CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ai6yr ugh, reminds me of winters high in the Rockies. 30 miles at 15mph to get to the nearest grocery store, getting blown completely across the roadway.

There are reasons I don't choose to live in such a climate anymore.

I count four strikes definitely within the city limits and another that might be. At 5am. So yeah, Santa Rosa is a groggy town today. #cawx
https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en#m=ses;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=0.00;ts=0;ts24=1;y=38.4274;x=-122.666;z=12;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;

We don't get a lot of thunderstorms in the North Bay, but the ones we do get tend to be big showy ones that happen at ass o'clock in the morning. Which is why everyone in Santa Rosa is groggy this morning. #cawx

Huh, got 1200 words in and my characters unstuck tonight. Plus I broke 100 pages at some point in the last couple sessions without even realizing it. It's starting to get real! #writingcommunity

@sbourne @pmonks @ai6yr oh, they've had chain monkeys for decades. My brother did a stint as one. Insanely hard work. Basically, if you have chains then you pay to get them installed, if you don't then they sell you some and charge you for installation. At least when I was living there, it was this weird half-regulated, half wild-west type of operation. I stayed out of their way.

@EugestShirley @ai6yr METAR shows cloud base close to minimums which is probably the deciding factor - with runways as long as they have in LAX braking action isn't going to be a factor for a 737.

Good times, folks. You thought you were going to LA but now you're going to Sky Harbor! Have fun catching that connecting flight to Singapore...

@morgan @pmonks @ai6yr yes, my wife absolutely unlocked the door of someone else's car and got it. I asked her what she did after, pretty much she locked the car back up and tried to get out of there quick

@pmonks @ai6yr "Four-wheel drive means four-wheel slide!"

When I lived in Tahoe the silver Subaru wagon was so common that my wife once unlocked and got into one and only when she was about to start the car did she realize it was someone else's silver Subaru wagon. Good cars for the area.

@pmonks @ai6yr I used to live in Kyburz on Highway 50 and every snowy day going over the hill to SLT I'd see these idiots absolutely careening up the hill in their 4WD SUV or brodozer, and basically every time I'd see some jackwad doing that I'd find them stuffed into a snowbank a couple miles up the road. So long as they were out of their car yelling into a cellphone I'd just honk and keep on clanking up the hill in my tire chains.

Good thing I don't need this motor.

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Mood.

So when you're watching a show that has the "nudity" content warning at the beginning but it's about people in an emergency room chances are pretty good it's going to disappoint anyone looking for something gratuitous.