Hey Wyody. You ready for the storm?

[PDXnative]

80 mph winds!!!! The winds just started here in the valley. I love a good wind storm

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/warnings.php...Wind%20Warning

[Wyoming53]

yeah, the weather man said we had another storm coming right behind this one. But he called for heavy winds during this one and only snow for the second one.

Matter of fact he said today would be a 12 can hair spray day and to make sure to tie your kids to trees if they want to go out and play.

[PDXnative]

I thought you were off killing things and drinking 23 cases of beer. What are you doing on a computer?

[Wyoming53]

i finished the task at hand on Monday and come home.

[Wyody]

Hey PD, we're ready. A tad blustery today. Swells are high but the breakers are still only about 6ft or so at best.
Kinda bummed - not much fog with this storm ... some though - but turned down a job running a motel in Depoe Bay ... looking straight at the Bay - and if we hadn't, I'd probably be sitting right now with my fireplace going and a giant window overlooking the storm.
It's been raining for a couple of weeks now ... guess summer's over. Did have a fairly dry weekend - hard to figure when to mow when it rains almost every day.
Wyoming has it much easier. Their grass has been dead a good month now, probably. I'm still hoping to put the mower away someday soon. Did turn off my sprinklers though. Don't even have to have them blown out here - it ain't gonna freeze ... they say.

[PDXnative]

Depoe Bay has awsome storm watching. Great place to go out on whale watching excursions, too. It is fun to stand on the sidewalk in front of the breakers with a good storm and get soaked!!! If you have not tried it, you are missing out.

[Wyody]

If you can catch it at the right time, Otter Crest ... Otter Rock ... will soak you just as spectacular-ly ... with less people around. It's on the way (as you know PDX) and there's a quick pull-out on the road to the right and when there's a storm at sea, Massive Mother Ocean comes running right at the rocks and cliffs. Sometimes, she explodes like thunder as a large wave right before belting the cliff wall. Sometimes, she holds it in - rising, swelling - like someone just plonked down in your bathtub - and then, Crrrrashing into the rock and venting upward like oil in a Red Adair movie then turning into a nearly dry, feathery mist that reaches to enfold you like a cloud with fingers ... and you're wet.
In Depoe, it's hard to be alone on that sidewalk. There's a little, tiny, empty patch of ground just south, past "the artist's house" (landmark) - no tables or chairs or even signs but you can walk right out on the lava there.
I've always enjoyed isolation mixed with majesty. It's just easier to get the right words out if you happen to be something other than pagan or atheist - which turns such breath-taking events as the Pacific Ocean into spiritual and emotional experiences - so, I prefer Otter Crest.
But the rest of y'all are sure to enjoy Depoe Bay - right in town - angle park right on the side of 101 - bring your appetite as well. On that sidewalk overlooking the edge of the ocean - as PDX describes - the wave hits and about half of the football-field length sidewalk gets soaked - and there's not quite a way to predict which part you'll be in with the next wave. Kinda fun to stand across the street, in front of the Sea Hag or Chowder Bowl or the place we just turned down - and watch all the people across the street get soaked - and it doesn't matter if they drove up in a Rolls Royce or a Schwinn, that's funny right there!
Hey PDX! Is there anyplace on this continent more beautiful than Oregon?

[PDXnative]

Now if we can just heat up the ocean, lakes, and rivers so it would be better swimming. COME ON GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!

[Wyody]

Small problem throwing my support in for Global Warming.
Now, my only model comes from a "what-if" theory where all was started by earthquakes - but along the way, it picks up at the shifting & consequent melting of the polar-caps ....
Water flows downhill. In this case, towards the equator so that the former weight of the polar-ice now flows to meet at the equator ...
Which unbalances the planet.
Remember that Old-Testament stuff about the Earth standing still but the Sun laying low in the sky? From around Iraq/Persia? And then, a couple of days later, it happened again but the Sun was back to being high in the sky?
Okay - same possibility. The Earth lays back more as the weight hits the middle and then re-settles a couple days later when the shock-waves subside.
Oregon's latitude - instead of being around the 45th parallel, moves toward Zero - not all the way ... but that way.
Presto - warm water!
Problem: the weight of the water moves the Earth. The Earth protests. The Earth groans. Boom - Volcano! Bang - Earthquake. Here, there and everywhere. New lakes. New rivers. Old ones gone.
San Andreas? Fell off. Tsunami? Came.
I'm just not too sure we would survive it. Some would ... but who?
I'll hold off on having a welcoming T-shirt made for the ice-cap.

[PDXnative]

Wow, dude, you get some BC Bud, or something? Oh, that's right. It is nearing harvest season for mushrooms......

[Wyody]

I fear that I have probably grown too old to enjoy the mushrooms ... but thanks for the thought. It immediately brought visions of turkish-print walls and pillows strewn around my mental rooms.
B.C. Bud? Now, I would know what you mean if I were from here. I can only imagine Grog and a talking clam in the caveman comics. Besides, I thought it was UW bud.
Actually, were you a Velikovskian Catastrophist such as I, you would be familiar with my notion.
Immanuel Velikovsky presented some head-turning but nay-sayed yet mostly proven theories from the 30's into the early 60's regarding univerversal physics, Earth-global history and cosmic history of our solar system and makes extremely good argument for his theories.
You're a smart guy. He deserves a read.

[PDXnative]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Bud

[PDXnative]

I was watching a TV show about marijauna and they said the stuff from the 60's had an average THC content of 0.5%. The new potent stuff around, such as "BC Bud" has a THC content of 5%. That is a 1000% increase in the amount of THC.

Peace through superior farming?

[Curious George]

Highbread weed, what will they think of next

[Wyody]

That's all y'all kids' doing. My generation was happy with the 20-minute, getjer housework done, write a new song, astound yourself with a guitar buzz and y'all kids come along and turn it into stuff that'd blow E.T.'s mind!
I want my Quarter Gas back ... and my dime bag!! (5 fingers too!@#) ... er ... well ... not my dime bag per se ... it's for someone else. I don't know what that stuff even is. Strictly a Carling and Jack man myself.

[PDXnative]

"My generation"??? Oh no.... I think it was YOUR generation that did this. Your generation has more "experience" and has had time to "perfect" it. Your generation probably also got tired of having a "buzz" and wanted something with more kick. Especially over time, they needed more to get them there....

[Wyody]

While it may be true that "my" generation took it to the lab and experimented, I know from first-hand, shoulder-to-shoulder knowledge that each and every one of us was already incapable of further research even while the Punk generation was learning the words to "Hair of the Dog". Damage done. Only one who escaped was Clinton - 'cause he couldn't inhale (does that mean he doesn't suck?).
It was your generation and your Doctor Frankensteins with thumbtacks welded to their foreheads that perverted this beautiful creation of nature with boat-manure and freak-spray.
My generation didn't know how! We gave the world banana-flavored rolling papers and Zappa posters. We gave "The Rolling Stone". We gave The Beatles' White Album. We finished off the Beach Boys. We changed the world ... changed the world ... changed the world <[ ,,, wanders off into the endless desert muttering to himself ...]>