Posted on 12/15/2008 8:20:41 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Burn Areas are going to have problems with this downpour.
I hope that some day they are able to fix their caps lock key...
Mandentory evacuations ordered! Where will they all go? Mexico?
Stay safe, everybody!
Wind and rain has let up down here near the Beach.
Good to have the streets washed by Mother Nature!
Check the mountains out your way!
The frogs up here in Wino country have been knocking on the doors to come in out of the rain and cold.
Stay safe. I remember those torrential rains that would break a drought when we lived in Yucaipa. We lived in the Upper part and would watch the rain like a river going down Date Ave as it came off the foothills running downhill and would flood out lower Yucaipa. We also could see the fire in the Anaheim Hills from the upstairs windows. We lived at 3200 feet so you have all that water coming down out of the mountains and foothills into the basin areas.
Hope everyone stays safe and stay away from the dips in the roads that flood.
But the Texas ANG had modern typesetting equipment forty years ago.
The all-caps typography reminds me of being stationed in a remote area and having a Teletype machine clacking and printing its all-caps text across the roll of paper.
When a text message had completed and automatically advanced the paper roll several spaces and announced said completion by a bell, it was hard not to see them as important, rush over and tear them off for the boss.
Every message, however everyday and banal it might have been, seemed imbued with importance.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have been in all-caps, would it?
Bring it on!!!
lol
The character cartridge had no room for lower case by design; we had two of them in our weather station; one night the active one went down and I turned on the backup - after studying th working one and the failed one, I saw that the problem was simply that the cartridge had come loose from its clips.
I reinserted it and switched back. When the tech showed up I told him and he serviced it anyway and installed a new cartridge.
They were our lifeline to the info world.
Although it is very welcome, thoughts have to be those folks living in the burn areas.
I remember that well. I lived in Redlands and watched my ‘65 Rambler float away in the flood. sigh.
You’re right. Prayer heavenward for their safety <><
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.