OT: Bob Stockler

[Bill Vermillion]

On Thu, Jul 15 19:25 , Fairlight moved his mouse, rebooted for the 
change to take effect, and then said:" 

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 06:06:21PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
> J. P. Radley cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> > Mark Luljak propounded (on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 05:46:31PM -0400):

> > | Winds were sheer-force in excess of 70mph (I've read as
> > | high as 80mph), so mathematically it was the equivalent of
> > | going through about a category one hurricane.

> > Should that be "shear-force"? And whichever way it's spelled,
> > what does it mean for any kind of force to be measured in
> > speed units?

> Actually, I believe you're correct on the spelling. My mistake.
> Usually I'm not prone to those. Oops.

> It's not that the force itself was measured in speed units.
> You'd have to measure in PSI or something as applied to the
> surface of something. The wind velocity was measured in units
> of speed. The amount of force that applies is relative to it
> though. To venture deeper than that, I'd have to defer to my
> wife, the engineer. *chuckle* I've heard some cool stories
> about Tacoma Narrows and other mishaps. :)

I've usually heard of shear forces in MPH.  It's a 'hunk' of air
moving rapidly in relationship to the still air next to it.  Sort
of like walking into a wall that moving sideways at 70 MPH.

> My main point was that it wasn't rotational wind like actual
> tornadoes or hurricanes, but omni-directional. Guess I phrased
> it poorly.

> I guess this proves you don't have to have wind rotating for it to be
> really destructive.

You have a direction of air-flow.  We've had severe weather alerts
almost everday for the past two weeks.  OIA was shut down for about
1/2 hour as some came buy.  Winds up to 50-70 - but we run heavy
winds in FL quite often.

> I feel sorry for the people with no A/C right now. It's been in
> the high 80's. The day it stormed it was 91F with a heat index
> of 100F.

Heat index here today was supposed to hit 106F.

> Ugh. We appear to have two major seasons here--summer and
> winter.

Similar here - summer - that runs from mid-October to May and the
other season "hotter'n'hell and damp" which runs the rest of the
year. :-)

> We seem to get about a week each of spring and fall. And winter
> hasn't been nearly as cold as I like, the last two years.
> Boiling hot in summer, as far as I'm concerned. It's been 11
> years and I'm still not used to it. Not that Milwaukee never
> had hot summers, but the lake could temper it by as much as 20F
> compared to inland. The river here adds just enough to make it
> humid, but not enough to make it cooler. Lovely as this state's
> scenery is, the weather is definitely a drawback.

> Note to self: Next residence will be no further south than
> Oregon or so. :)

Look to Canada.  Go North of Edmonton.  About 600 miles.  
It's should be cold enough.  And North and West of Edmonton is
the second largest lake in North America. Great Slave Lake.

Fish are in the 45 pound range.  Fishing is only during the summer
months and then if you fall into the water your life expectancy is
about 4-5 minutes before you die of thermal exposure.  

In the Jasper area I've seen decent amounts of snow in mid-August.

Bill
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