Saturday, July 13, 2013

Saturday: It's In the Car! It's In the Car!



The occupants o' that Toyota are damned lucky the cheetah didn't follow the impala into the car.


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In other news... Occasional Reader and Good Buddy Rob sends the following along from the Bay Area: 



Ho Lee Fuk is right...

Update, 20 minutes later.  As long as we're on about the Bay Area, there's this beautiful piece that's been making the rounds a lot:



There used to be a USAF radar site (scroll down to the very bottom o' that link) on top o' Mt. Tamalpais in Marin county and I was fortunate enough to watch scenes like the above through large plate glass windows in their Officers/NCO club, drink in hand.  One other thing... that fog is COLD when you're in the middle of it, on the ground.  Even in August, mebbe especially in August.

8 comments:

  1. Lucky indeed. I'm shocked the cheetah didn't pursue the antelope...they are fearsome predators. Also quite unusual that there were 2 cheetahs; they are normally loners.

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    1. The people inside that Toyota were indeed lucky.

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  2. When I first saw the KTVU bit, yesterday, there was a temptation.
    I've heard the recording.
    The newscaster had to have been surprised with the copy she read.
    Otherwise it would have been caught before it aired.

    I have to admit I chuckled ...for about ten minutes.

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    1. I laughed for a good ten minutes when Rob sent that to me today, too. I also laughed about the totally predictable "That's RACIST!" reaction from the Powers-That-Be.

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  3. Re: the fog
    The College of San Mateo campus is in the hills almost directly east of Half Moon Bay where the low point in the Santa Cruz Mountains is.
    Almost every afternoon the fog would creep in and drop the temperature at least ten degrees ...not to mention bring up a breeze.

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    1. My company had offices on the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in SFO (second only to the TransAmerica tower) and some o' my buds and I used to go up there in the evening/late afternoon and watch the fog roll in. Quite a sight, that was.

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  4. The Impala video is awesome. It would have totally freaked me out - I bet the people in the Toyota had to clean their britches.

    The fog reminds me of driving from Calgary to Banff. The clouds were rolling over the mountains like coffee boiling over a cup. I am a mountain mama.

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    1. I think you're right about the Toyota people... and I kinda like the mountains myself.

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