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9/15/2026 6:36pm
borg wrote:
Some good info in this thread. Especially Sandberm's vid. It looks like we are in for a wet winter here in SoCal. I am hoping for...

Some good info in this thread. Especially Sandberm's vid. It looks like we are in for a wet winter here in SoCal. I am hoping for lots of rain and snowpack in the Sierras. That's the water that supplies much of California's AG in the central valley. Which supplies 1/4th of the country's food supply. As fucked up as some of you think CA is, you all better hope this works out. 

Please don’t threaten us. 

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9/15/2026 6:38pm
borg wrote:
Some good info in this thread. Especially Sandberm's vid. It looks like we are in for a wet winter here in SoCal. I am hoping for...

Some good info in this thread. Especially Sandberm's vid. It looks like we are in for a wet winter here in SoCal. I am hoping for lots of rain and snowpack in the Sierras. That's the water that supplies much of California's AG in the central valley. Which supplies 1/4th of the country's food supply. As fucked up as some of you think CA is, you all better hope this works out. 

ShellyMX wrote:

Please don’t threaten us. 

Wouldn't think of it. BTW, good post in the WA fire thread.

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9/15/2026 7:16pm
ShellyMX wrote:

He’s not wrong. You’re horrible skewed against the USA. Always have been. 

How is making a sarcastic comment about climate change skewed against the USA?

ShellyMX wrote:
Because 100% of your comments regarding America are 100% sarcastic. You’ve proven this time and time again. I don’t know what is in your bum, Sheila...

Because 100% of your comments regarding America are 100% sarcastic. You’ve proven this time and time again. I don’t know what is in your bum, Sheila, but you need to kill it.

If you don't like my comments, don't read them, or block them, or toughen the f up.

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9/15/2026 11:10pm

 Geeezuus fuck……. I swear to god it’s impossible to have an intelligent conversation in here. I give.  

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Do I need to hold up a sarcasm sign?

ShellyMX wrote:

He’s not wrong. You’re horrible skewed against the USA. Always have been. 

How is making a sarcastic comment about climate change skewed against the USA?

Your long time track record of being one of the biggest, America bashing asshats in non moto.

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9/16/2026 4:08am
sumdood wrote:

 Geeezuus fuck……. I swear to god it’s impossible to have an intelligent conversation in here. I give.  

Our resident foreigner.

We need tighter border control.

 

Back to the topic at hand...

With all of the stories I've been reading about lake levels being at all time lows, maybe this could be a prime opportunity to raise those levels back to a normal level. 

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^^^
...and our former-chinese-hose-selling East Coast f-tard that turns a lot of Vitard threads to shit...
...by inserting his political stance so that these threads take a turn down TDS alley.

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El Nino  or El Nina, here in OZ, we get hammered either way.

As it says in the poem, My Country :    (A Land) " Of Droughts and Flooding Rains " - she, Dorothea Mackellar,  got the whole 'EL' thing.

The Driest Continent on Earth - that can then get Drowned.

That's why  85% of our population, live about 50k from the Coast. 

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sumdood wrote:

 Geeezuus fuck……. I swear to god it’s impossible to have an intelligent conversation in here. I give.  

Our resident foreigner.We need tighter border control. Back to the topic at hand...With all of the stories I've been reading about lake levels being at all time...

Our resident foreigner.

We need tighter border control.

 

Back to the topic at hand...

With all of the stories I've been reading about lake levels being at all time lows, maybe this could be a prime opportunity to raise those levels back to a normal level. 

There's a few in here that are like the friends of friends that never get invited back to the desert, or a riding trip or birthday party or what have you, but somehow they keep showing back up 🙄 One trick pony's who never say anything insightful or (Gasp) positive, yet they always show up, like an irritating gnat 🤪😆 I will try to up my adulting game and do my best to ignore them, but fuckin a sometimes... hahaha. Ok back on track.

Yes I hope we get our reservoirs and lakes filled, and enough runoff to replenish some sand along our coastline without doing too much damage from floods and landslides. We shall see. It'd be nice to see the local ski resorts have banner years too.  

 

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9/16/2026 11:07am
sumdood wrote:
There's a few in here that are like the friends of friends that never get invited back to the desert, or a riding trip or birthday...

There's a few in here that are like the friends of friends that never get invited back to the desert, or a riding trip or birthday party or what have you, but somehow they keep showing back up 🙄 One trick pony's who never say anything insightful or (Gasp) positive, yet they always show up, like an irritating gnat 🤪😆 I will try to up my adulting game and do my best to ignore them, but fuckin a sometimes... hahaha. Ok back on track.

Yes I hope we get our reservoirs and lakes filled, and enough runoff to replenish some sand along our coastline without doing too much damage from floods and landslides. We shall see. It'd be nice to see the local ski resorts have banner years too.  

 

I’m in the business of fixing landslides, debris flows, scour etc so I agree with your statement! Although job security, they are a pain the ass and seem to happen all at once. Slow and steady

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9/16/2026 11:15am
borg wrote:
Some good info in this thread. Especially Sandberm's vid. It looks like we are in for a wet winter here in SoCal. I am hoping for...

Some good info in this thread. Especially Sandberm's vid. It looks like we are in for a wet winter here in SoCal. I am hoping for lots of rain and snowpack in the Sierras. That's the water that supplies much of California's AG in the central valley. Which supplies 1/4th of the country's food supply. As fucked up as some of you think CA is, you all better hope this works out. 

If you liked that guys style, he also has a California Weather Watch channel. https://www.youtube.com/@CaliforniaWeatherWatch

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9/16/2026 11:44am
lumpy790 wrote:

Some still saying that Global warming is just a hoax right?

I do not remember hurricanes happening in the pacific coast before.

Maybe, but sailors have been referencing the el nino since the 16-1700's.  

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Better diets, limited tv options.  No phones, no social media. Bedtime was cardio with a partner or sleep.  No doom scrolling for 2h.

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I just drove back to Phoenix from Flagstaff, and hit several spots of rain so hard I could not see anything. Completely blind. The desert areas look like shallow lakes, just water everywhere. Strong winds too, was a little scary at times driving with the sudden wind gusts jerking my truck around.

But we need it, I think we have "officially" had like 2-3" of rain all year in the Phoenix area so the rain is badly needed. It is supposed to continue all day and into the night. 

About 10 more days like this and maybe we will be out of the drought.... 

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9/16/2026 2:21pm Edited Date/Time 9/16/2026 2:53pm
AZ35 wrote:
I just drove back to Phoenix from Flagstaff, and hit several spots of rain so hard I could not see anything. Completely blind. The desert areas...

I just drove back to Phoenix from Flagstaff, and hit several spots of rain so hard I could not see anything. Completely blind. The desert areas look like shallow lakes, just water everywhere. Strong winds too, was a little scary at times driving with the sudden wind gusts jerking my truck around.

But we need it, I think we have "officially" had like 2-3" of rain all year in the Phoenix area so the rain is badly needed. It is supposed to continue all day and into the night. 

About 10 more days like this and maybe we will be out of the drought.... 

Just hope there's no flash flood tragedies like was had in the grand canyon recently. 

Edit:

Mt Elden has an awesome bunch of mt bike trails. 

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9/16/2026 5:03pm
Flatliner wrote:

Better diets, limited tv options.  No phones, no social media. Bedtime was cardio with a partner or sleep.  No doom scrolling for 2h.

right! Also there was an emphasis on fitness starting in Elementary school. Back in 2nd grade around 1962 it was a BIG deal to have annual Presidential fitness campaign that was a defined set of exercises and activities that most public schools eagerly participated in. Rankings collected at each site were sent to Wash DC and at some point a list of "Presidential Awards" was handed out at schools along with national recognition of the winners and their schools. Competition was good and fun for us. Then certain groups started objecting to ridicule of overweight or people with disabilities not being able to compete just because they were "different". That morphed into "plus size" clothing for fat people (we shopped in the "husky" boys section" at clothing stores) and Capitalists figured there was an unserved market to address and moved the conversation away from treating overweight people as needing to lose weight but to highlight it and create new revenue streams catering to people who let themselves go.

Jack Lalane had an exercise TV show followed by Richard Simmons and others with their own pitches.

It got worse when the Psychological studies began and publishing case studies of fat people and mainstreamed the idea obesity was a "disease" and the obese people couldn't help it because they had an illness that was a massive get out of jail free card for lazy, unmotivated whatever copping out of healthy lifestyles and even pushed physical activity out of regular school days or allowing no Dr excuse needed just to never participate in anything physical. Of course militant groups popped up to represent people being picked on for being lazy and fat, and again marketers seized the opportunity to create diet food lines, gyms opened up everywhere and it kinda blew up into the 1980s with celebrity workout tapes and celebrities being signed as spokespeople for all kinds of "healthy living" products and group programs.

Now it seems modern science rules the day with advent of the GLP1 drugs being readily available and still people can lose weight the easy way without really having to exercise and develop healthy habits. Who knows what the next phase will be- maybe a brain implant? lol

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9/17/2026 3:05pm
lumpy790 wrote:

Some still saying that Global warming is just a hoax right?

I do not remember hurricanes happening in the pacific coast before.

Hurricanes in the Pacific and Atlantic every summer.

Do you live under a rock, or just can't read? 

lumpy790 wrote:

asswipe  Yes I can read and even spell words. Guess I need to study weather on the other side of the country to satisfy you.

🤣🤣 PLEASE don't do anything to "satisfy" me, do it for yourself.  

You're an ignorant peasant, you should get outside your county some time. 

And go back to school, try Geography 101.  Whole big world out there, Jethro!

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Hurricanes in the Pacific and Atlantic every summer.

Do you live under a rock, or just can't read? 

lumpy790 wrote:

asswipe  Yes I can read and even spell words. Guess I need to study weather on the other side of the country to satisfy you.

🤣🤣 PLEASE don't do anything to "satisfy" me, do it for yourself.  You're an ignorant peasant, you should get outside your county some time. And go back...

🤣🤣 PLEASE don't do anything to "satisfy" me, do it for yourself.  

You're an ignorant peasant, you should get outside your county some time. 

And go back to school, try Geography 101.  Whole big world out there, Jethro!

Only studying weather before we are touring the west coast.

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9/18/2026 11:36am
Flatliner wrote:

Better diets, limited tv options.  No phones, no social media. Bedtime was cardio with a partner or sleep.  No doom scrolling for 2h.

RDnutz wrote:
right! Also there was an emphasis on fitness starting in Elementary school. Back in 2nd grade around 1962 it was a BIG deal to have annual...

right! Also there was an emphasis on fitness starting in Elementary school. Back in 2nd grade around 1962 it was a BIG deal to have annual Presidential fitness campaign that was a defined set of exercises and activities that most public schools eagerly participated in. Rankings collected at each site were sent to Wash DC and at some point a list of "Presidential Awards" was handed out at schools along with national recognition of the winners and their schools. Competition was good and fun for us. Then certain groups started objecting to ridicule of overweight or people with disabilities not being able to compete just because they were "different". That morphed into "plus size" clothing for fat people (we shopped in the "husky" boys section" at clothing stores) and Capitalists figured there was an unserved market to address and moved the conversation away from treating overweight people as needing to lose weight but to highlight it and create new revenue streams catering to people who let themselves go.

Jack Lalane had an exercise TV show followed by Richard Simmons and others with their own pitches.

It got worse when the Psychological studies began and publishing case studies of fat people and mainstreamed the idea obesity was a "disease" and the obese people couldn't help it because they had an illness that was a massive get out of jail free card for lazy, unmotivated whatever copping out of healthy lifestyles and even pushed physical activity out of regular school days or allowing no Dr excuse needed just to never participate in anything physical. Of course militant groups popped up to represent people being picked on for being lazy and fat, and again marketers seized the opportunity to create diet food lines, gyms opened up everywhere and it kinda blew up into the 1980s with celebrity workout tapes and celebrities being signed as spokespeople for all kinds of "healthy living" products and group programs.

Now it seems modern science rules the day with advent of the GLP1 drugs being readily available and still people can lose weight the easy way without really having to exercise and develop healthy habits. Who knows what the next phase will be- maybe a brain implant? lol

The human brain is not designed to handle the modern world of constant dopamine rushes.  In my opinion GLP1s are a godsend for many people.  Studies have shown that they actually have a positive effect on "addictions" such as food, drugs and alcohol and have helped many people to make better choices.  They don't just magically make you lose fat, they help significantly with willpower and stabilizing blood sugar which I view as a good thing.  And no I don't take them.

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It could stop getting hotter here any day. Every time I look at the 10 day forecast expecting (waiting) for it to start cooling off, there’s no cooling in sight. It’s going to stay hot and humid well into October. Fall my ass.IMG 8432IMG 8433IMG 8436.png?VersionId=qeDSrnqzmj5BdhcIczTiSiiBGoVL

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9/26/2026 4:27am Edited Date/Time 9/26/2026 4:28am

100° around here last week. 

46°, and a kick ass full moonset, out this morning. 

🤪

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9/26/2026 6:27am
cslacker wrote:
The human brain is not designed to handle the modern world of constant dopamine rushes.  In my opinion GLP1s are a godsend for many people.  Studies...

The human brain is not designed to handle the modern world of constant dopamine rushes.  In my opinion GLP1s are a godsend for many people.  Studies have shown that they actually have a positive effect on "addictions" such as food, drugs and alcohol and have helped many people to make better choices.  They don't just magically make you lose fat, they help significantly with willpower and stabilizing blood sugar which I view as a good thing.  And no I don't take them.

While I agree they do make some difference (any reduction in sugar intake is a good thing IMO), I see people that take it a step too far and end up looking like ghouls.  In no way can this be a good thing, surely their insides have been feeding on themselves but at the same time their bodies have not been getting any vitamins/ protein etc 

No idea about this as im no Doctor

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100° around here last week. 

46°, and a kick ass full moonset, out this morning. 

🤪

"It's not the heat it's the humidity"  as they say. They are right lol.  

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9/26/2026 8:28am
sumdood wrote:
It could stop getting hotter here any day. Every time I look at the 10 day forecast expecting (waiting) for it to start cooling off, there’s...

It could stop getting hotter here any day. Every time I look at the 10 day forecast expecting (waiting) for it to start cooling off, there’s no cooling in sight. It’s going to stay hot and humid well into October. Fall my ass.IMG 8432IMG 8433IMG 8436.png?VersionId=qeDSrnqzmj5BdhcIczTiSiiBGoVL

We’ve got a cat 3-5 making landfall down near Scorpion Bay this weekend..it may go to Cat 2 by then…hopefully. 

Cory’s down there boarding up his windows.

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TeamGreen wrote:

We’ve got a cat 3-5 making landfall down near Scorpion Bay this weekend..it may go to Cat 2 by then…hopefully. 

Cory’s down there boarding up his windows.

Faaawwwk..... Is he back in the neighborhood a bit or front and center ? 🙏 they don't get it too bad.  

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For those that FB this gives a pretty detailed explanation of what's going on from NASA satellites. If what they are saying is true it does not look good for the coastal communities of California.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19fT6eGExn/

 

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