Douglas

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2025-09-03 03:45:53 UTC

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I know if I ever get lost to spread out a mylar blanket and wait for the satellite pass so Ben can find me 😂

2025-09-03 02:35:50 UTC

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there are a number of sporty routes in the greater Middle Fork of the Kings drainage that lead to similar disasters for the unprepared. Even following the Middle Fork out of Tehipite ends in disaster due to a canyon of big boulders and choked with brush two stories tall in places.
My parents saved some guys who did not realize where they were from that fate just before they went past the point of no return. The one guy who knew how to read maps ...

2025-07-05 21:45:15 UTC

For sale at the local #HabitatForHumanity in #Marina #California
I wonder why their family didn't want this huge oil painting 😅
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2025-06-02 13:55:51 UTC

#MountainMonday in the #SierraNevada #Yosemite with several famous chunks of granite making an appearance. #SierrasForever
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2025-04-28 12:54:06 UTC

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it's going to be interesting to see what the root cause was. I've been doing a little work the last several years on an energy resilience project for a facility in that region. Maybe this will speed up some of the work.

2025-03-29 15:51:21 UTC

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Hopefully they all can find young people near them who can help them do this. There's no way that I can fly all over the country helping them all out.
I understand the great importance of having strong security but probably half the country or more will not be able to get into their #socialSecurity accounts via the Internet.
In theory you can request one of these documents via the mail and the other via the telephone system but you might be waiting a long time to get that document.

2025-03-25 14:12:57 UTC

It is still 70f in the house after yesterday's warm weather in #Monterey #California. Outside it's 60f. I suspect today will be hot, too. Do I need to get the portable AC unit out of the garage already?!
The air smells dry outside although the finished is still about 50% where the sensor sits on the patio.
Maybe we'll get fog rolling in a bit later today to cool things off 🤞🏼
#CaWx
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2025-03-24 13:51:01 UTC

It feels like summer is here in #Monterey #California where it is currently 49f with a clear sky ahead of #sunrise. Yesterday we had our first fog of the season spilling over the hill from Pacific Grove. That means it was warm enough inland to pull the cold air from the ocean over shore.
In the summer here we're usually shrouded in fog most of the day. We get fog season for about five months a year.
#CaWx
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2025-03-10 14:18:56 UTC

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The sunrise keeps getting better! If you're in Monterey get outside ASAP!
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2025-03-10 14:14:18 UTC

Ugh can we please get rid of the time change so I don't feel like garbage for a few weeks every spring?
It's currently 40f. We might be getting some pretty good rain later this week.
#Monterey #California #CaWx
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2025-02-10 04:00:35 UTC

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is it only setup for water landing? That would really cut down the number of places in Arizona it could land.

2025-02-10 03:58:09 UTC

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pure speculation but I suppose if going direct to Arizona, they would fly through Pacheco Pass or maybe up the Delta towards Sacramento and then down the central valley and over Tehachapi.
Do you know where they're landing in Arizona? I think the original plan was to cut it into pieces and haul it by truck to the air museum...

2025-02-10 03:53:20 UTC

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with the storm coming in on Tuesday, they might not want to get stuck in the bay for a week.

2025-02-10 03:28:26 UTC

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is there any word on when it'll take off for San Diego and what route it'll fly? I'm guessing it'll fly over or near Monterey where we are...

2025-02-10 03:27:57 UTC

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what a sight!

2025-02-04 15:10:32 UTC

Still no rain in #Monterey #california which is pretty disappointing after we were promised an epically wet week courtesy of an #atmosphericRiver that seems to be stalled out further north.
At least it makes for a pretty #sunrise
#CaWx
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2025-02-01 02:24:45 UTC

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where would you fly into? Did they have commercial service back then?

2025-02-01 02:09:42 UTC

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we were just there a week or two ago! It's a lovely place.

2025-01-16 03:43:20 UTC

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that might be why it's taking so long to do the damage assessment. Maybe they're walking through first with cadaver dogs.

2025-01-14 19:55:27 UTC

It's grim watching the damage assessment map slowly fill in with red from the #EatonFire in #Altadena.
Thanks to @npub10vc…3seg for including the data layer: https://mappingsupport.com/p2/gissurfer.php?center=34.195817,-118.098213&zoom=13&basemap=LA_County_basemap&overlay=Perimeter_FIRIS_intel,LA_County_map,LA_County_parcels,Eaton_damage_assessment&data=https://mappingsupport.com/p2/special_maps/disaster/USA_wildland_fire.txt
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2024-12-05 16:46:25 UTC

This is for sure a #linkedIn #scam right?
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2024-12-02 01:39:38 UTC

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it's crazy how quickly smoking became weird. I'm very glad I never have to be anywhere that people are smoking in an enclosed space. It used to be miserable.

2024-11-24 16:33:45 UTC

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one of these days I want to get the tour of the Trinity test site and also do the tour at the Nevada test site.

2024-11-24 16:17:24 UTC

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there are others outside Nevada that aren't restricted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rulison
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gasbuggy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Rio_Blanco
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gnome_(nuclear_test)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Site
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amchitka
I guess technically you can go to this site 🤔 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wigwam
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll friends go to this site to dive every year
And many others!

2024-11-24 15:47:26 UTC

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wow didn't realize you can just drive out to that site!

2024-09-14 13:11:01 UTC

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awesome!
I want to know literally everything about that trip 😅 it's definitely very high on the list of things I want to do but things my wife will refuse to do (but only because she worked on commercial fishing boats off New England and scuba liveaboard boats in the tropics for several years and never wants to live on a boat again).
There was a great account about one of the first pleasure craft to make it through maybe ten years ago. I've been hooked ever since.

2024-09-08 02:24:47 UTC

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well I could be miserable inside or miserable outside so I chose outside!

2024-09-08 00:48:06 UTC

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at the moment but it's very much a roller coaster recovery. I'm guessing it'll be months before I'm fully back to normal.
The Naltrexone, the PEMF, and a bunch of vitamins to help reduce inflammation seem to be helping.

2024-08-25 12:25:35 UTC

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yeah maybe! I really miss living somewhere green and wet.

2024-08-25 01:45:48 UTC

Hmm I wonder if we would like living on the Puget Sound or further north. Something near or on the water? Somewhere we could have a boat?
The diving up there is phenomenal.
It would be wonderful to be somewhere so green again.
I miss the rain, too.

2024-07-28 02:20:20 UTC

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I wonder how many people have died so far out there.

2024-07-28 01:20:13 UTC

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if they were fully charged leaving Vegas, they might still be doing okay just sitting running the heat pumps. Maybe they'll have enough charge even to get into the next town with charging ports. But then whoa boy that'll be a line!
Just like the gas stations no doubt face. At least the gas stations with gas.

2024-07-28 01:12:58 UTC

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I wonder how electric cars stuck in this mess are doing

2024-07-26 04:47:21 UTC

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half the warranty duration but with how fast this tech moving, if the battery dies in five years, there will be something much better.
I'm just starting to look at my options for a "house" battery for auxiliary loads on my truck. It'll be a LiFePO4 battery and either it'll be mounted in the bed or maybe in the cab under the rear seat. With the en💩ification of Google search results, I hadn't run across many people talking about anything other than two or three big brands.

2024-07-26 04:37:08 UTC

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how are they selling a 100Ah LiFePO4 battery with what looks like decent characteristics for 1/5th the cost of competitors?!
Are they junk? Did they "fall off the back of a truck" and this company found and is now selling them? Do they contain elaborate espionage equipment?