It's Starting....

klaus wrote:
I had two inches at my house this morning. 30 degrees F. Last snowfall
was June twenty-something.... it's been 2 1/2 months... kinda a short
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
spring/summer/fall.
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-klaus

I trust you don't think of that as some kind of problem.

Sam

Sam Seiber wrote:
klaus wrote:
I had two inches at my house this morning. 30 degrees F. Last snowfall
was June twenty-something.... it's been 2 1/2 months... kinda a short
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
spring/summer/fall.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

-klaus

I trust you don't think of that as some kind of problem.

Ask me that again in April. It ain't the short
spring/summer/fall. It's the *looooong* winter. Summer is so easy at
my house. Winter is a *lot* of work to stay fed, warm, mobile, and
alive.

-klaus

"AstroPax" wrote in message
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On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:27:38 -0700, "Richard Henry"
wrote:

After it passes through a couple of
turbines to generate enough electricity so I an read newsgroups, it runs
through a pipe so I can sprinkle it on my lawn.

Actually, Glen Canyon Dam has more than a "couple" of turbines.

It has a total of eight turbines with a maximum combined discharge
capacity of 33,200 cfs when the lake is full.

I wonder what the maximum combined discharge capacity of all the
sprinklers in California is.

Anyway, the eight turbine intakes are visible in the following pic
that I shot last year (165kb jpeg):

http://www.xmission.com/~hound/astro...canyon_001.jpg

Nice picture. And the lake looks real full.

By "couple of turbines" I was referring not just to Glen Canyon Dam, but the
ones downstream as well.

Don't worry about our capaacity. If you send the water, we will waste it.
The MWD just dammed off a five-mile-long valley (it took three dams, and the
construction site was an interesting place to visit on the way back from Big
Bear) so we will have water stored up when the Big One breaks the pipe from
the Colorado. Hmmm... maybe that's where Lake Powell went this summer.

Side note: There was a controversy around here recently about piping water
recovered from the sewage treatment system back up into the local
reaervoirs. I had to laugh, having ****ed in Lake Powell.

"Richard Henry" wrote in message
news:2iI7b.15822$QT5.15264@fed1read02...


BTW, I saw a note recently here about the evaporation losses on Lake
Powell.
The water is not evaporating that much. After it passes through a
couple of
turbines to generate enough electricity so I an read newsgroups, it
runs
through a pipe so I can sprinkle it on my lawn.

The discussion was about the low lake level. I don't know why you though
I meant evaporation specifically. Though I'm sure that is some of it,
but what I have in my head when talking about receeding lake level is
outflow exceeding inflow. Much more through the dam than evaporation I
assume.

pigo

"pigo" wrote in message ...
......
Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
836 AM MDT TUE SEP 9 2003
... A TASTE OF AUTUMN MOVING IN TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...

The weather channel girl this am reported that chains were required in
parts of Colorado. I presume California is still rubber and leather.

Crashj 'beat me' Johnson

Crashj wrote:

The weather channel girl this am reported that chains were required in
parts of Colorado. I presume California is still rubber and leather.

That would be latex and studs ...

Crashj wrote:
The weather channel girl this am reported that chains were required in
parts of Colorado. I presume California is still rubber and leather.

IIRC, Southwestern CO. The places Denver goes to ski havn't seen
near as much as SW CO. Still...nice to see my mtns dressed in white.

Sam "Now looking for new skis" Seiber

lal_truckee wrote:

Crashj wrote:

The weather channel girl this am reported that chains were required in
parts of Colorado. I presume California is still rubber and leather.

That would be latex and studs ...

And mostly in Hollywood.

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"Crashj" wrote in message
om...
"pigo" wrote in message
...
......
Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE
CITY UT
836 AM MDT TUE SEP 9 2003
... A TASTE OF AUTUMN MOVING IN TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...

The weather channel girl this am reported that chains were required in
parts of Colorado. I presume California is still rubber and leather.

No. Chains are still required but whips are optional.

in article , klaus at
wrote on 9/10/03 8:57 AM:

AstroPax wrote:

quoteTHE PEAKS OF THE WASATCH FRONT COULD EASILY SEE 6-10
INCHES, BUT THAT WILL BE THE PEAKS./quote

quoteROLLER COASTER WEATHER AHEAD. JUMP ON BOARD FOR THE
RIDE!/quote

http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Saltlake/forecast/AFD.shtml

I just love instability, weather wise.

I had two inches at my house this morning. 30 degrees F. Last snowfall
was June twenty-something.... it's been 2 1/2 months... kinda a short
spring/summer/fall.

-klaus


Any terrorists stop by for a beer? Y'know, your buddies who have threatened
my life, called me a child molester, hacked my computer? Or the sick losers
who participate in the criminal conspiracy that plans such crap? You know,
klaus. Your fellow moderators and the posters to rsa.terrorist.