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[NGD]

30+ vehicle chain reaction crash on I-90 in Billings, MT earlier today.View attachment 720388View attachment 720389

In other news today, 30+ California transplants in Montana found out they still can’t drive in snow

 

[day_trippr]

I'm betting someone should have sanded that bridge. They even put signs up about that

And crap can happen quickly. Tonight The Spousal Unit and I brought dinner over to our youngest son's house ~20 minutes away. Had a wonderful time with our youngest grandson and all. On the ride home things seemed pretty normal and we were cruising along +10 over the interstate speed limit - until we got about 3 miles from our house and saw an Audi had spun right off the highway. Slowed a bit, did a quick brake check - and slid a good 50 feet ("whoa nellie! I said whoa!")

Got off at our exit a half-mile further along, creepy-crawled along the back roads, and I could feel the traction control system working hard trying to make sense of almost zero friction. But as soon as we crossed the town line into Stow we discovered our townies had salted the roads to death and it was smooth sailing (if still cautious) the rest of the way...

Cheers! (Love our townies )

 

[GrogNerd]

"But, I have 4 WHEEL DRIVE!"

In other news today, 30+ California transplants in Montana found out they still can’t drive in snow

 

[grampamark]

These kinds of crashes are pretty rare in MT; most folks know how to drive in the winter. Usually these happen during a blinding blizzard and the vehicles slowly pile up.

The MT DOT doesn’t use much sand, they mostly rely on liquid calcium chloride de-icer. That stuff works better at lower temps than salt does. It does have one quirk, though. The CC is a thick, slimy liquid and, if it’s applied over existing ice, there is a brief interval where the slick de-icer on top of the ice creates an almost frictionless surface. That could be what happened in the case of this particular accident.

 

[GrogNerd]

meh...

come back with a CHILI cheese dog variant, then we can talk

 

[Snuffy]

http://imgur.com/qMNRdkq

 

[GrogNerd]

http://imgur.com/qMNRdkq

excellent side dish for chili cheese dog yogurt!

 

[grampamark]

The news this morning is reporting that the two people who were injured in the bridge pileup didn’t jump-they were knocked off the bridge when a vehicle hit the bridge railing while they were trying to help a woman get her young children out of her damaged vehicle. The victims are siblings, a 13 y. o. girl and her 17 y. o. brother. They fell about 60 feet and are seriously injured but are expected to survive.

 

[day_trippr]

Sunset, Gaulding Cay, Eleuthera, Bahamas. Shot by Ryan Gessert. I've been atop that little gnarly knoll...

 

[day_trippr]

The news this morning is reporting that the two people who were injured in the bridge pileup didn’t jump-they were knocked off the bridge when a vehicle hit the bridge railing while they were trying to help a woman get her young children out of her damaged vehicle. The victims are siblings, a 13 y. o. girl and her 17 y. o. brother. They fell about 60 feet and are seriously injured but are expected to survive.

Damn, I knew it was a drop but six stories to the ground is not usually survived. Consider most falling deaths involve roughly step-ladder heights.
And thanks very much for the update. Bless their souls - I sure hope the State recognizes their heroic efforts and makes sure they never lack for medical care...

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

meh...come back with a CHILI cheese dog variant, then we can talk

"Uncured"? So, rampant bacteria?!

Cheers! (That's a hard pass here )

 

[Snuffy]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[khannon]

"But, I have 4 WHEEL DRIVE!"

Like I've told my kids soooo many times.. "4WD will help you go, but it won't help you stop."

 

[doug293cz]

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View angle is also critical.

Brew on

 

[Sailingeric]

I have a salt water aquarium and I have found my next fish. The bony eared assfish Bony-eared assfish - Wikipedia

 

[NGD]

I have a salt water aquarium and I have found my next fish. The bony eared assfish Bony-eared assfish - Wikipedia
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Your going to need a really tall tank.

a bathypelagic species of cusk-eel found in tropical and sub-tropical oceans at depths of from 1,171 to 4,415 metres (3,842 to 14,485 ft).

 

[soccerdad]

Tastes like ass.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[GrogNerd]

which one to buy? the BigHair loves them both

 

[day_trippr]

Yup. Had to be said...

 

[day_trippr]

On a lighter note...there are so many excellent photographers putting images on the 'net.
One could spend days on end marvelling at stuff like this.
How amazing is genetic selection?

 

[ba-brewer]

We have what I believe are Rufous hummingbird migrating through now, very tiny but what they lack in size they make up for in ferocity. Cool watch them chase each other around to protect their watering hole.

 

[GBRbrew]

This happens to me more than I should admit

 

[Bigdaddyale]

We have what I believe are Rufous hummingbird migrating through now, very tiny but what they lack in size they make up for in ferocity. Cool watch them chase each other around to protect their watering hole.

I took one of the two feeders and jacked the sugar content up and placed them with in 15ft apart. The one bull humming bird was having a hard time defending both feeders at the same time - fun for me to watch

 

[day_trippr]

Hah! You too? I've kept a pair of feeders roughly 20' apart hanging from brackets on our upper level deck for the last many years now. There's a lilac tree between them, which you'd think would allow the females to hit one of the feeders out of sight of the domineering male, but every year the prevailing little bastid figures out exactly where on said lilac tree to park his feathered ass so both feeders are in sight, and the females get chased.

Frankly it has never made any sense to me. If I was the li'l dude of the year I'd escort the first female I saw to a feeder and give her some special attention....

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

If this is "for realz" that doggie needs an agent and an appearance on Kimmel

 

[GrogNerd]

If I was the li'l dude of the year I'd escort the first female I saw to a feeder and give her some special attention....

bring nylons & chocolate.

wait... is that still a thing?

gods, I'm old

 

[bruce_the_loon]

bring nylons & chocolate.

wait... is that still a thing?

gods, I'm old

These days a decent soft rope might be a better choice. Either you will have a fun evening, or the noose around your neck won't chafe that badly.

Or both.

 

[D.B.Moody]

new topic: sunset in Florida

 

[firerat]

new topic: sunset in Florida
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This is why I'm not a photographer, but these are from my backyard

 

[GrogNerd]

The National Museum of the United States Marine Corps looks like a stylized version of the famous photo "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"

 

[day_trippr]

^It does^. I wonder if that's what the designer was going for.

Speaking of "What was the designer going for?", there's this...

Evolution is cray cray

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

This...is...weird....

 

[day_trippr]

A friend out west took this shot today and everyone that's seen it on FB had a Windows XP trigger happen

 

[GrogNerd]

Grog's Useless Trivia™: the museum has both flags raised on Mt Suribachi, but doesn't display them at the same time, to keep exposure to light to a minimum.

The National Museum of the United States Marine Corps looks like a stylized version of the famous photo "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima"

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[nickatnite26]

which one to buy? the BigHair loves them both

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buy the more expensive one....it has to better....Right?!?

 

[grampamark]

^It does^. I wonder if that's what the designer was going for.

Speaking of "What was the designer going for?", there's this...

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Evolution is cray cray

Cheers!

What was the designer going for? Froot Loops, of course!

 

[nobadays]

Open air craper on Horseshoe Mesa in the Grand Canyon.... and the morning constitutional view!

 

[grampamark]

A guy from PA posted this pic, of the bar he built for his man cave, to a wheat growers group on FB. The long cylinder under the bar is the threshing rotor out of a Case International combine. It’s the bare rotor without the bars which start the process of separating the grain from the straw and chaff. The rotor is about 8 ft long and weighs about a ton. That would be a fairly substantial bar.