OT: Thank God, It's finally over!

Jesus...you poor buggers down there...we had heavy rain for about two hours about 5 or 6 days ago then the occasional shower maybe

Sorry, misreported. Rt 91 didn't collapse, it just flooded so much it couldn't be used.

Minor roads did collapse, however, one collapse making a 30 ft deep crater in the roadway.

NOW we have wind gusts up to 45 MPH, and the problem there is with the ground so wet they are warning of uprooting trees.

At least the sun is shining!

This is the set of events that led to the death of my 2000 Camry V6 with a manual transmission :-( This was the last year of Toyota put a manual in a V6 4 door Camry :-( It has rained a few days before, the wind kicked up a bit, but it was sunny - and the tree fell down when I was driving home from work.

If you are a photographer, now would be the time to get the cameras out. You may never see these conditions again and the grandchildren will not believe your stories. A good tripod and slow shutter speed will emphasis the motion of the trees with the gusts.

I can't believe people from the town I used to live in, Claremont, NH died in that flooding! The only thing I saw in the 11 years we lived in NH was lots of snow - rain was never a big problem; in fact it was always welcome. WTF is going on with the weather?!

Natalie, listening for the Four Horsemen

Well Nat, its obvious. Bush caused it. All the media has reported that global warming, caused by Bush not signing the Kyoto deal, is causing all these disasters.

All of us know the media is right (or is it left?) all the time.

Since this has all happened in the past 5 years, I wonder what caused the icebergs around the Titanic (1912) to disappear before world war II? I also read a few years ago that the ozone hole was going to cause life on earth to disappear or some such. But nothing much about it lately.

I wonder which Bush it was that caused the hurricane in Galveston (8000 or so dead) in 1900? How the Spanish Galleons got ship wrecked in all the calm seas of the 16-1700's? And for the biblical crowd, what caused the great flood, but global warming? Where is all that water now? In the Sahara Ocean?

All these questions without answers, I should be ashamed of myself.

Hach, hope you guys dry out soon. We've had our share floods in northern California on about 10 year intervals, since the 1950's. Thankfully they don't strike right where I live fully.

Did your area wait for FEMA to come tell you the storm was coming?

I've not heard a word from that whole region about the ineptitude of the government.

Ron

Ah - that rascal - did he ever stop walking on water?

We got flash floods when I was growing up in Florida, and the only really bad hurricane was "Donna" when I was 2, back in 1960

I've not heard from my in-laws in MA, which scares me. Usually they call me right back.

Natalie

No, our local governments have been doing fine so far, although a Democrat Senator in the state House said a week ago that Romney "doesn't even know it rained". After that he was out here to have a look.

NH is dealing with it as best they can, they're still surveying the damage. They got hit HARD!

If you're talking abotu Holyoke, they probably went out to dinner! There was some localized flooding in Holyoke, but nothing drastic. Greenfield and the north got it far worse, and Longmeadow and south into CT also.

Where are you at?

We don't get FSB anymore, we get a CBS channel from Springfield now. Interesting; I'm wondering how two channels 20 miles apart can both broadcast on 3????

Yeah, Holyoke - Greenfield is on the damned VT/MA border! That makes no sense at all - wow

Natalie

Not really, they can 'simulcast' them, one transmitter controls the freq of the other to very close tolerance therefore there's no beat between the carriers. They do this on pager systems on FM so that the strongest transmitted signal will capture the discriminator in your receiver and your FM receiver will hear only that station. Of course the audio channel of TV transmitters is on FM so this effect happens there. The picture info is transmitted using lower sideband suppressed upper sideband and because it's exactly on the same freq of the 'other' TV transmitter, there's no 'beat' and minimal interference of the picture data.

PS - Hope you did not suffer any damage.

hope you hear from in-laws soon Nat. Waiting is horrible.

Ron

Um....right....

No, I do have a very minimal understanding of sidebands and broadcast, but how would my TV pick up the one channel three without the OTHER channel three?

Esp for Tom, he's in an area where the signal would be very strong from BOTH channel threes!

Well, do they both contain the same info?...if so then they likely have a coverage problem that they're trying to combat with directional antennas...let me know this then we'll work from there...

I did - they had some leaky roofs, but other than that, nothing, thank God!

Natalie

Stupid top poster. Ever hear of a blank line?