Stijn!!

[GH85Carrera]

I got lazy yesterday. Amazon streaming suggested the Expendables as a movie I might enjoy. I had seen it before, but it was a while back. So I enjoyed it. Then Expendables 2. I really like that one. They have so many "inside jokes" like the scene where the Expendables are pinned down and almost out of ammo and are about to be killed or captured. All of sudden all the the bad guys are shot and the tank they were using is blown up. The Expendables all come out and look around and wonder what happened in up walks Chuck Norris all by himself.

Expendables 3 is fun just for some of the action movie stars that are in it. Expendables 4 is still in production.

It really is amazing how Stalone wrote and starred in Rocky, then Rambo, and now 4 Expendable movies. The Escape movies were not quite the same level, but watchable.

[flipper35]

Took the boy out deer hunting yesterday. We saw some, and he almost had a shot in the AM. Most of the rest we saw in the car.

[GH85Carrera]

Wow, we are getting some rain, and at 53 degrees, no ice!

[flipper35]

Snow this morning then turned to rain and more rain tomorrow. Temps in the 30s/40s. Ick.

[GH85Carrera]

We received 1/3 of an inch of rain so far, and more coming tonight, possible severe storms about 6 PM.

[flipper35]

It is no fun hunting in the rain.

[GH85Carrera]

Few things are much fun in the rain. Many are especially less fun in the rain.

[Noah930]

I love driving in the rain.

[GH85Carrera]

Really?

Our drive to Eureka Springs, AR last year was windshield wipers on as I pulled out of the garage, and they stayed on until we arrived at the motel. It was not nearly as fun as dry conditions when we can take the wiggly roads and not the busy roads.

55 to 60 MPH max speed if the water is building up on the highway at all, is nope no fun. Way better than snow or ice, but that is like saying a stabbng is better than third degree sunburn.

I have driven many miles in rain, none was particularly enjoyable.

[Noah930]

I love driving in the rain--during the day. Night, not so much due to poor visibility. But during the day, it's fun to suddenly have to worry about the limits of adhesion, even at semi-legal road speeds. How fast can you go before you start to aquaplane? How much grip really is in that corner? Suddenly, even a boring daily driver with 140 HP can be a challenge to hustle (traffic permitting).

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Noah930

I love driving in the rain--during the day. Night, not so much due to poor visibility. But during the day, it's fun to suddenly have to worry about the limits of adhesion, even at semi-legal road speeds. How fast can you go before you start to aquaplane? How much grip really is in that corner? Suddenly, even a boring daily driver with 140 HP can be a challenge to hustle (traffic permitting).

NASA and the tire manufacturers did a lots of tests back in the 70s. The aviation industry wanted to know at what speed an aircraft tire would get grip for brakes when landing. The basic formula to determine hydroplane or aquaplane speed is simple.

Just take the square root of your tire pressure, and multiply by 10. The easy example is 36 PSI has a square root of 6, then times 10 = 60. That pretty much works on all tires and is one reason the 18 wheel semis running 90 PSI will blast past a careful car driver in heavy rain.

Bottom line, most all cars on the road WILL hydroplane at about 60 MPH even if it is a 6,000 pound SUV or a 2,000 pound sports car. When I am on the road and it is raining enough to have standing water on the road, I do not exceed 60 MPH ever. On a recent trip to Enid on I-35 I was poking along at 60 in the right lane in hard rain. A Ford Excursion went blasting past at the speed limit of 75. About 5 miles ahead we came upon the scene of the accident. He had slid right off the road, and rolled. There were already a dozen cars there so we did not stop. No doubt they all blamed the rain, but it was 100% stupid driver driving too fast for conditions.

[GH85Carrera]

Happy Thanksgiving folks. Practice safe gathering and don't share the virus.

We are staying home.

[GH85Carrera]

We bought a spiral cut ham so I have lots of ham leftovers. Darn it.

I always love mashed taters so we just used an entire 5 pound bag of taters, so I have some leftover taters as well.

The weather was San Diego Perfect, with a high of mid 60s.

[ted]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The weather was San Diego Perfect, with a high of mid 60s.

If perfecto is no weather, no clouds and mild.
Mexico blue sky.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by ted

If perfecto is no weather, no clouds and mild.
Mexico blue sky.

That was today. Clear blue sky and 2 or 3 mph breeze. Almost cold in the shadows but perfect in the sun.

[ted]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That was today. Clear blue sky and 2 or 3 mph breeze. Almost cold in the shadows but perfect in the sun.

nailed it!
Highs in the 70s, lows in the 50s next 10 days

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, well we don't get that weather all winter long. It is supposed to rain some this weekend, and highs in the 40s and 50s for the next week. San Diego and Monterey have some great weather, no doubt about it. It is always weird to me when I go out there how dead and brown everything else is if humans don't water it.

At Porsche Parade back in 2007 the final night party was dinner on the open deck of the Air Craft carrier USS Midway. That was really cool to eat outside under the stars, looking at downtown San Diego, next to aircraft, and it was like being in a large auditorium as far as conditions. Just spectacular and few places on Earth could have an similar event.

[Noah930]

San Diego probably has the most perfect weather (OK climate, but that just sounds too nerdy) in all of the continental USA.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by Noah930

San Diego probably has the most perfect weather (OK climate, but that just sounds too nerdy) in all of the continental USA.

Newport Beach.

[GH85Carrera]

Yea, that area is pretty much impossible to beat for weather. The San Diego zoo has an aviary that is just huge, and just a net over the top so it is open to the weather. It is just fantastic in size and scope of birds.

It is a pretty area, right on the coast, but it is a brown and dry dessert except for where humans are pumping the ground water out at a rate that can't be sustained. And with the pretty weather comes too many people and heavy traffic. And the nutty government in the state.

Only parts of Hawaii are prettier and certainly greener, but once again too many people. I was lucky enough to experience Hawaii in the late 50s and early 60s as a kid. That was paradise.