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Mister Speaker posted:He's got to have a hidden harness somewhere, right? Full video with take-off and landing and some of the build is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usUy2QLjRc So.. no, I don't think so. He's a paragliding instructor and apparently planned the stunt for 2 years, but I don't think that outweighs the OSHA. He has a new one on his instagram with him and another guy a a picnic table and he looks strapped in there. https://www.instagram.com/hasan_kaval/ Also pics of him shirtless on a horse.
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Aug 11, 2020 04:00
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Jet Jaguar posted:Iowa and Illinois getting pummeled by a storm type called a "derecho" today. 112mph winds recorded. Iowa goon checking in. It was a beautiful sunny morning. Around 10 I heard some tornado sirens in the distance but it was so nice out as I sat on the porch watching the neighbor’s cat and mine have words that my brain said “Ah yes, the monthly siren test.” It wasn’t until it suddenly got dark enough that we had to break out flashlights inside after the power dropped that I realized Monday isn’t test day. Or is it? I forgot. Should probably figure that out. Anyhow, it’s now 12 hours later and we’re still without power. Midamerican’s website reports over 100k in the Des Moines area are affected by the outage, and a quarter million across the state. My phone battery is running out, send hel
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Aug 11, 2020 04:26
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Batterypowered7 posted:https://i.imgur.com/WN9maau.mp4 why is fernando alonso wearing a petronas shirt
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ethanol posted:why is fernando alonso wearing a petronas shirt He should really be wearing an xbone shirt amirite?
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Aug 11, 2020 05:04
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Ror posted:Full video with take-off and landing and some of the build is here: 
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Aug 11, 2020 05:20
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Ror posted:Full video with take-off and landing and some of the build is here: It's not much but he does have his right foot tucked under some kind of metal bar
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Aug 11, 2020 05:28
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GotLag posted:It's not much but he does have his right foot tucked under some kind of metal bar Lol nope. Those are the slippers he changed into after taking his sneakers off mid-flight (mid-fall?)
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Aug 11, 2020 05:43
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Shai-Hulud posted:Eh, problem is it's been running like forever so even if you get everything shut down cleanly you have no idea if all components come back up and if all processes will run they way they are supposed to. Not a lot of redundancy too. Otto Neurath posted:We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.
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Aug 11, 2020 05:48
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Bad Munki posted:Iowa goon checking in. It was a beautiful sunny morning. Around 10 I heard some tornado sirens in the distance but it was so nice out as I sat on the porch watching the neighbor’s cat and mine have words that my brain said “Ah yes, the monthly siren test.” get used to sitting in your car to charge your phone for the next 3 days. also hope your freezer is either packed full or completely empty
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Aug 11, 2020 05:53
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Why the hell would I poo poo in my—oh. OH. Sitting. I saw that on the news, them saying up to three days. I’ve got a chest freezer that’s fairly full and should do fine, and barring that, I have friends with power. Hell, I have neighbors with power, or at least almost-neighbors. I live a couple miles off pavement. Every house on the way out here has power back on, except our little dead end back road of 7 houses. Because of that, I expect we’re pretty low on the priority list. Yeehaw!
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Batterypowered7 posted:https://i.imgur.com/WN9maau.mp4 Also Jon Bois did an do ep on this already
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GotLag posted:It's not much but he does have his right foot tucked under some kind of metal bar The air pressure from the forward motion at least compensates from the "sliding forwards off the couch" force you get with that kind of upholstery. But seriously, seatbelt.
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Aug 11, 2020 07:06
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VectorSigma posted:get used to sitting in your car to charge your phone for the next 3 days. also hope your freezer is either packed full or completely empty I just went shopping this morning! I think my buddy has power, so I'll either bring stuff by him or buy a cooler and ice.
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Aug 11, 2020 07:42
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Mister Speaker posted:He's got to have a hidden harness somewhere, right? A harness to what though? If that apparatus he's flying messes up the parachute he might have a better chance with terminal velocity than being strapped in.
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Uthor posted:I just went shopping this morning! I think my buddy has power, so I'll either bring stuff by him or buy a cooler and ice. A fully stocked chest freezer will go several days before even starting to thaw, provided you open it sparingly and briefly, and it isn't in a space that requires A/C to not be 90°F in August in Iowa. Ice can be used to fill air space in freezers and add to thermal mass, moving to a cooler will only hasten loss. While the freezer portion of a typical fridge ain't got poo poo on a good chest freezer, it still beats a cooler. VectorSigma fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Aug 11, 2020 |
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Aug 11, 2020 09:15
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The beer fridge is the Midwest's greatest cultural achievement.
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VectorSigma posted:A fully stocked chest freezer will go several days before even starting to thaw, provided you open it sparingly and briefly, and it isn't in a space that requires A/C to not be 90°F in August in Iowa. Ice can be used to fill air space in freezers and add to thermal mass, moving to a cooler will only hasten loss. While the freezer portion of a typical fridge ain't got poo poo on a good chest freezer, it still beats a cooler. Good point, but it's not full. And I'm more worried about the fresh meat in the fridge.
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Groda posted:The beer fridge is the Midwest's greatest cultural achievement. You mean being too lazy to get rid of your old fridge so you just shove it in the corner in the garage and call it a "beer fridge"?
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Nocheez posted:You mean being too lazy to get rid of your old fridge so you just shove it in the corner in the garage and call it a "beer fridge"? The Midwesterner famously uses every part of the fridge.
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fishing with the fam posted:The Midwesterner famously uses every part of the fridge. Hot-dish stacks nicely for a reason
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This is why you never drive across a flooded road. For all you know, it's not there anymore.
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Is the truckmarine driver guy wearing black rubber gloves and no shirt?
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Aug 11, 2020 15:29
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Scratch Monkey posted:Is the truckmarine driver guy wearing black rubber gloves and no shirt? and he has a mystery attache case the throws to safety...probably with the codes in it.
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Scratch Monkey posted:Is the truckmarine driver guy wearing black rubber gloves and no shirt? Just an extreme t-shirt tan.
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Combine the concepts in the truck driving into road lake with this video for the full picture of why you don't drive through standing water. People have been sucked into nature's terlet that has opened below a road. Slightly less dramatically swept into the nearest river. Even if it's only inches but it's moving. Somebody post that tour bus driving through waterfalls on a mountain road next.
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Aug 11, 2020 15:47
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VectorSigma posted:get used to sitting in your car to charge your phone for the next 3 days. also hope your freezer is either packed full or completely empty 26 hours and we're back on. Hopefully for good this time: power came on at 2:30AM last, and then promptly shut off again ten minutes later. Hopefully it stays on this time, the fridge was getting noticeably less cool inside.
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The storm passed next to me, it got very windy, gusting pretty high, had some horizontal rain but nothing crazy. Got a text from my mom around lunch, she asked how I was doing Umm, I mean there are people and circumstances in my life that make it stressful but you already knew that. Doing ok I guess? 'Your brother and I are sheltering in a Hy-Vee cooler' Yeah I guess I wouldn't have wanted to be on the road but uhh, ok Got off work and a friend called and asked me if I still had power, told me his ETA for having power back was a couple days, one of his windows had blown in and he had pushed his table up against the window frame to try and hold back some of the wind, his car was totaled and he had lost a tree and gained three new trees on his property. I checked the nearest metars and they read gusting 67, gusting 68, sensor data not available, sensor data not available It was pretty surreal how long it took before I realized how horrific that storm was
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:'Your brother and I are sheltering in a Hy-Vee cooler' This is osha. Did they really make the walk-in cooler their shelter area. Most walk-ins are styrofoam walls lined with tinfoil, filled with heavily overloaded shelving that can easily tip over. 
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That thought crossed my mind. No LOS to windows inside a cooler and it looks like a bank vault are probably why they chose it, I'm sure the bathrooms are listed as the actual wind shelters
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:The storm passed next to me, it got very windy, gusting pretty high, had some horizontal rain but nothing crazy. Got a text from my mom around lunch, she asked how I was doing The suddenness, seemingly faster than a typical summer storm, of a derecho hitting seems like it makes them especially prone to surprise people; just from nothing to insanity in a moment.
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There’s been a few instances of people surviving tornados by hiding inside of a walk in cooler, like direct hit kinda stuff. My admittedly limited experience with walk ins inside restaurants makes then look pretty tough, but It wouldn’t surprise me if more modern walk ins were nothing but foam and positive thoughts.
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MRC48B posted:This is osha. Did they really make the walk-in cooler their shelter area. The local Schnuck's has the beer cooler as the tornado shelter. It's smack in the middle of the building. EvenWorseOpinions posted:It was pretty surreal how long it took before I realized how horrific that storm was There was a tornado that tore through a ton across the river from me, like ten miles away, killing a few people. I spent that time playing video games and barely noticing the sirens. I'm glad that my smart phone gives me an alert these days.
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Aug 12, 2020 00:00
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If only they lowered the road by or raised the runway by a feet or two.
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`Nemesis posted:There’s been a few instances of people surviving tornados by hiding inside of a walk in cooler, like direct hit kinda stuff. My admittedly limited experience with walk ins inside restaurants makes then look pretty tough, but It wouldn’t surprise me if more modern walk ins were nothing but foam and positive thoughts. Here's a long form article about it. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a32967/joplin-tornado-stories-1011/
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Walk-in freezers are a great place to be in a weather event and a terrible place to be in a fire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire When you're being weighed against triangle shirtwaist and texas city in the 1990s it... ain't great. shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Aug 12, 2020 |
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