sparkling husband dude wants to ship it down to Texas

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1894547

Oh my.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-07-11 04:53 PM
Original message

I wish I could ship this down to Texas.

They could really use it. We had a LOT of rain today as the last remains of Lee went by.

This is my back yard. There are two streams, each more than three feet below the level of the yard. The one behind the mini barn can not be seen in this clip, but the one on the side of the house is raging. Also, watch the three deer come into the shot, then watch as Mama leaves the kids and hightails it out. The kids eventually made the same leap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9UX3gs99XI

Here's the max height the stream got. The stream behind the mini barn can also be seen. All told, this was a rise of nearly four feet ins about two or three minutes The water subsided nearly as fast. Quite amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3R6CDImuRY

The whole area from Richmond, VA to DC and on into PA was hit with a LOT of heavy rain. This is early in the storm, in our small town's downtown. The water, historically, has been above the train tracks. Today this flooded a few feet higher than this video shows. This is a bigger stream so the water built slower. A little later than this clip, there was a fast water rescue team in this spot to extract some people caught in the flood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiLc2Adc4bg

This is a bit uphill from the previous clip, maybe 8 - 10 feet higher. The building, like all others in this block on on this side of the street, is built across the stream and is perhaps 12 feet above it, normally. These folks don't know what's yet to come.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_oATPTsTWA

This is far up a hill from the previous clip, probably 40 feet above. Watch the town dump truck. Then, toward the end, watch as the minivan is damn near swept away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAx7_ADHUKc

Here's a raw news clip showing the fast water boat on the way out of town to a second fast water rescue elsewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKQZEe-waX4

This is our county exec checking it out after the flood receded.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccoqLHDMnEo

edit to add missing link.

The citrus mambo was the wankie wanker. Ledo's was the giveaway.

One wonders if the "missing link" comment was a Freudian slip or something.

ixion  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-07-11 04:54 PM
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1. I said the same thing to a friend in Austin today...

I'm on the Gulf Coast, and have standing water all over the place. Would gladly share some with the folks in Austin if I were able.

LynneSin  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-07-11 04:55 PM
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2. Something is totally screwing up our weather patterns - none of it makes sense

By now the gulf should have been hit with a couple of hurricane/trop storms and yet it was only one loose mass that has hit.

Vermont and Connecticut are suffering from severe hurricane damage in almost a century.

Something is not right out there that's for sure

onethatcares  (1000+ posts)      Wed Sep-07-11 05:57 PM
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5. I was thinking the same, usually by this time of the year we've had two or three cat 2s cross the Florida Straits and meander throughout the Gulf of Mexico. This year so far the main thrust has been getting to Bermuda and curving north/northeast. I'm not discounting TS Lee just popping up in the Gulf either. That's a strange occurence. Then there is this cold front coming down the middle of the country. To me it's a might early for that. Usually on the west coast of Florida in the Tampa bay area we used to get our first front right around 9/30, the past three years they've been later, like November.

You're right though, something is not right.

Terry in Austin  (1000+ posts)      Wed Sep-07-11 05:00 PM
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3. Thanks! Even rumors of rain are welcome at this point.

All the greens are brown and the air is hazy from all the fires.

sharp_stick (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-07-11 05:21 PM
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4. Me too

we've been getting a lot of rain in CT the last couple of days and the ground was soaked before Irene came in last week.

I'm glad my house isn't prone to flooding but I know some people that have been pumping basements.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Wed Sep-07-11 06:40 PM
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6. They just reported we had 28 swift water rescues in our county.

Where are you in CT? I'm from Bpt., and my wife is from New London.

[thundley4]

Weren't the global warming alarmists predicting a bad hurricane season AGAIN this year, just like the last several years?

[USA4ME]

Dude, saw your video.  Try mowing your yard one day and planting flowers or something.  Get off your lazy 54 year old butt and landscape some, dimwit.

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[franksolich]

Okay, so I got curious, and went to the sparkling husband dude's links.

I don't usually YouTube, as I'm no cinema aficionado.

That's a nice (nice for Maryland) spread of real-estate the sparkling husband dude has; one wonders if he's willing to share any of it with those who have less.  The grass needs mowing, however.  His plastic outdoor thermometer is chipped and cracked.  He needs to lay down new concrete.  And his elbow looked as if he may have a touch of psoriasis there.

[franksolich]

Dude, saw your video.  Try mowing your yards one day and planting flowers or something.  Get off your lazy 54 year old butt and landscape some, dimwit.

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He's 65, nearly 66, now.

[USA4ME]

He's 65, nearly 66, now.

In that case, he needs to update his youtube profile.

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[franksolich]

In that case, he needs to update his youtube profile.

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I didn't see a profile--YouTube is terra incognita to me anyway--but he was born in 1946, according to past postings on Skins's island, his wife a few years later, like 1950 or 1951 or something.

I did wonder why he "disabled" comments.  I would've liked to have left a word or two.

[USA4ME]

I didn't see a profile

You have to click on his "MrStinkyMe" name at the upper left.

It reads:

Profile
Channel Views:0
Total Upload Views:106
Age:54
Joined:Sep 7, 2011
Latest Activity:4 hours ago
Subscribers:0
Country:United States

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[franksolich]

You have to click on his "MrStinkyMe" name at the upper left.

It reads:

Profile
Channel Views:0
Total Upload Views:106
Age:54
Joined:Sep 7, 2011
Latest Activity:4 hours ago
Subscribers:0
Country:United States

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So he joined YouTube today.

The sparkling husband dude's wife must've put the wrong potions into his cocktails then, and he punched the wrong numbers.  "5-4" and "6-5" are just one key off from each other on the keyboard.

He was in the U.S. Navy 1965-1967, serving off the coast of South Carolina, defending continental America against possible invasion from Sao Tome e Principe.

[franksolich]

Okay, since the sparkling husband dude's coming over to see what we said about his place, I'll reciprocate by showing the sparkling husband dude photographs of my own backyard, from 2007 through 2011.  My "backyard" of course is the Elkhorn River, and it's flooded most of the past several years.  The river is about a football-field's length away from the back door of the house (the property itself is about six football fields in area; the nearest neighbor lives six miles up the road).

I hope the sparkling husband dude enjoys the pictorial tour.

^ ^ ^

This is about where hippywife Mrs. Alfred Packer and hippyhubby Wild Bill set up the hippycamp on Labor Day.

[JohnnyReb]

DUmmies have never seen floods, draughts, hurricanes or other weather phenomenon. DUmmies must have been born last month...during the dark of the moon. Or maybe they got head trauma when they fell off the turnip truck.

[Skul]

I'll take Coach's backyard, over Stinkdude's, any day.

[franksolich]

I'll take Coach's backyard, over Stinkdude's, any day.

Aw, thank you, sir.

[Skul]

Aw, thank you, sir.

Remember, I used to wade in the Elkhorn, when I was quite young.

[franksolich]

Remember, I used to wade in the Elkhorn, when I was quite young.

You know, I"m never sure if people know that Nebraska has more miles of river than any other state in the union, even considering Alaska and other states larger in size.

Me?

The older brothers along with the younger brother used to fish, boat, and swim in the Platte River.

It wasn't recommended, because the Platte River can be rather nasty, despite its benign superficial appearance.

I used to swim in the Middle Loup River, sometimes in the South Loup River.

[franksolich]

Remember, I used to wade in the Elkhorn, when I was quite young.

In case the sparkling husband dude checks this thread again, it's not all fun and games with this real estate.

"spiders in the bathtub"

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,64062.0.html

You know, I was taught to swim, and I guess I swim "competently," but really, it's not my thing to do.

One of those things that if one has to, one will; if one doesn't have to, one doesn't.

Both the Platte River and the Elkhorn River have a substantial ("substantial" for Nebraska) population base surrounding them, but the Middle Loup River, in the heart of the Sandhills, is pretty remote.

When I was in high school--we're talking 15, 16, 17 years old here--three friends and I worked summer afternoons cleaning up the grounds of the local drive-in movie theatre, after which we'd head way out to the Middle Loup River to get cleaned off, cooled off.

The second summer, we were joined by a foreign-exchange student at the local high school, from West Germany.

The first time we took him out there, we were shocked--I mean to say really shocked--when he stripped off all his clothes and dived in, just like that.  "Skinny dipping" was something little kids did, and we weren't little kids.  "Skinny dipping" was something from pioneer days (in the area, circa 1890-1910), and we were more modern than that.

But we followed his lead, and never again swam in the Middle Loup River unnaked.

[Rugnuts]

and never again swam in the Middle Loup River unnaked.

id be afraid of hungry catfish