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.
4 Comments
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 21 pts · 24d
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.
Bluewing@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 24d
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.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 8 pts · 24d
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.
SillyDude@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 24d
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.