ExiledInIllinois

People risk their lives even more everyday for much, much less. Grab 20-25 bills. That's a couple months work. Risk yourself for the man @ much less or choose free will? "There are those who think that life Has nothing left to chance A host of holy horrors To direct our aimless dance A planet of playthings We dance on the strings Of powers we cannot perceive The stars aren't aligned Or the gods are malign Blame is better to give than receive You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will There are those who think that They've been dealt a losing hand The cards were stacked against them They weren't born in Lotus-Land All preordained A prisoner in chains A victim of venomous fate Kicked in the face You can't pray for a place In heaven's unearthly estate You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt That's far too fleet You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will"

Oh, the irony. Monkey see, Monkey do. Wow... She's (M.Rapinoe) only doing what she sees to be the new norm. She is being led by example. Now, it is a bad thing?

5+ is strong... And strength goes up exponentially. Everybody knows the big ones are coming. Here is an interesting fact: "In the past 10 days, there have been 608 earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater centered nearby. An average of 25 earthquakes with magnitudes between 4.0 and 5.0 occur per year in California and Nevada, according to a recent three year data sample."

EDIT: FWIW... IIRC... @Kirby Jackson is near a pumping station, rebuilt canal that was reworked after Katrina and flows into the Pontchartrain... So he should be in good shape. It's like having a brand new sump pump!!! ??

"A bottle of white, a bottle of red Perhaps a bottle of rose instead We'll get a table near the street In our old familiar place You and I, face to face A bottle of red, a bottle of white It all depends upon your appetite I'll meet you any time you want In our Italian Restaurant..."

It looks like he's out of the probability become. As it gets nearer to the edges of the predicted cone, the % goes down. Even since Katrina, those cones that they put on the maps have become more and more accurate! Watch where this thing tracks. Save the old maps, they are almost spot on now! But... THEN again. We never landed on the moon... It was all done on a Hollywood set! /smh...

Most OF THESE cyclones (cyclone is just a low) form in tropics. They are tropical and go extratropical crossing over the Tropics of Cancer (& Capricorn). I take that this one just formed @ higher mid-latitude. It's an extratropical storm that forming. Like many that form high in the Gulf. No different than say a blizzard or snowstorm, Noreaster (double barrel lows up east coast). It's just extratropical turning into a hurricane. It is kinda strange since we expect the low to form in the tropics/low latitudes. They are all cyclones. They are just named where they get formed in what part of the world's tropics. Hurricanes=W.Hemi. Typhoon=cross the date line. Tropical cyclones=Indian Ocean.

One suck ass... Publicity *****! LoL... Wasn't me! LoL... Ooops... I spoke too late. ^^^^ Will they remember him when he's doing 61 in a 55? LMAO...

Was just gonna post that. Great minds think alike! Maybe I should just wait 6 years and start it's own thread in 2025:

So. If something flies off/outta my vehicle and someone takes it. I can claim they stole it? I agree... But a little situational awareness goes a long way of solving the safety issue. Just saying.

@Cripple Creek & @CountryCletus can't even get embryos right... You want them to secure the doors to an armored truck? Now... Asian carp. Waterways are tighter than a Nun! LoL... EDIT: WTF... Throwing down the gauntlet, might as well notify @BringBackFergy... Get this party started!!!

I am trying!

What the hell choice is #3 about... Why don't you just ask: "Are you mentally ######ed?" Question #3 is like giving money to a Nigerian phone scam! That's why I never leave home without my nets... Works just as well from any moving vehicle.

He was in Canadian waters. Fixed it for you.

You should see the mechanics on the waterways... Some, few have modern PLC's... Not many. We are still running fluid power tech from the WWII era... Same with the electrical circuits. Some stuff was so obsolete... Forced to at least push things to 1980s tech... Like our valves, gauges... LoL... Still kicking, but harder and harder to find parts. We just cracked into fresh selsyns for the dam... They were packed, stamped on canister: 1958!

My ex co-worker is 12 years older than me. He said he took a trip in early 1960s from Chicago to SoCal w/his family to visit his older brother who was a Marine. No A/C of course. I want to say his father had a Ford Country Squire Wagon... 1960... Driving through the desert he could see the rubber door molding melting, turning to goo. LoL...Today, I guess they came a long way with engineering better automobile quality materials now. Imagine rolling through the desert in 105° heat, windows open... Molding, early automobile plastics/rubber turning to goo. An "E-Ride" ticket thru hell on earth! LoL...

It's the American Side that is the worse... One has a fighting chance on the Canadian Side. Same here. The talus on the American side is the problem. One may get lucky going over Horseshoe Falls and find a gap and not hit rock. I would think less water would be worse. More exposed rock below. ??? Maybe it's the opposite.

LoL... I figure two downers... Put people to sleep!

Never two downers... You'd have one of my posts. ?

The first I heard, but remember this, with my father in our '64(ish) beige convertible Plymouth Valiant: We'd go to the Coast Guard Exchange (CGX) for his cartons of tax free Camel cigarettes... I had to be about 4-5 years old... 1972-1973 He'd stop on/at the Ohio Street slip and let me wiz in Lake Erie... That's where it all began!!!

You know we have Bears here in Chicago!

Was my first thought... But that's NOT sympathetic enough.

Thank You! But I never lived through it. I don't know. I got the same vibe (no pun intended). Hard, I guess I judge more after newscasters in floods, hurricanes ham it up. I am bad at sympathy... Yet, I am concerned with guys like Jim and his family's safety. Jim sitting on couch... I am concerned. News anchors, trying to keep the peeps from panicking... Another story. Sorry, hard as nails with them. Again, I posted the Carol Burnett clip w/the Jackson-5 above. Clearly JAX5 were from Indiana... They were concerned, not sure what Jackson that was, but he wanted to freak. Burnett, really lightened the mood. We need MORE of that in the "poor me Facebook world" that exists today. Sorry @Chef Jim I am bad at sympathy for the female anchor.... And maybe you if you think that you live vicariously through these two. Again sorry... This is absolutely the worst way for me to make a pal. I should have just listened to my Mama and be a soft shoulder to lean on. Again... It's a newscast. /smh

No. I know you gotta be scared. You just don't have the same bravado you once had. That's not a good thing! Again, take care!

Whatever. We talking about you or the newcasters? If it's you... I never been through it, can't understand... But sympathize. Sorry for getting you all in a snit. Take care my friend and stay safe!