tkdguy Posted January 1, 2023 Report Share Posted January 1, 2023 Sad to hear about Darren's passing. Prayers and condolences to his family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wcw43921 Posted January 2, 2023 Report Share Posted January 2, 2023 11 hours ago, Pariah said: We're one Hero short for 2023. Darren Watts passed away on New Year's Eve Rest You Well, HERO. You will be missed. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 4, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 Holy. Crap. Tesla driver who plunged his family off California cliff did so on purpose Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Lord Liaden Posted January 4, 2023 Report Share Posted January 4, 2023 Scientists Discover First Lifeform Known to Eat Viruses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 5, 2023 Report Share Posted January 5, 2023 Looks like another "bomb cyclone" is developing and will strike the West Coast in the coming days. Rains, high winds, and flooding are likely to happen rather than blizzards, at least in the populated areas near the ocean. They seem to be forecasting it will strike California and Oregon, though we in Washington will get some effects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted January 5, 2023 Report Share Posted January 5, 2023 Hmm, most of my family is up around Bremerton, so they should be OK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grailknight Posted January 6, 2023 Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 Question for those who know more about weather science: Is there any chance this type of weather will have even the slightest effect on the water crisis in the northwestern and western parts of the country? Will any of this make it to the shrinking lakes in the region? Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 6, 2023 Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 River of melted butter blocks Wisconsin waterway after fire at dairy plant Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DShomshak Posted January 6, 2023 Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 1 hour ago, Grailknight said: Question for those who know more about weather science: Is there any chance this type of weather will have even the slightest effect on the water crisis in the northwestern and western parts of the country? Will any of this make it to the shrinking lakes in the region? From what I've heard on All Things Considered... mixed. Recent storms have laid down a fair bit of snowpack in the Cascades, which will be good next summer. But the Southwest has been parching for years, even decades. Most of the water from storms just runs off; a few storms won't replenish the diminished snowpack enough to keep the Colorado and other rivers running and refill the reservoirs. It would take years of such weather to restore the status quo ante... which climatologists say *will not happen.* White settlement in the Southwest happened in an unusually moist century or two. That period appears to be over, even without global warming making it worse. Dean Shomshak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 6, 2023 Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 There are reasons why there are so many abandoned settlements in New Mexico, both pre- and post-Columbus. And I only mention New Mexico because I lived there for a couple of years and visited several. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 6, 2023 Report Share Posted January 6, 2023 I read the other day that a handful of towns in Utah have ben taken of the drought watch list based on this season's exceptional precipitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 8, 2023 Report Share Posted January 8, 2023 How many of them have been washed away by floods or landslides? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1corpus christopher Posted January 8, 2023 Report Share Posted January 8, 2023 I am not a climatologist or even a meteorologist but I know the planet's weather is changing. From my lay person perspective and guestamations, it appears that the Pacific ocean is heating up and keeping a great amount of heat year round, while the North American continent is getting a great high pressure bubble over most of it from about March through til October. Until the cold Polar winds pushes that back considerably. But the Pacific pushes at us year round now. So, droughts most of the year until the Pacific winds push back the cold Polar winds and then monsoons and tornadoes at very unusual times of the year (like in January) up into Alberta and even more the middle of Cananda. Remember that very dry forest hills and mounts just love to mudslide when hit by 24 inches or more rainfall in just a couple days. Take heed where your wigwam or lean-to is located in relation to a possible avalanche of the neighborhood hills all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted January 9, 2023 Report Share Posted January 9, 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/dining/noma-closing-rene-redzepi.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230109&instance_id=82271&nl=from-the-times®i_id=101745266&segment_id=122052&te=1&user_id=618f95a4931087ea799b0e9f4a9d3344 If you can't read it... Noma is a Copenhagen restaurant. It has been awarded the top spot on a major "best restaurants in the world" 5 times. Its head chef is only 45, but he's going to close it at the end of 2024. His position: it's unsustainable. The level of labor can't be maintained at an economically viable price point.....and he charges $500+ per diner. The story goes into why in detail, and mentions some others that have closed. I'm also reminded of a very interesting biography I read a few years ago, titled The Perfectionist. The author writes about a chef whose training started in Paris in the 30s or 40s, under a top chef. He developed a signature style; one element was, he leached the sulphur from his garlic cloves by boiling them 5 separate times, discarding the water and using fresh each time. French cuisine uses a lot of garlic too, so that's an enormous amount of labor to process an ingredient. His restaurant ultimately got its 3rd Michelin star...the pinnacle. Things were going great...then he suddenly killed himself, at 60. The pressure at these levels is insane. As you can kinda imagine. If you're paying $500 to eat, you're not likely to tolerate anything even slightly, barely, almost unnoticeably off in any way. Food. Service. Decor. And more than anything: labor. Lots. And lots. And lots of it. Worth a read if you can. Cygnia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ternaugh Posted January 9, 2023 Report Share Posted January 9, 2023 31 minutes ago, unclevlad said: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/dining/noma-closing-rene-redzepi.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230109&instance_id=82271&nl=from-the-times®i_id=101745266&segment_id=122052&te=1&user_id=618f95a4931087ea799b0e9f4a9d3344 If you can't read it... Noma is a Copenhagen restaurant. It has been awarded the top spot on a major "best restaurants in the world" 5 times. Its head chef is only 45, but he's going to close it at the end of 2024. His position: it's unsustainable. The level of labor can't be maintained at an economically viable price point.....and he charges $500+ per diner. The story goes into why in detail, and mentions some others that have closed. I'm also reminded of a very interesting biography I read a few years ago, titled The Perfectionist. The author writes about a chef whose training started in Paris in the 30s or 40s, under a top chef. He developed a signature style; one element was, he leached the sulphur from his garlic cloves by boiling them 5 separate times, discarding the water and using fresh each time. French cuisine uses a lot of garlic too, so that's an enormous amount of labor to process an ingredient. His restaurant ultimately got its 3rd Michelin star...the pinnacle. Things were going great...then he suddenly killed himself, at 60. The pressure at these levels is insane. As you can kinda imagine. If you're paying $500 to eat, you're not likely to tolerate anything even slightly, barely, almost unnoticeably off in any way. Food. Service. Decor. And more than anything: labor. Lots. And lots. And lots of it. Worth a read if you can. Non-subscribers, try this link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/09/dining/noma-closing-rene-redzepi.html?unlocked_article_code=1ml6MqGnWrd0-MRcpa8GMVq73Bg3TtecOR7wkdBv_llcynWeDkKZSPVfYyLo8rYThZu0nhlVhFBmHzdpJ-QzpiVgFVH1E9LsqqzydOZoffJ7IDirOIlxWN0wN7NNID5MnskC4FLE4Mw3ZDR99yf11JgDIz_4JwBiAnyzuHbidVMa6U4FaUDuuGobLTeuSjZ5pBNcHYlM5TDQ9HK5bVXdDwBQo5uaI7lrUlnwDnz0HMfNGjOXsiw2tAHMpMrF3gj41xokOto3-OD67DRhuc8okT_PKQoFNgs9iQ1oKw2zCNgUmZh5lXXl9zeloudcyv8x9H_EHL24fagWIjRsicpo6hQN6w&smid=share-url (There's a button on NYT articles for subscribers to share up to 10 articles per month with non-subscribers.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 9, 2023 Report Share Posted January 9, 2023 Britain to put satellites into orbit from Cornwall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64190848 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 Guess what ? It didn't work. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64223882 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted January 10, 2023 Report Share Posted January 10, 2023 21 hours ago, death tribble said: Britain to put satellites into orbit from Cornwall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64190848 1 hour ago, death tribble said: Guess what ? It didn't work. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64223882 sounds like a Goodies skit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted January 11, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 This is where I went to High School. Not sure where this is specifically, but very scary. https://abc7.com/chatsworth-sinkhole-storm-rain-rescue/12687372/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranxerox Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: This is where I went to High School. Not sure where this is specifically, but very scary. https://abc7.com/chatsworth-sinkhole-storm-rain-rescue/12687372/ Yes, my high school was also a sinkhole filled with raw sewage. j/k Logan D. Hurricanes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 Stabbing attack at French station but police get the man involved https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64234281 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 On 1/9/2023 at 3:56 PM, death tribble said: Britain to put satellites into orbit from Cornwall https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64190848 23 hours ago, death tribble said: Guess what ? It didn't work. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64223882 Have you seen the 'Made in Britain' episode of The IT Crowd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 Damn... https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jeff-beck-dies-at-78 Cancer and assault 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted January 11, 2023 Report Share Posted January 11, 2023 May he rest in peace I love Hi Ho Silver Lining Meanwhile World's richest man promotes daughter to head Dior https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64243318 Supermodel Tatjana Patitz dies aged 56 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64240886 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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