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Devil in the Blue Dress
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by Devil in the Blue Dress » July 24th, 2010, 10:36 pm
lawgrad91 wrote:Devil in the Blue Dress wrote:Back online after having no electricity for over three and a half hours.... the high today was near 100. Almost 3K without power because of a fallen tree limb. The AC finally kicked in and my computer's on. Whew! I think that turnaround deserves a sapphire!
It was 100+ in some parts of Winston-Salem today. I saw 103 on my car thermometer as I was driving over on I-40, around 4:00. Glad you got your power back, and I think you definitely deserve a sapphire.
Windsor, glad you got your power back, too. Can we give you a sapphire, as well?
Yes, it was maybe a record kind of hot.
I was out making my groceries late in the afternoon. My car's thermometer read 103 as I drove away from the Harris Tooooter. Got home and put away the groceries a bit before 4P. Within an hour, the power flickered and went off. So glad it's back on and that my AC finally fired up.
There have been studies done in industrial psychology which demonstrate the terrible changes in behavior which temperatures above 80 indoors can produce. My house was at 77 degrees when the power came back on.
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windsor
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by windsor » July 24th, 2010, 10:42 pm
ArkieDukie wrote:windsor wrote:I did not bust out the fancy dancy camera - I'm on training video 1 of 6 (no shit)...no idea how to shoot something like that PLUS I wasn't hot on the idea of taking a chance of getting it soaked in the first 24 hours I owned it!
Wow - training videos? I didn't get training videos with my camera.
I got a DVD - its produced by Nikon, walks you through all the features on the D90 - shows you the menus, how to set the basic settings, view a picture and then starts with your vanilla portrait mode in good light, fill flash, low light with flash, low light without...that's as far as I've gotten. It's actually pretty good...shows the same shot side by side with different settings....ie backlit subject with and without flash. How to use the 11 freakin' focus points - I have found it EXTREMELY helpful.
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ArkieDukie
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by ArkieDukie » July 24th, 2010, 11:26 pm
lawgrad91 wrote:ArkieDukie wrote:windsor wrote:I did not bust out the fancy dancy camera - I'm on training video 1 of 6 (no shit)...no idea how to shoot something like that PLUS I wasn't hot on the idea of taking a chance of getting it soaked in the first 24 hours I owned it!
Wow - training videos? I didn't get training videos with my camera.
Wonder if training videos are included when someone signs up over yonder for Date Mrs Robinson.com.
Dang it, I tried to put the spork here and couldn't get it to copy.
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by captmojo » July 25th, 2010, 6:45 pm
I can't fuckin' breathe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
105F The 'F' ...well, you know what it stands for.
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Very Duke Blue
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by Very Duke Blue » July 25th, 2010, 8:53 pm
Still 90 degrees in Efland. Lots of humidity. Thunder is around. We could use some rain but hope that would be all we get.
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DukeUsul
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by DukeUsul » July 25th, 2010, 9:32 pm
Nasty thunder and lightning moving through Derm now. No rain yet.
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by devildeac » July 25th, 2010, 10:22 pm
DukeUsul wrote:Nasty thunder and lightning moving through Derm now. No rain yet.
They are passing through Raleigh now.
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by DukeUsul » July 26th, 2010, 3:53 am
We never got any rain. Cool light show, though.
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by YmoBeThere » July 28th, 2010, 7:18 pm
Thunderstorms overhead, lots of lightning!
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by CameronBornAndBred » July 28th, 2010, 8:21 pm
YmoBeThere wrote:Thunderstorms overhead, lots of lightning!
Lucky you!
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by devildeac » July 28th, 2010, 8:53 pm
YmoBeThere wrote:Thunderstorms overhead, lots of lightning!
Send a few inches of rain to the Triangle area. Please.
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by YmoBeThere » July 28th, 2010, 8:57 pm
devildeac wrote:YmoBeThere wrote:Thunderstorms overhead, lots of lightning!
Send a few inches of rain to the Triangle area. Please.
I'll see what I can do...
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by mph » July 28th, 2010, 9:03 pm
Supposed to go camping with the family in the GW National Forest tomorrow but they're calling for severe thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon. Sad we aren't going camping, but I'm not going to complain about the rain.
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Devil in the Blue Dress
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by Devil in the Blue Dress » July 28th, 2010, 10:07 pm
Big thunder rumbling through the Triad right now. Incoming from the west....
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by lawgrad91 » July 28th, 2010, 10:16 pm
Devil in the Blue Dress wrote:Big thunder rumbling through the Triad right now. Incoming from the west....
Coming my way, huh? I thought I heard thunder a couple of minutes ago, but I wasn't sure.
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by CameronBornAndBred » August 5th, 2010, 5:37 am
Big thunderstorm at the beach this morning...my poor dog is shaking. I love them, she hates them. It should make for an extra muggy afternoon as it reaches 96 today.
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by captmojo » August 5th, 2010, 5:43 am
CameronBornAndBred wrote:Big thunderstorm at the beach this morning...my poor dog is shaking. I love them, she hates them. It should make for an extra muggy afternoon as it reaches 96 today.
I used to have a Chow-Chow that would freak out during thunderstorms and want to chew everything in sight to tiny shreds. He also had a bad case of separation anxiety and would show his destructive side then, as well.
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by DukeUsul » August 5th, 2010, 8:54 am
Yeah we got absolutely hammered last night here in Durham, and I don't mean in the good way. After midnight the storms moved through and all I can say is.... wow! I've not had such a prolific set of lightning strikes that close to my house in a loooooong time. I'm absolutely amazed that Katie didn't wake up. It had to have been a good half hour of near constant lightning.
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by devildeac » August 5th, 2010, 9:29 am
DukeUsul wrote:Yeah we got absolutely hammered last night here in Durham, and I don't mean in the good way. After midnight the storms moved through and all I can say is.... wow! I've not had such a prolific set of lightning strikes that close to my house in a loooooong time. I'm absolutely amazed that Katie didn't wake up. It had to have been a good half hour of near constant lightning.
We could tell it was coming from the west and when it arrived, it was hellacious.
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