The Coffee House

snerd · Dec 11, 2014

The rain in Spain, falls mainly on the plain.

limr · Dec 12, 2014

snerd said:
The rain in Spain, falls mainly on the plain.

Now repeat that until you can say it properly!

Gary A. · Dec 12, 2014

The rain in Southern California falls mainly on my house.

Buenos Dias Coffee Hosers. 55F and it raining cats & dogs. No paper yet. I hate LA when the sky falls. People here think its the end of the world. The phone buzzed at 5:00 a.m. with an emergency text message warning everybody with a cell phone to beware of flash floods.

pgriz · Dec 12, 2014

Gary, that is useful advice if you're camping in a dry riverbed.

Gary A. · Dec 12, 2014

pgriz said:
Gary, that is useful advice if you're camping in a dry riverbed.

Au contraire ... our foothills and deserts are a wonderland of flash flooding. You're right that a riverbed is an obvious choice of where not to be, but once a flash flood begins it no longer follows the laws of nature ... ala the path of least resistance. Most flash floods are more mud-like than water, filled with rocks, trees, et al. Once it starts moving ... it makes it's own path. The mountains which create the LA Basin are quite steep. The 60 mile long San Gabriel River is one of the steepest (fall off) rivers in the country, starting in the 10,000' high San Gabriel Mountains, transversing through the middle of the LA Basin until it empties into the Pacific. The foothills have been hit hard by fires leaving the ground void of vegetation to slow the runoff and roots to hold the soil. All/most of the communities in the foothills are potentially in danger, many have already been evacuated and a few have already been hit by flash floods with loss of homes and property.

The problem with our rain, what little we get, it that it tends to come all at once. Combine that with heavy fires and 10,000' mountains acting like a launching ramp ... flash floods can occur almost anywhere along the foothills. It takes an hour or less to drive from the ocean to the foothills.

Warhorse · Dec 12, 2014

Sounds like you're going to need your surfboard!

limr · Dec 12, 2014

In other news, I just finished teaching my last class for the semester. Exams for both classes are on Monday, and departmental scoring of those exams are on Thursday.

Almost done with this one, beeyotches!!

minicoop1985 · Dec 12, 2014

Wow. been shooting a LOT of film lately. Clearing out my fridge pretty quick.

snerd · Dec 12, 2014

Awake at 10 this morning. Still laying here surfing the Interwebs!

minicoop1985 · Dec 12, 2014

Sheesh, I had to restock the fridge.

Time for more coffee, methinks.

Gary A. · Dec 12, 2014

Too much of that ghetto mocha.

Warhorse · Dec 12, 2014

How are you doing with that storm Gary? It sure is a doozy, from what I saw on the television.

sm4him · Dec 12, 2014

Hey there, girls and guys...and monkeys...and the assorted other lifeforms that lurk about in the TPF primordial ooze.

I feel out of touch with the TPF world. What's up? Anything I need to know? No? That's what I thought. It's like a TV daytime soap opera. You can stop watching for months on end and then pick right back up where you left off!

It'll probably be after Christmas, maybe after the new year, before I really get back online very much, but I will try to check in now and then.

pgriz · Dec 12, 2014

Sharon,

You missed a few episodes.

Manaheim has run off with Mish. Neither has been seen for a while. We don't think it is a coincidence.

Marija decided to emigrate. Unfortunately, she got onto the slow boat. Without internet access. We haven't hear from her either.

Pixelrabbit went down the proverbial rabbit hole. But she popped up recently.

No-one has recently questioned the inverse square law, so perhaps that is due.

Nor have we revisited the question of why the night sky is dark.

And "Post-whoring" has entered the internet lexicon. officially.

Mleeks is still missing.

So is Invisible.

Oldhippy posted another bread photo and 435 people gained weight. That too was not a coincidence.

No-one of note got banned. Perhaps we are due.

Other than that... same old, same old.

snowbear · Dec 12, 2014

Hey, hon.

I tried a preliminary sketch of your photo . . . you sure handed me a wild one! I've got an idea for it, and will try to email you a sketch early, next week.

Keep warm.