Good Morning(almost)
Summer starts today.Hope all the Dads have a happy fathers day.Csx was busy in the morning then had a lull in the afternoon.In the evening things started picking up.There is a D 743 local in the east siding still waiting for a crew from Friday.Going to get cleaned up.Going to check on my brother tomorrow.
stay safe
Joe
Tree sorry for your lack of rain. Claudette has given us 4.73 inches noon to midnight. Had to go out and dump guage.
Last night a pretty strong system followed the Thruway across the state, but didn’t reach up to us. That seems to be the theme this year - not much makes it north of Syracuse. Lake Ontario is part of that - the lake moderates storm systems coming out of the west.
Aside from my lawn not being very green, though, it’s not a problem for me. Haven’t talked to any farmers around here, but in my immediate area the primary crop is hay, and it’s doing reasonably well.
The biggest problem, as I’ve said, is the lake and river, both down a couple of feet from normal. A good part of that is lack of rain in the drainage basin (and snow last winter), but the folks controlling the flow of the St Lawrence at the power project get a good amount of the blame, too.
As long as my well doesn’t go dry, I’ll be OK. If things get really dry, I can get ahead of it, but it recovers.
Everyone have a great Father’s Day.
Only got about 2" on the north side (Marietta) … hopefully you were not impacted from the Tornado a few months back.
morning
First day of vacation.Mother nature sent some rain last night.No power outages here.Did check on brother yesterday.Ns did send a few trains.Matt made me a list for the layout.Going to go get the supplies.Maybe the d 743 made it back to Lima by now from Deshler.
stay safe
Joe
Long overdue rain has appeared in the Colorado Front Range (oddly, for here, at night and no t-storms)…unfortunately on the other side of the continental divide it is fire season in stupid dry conditions, several fires have started.
It’s in the process of doing it’s runaround right now (0835)…
It sat on the east siding at South Deshler all weekend…
SW to NE thunderstorms between Wichita and Kansas City last evening that missed Lawrence. Cooler today, in the 70’s, but back to 90’s tomorrow. And it’s not ‘dry heat’.
If the Internation Space Station interests you, and you have a scanner (a good outside antenna is desirable) and a smart phone, you can pick up some slow scan TV images being broadcast from the ISS today.
You can install an app on your phone that will decode the data simply by placing it next to your scanner speaker (acoustic coupling).
Tune your scanner to 145.800 MHz. Actually, you can leave that right in the scanner - you might get to hear the astronauts talking to school kids from time to time as well.
Slow scan TV has a musical quality. An image takes a couple of minutes to complete. You might get incomplete images as the ISS passes into and out of range, but they’re still cool.
You can find out when the ISS will next pass over your area at https://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544 .
afternoon
yep Larry saw D 743 in Ottawa waiting for x 510 to go north.They had to wait on Mow in Leipsic and for q 172 and q 191 to get by in Deshler.Had a nice rebuilt switcher Rssx 8959 (railserve) in the consist.We’ll see if Matt wants to get the foam board today or if we will wait until the wind calms down.
stay safe
Joe
afternoon
Stayed close to home today.The ND&W is getting the supplies in left and right.Saw them unload 2 trailers full of railroad ties.Csx sent an 11,000 ft q 010 eastbound as well.Went down to a local place for lunch.Staff shortage caused them not to have any pie ready to go.Going to watch other niece play ball tonight.Tomorrow will go find some trains somewhere.
stay safe
Joe
Good Evening
Went on a road trip.Everything was hurry up and wait.CF&E MOW at Bucyrus had to wait for Ns 218 to come south.The Ns signal maintainer had to wait for the CF&E to cross the diamond.In Marion it was hurry up and wait for Ns and Csx.Saw more Csx than Ns.On the way home we stopped by Deshler.D 743 was parking his train in the east siding again tonight.Looked like a 351 was stopped at rt 65.he was stretched out to road 6.Going to get cleaned up.
stay safe
Joe
afternoon
Stayed in town today.Matt is working his mowing job.Q 010 had a tipsy container coming eastbound.They had to set it off at North Baltimore.Guessers say we are going to get rain.Will be heading to nieces ballgame soon.
stay safe
Joe
Morning
Mother nature sending rain.Did get some pictures at Fc though.The ND&W sent a train across the diamond and placed the cars in the siding for csx to pick up.Good thing we have inside projects to do.
stay safe
Joe
Severe thunderstorms along I-70 corridor from Manhatten, KS to KC right now. Flash flooding alert issued because the ground is already saturated. Not going out for our usual Friday dinner; will go to brunch at our favorite place in the AM.
We’re forecast for rain tomorrow. We can use the rain, but…
Saturday and Sunday is a major ham radio event - the ARRL Field Day. It involves setting up stations “off the grid” and making as many contacts with other hams as possible. Last year our club had 400 contacts from around the country and Canada.
So, aside from making putting the antennas up difficult, the rain won’t be a problem. Lightning, on the other hand, would be a major problem with hundred foot long wire antennas being strung up…
We’ll hope for the best.
OTOH, I finally got the petunias planted in the front flower bed, and they could now use a good soaking…
Tomorrow evening we’ll be going to a luau. No flights to Hawaii involved–this one would be within walking distance if we were totally healthy and didn’t have lawn chairs and such to take with us.
It’s supposed to be rainy tomorrow, but this evening’s forecast looked like we might get a break around luau time. I hope so–we’ve had rainy luaus before, and it the most fun.
In fact, we’ve had rain since Thursday–almost an inch Thursday afternoon/evening, another inch ovrnight, and a little more today. And the look at the ten-day forecast for Chicagoland is impressive. On the days they don’t show “showers”, they show “storms”. All. Ten. Days.
We must be coming out of COVID slowdowns. On July 1, Lombard will begin charging again for daily commuter parking, and they’ll apparently reopen most of the lots that had been closed (one is lost due to impending construction). By the way, it’s supposed to rain July 1.
Last night, we had a heavy shower that wouldn’t move. My standard LaCrosse rain gauge nearly overflowed (had 1.5" in it from the afternoon), and it’s graduated up to 5". My Tempest weather station reported 6.76" for the day. We had a brief inflow of water in the basement due to standing water near the foundation, but luckily it didn’t affect the finished areas. Our next-door neighbor wasn’t so lucky- her sump pump died and she had upwards of an inch of water throughout her entire basement. Nothing finished, but alot of stuff soaked…
This is why the ladders are always bent up. And also why I laugh every time someone wants to add tons of high-tech bits to all railcars.
This is not my video, I have no clue where it’s at, nor does it matter.
A major customer here with a captive fleet of their own cars does that all the time. All their cars have distinctive marks at the top of the carbody. They started welding up and patching the dents a few months ago, but I’ve noticed that some of the freshly painted patches have already been destroyed.
Alberta’s experiencing a heat wave right now, the forecast in Edmonton is for daytime highs of around +40 C. First time I can recall it hitting that mark here.