dry as a bone here and only getting dryer.
It seems like a nice thing until you have to deal with it all the time. Portland and Seattle are known for being wet. They get around 37 inches of rain every year.
Baton Rouge averages about 62 inches of rain every year.
It gets old.
