Well Clint, handsome is as handsome does, or something like that. However if you saw me first thing in the mornings....then handsome isn't a word I would use 😁 Loved the images of sailors and other ranks quaffing the odd beer on furlow and you know what the difference is between 🌈and Str8 is only a couple extra drinks 😎 Cheers DougT …
Well Clint, handsome is as handsome does, or something like that. However if you saw me first thing in the mornings....then handsome isn't a word I would use 😁 Loved the images of sailors and other ranks quaffing the odd beer on furlow and you know what the difference is between 🌈and Str8 is only a couple extra drinks 😎 Cheers DougT 🇫🇴. ***I hope the fires are starting to be controlled now. In my part of 🇫🇴 we have had wildfires on the moors in recent times that surround us and a lot of that moorland is peat under the surface and it just burns for days at a time. So I do understand where your coming from. Because of all the rain this winter the ground is so water logged that once the snow and Ice melts that we are having, the possibility of flooding will return ggggrrrrr
Thanks, Doug. The winds remained calm overnight, so I think the firefighters might have made some progress. Only watching the evacuation maps today…just in case. Sadly, there’s rain forecast for the weekend, which could quickly lead to floods and mudslides in the burn areas. Fingers crossed there are no lightning strikes—rare here—and Mother Nature chills it with a skillet. Never thought about the bogs/moors burning. Yikes. Hope Mother Nature is treating you better too. Cheers!
Yuppers Clint, Manchester and The Greater Manchester area are sett in the Cheshire Plains Basin and surrounded by The Pennines and hills of Derbyshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Wales. So the moisture picked up from the Atlantic/Irish Sea then has to climb out the plains and dump as rain on the surrounding hills etc. that gives up plenty of rain and the runn off water flows down and we can easily flood if everywhere is already waterlogged. Prolonged heat/waves can dry out the peat ready to be a pyromaniacs heaven as well as discarded portable BBQ's, cigarette, matches and broken glass. I did see a news item that someone had been arrested in CA for allegedly starting one of the fires (harks back to your Keep Calm posting 😏 Enough now, I'm sounding like your teacher from school did.
You're a regular geographer and meteorologist, Doug! Thanks for the education. Sadly, I'm almost certain the guy is more than a suspect. Glad they caught him, but there are likely many others. With the whipping winds that happened...up to 100mph I hear days/nights ago...almost anything can set an entire neighborhood on fire. More winds expected next week. So everyone's recharging their batteries just in case there's another wave of this. My heart goes out to all who lost so much...and the exhausted firefighters and first responders who continue to get Mother Nature to take a chill pill. So much loss. So much to process.
Well Clint, handsome is as handsome does, or something like that. However if you saw me first thing in the mornings....then handsome isn't a word I would use 😁 Loved the images of sailors and other ranks quaffing the odd beer on furlow and you know what the difference is between 🌈and Str8 is only a couple extra drinks 😎 Cheers DougT 🇫🇴. ***I hope the fires are starting to be controlled now. In my part of 🇫🇴 we have had wildfires on the moors in recent times that surround us and a lot of that moorland is peat under the surface and it just burns for days at a time. So I do understand where your coming from. Because of all the rain this winter the ground is so water logged that once the snow and Ice melts that we are having, the possibility of flooding will return ggggrrrrr
Thanks, Doug. The winds remained calm overnight, so I think the firefighters might have made some progress. Only watching the evacuation maps today…just in case. Sadly, there’s rain forecast for the weekend, which could quickly lead to floods and mudslides in the burn areas. Fingers crossed there are no lightning strikes—rare here—and Mother Nature chills it with a skillet. Never thought about the bogs/moors burning. Yikes. Hope Mother Nature is treating you better too. Cheers!
Yuppers Clint, Manchester and The Greater Manchester area are sett in the Cheshire Plains Basin and surrounded by The Pennines and hills of Derbyshire, Lancashire, Merseyside and Wales. So the moisture picked up from the Atlantic/Irish Sea then has to climb out the plains and dump as rain on the surrounding hills etc. that gives up plenty of rain and the runn off water flows down and we can easily flood if everywhere is already waterlogged. Prolonged heat/waves can dry out the peat ready to be a pyromaniacs heaven as well as discarded portable BBQ's, cigarette, matches and broken glass. I did see a news item that someone had been arrested in CA for allegedly starting one of the fires (harks back to your Keep Calm posting 😏 Enough now, I'm sounding like your teacher from school did.
You're a regular geographer and meteorologist, Doug! Thanks for the education. Sadly, I'm almost certain the guy is more than a suspect. Glad they caught him, but there are likely many others. With the whipping winds that happened...up to 100mph I hear days/nights ago...almost anything can set an entire neighborhood on fire. More winds expected next week. So everyone's recharging their batteries just in case there's another wave of this. My heart goes out to all who lost so much...and the exhausted firefighters and first responders who continue to get Mother Nature to take a chill pill. So much loss. So much to process.