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RMA Survivor:
Oh, and you mentioned orange skies before the storm. Did you ever experience the lightning storms in Idaho where the bolts would be blue and pink, red and yellow and come straight down and strike the dirt?
I remember one storm, we were watching it approach the campus, it was coming from over by the farm and we were on the smoking porch. So we decided we wanted to feel more like we were in the center of things so we ran over to the field house, but a wall of water came towards us and we decided to run back to the house but we didn't make it. We were soaked within seconds there was so much water. It was hitting the dry dirt in the field so hard that little puffs would appear. And the lightning hit and the puffs were even larger. It was scary in an awesome kind of way.
But in Texas, I just remember endless miserable weather. Maybe when they said it was unusual, they were referring to the snow and ice. It snowed during the winter and then would melt in the morning. By night there was a foot of ice on everything. Next night snow, next morning melt, than another foot of ice. There was easily two feet of ice on the ground every day for month or more, and the wind blew so hard it was like being in a freezer.
It only hailed once though. In June. Which by itself is an unusual time for there to be hail.
try another castle:
oh, ice storms were somewhat normal, and unbelievably dangerous. We'd get maybe on average one every year or every other year. (that seems to me to be regular for those things, theyre so horrible.)
I remember the first time I ever saw one as a child. My dad took me into the backyard, and it looked like the world had been encased in crystal. We had a magnolia tree, with those big flat leaves, and we could split the ice apart on one and end up with two perfect ice molds of the leaf.
RMA Survivor:
The ice would evenly come off the leaves as two pieces of perfect mold? That would be cool to see.
I grew up in San Jose, CA. Still here. It snowed twice in my lifetime. The first time we put garbage bags all around the driveway, made a pool of water and for about two hours the next morning we ice skated and played hockey on it before it melted. Then I went to Idaho and saw more snow, and shoveled more snow than I ever care to remember.
Technically Dallas was not the coldest climate I ever experienced. I was on Katka once, on my Final Voyage and it was 36 below with maximum wind chill. They later said it had dropped to forty below at one point, but -36 and -40 are a little hard to differentiate between when you are shivering inside a snow cave you shoveled together because freezing temps were not a part of your childhood.
Then a few years back, when Denver had made the playoffs for the Superbowl, I was a truck driver and oddly enough I was well known across the country as "The Shorts Guy." I developed a near-immunity to cold because of my 40 liter a day intake of Mountain Dew. I was burning so many BTU's cold meant nothing to me. So I would always wear shorts because I was always warm or hot. And despite it being 40 below in Denver, I was out there fueling my truck and washing my windows as I was well known to do in any freezing temperature, washing my windows and everything. It was all on a dare though. My student had heard the stories during his training and when I went in to the sleeper berth to put on some warmer clothes, he asked, "What are you doing?" And I answered, "It's forty below outside, so I am putting on jeans and jacket." He replied, "You can't. Nobody has ever seen you dressed in anything but shorts." So I said again, "It is forty below outside, it is really fucking cold dude." And calmly asked, "But you could do it couldn't you? You could stand out there for ten minutes, fuel the truck, all that stuff and not show any sign of being cold?" And I said..."Yeah, probably, but..." And he said, "Dude, you got a rep to uphold." So being an idiot, I went outside and pulled it off. People were in the truck stop looking through the fogged up windows watching me. My fifteen minutes of fame I suppose...
So, did SF mean San Francisco? Are we neighbors?
try another castle:
Yeah, Im in SF.
RMA Survivor:
Wow, too cool, we're neighbors. Maybe we'll have to get together some time. Liam, the guy doing the CEDU Documentary thinks he will be in the Bay Area next time for his filming and interviews, maybe next year. Perhaps we'd all meet up then if you were interested.
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