So. It’s been raining non-stop for the past two-plus hours. I went looking in the archives for a rain picture and stopped when I found the collage above. You wouldn’t believe the huge collection of windshield panoramas I have in the archives! There is some rain in two pics of the upper row, but I couldn’t find any P-Town rain pics. That says something, in and of itself. As always, click the pic for the full-size version.
Like my lil green mascot? Kermit has been on the dash since I bought El Casa Móvil De Pennington back in 1999; he was wrapped around the ‘Vette’s rear view mirror for a couple of years before that. Every so often, in the dead of night, I can hear him saying “When are we gonna go on the road again? When? Buck?”
I never answer.
Awww, poor Kermie.
ReplyDeleteYou'd probably like Intellicast's radar loop. You can get the feed from ABQ. They also tap into the info from AMA and LBB if those work better for Portales. Yahoo "intellicast albuquerque radar" and it's the second link. Then you can tell if it's raining without looking out the window!
ReplyDeleteWe're not retired, but we're on for a seventeen day-er to the KOA on Sugarloaf Key in October, interspersed with key towns and attractions along the way (including the Green Bay/ Miami game). Sooo looking forward to it.
Anyway, Kermie deserves an answer.
Also, check out the radar summary under the "severe" tab. You've got a 50,000 footer over Clovis moving WSW and a 55,000 footer west of Hobbs moving NNE as of 1818 MDT.
ReplyDeleteReese: Thanks for the Intellicast tip! I do like it! Much more useful than the WX Channel's radar display, and they also have that precip map I linked to a few days back.
ReplyDeleteSugarloaf Key sounds like Big Fun, and the "getting there" is good, too. Especially in October...
I sure wish you could send some of that rain our way. Driving home from WF, it sprinkled on me, but not enough to turn on the wipers. Apparently, we got a small rain burst here at the house, but we need a good soaking.
ReplyDeleteOH! Yeah, that's right. You're hip to the Intellicast thing then. You're welcome for the thought anyway.
ReplyDeleteAnother grey day today, eh. My pinons and "groundcover" could use some sunshine interspersed between these downpours. Send some to Bag Blog in "WF" (Western Florida?). Chlorophyl can't form in constant darkness.
I hear Hatch is in bad shape.
Kermie in the windscreen!!!
ReplyDeleteGotta geek out on ya for a sec. All our systems in our SQA Lab (software quality assurance lab) are named after things. A meme I am sure you are familiar with, Buck? So, here's the breakdown:
RedHat Linux == muppets
Win2k/2k3/XP == computers
Sun Solaris == Buckaroo Bonzai "john"
IBM/AIX == more Bonzai "johns"
It really cracks me up when "corporate types" have to get a briefing and my VP says something like, "So, kermit is hooked up to piggy, with gonzo and zoot providing the middleware ..."
So, when they need info on the Solaris platform mixed with some PCs running Win, "For the hub bigboote is supported by smallberries and the GUI is found on VGER."
Seeing kermie, I just laughed ... ;)
Steve sez: Gotta geek out on ya for a sec. All our systems in our SQA Lab (software quality assurance lab) are named after things.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll geek right back!! My database servers in Rochester were named "Fatman" and "Little Boy." I know all about geeky!
And... Kermit was a corporate hand-out from EDS. We had four "frameworks" on the Xerox account: compute (mainframe/legacy stuff), telecomm, applications, and "infrastructure," which was the desktop environment, its associated processes (change management, problem management, etc.) and the supporting architecture, primarily e-mail, network naming and addressing, etc. The "environment" was global, broken down into regions: i.e., North America, Asia, Europe, and South America. I worked in infrastructure.
So anyhoo...each framework was evaluated by the client (Xerox) on a "Red-Yellow-Green" basis, monthly. Infrastructure was either Red or Yellow, but never Green, for the first TWO YEARS of the contract. The situation sucked, to say the least -- I'll not go into details, but it wasn't all EDS' fault. Two-plus years into the contract, infrastructure finally went "green" and stayed there for three months, which was a contractual hurdle we had to overcome. After we made it we threw a BIG-ASS party in Rochester, and all the infrastructure folks were gifted with those little Kermie dolls, with a card that said "It's good to be Green!" And that's how Kermie came to live with me...I put him on the 'Vette rear-view that very day.
Reese sez: OH! Yeah, that's right. You're hip to the Intellicast thing then. You're welcome for the thought anyway.
ReplyDeleteNo, I didn't know about Intellicast until you told me, Reese. I got the precip map from NOAA's site, and I'll bet Intellicast gets the map from NOAA, too.
Today's map (8/15/2006) is interesting...virtually the WHOLE state of New Mexico is blue... Gotta love the monsoon, eh?
What part of NM are you in, Reese? I'm thinking ABQ, but I don't remember if you've ever said, or not.