Hot enough for you?

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:56 am

Mikey wrote:
I'll have to admit, your deck is bigger than mine. In fact, I don't even have one.

Doesn't appear you have a basement either, or a foundation for that matter.

Not throwing stones here, but is slab on grade typical for Cali?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:02 am

smackaholic wrote:BTW Scott, your di.....pool might be bigger than...

Just in case you thought that went over everyone's head, it didn't.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:03 am

War Wagon wrote: Not throwing stones here, but is slab on grade typical for Cali?

Pretty standard as far as I know.

Some of the older homes have wood floors built above crawl spaces but very few basements that I know of, at least in the past 50 years or so. Quicker and cheaper to throw up the suburban subdivisions that way, I suppose.

Plus, we don't have any tornados to hide from.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:07 am

Glad to see somebody brought beer.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:17 pm

Mikey wrote:
War Wagon wrote: Not throwing stones here, but is slab on grade typical for Cali?
Pretty standard as far as I know.

Some of the older homes have wood floors built above crawl spaces but very few basements that I know of, at least in the past 50 years or so. Quicker and cheaper to throw up the suburban subdivisions that way, I suppose.

Plus, we don't have any tornados to hide from.

Here in the U&R, I think I have seen maybe 20 slab on grade homes, in my life. There is a neighborhood a few miles a way where they built them, likely in the 50-60s. They are all under 1000 sq ft, ranches with gun slit windows. ome have been updated over the years. These were obviously made with absolute minimum cost being the only concern. It really is kind of silly to not build a basement when you have a 42" code for footer, to keep them from being pushed up by frost. When I lived in TN, slab on grade was more common, but, still not typical and was once again, a sign of a really tight budget. Most homes there are now built with crawl spaces. Homes on sloped lots generally have basements, since ya gotta dig the fukking thing, anyway.

Not really sure why more areas don't use basements. Yes, it costs something to build them, but, it is dirt fukking cheap sq. footage. Plus you have the advantage of build in climate control provided by mother nature.

I assume you left coasters don't do them because they would get smashed to hell by a fairly minor earfquake.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:12 pm

Papa Willie wrote:
MgoBlue-LightSpecial wrote:2012 Trollstop, baby!

2nd

Smackie Chan · Post by **Smackie Chan** » Mon Jul 02, 2012 4:44 pm

RACK Mgo!

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:00 pm

Exxon CEO concedes there is global warming.

Curious what goes through the mind of Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded oil company in the world, when he ponders the alteration of the earth’s climate by CO2 emissions? In a talk before the Council on Foreign Relations last week, Tillerson said that the earth is definitely becoming hot, but that he has no fear because “we’ll adapt”:

Rex Tillerson wrote:So I’m not disputing that increasing CO2 emissions in the atmosphere is going to have an impact. It’ll have a warming impact.

We have spent our entire existence adapting, OK? So we will adapt to this. Changes to weather patterns that move crop production areas around — we’ll adapt to that. It’s an engineering problem, and it has engineering solutions. And so I don’t — the fear factor that people want to throw out there to say, ‘We just have to stop this,’ I do not accept.

See? We just have to move shit around. You know, move Miami to Quebec, move Dallas to Saskatchewan, move Los Angeles to British Columbia...

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:04 pm

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:38 pm

Best Derron post ever.

trev · Post by **trev** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:48 pm

I have bode on all of you. I can use the neighbors pool anytime I want and never have to pay for the water or maintenance. When the pool needs water, I don't have to string a hose of to it, I turn on a valve and water flows into the pool. I also don't have a d, I have a ... BODE.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 6:59 pm

Every time you strip down and frolic in his pool I'm guessing the neighbor thinks he has BODE over your husband.

:bode:

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 7:06 pm

Van wrote:Best Derron post ever.

Thank you. People complain about the heat too much. These soldiers are on a 3 day rotation for patrols. They lose up to 10 pounds on each patrol, and need the other 2 days to recover, unless the shit goes bad and they have to go help other soldiers out.

Unfortunately, the US lost 6 soldiers yesterday in an IED incident in a vehicle in Kandahr.

Can't we just get the fuck out of there ?

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:10 pm

No arguments from me. I couldn't even begin to imagine what they go through, except to know that they're made of sterner stuff than I am.

I don't give a crap about anyone's politics or even the occasional examples of our soldiers going haywire and committing atrocities, the vast majority of our nation's military personnel stationed in these godforsaken Asian deserts deserve our utmost respect. Bitching about how hot it is right now really does seem awfully banal when one stops to consider what our troops endure every fucking day over there.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:18 pm

Van wrote:"From a distance..."

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:25 pm

PSUFAN wrote:
Van wrote:"From a distance..."

Going all Bace on us now?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:53 pm

Supposed to be 90+ here tomorrow.

I'm not sure if I'll be able to stand it, but I may put on 70 lb of gear and go play "Kandahar" with the neighbor's barking rat (and maybe their obnoxious teenage kids too).

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Tue Jul 10, 2012 9:55 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:the alteration of the earth’s climate by CO2 emissions?

Feel free to check back in when that starts happening.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 4:23 pm

Van wrote:
PSUFAN wrote:
Van wrote:"From a distance..."

Going all Bace on us now?

Yeah, not sure what to say. It seemed funny at the time? Mea culpa...

trev · Post by **trev** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:06 pm

No doubt it's getting warmer than we remember. Not counting years ago before our time, it is warmer. The reason it's getting warmer is not known. Maybe just natural occurence. I don't think it's anything humans do that makes it warmer.

trev · Post by **trev** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 5:53 pm

Right. The weather changes. It's not anything HUMANS do. Al Gore is just stupid and the planet does not "have a fever."

M2 · Post by M2 » Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:47 pm

trev wrote:Right. The weather changes. It's not anything HUMANS do. Al Gore is just stupid and the planet does not "have a fever."

Hmmmm...

1. A drunk housewife from San Diego.

or

2. The University of California... along with 10 scientists which include Saul Perlmutter, the winner of the Nobel Physics Prize for research showing the Universe's expansion is accelerating.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15373071

http://berkeleyearth.org/

Tough call.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 9:04 pm

M2 wrote:[2. The University of California... along with 10 scientists which include Saul Perlmutter, the winner of the Nobel Physics Prize for research showing the Universe's expansion is accelerating.

That should help ease the traffic.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Wed Jul 11, 2012 11:41 pm

trev wrote:The reason it's getting warmer is not known.

99.9% of scientists disagree with you, hausfrau.

think you, as a housewife, know more than the scientists?

trev · Post by **trev** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:29 am

m2's crack addict behavior is getting old.

mvscal · Post by **mvscal** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:49 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:
trev wrote:The reason it's getting warmer is not known.
99.9% of scientists disagree with you, hausfrau.

You are quite simply wrong on that figure and even if you weren't it wouldn't matter if 99.9% of scientists believed in something that wasn't true. All it takes is one to be right.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:53 am

Bizzarofelice wrote:
trev wrote:The reason it's getting warmer is not known.
99.9% of scientists disagree with you, hausfrau.

think you, as a housewife, know more than the scientists?

you couldn't theorize your way out of 99.9% of wet paper bags, much less step to trev.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 3:36 pm

KC 7 day forecast

Today - 103
Sunday - 106
Monday - 108
Tuesday - 107
Wednesday - 109
Thursday - 107
Friday - 103

:?

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:03 pm

War Wagon wrote:KC 7 day forecast

Today - 103
Sunday - 106
Monday - 108
Tuesday - 107
Wednesday - 109
Thursday - 107
Friday - 103

:?

Global warming dude..just admit it..

Rack the U & L..probably about 78 today, 80 tomorrow.

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:14 pm

Yeah, at 98˚, yesterday was a veritable respite from that string of hundreds we've "enjoyed" the past 10 days. Spent a nice evening at the ball yard watching Jonathon ~~Sanch~~ er, Broxton yak up a tie ballgame to the rat-fuck Twins in the 11th... :brad:

As for this week's heat... Rumor has it the devil will visit Missouri this week to escape the relative cold of hell...

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sat Jul 21, 2012 4:27 pm

Yup, upper 70's, been overcast the last couple of days, and for the most part, temps have been running a little below average like they have been for much of the spring/summer.

Although watching Bace actually lie is pretty funny, but typical of his cult (it IS a cult... textbook definition).

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:14 am

just heard st. louis has had 1.5 inches of rain since april 25th.

ouch.

southern illinois corn is fuct.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 12:34 am

Yeah....I like taking 30 minute showers....it's nice to have an abundance of water. :twisted:

M2 · Post by M2 » Sun Jul 22, 2012 1:27 am

Diego in Seattle wrote:Yeah....I like taking 30 minute showers.... :twisted:

too easy

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 4:50 pm

It got up to 88 here yesterday and prolly the same today. Still resisting the AC, though it got pretty warm in the evening. That's why we have 1) fans and 2) a pool.

100 deg and humid I can't even imagine.

Truman · Post by **Truman** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 5:20 pm

I read the other the day that if there is a silver lining to all this heat, the severe drought that accompanied it has so parched the ground that our heat indices have been checked between 112-115°.

So we’ve got that going for us. :?

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:04 pm

the lack of humidity has been nice.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Sun Jul 22, 2012 6:39 pm

Rather unusual pattern -- the Pacific is sending weak low pressure fronts through here... very uncommon for this time of year, at least "stacking" fronts.

It's late morning, and I think it's up to about 61 so far... overcast.

I have a feeling my upcoming work stint in Southern Oregon won't have the same cool temps... supposed to be pushing triple-digits this week (typical for this time of year).

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:45 pm

From a crop analyst whose blog I read...what they don't say here is that close to 50% of the US corn crop is going to be well below average if not lost.

It is still hot and dry in the Midwest, it is still hot and dry in Russia , Ukraine , and Kazakhstan , but Wheat futures finished off 28 today for Sept. There is some thought by forecasters that the heat dome over the Midwest will shift and provide the chance for more moisture (for the three cities I monitor in the Midwest it looks continued hot and dry for the ten day forecast), yet in today’s crop progress report, analysts are predicting another downgrade to the corn conditions. The big news driving the markets today, it seems, is our old bugaboo, the European debt crisis, particularly Spain in that they made need a “whole” country bailout. Today’s stock market is down over one hundred points reflecting this news and the dollar has strengthened against the Euro, making our exports more expensive.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:55 pm

Derron wrote:From a crop analyst whose blog I read...what they don't say here is that close to 50% of the US corn crop is going to be well below average if not lost.

Yeah but the ethanol producers will prolly get their share first, so we won't have to worry about havin' enufft corn likker ta burn in our jalopies.