We had a fun storm last night. An estimated 60mph/100kph straight line winds and heavy rain. It was amazing just how much you notice a wind storm like that even in the middle of the forest. The rain was nearly horizontal coming through the yard. Even though it rained like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock, I have no idea of what the rainfall was. Because you don’t get much rain in the guage when it’s nearly horizontal.
Anyway, the power was also out from about 6:30ish pm to 4am this morning. But the boys from our electric co-op (all 6 of them) must have busted their balls all night to get things running again.
And now there is a heat advisory for today and tomorrow. Highs in the mid 80s and the wet bulb is at 80. The AC is going to get a real workout today.
rained like a cow pissin’ on a flat rock,
I absolutely love this brand new sentence. Or, at least that’s one I’ve never heard before.
Sustained straight-line high winds scare the bejeezus out of me. There was a derecho in my area many years ago. Didn’t seem too awful at the time and in the midst of it, but when it was over, we were without power in a heatwave for almost two weeks. Fun times.
Glad your electric co is on the ball.
Yeah, that’s an old farmer saying. Though as I’m sitting here, the rain might have been closer to 2 cows. At least we didn’t get the 6"/150mm hail they said was possible. We got just about a minute of pea size hail.
Linemen are some crazy hard workin’ people. They are ready to hit it all hours of the day and night and fear no weather. I worked some crappy hours as a medic, but they didn’t match what linemen consider normal. I hope their off days are filled with good whiskey and agreeable women or men as needed.
Linemen are some crazy hard workin’ people … I hope their off days are filled with good whiskey and agreeable women or men as needed.
Definitely. In modern society, they’re right up there with firemen, paramedics, etc as far as “thank you for your service” goes.
When they’re working near me, I always offer them cold drinks or snacks. That’s something I started doing during the earlier mentioned two week outage when they finally got to our area. The temps were in the mid 90s, the air was swampy, and I was roasting in shorts and a t-shirt. They’re out there working in heavy protective gear. I appreciate them as much as I do not envy them which is a LOT.
I don’t know why but I’ve heard that about a dozen times in the last few months. Someone popular must have said it and now its going around.
