Hurricane prep!

[Curious Hound]

I prep by not living near the coast. The further in land, the better!

Sound advice as long as you don't go far enough inland to increase your tornado activity significantly.

 

[sgtsandman]

Sound advice as long as you don't go far enough inland to increase your tornado activity significantly.

Staying in mountainous country tends to help with that. The Appalachians might get tornados from time to time but they aren’t the big honking ones of the midwest and they tend to skip from hill top to hill top. At least around here they do.

 

[Bill]

What kind of cartoons do you draw?

For anyone reading this, this is what happens when you drop out of school. If you think this is scary, just think.....he probably votes!

Anyway Eric, I use software like this: https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-online/capabilities/make-maps

 

[Dirtman]

California must have banned sarcasm...

 

[Curious Hound]

For anyone reading this, this is what happens when you drop out of school. If you think this is scary, just think.....he probably votes!

Anyway Eric, I use software like this: https://www.esri.com/en-us/arcgis/products/arcgis-online/capabilities/make-maps

I was joking around. Have always been good at orienteering, navigation and general use of maps and charts. Just don't ask me to draw one. I'm a lousy artist.

 

[Bill]

Staying in mountainous country tends to help with that. The Appalachians might get tornados from time to time but they aren’t the big honking ones of the midwest and they tend to skip from hill top to hill top. At least around here they do.

The frequency of large tornadoes in the middle of North America has a lot to do with cold, dry air moving east off the Rockies and the warmer, humid air moving up from the Gulf of Mexico. That effect is diminished over the Appalachians, thus the smaller tornadoes there. But, if the conditions are right they can occur over the water. We get a few that move onshore here in California and the water off the coast is nowhere near warm (about 52-55 in January).

 

[Bill]

I was joking around. Have always been good at orienteering, navigation and general use of maps and charts. Just don't ask me to draw one. I'm a lousy artist.

I know you were joking. But you still should have stayed in school.

 

[Bill]

California must have banned sarcasm...

I know sarcasm, but you never can tell on the internet. I once mentioned I like meteorology in a forum years ago. Someone replied with a link to an online store that sold telescopes. Furthermore, when I corrected this person they got all serious about it and insisted it was the study of meteors, not weather.

 

[Curious Hound]

I know you were joking. But you still should have stayed in school.

12 years was enough

 

[Bill]

12 years was enough

But there's an entire world out there to explore. Take some foreign languages at your local community college. Sign up for a math class that makes you learn how to use a calculator beyond basic arithmetic. Take a logic and reasoning course so you can recognize logical fallacies (most people can't, even though they think they can). Travel, at least across the country to hike around Crater Lake or the top of Lassen Peak.

 

[Curious Hound]

But there's an entire world out there to explore. Take some foreign languages at your local community college. Sign up for a math class that makes you learn how to use a calculator beyond basic arithmetic. Take a logic and reasoning course so you can recognize logical fallacies (most people can't, even though they think they can). Travel, at least across the country to hike around Crater Lake or the top of Lassen Peak.

That is all good advice for anyone. I never stop learning. The Ranger helps with that. My math skills have been good enough for nuclear physics, though I haven't practiced that in recent years. I love to travel. I have many hobbies that stretch my brain in many different directions - photography for my artistic side, travel, camping, hiking, skiing, technical stuff from vehicles and machinery to computers (PC based and some Linux), Arduino microprocessors, rc models. I also enjoy carpentry, cabinet making, boat building and modeling, gardening and more.

I have met the "world's most interesting man" who goes to work as an average production employee In a manufacturing plant, doing the same task repetitively all day, then goes home and watches "reality" TV shows until bed time. I am NOT him.

Your recommendations are received in good humor. That is how I was raised. Always do your best and try to do better. Keep learning.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Arduino microprocessors

Those alone will change the way you see the world.

We're f*cking up by not teaching coding as part of the K-12 curriculum. Even the basics.

We live in a world of technology. Teach what makes it work.

 

[Bill]

That was the most Californian thing I've ever read...

Next thing you know and he's gonna try to get us to buy some of his healing crystals and meditate together...

Say what you want, but you're the one most in need of some exploration. I suggest a road trip across the United States so you can see that your perception of other parts of the country is skewed because you spend too much time listening to empty-headed talk show hosts. Go to Yellowstone and say hi to a grizzly bear. Maybe camp for a night or two near Mt Hood or Shasta and have a beer with Bigfoot. Take a drive to see Area 51. Maybe take a detour to Hollywood to see how boring it really is. Then take a 400 mile drive north and go duck hunting in the Sacramento Valley. You appear to be stressed. A road trip would be good for you. Just be sure to keep a full tank of gas so you don't run out of gas in a place like this:

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

goo.gl

Or maybe carry a few extra bean burritos in your cooler so your farts can propel you to the next gas station.

 

[Dirtman]

 

[Bill]

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You should go to where ever they are and join them. They look like they could show you how to do something other than being an internet sauerkraut.