The Dysfunctional-Palooza Obnoxious Masshole BS Thread

[paulthenurse]

One of the things I love about you the very most is your realistic view of yourself and the world around you. Your sense of self-awareness never ceases to amaze me.

Much like me, it's a gift.

 

[jrgtr42]

North Adams? There's nothing but steers and Bird out there.

Actually, I was more worried for Vermont as that rain total was close and up there. They got killed years ago. I've been in the Deerfield River area the last month and I've never seen rivers that high in the middle of summer. They're usually dead stagnant.

TS Irene? Yeah, that went straight up the Connecticut River Valley, then to Burlington. That's the one that got the Alchemist's original brewpub, and is indirectly responsible for the haze-craze today.
\Where I am is just wet - been raining on and off all day. a bit breezy but still barely kite-flying weather, much less anything dangerous. This thing seems to have parked itself - it's not moving very fast anywhere.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

TS Irene? Yeah, that went straight up the Connecticut River Valley, then to Burlington. That's the one that got the Alchemist's original brewpub, and is indirectly responsible for the haze-craze today.
\Where I am is just wet - been raining on and off all day. a bit breezy but still barely kite-flying weather, much less anything dangerous. This thing seems to have parked itself - it's not moving very fast anywhere.

Yup. That's what I remember. There's a bubble of 5-8" just SE of VT and they did a recap of Irene with that same amount. Alchemist and other valleys were completely wiped out.Then you add this wet summer? I've heard a lot of farmers complaining about how wet it's been out there.

 

[day_trippr]

Freakin' Tornado Warnings rattling my phone, one confirmed touchdown 5 miles away, trees down all over the place, lots of angry looking radar tracks.
Fun times! Yikes!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Crazy. Turn on tv for lunch and all kinds of tornados touching down SE and SW of me. I'm working up in my loft and partly cloudy skies and dead calm. Half a mile away there's circular motion but I can almost see that area out of my window and no darkness.

 

[paulthenurse]

I thought they were supposed to have cows flying around in them?

 

[paulthenurse]

Wish me luck Leaving DC in an hour to try to land in Providence.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

 

[paulthenurse]

No mass casualty incidents were created in feeding this thread.

Sorry girls. Ya had a chance.

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

I thought they were supposed to have cows flying around in them?

And some old broad on a bicycle.

 

[Falstaff]

I had my first...legal....beer At the Beachcomber on Wolly in Quincy. I also think blinkers are a sign of weakness.

 

[paulthenurse]

No. It was an innocent young virgin with a dog in the basket on the bicycle.
You gotta get out of the hollow log more often.

 

[paulthenurse]

I wish I could remember where I had my first legal beer

 

[Falstaff]

I wish I could remember where I had my first legal beer

I had to think for a bit.

 

[Yooper]

I wish I could remember where I had my first legal beer

Well, that's a LONG time ago, so maybe if you remember which horse and buggy took you there, you may be able to rekindle the memory.

 

[Falstaff]

Well, that's a LONG time ago, so maybe if you remember which horse and buggy took you there, you may be able to rekindle the memory.

Somewhere on the Freedom Trail, probably

 

[day_trippr]

While I cannot recall the specific venue (probably a 7-11 score) my first legal imbibement was in Colorado on a "college survey" trip (which I spent entirely skiing at Vail as I had already decided to go to Denver University - for the skiing ). Their drinking age allowed consumption of 3.2% ABV beer three years before Massachusetts allowed 18 year olds to drink anything above 0%.

It was anticlimactic as all hell, considering I had been the go-to booze buyer for my buddies since I was 16 and already 6' 5" tall...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Imma go with "nope".
Well, maybe the dark roast coffee porter.

Boston's Harpoon Brewery, Dunkin' combine for four new fall beers

 

[smurfjuicebrew]

I don't go to Dunkin for my coffee, so i don't need Dunkin in my beer. just sayin'

 

[paulthenurse]

Outright released? Wow, didn't see that coming!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Wonder if his little vacation was a factor. Jones also said he likes having him in the room....what if continuously in the room and infected. Hoyer also seemed to have changed his mind on the vax.


We need to get Jones "on the program" and some vitamins.

 

[day_trippr]

So, we're gettin' ready for Ida here...

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Mmmm pizza oven.

 

[day_trippr]

Hudson Light & Power just laid a two hour power outage on us. Meanwhile, their web site is saying "get ready for the storm".
Umm...ok?

 

[balrog]

We got 4" locally. My basement survived with the only ingress being through the power line and circuit breaker box. Disconcerting. Learning about "duct putty" and looking at my "weather head". I'm sure that all means something to @paulthenurse but my Physics schooling only gives me Water+ Electricy = bad.

 

[day_trippr]

Once the power came back we rode through Ida with no issues. Aside from the original roof(!) we've never had weather ingress here. The grading around the house leads any up-slope runoff around it so it all ends up in our pond well below - which is still overflowing out to the street drain...

[edit] Looking at this site Rainfall totals for the last 24 hours to 3 days - high resolution map – iWeatherNet we had 4.07 inches.
I doubt I could tell 3 from 8 but I know we had a crap ton of rain!

 

[balrog]

You still with us, @Hoppy2bmerry ? I saw some troubling NYC area news. Apparently they were quite...moist.

 

[day_trippr]

My oldest lives in Berkeley Heights NJ, due west from Manhattan just a ways, and they got 8 inches.
They live high up on a mountain so they did alright, but there was a lot of flooding down below them, lots of impassible roads, etc.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

You still with us, @Hoppy2bmerry ? I saw some troubling NYC area news. Apparently they were quite...moist.

Thank you for checking in. I’m okay, not much flooding and no tornadoes, thankfully. Never lost power, likely because something major was replaced a few years ago. NYC and parts Nassau county got a f ton of water. Some of the ”waterfalls” in the subway and other train stations were due to clogged storm drains. Before. The storm hit I wasn’t concerned heard 2-4 inches of rain for my area and 10-15 mph winds… nothing to worry about, well they were wrong.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Once the power came back we rode through Ida with no issues. Aside from the original roof(!) we've never had weather ingress here. The grading around the house leads any up-slope runoff around it so it all ends up in our pond well below - which is still overflowing out to the street drain...

[edit] Looking at this site Rainfall totals for the last 24 hours to 3 days - high resolution map – iWeatherNet we had 4.07 inches.
I doubt I could tell 3 from 8 but I know we had a crap ton of rain!

Nice resource, thanks!