THREADS ABOUT A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING

[Robs Fieros]

It's 65 degrees outside here now and it's going to be close to our record high temp today of about 78 degrees.

[GTRS Fiero]

25, here, but the wind is biting.

[Robs Fieros]

I just had my new Honda fixed for $500.00, now I'm going to fix the other one for $5.00.

[Fierofool]

Honda what?  Hope it wasn't Gail's van. 

[GTRS Fiero]

Have you ever gone to get some peanut butter, and there was only a 16oz sample size?  Worse, it was crunchy.  It only made 1 sandwich, but required the suppliment of a sliced banana and honey on cinnamon toast.  I used Texas Toast, because it isn't so thin as to be see-through.

Peanut butter should come in 5-gallon buckets.  That should last a family for a week.

[Fierofool]

 . Crunchy is good.  I prefer it on cinnamon raisin bread. 

[GTRS Fiero]

When I eat peanuts, I eat peanuts.  When I eat butter, I eat butter.  Any type of butter should be smooth.  Peanut butter, apple butter, peach butter, etc.  I do not like lumps in my butter.

I haven't had cinnamon raisin bread for a long time.

Crunchy would seem to be better, because it holds together better, but I just don't like it.  Regardless, it was just enough to be a teaser.  Heck, peoole like me were a boon for GW Carver.

[Donster]

Off topic (although there doesn't seem to be one in this thread)  ......... how's the weather in the ATL area. We haven't been hearing anything good lately.

[Fierofool]

The greater Metropolitan Atlanta didn't have any problems during the tornadoes yesterday other than some areas that got more than 2 inches of rain.  There may have been some trees down here and there but not a direct connection to the tornadic activity.  A 65 mile swath was cut from somewhere in the Auburn, Al. area, crossing into Georgia between Columbus and LaGrange, heading toward Macon.  Most of the severe damage ended in and around the town of Talbotton, Ga.  No official word from top weather authorities but most local meteorologists are guessing at an F3 or F4 tornado.  Peachtree City National Weather Service Doppler recorded wind speeds of 138 mph after the storm passed into Georgia. 

[Fierofool]

The National Weather Service is now saying that it was an EF4 Tornado with 170 MPH winds.  Some aerial video shows that in some areas the ground was sucked up.  Parts of the path is now determined to have been a mile wide and the storm traveled more than 80 miles on the ground. 

At the time it was happening, Live Doppler Radar showed debris from the tornado being thrown several miles ahead of the actual funnel cloud. 

[GTRS Fiero]

I hope everyone is OK.

[Fierofool]

No reported fatalities in Georgia.

[GTRS Fiero]

That's a relief.  Now just to fix the property damage.

[Raydar]

Last I heard, 24 people were killed. I think they were all in Alabama - a bit south of Opelika -  but I could be mistaken.
Others were still reported missing, so the tally may go higher.

From an "inside" perspective, we (Ga Power) lost two radio towers in Fortson GA. Flat on the ground. As well as a bunch of high voltage (230KV) lines and towers. (Those towers also supported fiber optic cable, so there are communications outages related to those.)

 

[GTRS Fiero]

Yes, I read that tally for AL.

Well, those will be expensive to replace, but not as expensive as a wind farm would have been.