2024 National Champions

 

Chris, ya beat me to it! Yeah baby!!!

 

How about it!

 

They kicked *** and took names!

 

Took this pic of Grandson Gabe 10-years ago. He's obviously being brought up right! Last pic . . . for tonight, no promises for tomorrow. LoL

 

Good morning everyone.

Happy Birthday Jamesbo. I hope your day is a success. The Super Model needs to throw you a big bash.

Rain this morning. Gonna be heavy here in a little while. I won't know it, we are secluded from any phenomena here in the bunker.

Hope everyone has a good day.

 

Snow coming down here @6AM. Looks like just a covering so far.....

 

About an inch on the ground here. Forecast is for 5-10" more today, heaviest around 3pm winds gust to 25-30. First substantial one of the season.

 

Thanks Chris - I was looking for a replacement for over a year. The previous owner took real nice care of it.
Happy your team won out last night.

 

tanks Mike, like a cow on a flat rock down here. May spend the day watching $hit float around in the yard

 

Jim - Consider getting your septic tank pumped out.

BTW - Happy B'Day

 

Jim/Mike - You should be just about right in the middle of this weather beast. About 7PM - 11PM tonight we should see the worst of it. Steady 35mph - 40mph winds gusting to 70mph w/ numerous thunderstorms and tornadoes expected.

Local weather statement:

 

Jim - Happy B-day, I hope you have a great day!

All you guys over there in the SE keep your head on a swivel and stay safe!

 

Increase in deductible for a Named Storm from 1% to 4% w/ an increase in AOP (All Other Perils) deductible from $2k to $5k saving me ~$1200/yr. Must have more golf *****!

Heck, I have basically one vehicle (2003 F250) & one 2010 Indian motorcycle. The F250 I've maintained a $500 deductible (comp/collision) for 21 years. The Indian I've maintained a $1K deductible for 14 years. I just reviewed both policies, I'll continue same coverage on both.

 

Happy birthday Jim. Weather is getting nasty all over.

 

We're supposed to get snow again tonight too. It's supposed to change over from rain to snow right around 5pm, just about the time my wife and I wanted to leave to go have dinner with members of the Old's Club, with our regular monthly meeting to follow. It's almost a 50-minute drive for us, and with conditions supposed to worsen through the evening I'm gonna bag it. It's not worth the risk, especially having to try and get up there during rush hour, which is a nightmare even when the weather is not bad.

 

This named storm bullshit has got to end. You name HURRICANES. That's it. Well, tropical storms, some of which become hurricanes.

 

I saw this named storm bullshit forming years ago. F’ing insurance companies instigating this bullshit. Hate them with a vengeance. Convincing NWS of a contrived need. Hate it hate it hate it.

 

Collusion
100% collusion

 

Norm - Glad your Ins. Agent worked with you to find a combination of coverages that would both save ya some $'s and still give you peace of mind! 👍

 

Is it just a coincidence that there is only a one letter difference between collision and collusion . . . I think not! 🤔

 

Blizzard here now(1300) looks like about 3 " so far. Nice day to stay inside, nap and watch old westerns....

 

Greg - Sounds like an excellent game plan.

 

Hmmmm....now they're calling for large hail. Hmmmm....better rethink location of the F250. I think it's going in the man-cave overnight.

 

I wonder if Ray is in Florida? This system is really big and the frontal boundary is really long. Good luck, Ray.

Put the truck to bed in the man-cave, porch furniture & chairs turned down on their sides, winds are picking up significantly - I guess ~30mph steady w/ gusts ~40mph - 45mph. This swash buckler should arrive ~7pm - 8pm.

 

Sun came out

 

Glad it did for someone! Snow is coming down sideways here now. Won't be long until the ground is covered at this rate. Glad I abandoned the idea to try and go to the Old's Club meeting.

 

I agree. More snow on the way here throughout the week. Highs in the teens next week. The southern part of the state is now getting rain instead of snow, with I96 and North (Greg) getting the brunt of it. I'm right on the border as I96 ends at my locale. Looks like the S.E. is getting nasty weather, including tornado's. Hope you guys that can't spell zamboni miss the worst of it.

 

They are predicting 1-9” of snow in Memphis next Monday. Lows single digits with highs of maybe 15 -20

At least no ice storms this time
1/2” of snow will shut this city down

we have been having a lot of reliability issues with our grid as well. We have a 4 service utility and it is city owned. While we have good rates they are set by the city council who refuse to raise them when asked for by the utility. So there’s a lot of deferred maintenance.

 

Ya, they're calling for some really frigid temps here in StL this coming Sunday - Tuesday. Highs in the single digits, and overnight lows as low as -5°. Brrrrrr, too damn cold!

 

 

Supposedly no snow tonight in the Evil. Just wind and rain. I am actually parking inside this winter, so that's nice.

 

Looks delicious Norm, much more elegant than my dinner. My wife's on a low calorie salad diet trying to undo the damage from the holidays. Although she offered to cook for me, I said don't worry about it, I'll just make some sandwiches. Gourmet PB & J. What that means is thick Texas Toast, toasted, with a heavy dose of PB, with Raspberry Jam.

 

Darn - I was going to pick up some jam at the grocery store this morning. Buggers.

 

Yes. Substantial 1200.00 savings. 2k vs 5k deductible. Holy schnikeeze

 

Happy Birthday Jim

 

Nice Plan.
I am sure there have been many a day you had to be out in the mix on similar weather days with work. Makes it that much sweeter to lay low under the radar I bet.

 

Gone. Done. Finished. Fine. Outta here. Shaky road for ~1hr then a dead calm after the frontal boundary passed. Kiss my A$$ Finn. What a stupid name.

 

EP:5 of this new Netflix series ‘Fool Me Once’. Not bad really. Drama detective type. Takes lots of left turns have to stay on top what’s going on.

 

Last night I put together 5 pages, and tonight 9 pages, of the H/OCA newsletter. 5 pages left and I can send this one off to the proofers. Have a cute picture of a member's little girl next to another member's '69 H/O on the inside main cover, so I went with 69 H/O colors for the main cover, cream background, gold font, black font outline. Font outline is a bitch since Acrobat won't do it, you have to say what you want in Word, do your effects, then save as a pdf and copy/paste the outlined font in, and it's unchangeable as Acrobat considers it a picture. I typically save it for titles only. Usually don't do it on the main cover, but I needed to pop the gold out from the cream a bit.