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Post by puffy on May 24, 2017 22:18:38 GMT -5
A lot of storms in my neck of the woods today.Tornado warnings just about all day.3 touched down less than 50 miles from my house.A bunch of property damaged and some destroyed.A lot of folks are without power.As far as I know no-one was hurt.I'm OK but it really stressed me out.Thank goodness it's over now and I can get some sleep.
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Post by antb on May 25, 2017 1:58:38 GMT -5
Glad you're safe mate!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 4:49:27 GMT -5
Good to hear you made it through in good order Larry.
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Post by oldcajun123 on May 25, 2017 8:37:04 GMT -5
Late to the Game Larry, been busy since coming back from Texas. Glad you're safe, today it's Bushhogging in pasture, will call you towards end of the week. Stay safe Friend.
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Post by crapgame on May 25, 2017 11:33:10 GMT -5
we had the northern edge I think...we had nasty winds and downpours all night
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Post by stvalentine on May 25, 2017 11:45:11 GMT -5
...and I am complainig about the water in my basement after a heavy rain. I suppose a tornado is something else....  Glad you´re safe! |
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Post by bonanzadriver on May 25, 2017 21:28:09 GMT -5
Growing up in Oklahoma my the Blonde and I are no strangers to twisters and pretty wicked straight line winds. Heck, one time we woke up to find a sailboat in our front yard. It turns out that it was picked up out of Lake Hefner and deposited about 1/2 mile away into our neighborhood.
The closest call for us was right after we'd moved to Cedar Rapids IA back in 2001. A twister came through our back yard as my wife and I were carrying the kids down to the basement. It ended up destroying 3 or 4 houses and took the roofs off of more than a dozen others.
Glad you're ok though.
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Post by simnettpratt on May 26, 2017 6:54:29 GMT -5
Haven't been killed by a tornado yet, but a hurricane ate our house on Galveston Island. We had left, but it was depressing to see everyone's stuff scattered about everywhere: washer dryers, cars, a grand piano. The guy across the street thought he'd be smart and put his house on concrete pylons, so they'd be stronger, and not bend in the wind like wood. Well, he still had his concrete pylons. The ocean ate the first row of houses on the beach, and didn't give the land back when the hurricane left. We had a couple of walls left, but it was basically total destruction. That's what you get when you build houses on a sandy island that is three feet above sea level. Glad you were ok,  . |
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Post by stvalentine on May 26, 2017 15:51:58 GMT -5
Very, very rarely tornados/hurricanes, no earthquakes or volcanoes or other severe natural disasters. Well, in the sixties we had a severe flooding by the river Elbe with over 300 dead. But now the dikes are much higher and better. I suppose we live in a peaceful place. Even the last large forest fire was 40 years ago. Can you imagine that every German is insured well over his head anyhow?  |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 26, 2017 17:18:49 GMT -5
Volcanoes: the only thing not trying to kill Australians.
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Post by stvalentine on May 27, 2017 15:37:00 GMT -5
Yes, Australia - the only country in the world which tries actively to kill humans!  |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 28, 2017 0:15:29 GMT -5
Well, when your whole damn country is considered a PRISON!
Poor Aussies. Probably some magma working it's way up there right now.
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Post by simnettpratt on May 28, 2017 0:23:29 GMT -5
Meanwhile, in Germany... Organizers at the at the Wacken Open Air Festival, the world’s biggest heavy metal music festival, have come up with an ingenious way to keep its 75,000 patrons in the party mood. Rather than repeatedly traveling back and forth in beer trucks, exhausting both the surface of the field and staff, they have installed a 7-km long ‘beer pipeline’ that will transport roughly 400,000 liters of beer straight to the tap. Constructed 80cm below the ground, the pipeline will not only keep the beer cold but organizers also claim it will allow bar staff to pull as many as six beers per second.  |
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Post by Lady Margaret on May 28, 2017 6:13:38 GMT -5
Meanwhile, in Germany... Organizers at the at the Wacken Open Air Festival, the world’s biggest heavy metal music festival, have come up with an ingenious way to keep its 75,000 patrons in the party mood. Rather than repeatedly traveling back and forth in beer trucks, exhausting both the surface of the field and staff, they have installed a 7-km long ‘beer pipeline’ that will transport roughly 400,000 liters of beer straight to the tap. Constructed 80cm below the ground, the pipeline will not only keep the beer cold but organizers also claim it will allow bar staff to pull as many as six beers per second.
Germans are serious about their beer.
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Post by papipeguy on May 28, 2017 8:10:57 GMT -5
That's very similar to a system installed by a brewery in Bruges, Belgium. Rather than truck the beer to the bottling operation the brewery owner installed an underground pipeline. Bruges is an ancient town so the lack truck traffic is blessing for its cobbled streets and pedestrians.
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Post by stvalentine on May 28, 2017 16:25:11 GMT -5
The main problem at the Wacken festival is the weather. Most of the time it rains at least once and afterwards you have a "Woodstock-effect" that the whole place is a mudhole. Last year the local farmers earned a little extra by towing visitors cars out of the mud with their tractors. So after all - a beer pipeline makes perfect sense!  |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 28, 2017 16:55:16 GMT -5
Don't need no rain to make a freakin' beer pipeline make sense.
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Post by Lady Margaret on May 28, 2017 17:42:27 GMT -5
Don't need no rain to make a freakin' beer pipeline make sense.
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Post by Darin on May 28, 2017 18:21:49 GMT -5
Added to my post-it notes of "quotable quotes"!  |
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Post by trailboss on May 28, 2017 22:49:28 GMT -5
I watched a video about the Heineken Brewery in Holland....the numbers are staggering about the production process..
As for Germany, when we lived there, I can attest...them Germans are serious beer drinkers...My dad always drank Heninger when we lived there.....it tasted a lot better than the Old Milwaukee and Pabst when we got stateside.
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Post by stvalentine on May 29, 2017 14:28:54 GMT -5
...and in Bavaria beer isn´t even considered booze but food! Beers from Northern Germany is better anyhow....  |
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Post by simnettpratt on May 29, 2017 16:44:32 GMT -5
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Post by stvalentine on May 30, 2017 14:37:49 GMT -5
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