2010 Winter Olympic Torch Relay (
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The Olympic Torch Relay departing Mackin Park in Coquitlam, BC. Crowds lined the streets and braved the Vancouver rain to cheer on the torchbearers as they continued on to the city of Burnaby. Just one more day before the Olympic Cauldron will be lit in Vancouver on February 12, 2010.
The 'Ballet Of Light', formally known as artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's art project Vectorial Elevation, consists of 20 robotically controlled, 10,000-watt Zenon lights that have been installed at Vanier Park and Sunset Beach in Vancouver. Beginning on February 5, they will be lighting the sky over English Bay every night until dawn, right up to the last day of the 2010 Winter Olympics on February 28. The pattern of the lights changes every 10 seconds in response to geometric designs submitted from the public via the Internet. It is quite a sight but works best with low clouds like this evening. View with the Inukshuk at the southern end of English Bay Beach.
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Hiya zoo, you can get somw real good camera shots at trafficland.com which looks fairly clear right now. Is moving into DC area from SW right now and doesn't look too heavy.
ok so we are not yet there
LOL Congress!
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Thanks. In regards to solar revolution ...
Enhanced absorption and carrier collection in Si wire arrays for photovoltaic applications
Here, we show that arrays having less than 5% areal fraction of wires can achieve up to 96% peak absorption, and that they can absorb up to 85% of day-integrated, above-bandgap direct sunlight. In fact, these arrays show enhanced near-infrared absorption, which allows their overall sunlight absorption to exceed the ray-optics light-trapping absorption limit
http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmat2635.html
1979 tornado
Main article: Red River Valley Tornado Outbreak
An F4 tornado struck the heavily populated southern sections of Wichita Falls in the late afternoon on Tuesday, April 10, 1979 (known locally as "Terrible Tuesday").[citation needed] The storm was part of an outbreak that produced 30 tornadoes around the region. Despite having nearly an hour's advance warning that severe weather was imminent, 45 people were killed (25 in vehicles) and 1,800 were injured because the storm arrived just in time for many people to be driving home from work.[citation needed] The tornado left 20,000 people homeless and caused $400 million in damage, a U.S. record not topped by an individual tornado until the F5 Moore-Oklahoma City tornado of May 3, 1999.[11]
We have had a tankless water heater for 5 years. It is terrific. We can shower, do laundry, and run the dishwasher at the same time and it keeps up with the demand.
Negative. Many of us are capable of dissenting view points (without the derision, which doesn't gain much for the commenter nor his/her arguments)
That would be so awesome! We can only do one at a time, and we don't want to buy a larger tank.
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WTH have you been smoking, Flurries?
Hiya Zoo!
(without the derision, which doesn't gain much for the commenter nor his/her arguments)
YO! I think my ignore button is worn out. Good post!
Just saw your post, Oss -- I sure appreciate the details, for the house tech (the husband), especially, lol!
I'm actually excited to look into this! Thanks!
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You know what's really great? Having friends/colleagues/acquaintances with differing opinions; and we can kid around, and jest, but either know or learn how far we can go; and we all help each other with the daily grind...
ADD: NO SNOW YET :-) And we're just supposed to get a smidge...smidge being a technical term for about an inch...unless it's been changed AGAIN, wouldn't be surprised!
Nooooo, not taxes! (thanks so much for the reminder as to what I am avoiding by being here at the moment...did you have to use that word? I was trying to be like Jeffs...)
I was in Air Force tech school at the time. I had just gotten my 2 year oldson out of the hospital that day (hip infection, he was fine)and my Mother was there. Watched it from my 3rd floor apt. Remember it vividly, was looking for it and saw big black cloud SW of me thinking it would come out of that, saw flashes and knew it hit power lines, the cloud finally moved where I could see it better, which is when I realized, THE CLOUD WAS THE TORNADO --- 2 miles wide and headed straight for me. My mother said I have never before nor since talked to her the way I did went I sent the family into the bathroom and covered them with mattress and pillows. :) Kept an eye on it and saw it shift away from me and let out a sigh of relief. Hail as big as baseballs outside but the tornado missed us. Spent next few days body hunting (luckily I didn't find any). Was most horrific thing I had ever seen to date. Saw Andrew later and the scale was greater but weirder things in tornado - Corvette wrapped around tree bumper to bumper, van sticking out of a roof, unopened wine bottle - empty. Incredible power that I hope never to see again.
Huh? (thinking physics, how can that be?)
You wanna talk about an incredible tornado. Look up Jarrell, TX. They had an F-5 in '97 I believe. It skeletonized cattle, and ripped asphalt off the roads. I think it's forward speed was something crazy like 1 or 2 mph.
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/81083-lubchenco-on-the-snowstorms-weather-is-not-clima te
It IS still supposed to be a light snow, isn't it?
BBL.
Exactly, makes no sense. Others said they opened bottles of water and they had grit in them. Maybe sever pressure change separated top some allowing liquid out. No idea really. Maybe just a good trick by someone. :)
Was with one lady taking her to her house. Got to neighborhood and she said "What happened to my house? Where is the door?" Her house, which sat up some on brick pilings, had been lifted, shifted about 3 feet, and turned over 45 degrees and sat back down. Yea, it leaned a lot and one wall partially caved in and roof messed up.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitalweathergang/2010/02/as_is_often_the_case.html#more
i believe you have left me speechless keeper.
and it wouldn't take much of a shaker to bring down wet mountain sides.. those poor people just don't seem to catch many breaks.
Its loosing my interest quickly, whatever happened to just leaving things along that have been fine for hundreds of years.
Taco :0)
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