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04-01-2020, 07:17 AM - 1 Like   #76606
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Quiet day, isn't it...
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Been busy today. Processed some stuff from yesterday's bit of apocalyptic weather.



March 31, 2020. The Covid 19 pandemic is in full swing. Everyone (well, almost everyone, the citiots keep doing stoopit stuff) is staying home, isolating, finding solace in the social fabric of the innerwebs. It was a nice final day of March, and appeared the Lion was going to go out with a whimper of a warm, sunny, springlike day.

Suddenly the skies darkened. The temperatures dropped, about 20 degrees F.

Lightning flash.

Thunder.

Dark, heavy clouds open up, heavy rain at first, like 40 days and 40 nights.

Then hail.

Hard, pea sized hail.

Just when it didn't seem like it could, it came down harder.

And bigger.

About the size of grapes for a few minutes.

Awesome.

And scary.

Then it began to lighten up. The pellets back to garbanzo sized chunks of ice.

I had to head for town, for some parts to fix one of my tractors. About a mile from my house, the elevation is about 100 feet or so higher. The roads were layered with a sloppy wet mess of hailstones, about 2 to 3 inches deep. Too sloppy and wet to be fun though, so now driving the slow mo version of the Finnish rally. Boy, those Finns can sure drive in the show, eh?

Anyway, the sun came back out, and by the time I got back from town most traces of it were gone.

But the Lion did manage to go out with a small roar.

A panoramic stitch, 11 portrait orientation images, stitched and processed in Photoshop.

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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
Hard, pea sized hail.

Just when it didn't seem like it could, it came down harder.

And bigger.

About the size of grapes for a few minutes.
Pfffft!
Grapes. Oh, how awful! LOL
We get hail the size of grapefruits.
The Guinness Book of World Records hail stone fell 32 miles South of here.
Granted, this was a bit bigger than usual, but baseball size hail here isn't unusual.

The largest official hailstone ever collected in the U.S. An eight-inch monster that fell at Vivian, South Dakota on July 23, 2010.
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Pfffft!
Grapes. Oh, how awful! LOL
We get hail the size of grapefruits.
The Guinness Book of World Records hail stone fell 32 miles South of here.
Granted, this was a bit bigger than usual, but baseball size hail here isn't unusual.

The largest official hailstone ever collected in the U.S. An eight-inch monster that fell at Vivian, South Dakota on July 23, 2010.
Oh I know we don't get manly sized hail here, but anything lager than pea sized is a pretty big deal.

So grapes was monumental.

I think I've related here before about the evening I spent at the truckstop in Mitchell, back in the Days of Monstro and Company. The truckstop has one of those regional cafes, Mervyns or something, great food. I had just polished off something delicious, and was retiring to the upper bunk in the back of my rig, had Mrs. Racer 2.0 on the phone, saying goodnight before I turned in.

It had been a long day, started somewhere like Post Falls, Idaho I think.

So I deep into a nice conversation with Mrs. Racer 2.0, when all of a sudden, ""WHAM!!!!"".

Sounded like some jerk tossed a big rock at my truck.

I jumped out of the bunk, yanked the curtains back, only to see . . . . . .


. . . . . . . . . . . nothing.

Grumbling, I was just about to close the curtain and return to the warm cocoon of my bunk when it happened again.

""WHAM!!!""

This time I saw the stone bounce off the roof of the sleeper and roll across the hood.

Baseball sized is about the size it was.

There was about a ten to fifteen minute period of the occasional ""WHAM!!!"" of ice baseballs, and then it was over.

I said good evening to my beau, pulled the covers over my head and went directly to sleep.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
Oh I know we don't get manly sized hail here, but anything lager than pea sized is a pretty big deal.

So grapes was monumental.

I think I've related here before about the evening I spent at the truckstop in Mitchell, back in the Days of Monstro and Company. The truckstop has one of those regional cafes, Mervyns or something, great food. I had just polished off something delicious, and was retiring to the upper bunk in the back of my rig, had Mrs. Racer 2.0 on the phone, saying goodnight before I turned in.

It had been a long day, started somewhere like Post Falls, Idaho I think.

So I deep into a nice conversation with Mrs. Racer 2.0, when all of a sudden, ""WHAM!!!!"".

Sounded like some jerk tossed a big rock at my truck.

I jumped out of the bunk, yanked the curtains back, only to see . . . . . .


. . . . . . . . . . . nothing.

Grumbling, I was just about to close the curtain and return to the warm cocoon of my bunk when it happened again.

""WHAM!!!""

This time I saw the stone bounce off the roof of the sleeper and roll across the hood.

Baseball sized is about the size it was.

There was about a ten to fifteen minute period of the occasional ""WHAM!!!"" of ice baseballs, and then it was over.

I said good evening to my beau, pulled the covers over my head and went directly to sleep.
I've never seen baseball size hail. Marbles size yes, even golf ball size. But never baseball size. Dang!

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Went for a good 1.5hr pedal along the road today, I would say that I thoroughly enjoyed it, and my calves are now aching.

Oh, Mark, before you say 'good lad' or something, this was my cycle of choice today:
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this was my cycle of choice today:
You no doubt rode it while playing the pipes and your skirt a flapping.
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Went for a good 1.5hr pedal along the road today, I would say that I thoroughly enjoyed it, and my calves are now aching.

Oh, Mark, before you say 'good lad' or something, this was my cycle of choice today:
You're not a circus performer, are you Bert?
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Went for a good 1.5hr pedal along the road today, I would say that I thoroughly enjoyed it, and my calves are now aching.

Oh, Mark, before you say 'good lad' or something, this was my cycle of choice today:
I saw a chap do the Taupo cycle challenge (100 miles / 160km) on one of those. Very impressive!
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I made bread pudding yesterday.
Thought y'all would want to know.
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You no doubt rode it while playing the pipes and your skirt a flapping.
I have been known to do that... not this time however.
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You're not a circus performer, are you Bert?
Not intentionally...
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I saw a chap do the Taupo cycle challenge (100 miles / 160km) on one of those. Very impressive!

There's a bloke* who unicycled across Canada last year... of course those guys that do things like that use the big wheels, such as 36":




*Trying to find an image, it looks like a few people have done this...
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