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Posted on 12/22/2008 12:22:14 PM PST by Dusty Road

Will posting in all capital letters, eat up more bandwidth.


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To: sionnsar

Just came back from Crystal Mountain... sunny skies, temperatures on the 60s at the summit. We were shedding clothes like crazy.

Then we get down to Enumclaw and descend into a fogbank. Weird...


1,461 posted on 01/16/2009 4:19:00 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Go, Sonics! And take the Seahawks with you.)
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To: NicknamedBob
After reading how most water landings go, I am doubly impressed with "Sully!"

And I always check where the exits are and how to operate them.

I tend to forget about the life vests but on long over-ocean hauls it would hardly make a difference. Hypothermia vs. drowning, I guess.

1,462 posted on 01/16/2009 4:40:25 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: SandyInSeattle

Been fogbank all day. It started to clear a little late morning but then settled in again. House here is in fairly thick fog — if it gets much colder we could be looking at freezing fog and I *hate* that stuff!


1,463 posted on 01/16/2009 4:42:07 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: NicknamedBob
I just read yesterday's "stimulus" bill, most of its 258 pages. Pretty depressing stuff, *especially* all the spending on "deferred maintenance."

Sully for President. At least with him if we're going to crash-land, we'll do it cleanly.

1,464 posted on 01/16/2009 4:46:27 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: sionnsar

Especially impressive considering they had just cleared the George Washington bridge, and both of his engines were out.

He has experience as a glider pilot, and his own company deals with “risk management”.

The man to have at the controls, no doubt!


1,465 posted on 01/16/2009 4:48:58 PM PST by NicknamedBob (If you translate Pi into base 43 notation, it will contain this statement.)
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To: NicknamedBob
Some question about "out." I read one report that said "reduced power," not enough to stay aloft. That might fit with a loss of some compressor blades giving him a little more margin than dead engines.

OTOH I was working at a NASA wind-tunnel facility when a bolt came loose from a model and took off down the tunnel. A lot more energy involved; the blades blew out through the wall and were found up to several block away, buried deep in the concrete roads.

Wind-tunnel disasters can be so fun. The supersonic (Mach 10+) facility across the street blew up one night. It was a blow-down tunnel using helium and superheated ceramic "eggs" (and aye loud!). I came in one morning and saw burned lawn and shrubbery, with oval white eggs everywhere in the middle of the burns...

I was on an international flight years ago that had a similar engine blowout five minutes into the flight: three engine craft, the middle engine blew and folks on the ground reported fire from the engine. The airframe took a major THUMP! It was several minutes before the captain advised we'd lost an engine, were dumping fuel to get down to landing weight so we could land back at the airport. (LoM and I ended up interviewed on TV and by the papers on that one -- we're not as shy as we look. *\;-)

1,466 posted on 01/16/2009 5:14:53 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: sionnsar

Cold again in Alabama tonight... radar shows some very faint snow, but I doubt it is reaching the ground, just to dry.


1,467 posted on 01/16/2009 5:19:01 PM PST by LowOiL (Tagline: Optional, printed after your name on post)
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To: LowOiL

They permit snow in Alabama? *\;-) (I’m even surprised it’s that cold, but then my family had left that part of the South before I was born so I have little familiarity with it. Just Brigg’s Five Corners MS in June...)


1,468 posted on 01/16/2009 5:25:18 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: All; y'all; Who dat?; huh

Good night all.


1,469 posted on 01/16/2009 6:19:31 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY)|http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/|RCongressIn2Years)
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To: sionnsar

$1.66 here tonight.


1,470 posted on 01/16/2009 7:07:47 PM PST by Professional Engineer (You don't know the power of the Dork Side. | Can he lead a normal life? No, he?ll be an engineer.)
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To: sionnsar

Get rid of the bats?? No.

Just give them a “house” they like better than your own, and they’ll stick around and be the best pest control you’ll ever have.

Try this approach:
http://www.eparks.org/wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/bats/bat_house.asp


1,471 posted on 01/17/2009 12:11:29 AM PST by HKMk23 (A million US GI's ended tyranny in Europe, but one Muslim in the Oval Office may bring it here.)
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To: HKMk23

Good morning. 12 degrees in the county seat, not as cold as forecast. Tomorrow it says a 50% chance of sleet.


1,472 posted on 01/17/2009 4:44:00 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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To: NicknamedBob

“Sully” WORKS!
Yepper!

;o])


1,473 posted on 01/17/2009 7:22:30 AM PST by Monkey Face (If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?)
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To: Tax-chick
"... 12 degrees in the county seat ..."

Better keep moving then. Don't sit down.

1,474 posted on 01/17/2009 7:24:41 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If you translate Pi into base 43 notation, it will contain this statement.)
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To: Monkey Face

I’ve been thinking about reprising my character in an otherwise unrelated short story, “Dreamtime Dancing”.


1,475 posted on 01/17/2009 7:27:00 AM PST by NicknamedBob (If you translate Pi into base 43 notation, it will contain this statement.)
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To: NicknamedBob

The only reason you chose that title was because “Dirty Dancing” was already taken, right?

*grin*


1,476 posted on 01/17/2009 8:01:12 AM PST by Monkey Face (If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?)
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To: Tax-chick

It was down to 37 this morning. More to come, I’m sure.
Although the sun is shining in a clear sky, again, I’m not sure I’ll venture out,


1,477 posted on 01/17/2009 8:02:42 AM PST by Monkey Face (If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?)
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To: Tax-chick
Weather Underground PWS KCAMOREN6
1,478 posted on 01/17/2009 8:05:07 AM PST by ThomasThomas ( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
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To: Monkey Face

Back from the county seat, where it was cold. We needed dog food.


1,479 posted on 01/17/2009 8:46:50 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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To: Tax-chick

Did Ash get any treats on her outing yesterday?


1,480 posted on 01/17/2009 8:55:38 AM PST by Monkey Face (If we aren't supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?)
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