Speaking of Cubits

by Bryan

3 comments

1 Jack K., the Grumpy Forester { 10.19.07 at 9:30 am }

…oddly, for once we are somewhat in accord from a weather perspective, despite being separated by a continent and forty-some hundred feet of elevation. It began raining lightly yesterday morning as the remnants of a typhoon swept in off the Orgyun coast (high wind warnings over there for gusts to 80 mph) and has slowly increased in intensity through this morning. The RAWS station a few miles to the west of the office has recorded 1.88 in. in the last 24 hours and a station closer to my little piece of God’s Country 20 miles to the north has recorded 4.96″/24 hrs. Thank heavens it didn’t come as snow….

2 Bryan { 10.19.07 at 11:22 am }

This is the result of an “almost tropical depression”, Invest 99L, whic came ashore West of us. It is just sucking water out of the Gulf and dumping it.

Well the snow would have hung around and provided extra run off in the Spring, but then you would have had to shovel it and drive around the idiot going off the road.

We are pulling people out of ditches down here as they think 4WD makes it possible to drive at high speed through standing water, and have no idea what to do in a skid.

3 Steve Bates { 10.19.07 at 11:45 am }

Good grief! And Houston isn’t even likely to get any rain until Sunday.

“almost tropical depression” – Bryan

Not a tropical utter despondency, just a kind of tropical case of the blues?

4WD is either the greatest thing since sliced bread, or the most dangerous technology since the automobile itself. People who don’t know how and when to use it, and what its limitations are, repeatedly wreak havoc on the roads here. I no longer go out on a bicycle when the roads may be slick, not because I can’t control the bicycle (generally most skids can be avoided or controlled by those of us who put in enough “skinned-elbow equity” in our childhood), but because the idiots in allegedly off-road vehicles are clueless about how to control their larger, heavier vehicles… and a cyclist is sure to lose such a confrontation.