Buzzkill prevention thread {capture and kill the bad juju}
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too larry
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Michael and Florence retired from the Atlantic list of hurricane names
The World Meteorological Agency (WMO) announced on Wednesday that the names Michael and Florence had been retired from the Atlantic list of storm names. Category 4 Michael did $17 billion in damage and killed 32 people after making landfall in the Florida Panhandle; Category 1 Florence dumped all-time record-breaking rains over North Carolina and South Carolina, and was responsible for 53 deaths and $15 billion in damage. The names Francine and Milton will appear in 2024 to replace Florence and Michael.
An interesting note pointed out by Craig Ceecee: with the retirement of Florence, all the original "F" names from the 1979-84 series have been retired from circulation (Frederic, Frances, Floyd, Florence, Felix, and Fran). It's the first letter to lose all its original names to retirement.
Fuck a bunch of F named storms anyway. Floyd and Fran were both bad ones. Can't remember the others.
cannabineer
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I remember Fatrina was pretty bad
too larry
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It did what nothing else had ever done. Made NOLA whiter.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
can't Like that
too larry
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Sister came over with her new tractor on Tuesday. We got almost all the downed trees between the garden and the graveyard moved to the road. I also cut 2-3 damaged oaks and a perfectly good non-longleaf pine. There is an acre or so 3 year old longleaf's that were left over when we did the river field. And last winter I planted the rest of the area {3-4 acres} in longleaf. Should be able to start selling pinestraw in about ten years, so need to get all other kinds of trees gone. I only saved one oak.
This longleaf had been green until the last month. I cut off about 8 foot for a bench, and what was left wrecked the grapple. I think I jammed a limb into one of the couplings.
This longleaf had been green until the last month. I cut off about 8 foot for a bench, and what was left wrecked the grapple. I think I jammed a limb into one of the couplings.
too larry
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But she took the tractor home and came back on the old farm truck. We got the broken cedars in the graveyard trimmed, cut and moved. Plan is to use the logs for benches. We will see if I actually do anything with them or not.
Of the 5 cedars, this one is the only one to break all the way off. How it missed the graves is still a mystery to me.
For now I'm going to leave the stumps.
Of the 5 cedars, this one is the only one to break all the way off. How it missed the graves is still a mystery to me.
For now I'm going to leave the stumps.
too larry
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I took out all the leaning Leyland Cypress. I planted these on two sides of the graveyard after Daddy died in '02. My cousin took out all the ones along the back {except for one} when her husband died. She worried about him being too close to the road, so she expanded the graveyard. {you can see how far his grave is from the rest}
I don;t have an after picture, but there are only 3 left, and one of them is under the powerline, so I may end up cutting it too.
I don;t have an after picture, but there are only 3 left, and one of them is under the powerline, so I may end up cutting it too.
too larry
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On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week {almost} all of our debris got picked up. They got all the trees, siding and roofing we had moved out to the road. Also got all of Mamma's old trailer. They did leave some of my electronics. Mostly VCR's and other old shit from my shed.
cannabineer
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look at all those pots. Must be a pot farmer. Those pots breeders?
too larry
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They must be. Seems like there is more of them than there used to be. Hope to not reach the pot Crazy Eddy point anytime soon.
cannabineer
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Crazy Eddie organizes the sanitation workers to strike just when the cities are at the breaking point.
One of my all-time favorite books. I re-read it every few years. (One of the bonuses of a failing memory.)
Have you read the sequel The Gripping Hand?
too larry
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The Crazy Eddy I was referring to was from the Mote in God's Eye. Too long ago for me to remember the fine points of the plot, but the main point was they had to reproduce or die. Their world would get over populated until it reached the Crazy Eddy point, then it would all blow up.
cannabineer
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It was one of the best-elaborated treatments of true aliens I ever read. I highly recommend the sequel, and also Footfall. Niven/Pournelle do a truly epic we-repel-alien-invaders tale. The aliens are elephantoid.
