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[ronott1]

Anyone near Cooskie Mtn. California?
Are you blowing away?

I probably should have waited to ask since you likely lost power.

There is a BYC member in Crescent City and someone used to post from Ft. Brag.

That is not a very populated area.

 

[ronott1]

I guess you're not near Cooskie. That's pretty far north isn't it?
96 mph winds today.

Woodland is having nice 30mph winds currently. The high wind will start going down in an hour for us.

100mph winds do happen in the mountains and I expect mud slides on HYW. 1 and or 101. That is normal stuff with storms like this.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Lots of rain in a short time for an area that has been having such a long drought.

I hope the mudslides aren't too severe. Wouldn't it be nice to start getting a little rain occasionally to get the vegetation taking root again?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I haven't set my NYD eggs yet but I only have 4. Hoping for a couple more today.
The eggs have been on the back porch at about 40F and 50% humidity. I'm slowly warming the room.
I didn't get the incubator rewired yet either and with so few, I'll probably just put them in the LG to get them going and try to get the biggie going in the next couple days.
I have some construction to do on a coop that will likely take a couple days and some car work that will take another day or two.

 

[ronott1]

I haven't set my NYD eggs yet but I only have 4. Hoping for a couple more today.
The eggs have been on the back porch at about 40F and 50% humidity. I'm slowly warming the room.
I didn't get the incubator rewired yet either and with so few, I'll probably just put them in the LG to get them going and try to get the biggie going in the next couple days.
I have some construction to do on a coop that will likely take a couple days and some car work that will take another day or two.

Perfect!

My shipment is delayed so I will be setting eggs late this year.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I take it back, I forgot I collected 3 eggs yesterday. 2 are light though so I'm not sure I'll set them. Hoping for a couple dark ones today to get my set total up to 7.

On another weather note, I still haven't seen the sunshine.
I think it's been about 9 days since the sun was out. A sheet of ice on everything this morning and probably Saturday before the sun comes out.
Everyone here is having winter blues.

 

[hennible]

Okay the good cop Facebook story was this:
A police officer pulled over a woman because her toddler wasn't in a car seat, the woman confessed she couldn't afford a car seat so the cop took her to Walmart and bought her one... Above the call of duty for sure.

 

[dsqard]

Here is my two cents worth (for what it's worth). I believe there are bad apples in the bunch that tarnish the good of all the others. I am not saying Officer Wilson or the officer from New York are bad apples themselves but maybe misread a situation or used a bit more force than necessary. Again, I am not saying they are bad cops but might have been taking their position of authority too far (more so in the New York case than the MO case). I think we need to re-think some of our no holds barred attitudes when it comes to force. Public outcry was a big reason many municipalities changed their laws on how they conduct police chases. I think we need to have that "elephant in the room" discussion as a nation as to why some of these incidents are happening. Respecting the police and the extraordinarily hard job they have to do does not preclude analyzing police practices and determining if better training needs to happen. With all that said, I want to make clear that I do respect the police, I cannot imagine just how hard their daily job is and I have never had to defend my life in my line of work even when I was a soldier. On the other hand, I cannot claim to understand what life is like with darker skin. The closest I can come to understanding what it is like is feeling like I have to "overachieve" to get the same recognition as a man because I am a woman. I do recognize that is not the same but maybe a smidgeon similar. This is such a tangled hot mess of a subject and I wish instead of the media inserting their strident opinions from either side of the fence in the middle of the problem they would just report the news (Walter Cronkite must be spinning in his grave right now). We as a nation should not only have the discussion as to why we are disproportionately jailing a portion of our citizens for doing less damage to our society than the idiots on Wall Street did six years ago (and didn't have to go to jail for their actions). Why does the "land of the free" have more people in jail than China? Are our citizens worse people? I do not buy that thought for a second. We also as a nation need to stand up and demand better of our media. They report the news in the way that gets the most ratings. If we refuse to watch "tabloid" news anymore, they will have to change their ways. Demand better through speaking up and using your wallets (money always talks loudest you know) to let the sponsors of the newscasts know how unhappy you are with how the news is being reported. OK I honestly hope this does not offend anyone because it was not meant to and now I relinquish the soap box and go back to being quiet in the corner.

 

[perchie.girl]

Gawd I am watching the swat team pull up to an amber alert suspect right heree in Santee on 52.

Oh gawd he tried to jump the 60 foot hight rail he let the kids go.... but the swat team got him Every one is safe....

they found his wife shot and stuffed in the trunk of his car seven days ago and have been looking for him and his four kids ages six to eleven ever since....

the snipers are standing down...

deb

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Chemical imbalances.