mattsk8 Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 (edited) since no one can tell me how, I do believe I will be taking a video of me snipping said wires. Might be a week or so, I need to find some long snips. I don't know for sure so don't cut your wires, but if you're just cutting the seat plug I'd guess it won't do anything. I think it needs some kind of signal to detonate. Drove from Milwaukee WI to Grand Rapids MI yesterday, that was a good time Left Milwaukee at around 6pm MI time and didn't get to GR MI until 12:30am (that's normally a 4 hour drive). They closed I-94 just after I drove through. From about Michigan City IN all the way to South Haven MI (about 70 miles) I literally couldn't see much past my hood. I've driven a lot and I've never seen a blizzard like that before. There were cars and semis all over in the ditches. I was sooooooo glad once it finally let up (still a snowy disaster, but NOTHING like it was between MI City and S Haven). Now its supposed to be about 0 degrees for the next couple days. Glad I'm not in WI, highs of like -8 w/ lows near -20. My kids were glad, they were supposed to start school today after Christmas break. Just about everything over here is closed. Edited January 6, 2014 by mattsk8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BtownVolvo Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I'm blasting Slayer - Raining Blood in my office and I still can't wake up. Zombie status. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtrooper1 Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 I don't know for sure so don't cut your wires, but if you're just cutting the seat plug I'd guess it won't do anything. I think it needs some kind of signal to detonate. Drove from Milwaukee WI to Grand Rapids MI yesterday, that was a good time Left Milwaukee at around 6pm MI time and didn't get to GR MI until 12:30am (that's normally a 4 hour drive). They closed I-94 just after I drove through. From about Michigan City IN all the way to South Haven MI (about 70 miles) I literally couldn't see much past my hood. I've driven a lot and I've never seen a blizzard like that before. There were cars and semis all over in the ditches. I was sooooooo glad once it finally let up (still a snowy disaster, but NOTHING like it was between MI City and S Haven). Now its supposed to be about 0 degrees for the next couple days. Glad I'm not in WI, highs of like -8 w/ lows near -20. My kids were glad, they were supposed to start school today after Christmas break. Just about everything over here is closed. According to accuweather it's -18 at my house right now. with the windchill it's -42. now i want to move to the bahamas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
survolvo Posted January 6, 2014 Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 If you guys want, you can send some of that weather this way to CA. We are in very bad shape right now as far as precipitation goes. http://www.weather.com/news/weather-forecast/california-record-driest-year-20131115 We had a whopping total of less than 5" of rain for 2013, a record breaking low amount, with our average being ~13". Most of that precipitation was in Jan 2013. Our precipitation deficit in Big Sur is -37.62" compared to average. And it looks pretty grim for the coming months as well. We have had a high pressure dominating over the whole west coast all winter. And there seems to be no good news on the horizon. The snow pack in the Sierras in dreadful, which is very bad news because CA relies on that snow to keep the water tables up. Without the snow melt off, the rivers, streams, lakes, and underground aquifers have no way to replenish. Which means no water table. I have been seeing local rivers and springs drying up one after another, lots of these which supply water to most of the people living here. Not only does that mean no water for drinking, bathing, or anything like that, but also no water for fire suppression. Usually in the winter we are dealing with mudslides, if you remember last winter (2012-2013) at Christmas we had a significant rockslide that closed Hwy 1 for a few weeks. This year we are having wild fires. Its pretty scary right now really. We have been avg. 75f and very dry weather. The state, nor the feds have the budget to keep fire crews on through this whole winter. The last fire we had, a few weeks ago, that burnt close to 1000 acres and 34 homes, they were scrambling to staff engines to come here since a week or two prior they declared fire season over and laid off most of the seasonal positions. All of the brush is so dry right now, I'm afraid to fart on it in fear of it igniting. And to make things worse for fire danger, instead of everyone skiing and vacationing in the Sierras, they have all come out to the coast. We are experiencing the same amount of people here in Big Sur and the Central Coast in Dec/Jan as we normally do in Jun/Jul. Campgrounds are packed, hotels are packed, and there are people all over the place having campfires. Unfortunately the USFS doesn't have any fire restrictions in place since its technically winter, so people are actually allowed to have these campfires and there is not much we can do about it legally. Edit: Ironically, minutes after writing this I was dispatched to a report of a vegetation fire. Luckily it was just an illegal camp fire. But the spot it was in really puts me in disbelief of some peoples ignorance. Was on a trail that is surrounded and tunneled by dry, crisp bushes. The guy did not grasp the reason 5 fire engines showed up and why he was being cited. Even after explaining to him the severe threat of uncontrollable fires we are experiencing and the fact we just had one that destroyed over 30 homes and displaced over 100 people, his only response was, "But its winter..." 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfishing3 Posted January 7, 2014 Report Share Posted January 7, 2014 looks like a fun ride. http://www.ulive.com/video/extreme-mountain-water-slide?affiliate=blocker&omnisource=SEM&c1=Travel&c2=Taboola&c3=Computer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfishing3 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 tapped out is unveiling new Simpsons character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin. Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 Oh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfishing3 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 get update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burn-E Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 As someone who was once a lowly telemarketer (summer gig selling Rodeo tickets for the local Police Fraternity) and then managed the tech at a credit card call center (before they were all offshored to India), this is both hilarious and a little disturbing. Samantha West, robot telemarketer or not? http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/10/meet-the-robot-telemarketer-who-denies-shes-a-robot/?goback=.gde_31804_member_5818808563874689028#! http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/17/robot-telemarketer-samantha-west/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/12/the-only-thing-weirder-than-a-telemarketing-robot/282282/ They're using soundboards to enable English speakers with REALLY thick accents to sound like a delightful American young lady. The problem of course is that they're then completely limited in how they can respond. Which if you're concerned about compliance to telemarketing scripts might or might not be a bad thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiksilver Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 I've noticed here lately that if you answer the phone and talk, it'll do an automated message. If you pick up and don't say anything, no response, just silence. I answer the phone a lot without saying anything now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfishing3 Posted January 8, 2014 Report Share Posted January 8, 2014 yeah, i rarely say anything at first and if the phone clicks a couple times, BOOM, i hang up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fudge_Brownie Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 So I'm sitting at my office desk late doing my thing. Nice and alone, just the way I like it. Everyone else is long gone. Headphones on, blasting away. Suddenly I start to process that I've been smelling cooked peppers as if there's pepper & onion pizza near-by.Pop the headphones off. The office remains silent.Doubleyouteeefffffff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Dastardly Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 I,d like to see pics of what happened HERE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ol' Dirty Noodle Posted January 9, 2014 Report Share Posted January 9, 2014 Oklahoma Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIZIO AKA 1 HND MEC Posted January 12, 2014 Report Share Posted January 12, 2014 I,d like to see pics of what happened HERE Brand of the underwear? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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