I was thinking the power output of the local electric utility would be an easy calculation but I realize that concrete being exposed to 270 B.T.U's per square foot (sunshine) completely swamps the local electric generation theory. I'm going with Sparky and the glider pilots.

 

I was thinking the power output of the local electric utility would be an easy calculation but I realize that concrete being exposed to 270 B.T.U's per square foot (sunshine) completely swamps the local electric generation theory. I'm going with Sparky and the glider pilots.

So, take the electric power going into the city, the gallons of natural gas pumped in, and the gallons of gasoline sold, and the area of the city, should give you a roughish estimate, unless I missed something.

 

I got your darn thunderstorm right here. Driving home from work tonight (this morning), I rain straight into a torrent of rain and frog. Had to slow down to ~25mph. I kept seeing frogs hop through my high beams. They were jumping really high I thought, and looked odd the way they were upside down/sideways, then I started to think they were bouncing off the pavement. One landed on my hood. Pretty sure frogs can't jump that high. I'm almost convinced they were falling from the sky. I've heard about that happening after a tornado, but I didn't hear about any tornadoes in the area.

It rained like that (minus the frogs) the whole rest of the way home and I drove through some flash flood areas, maybe 4" or 5" deep on the highway, and 6"-8" on the city streets; they slowed my car down to a crawl. I was afraid it was going to stall. I get home and my street is a river. The 6" curb is 3" under water, and the water is 6' up my lawn, coming toward the house.

It's stopped now so I don't think there will be any flooding issues.

 

That sounds like what we need here so we can get all our grass to un-die

 

You can have some of our weather if you want.
A bunch of tourists having a tour of Birmingham, the rain was pretty light when I took the photo but we've had some heavy showers today as usual.

 

Sums up Britain pretty well.

This week.

This month.

Forever.

 

I lived in Britain for over 3 years as a young kid.

My prevailing memory is fog, thick, thick fog. That and nettles, where you pulled the little flower blossoms off and sucked the nectar out. Sweet! Watch out for the main plant though, they left welts.

Never could figure the candy violets out though, they tasted like soap to me, while the other British kids chomped them down with relish. Even then I figured it was a vitamin deficiency.

All in all good memories though. If I ever win the lottery I'm going back to visit.

 

Thats the main reason I won't live in Britian, too much dern rain

 

I kept seeing frogs hop through my high beams.

At 7 this morning, I parked my car, got out, and there was a crawdad standing there in middle of the street! I told him he was in the wrong place. When I returned to my car, he had gone somewhere else.

Odd to see a crawdad in the middle of the city.
Odder to see one in the middle of a street.

 

I told him he was in the wrong place.

What did he say?

 

At 7 this morning, I parked my car, got out, and there was a crawdad standing there in middle of the street! I told him he was in the wrong place. When I returned to my car, he had gone somewhere else.

Odd to see a crawdad in the middle of the city.
Odder to see one in the middle of a street.

weird, I thought only Texans and Cajuns called 'em crawdads. Everybody else seems to have settled on the pretentious name "crayfish", like the darn thing is actually a fish, pfff.

 

Well, they are shellfish.

 

#30) He just waved his tiny pincers in a threatening way and backed up.
#31) I learned the word, "crawdad" in Kentucky, where I spent a few truly miserable summers in the 1950's.

I hated it because I only had rocks and sticks and mud to play with, but it helps me understand why middle eastern kids are so cranky. They only have rocks and sticks.