Rain Bombs

[Col Hogan]

The algore townhall on CNN is a real eye-opener...

Heavy rain is now known as a "rain bomb"

[VictorG]

We used to just say "like a cow pissing on cement"!

[Col Hogan]

We used to just say "like a cow pissing on cement"!

[Ivytalk]

We used to just say "like a cow pissing on cement"!

In Texas, it was a "gullywasher."

[AZGrizFan]

We used to just say "like a cow pissing on cement"!

Up North from Victor, in Florence, we had a slightly different version...."like a cow pissin' on a flat rock"....

[dbackjon]

That is a term used - our local weathermen use it.

So instead of making fun of Al Gore, maybe you should pay attention and try to learn something. But that would be too inconvenient for you, right?

http://edmdigest.com/news/what-is-a-rain-bomb/

[Gil Dobie]

That is a term used - our local weathermen use it.

So instead of making fun of Al Gore, maybe you should pay attention and try to learn something. But that would be too inconvenient for you, right?

http://edmdigest.com/news/what-is-a-rain-bomb/

Thanks for the picture spandosjon.

[Gil Dobie]

[Gil Dobie]

...........and who did algore beat our to win the Nobel Peace Prize

Maybe this lady?

She studied at Warsaw University and was a social worker in Warsaw when the German occupation of Poland began in 1939. In 1940, after the Nazis herded Jews into the ghetto and built a wall separating it from the rest of the city, disease, especially typhoid, ran rampant. Social workers were not allowed inside the ghetto, but Sendler, imagining “the horror of life behind the walls,” obtained fake identification and passed herself off as a nurse, allowed to bring in food, clothes and medicine.
By 1942, when the deadly intentions of the Nazis had become clear, Sendler joined a Polish underground organization, Zegota. She recruited 10 close friends — a group that would eventually grow to 25, all but one of them women — and began rescuing Jewish children.

She and her friends smuggled the children out in boxes, suitcases, sacks and coffins, sedating babies to quiet their cries. Some were spirited away through a

network of basements and secret passages. Operations were timed to the second. One of Sendler’s children told of waiting by a gate in darkness as a German soldier patrolled nearby. When the soldier passed, the boy counted to 30, then made a mad dash to the middle of the street, where a manhole cover opened and he was taken down into the sewers and eventually to safety.

Most of the children who left with Sendler’s group were taken into Roman Catholic convents, orphanages and homes and given non-Jewish aliases. Sendler recorded their true names on thin rolls of paper in the hope that she could reunite them with their families later. She preserved the precious scraps in jars and buried them in a friend’s garden.

In 1943, she was captured by the Nazis and tortured but refused to tell her captors who her co-conspirators were or where the bottles were buried. She also resisted in other ways. According to Felt, when Sendler worked in the prison laundry, she and her co-workers made holes in the German soldiers’ underwear. When the officers discovered what they had done, they lined up all the women and shot every other one. It was just one of many close calls for Sendler.

During one particularly brutal torture session, her captors broke her feet and legs, and she passed out. When she awoke, a Gestapo officer told her he had accepted a bribe from her comrades in the resistance to help her escape. The officer added her name to a list of executed prisoners. Sendler went into hiding but continued her rescue efforts.

Felt said that Sendler had begun her rescue operation before she joined the organized resistance and helped a number of adults escape, including the man she later married. “We think she saved about 500 people before she joined Zegota,” Felt said, which would mean that Sendler ultimately helped rescue about 3,000 Polish Jews.

When the war ended, Sendler unearthed the jars and began trying to return the children to their families. For the vast majority, there was no family left. Many of the children were adopted by Polish families; others were sent to Israel.

Irena Sendler is often claimed to have been a candidate to receive the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, but that honor was not awarded to her. It’s not possible to state categorically that she was “nominated” for the award, since information about Nobel Prize “nominations, investigations, and opinions is kept

secret for fifty years.” (Since 1974 the statutes of the Nobel Foundation have stated that “work produced by a person since deceased shall not be considered for an award,” so she presumably could not be subsequently honored.)

In 2007, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and former U.S. Vice-President Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” (Al Gore was also involved with another significant award in 2007, when An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary about his campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide, claimed an Academy Award as “Best Documentary Feature.”)

The International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) expressed its disappointment that Irena Sendler had not yet been honored with a Nobel Prize:

[Gil Dobie]

algore Thanks you jon

[dbackjon]

So you attack me, and Al Gore with a non-sequitor.

Typical GOP behavior - proven wrong, you resort to baseless attacks on the person, since you can't refute the data.

[Chizzang]

We're really enjoying climate change here in the Pacific North West...

Zero Days below freezing in the winter time
65 degree days in February
100 consecutive days of sunshine come June thru September
Hummingbirds and song birds don't migrate away during winter anymore

Climate Change
Because Change is Good

[dbackjon]

Enjoying the 100 degree heat with no ac?

[Gil Dobie]

So you attack me, and Al Gore with a non-sequitor.

Typical GOP behavior - proven wrong, you resort to baseless attacks on the person, since you can't refute the data.

Refute what, algore got rich selling Carbon Credits.

Showing me a storm cloud that I've seen many times in the last 50 years.

‘He’s insane’! Al Gore’s ‘rain bombs’ trigger BS Avalanche Warning System

[CAA Flagship]

We're really enjoying climate change here in the Pacific North West...

Zero Days below freezing in the winter time
65 degree days in February
100 consecutive days of sunshine come June thru September
Hummingbirds and song birds don't migrate away during winter anymore

Climate Change
Because Change is Good

Turn and face the strange
Ch-ch-changes

[CID1990]

Rain bombs

disconcerting

I never saw anything like that as a kid .....

We'll need them when half the US is a desert I guess


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[Col Hogan]

[clenz]

Enjoying the 100 degree heat with no ac?

AC is bad for the environment....you are the problem.

[clenz]

That kind of rain has been happening through the uppermidwest for....well....ever?

[Col Hogan]

That kind of rain has been happening through the uppermidwest for....well....ever?

I believe that is called "weather"...but algore and his ilk see it as special...

[Chizzang]

Enjoying the 100 degree heat with no ac?

Me and the girlfriend just purchased a brand new home in North Creek (about 20 miles from downtown Seattle)
Construction finished in March - anyway we have AC and it's glorious

BTW:
We also have a mating pair of Pileated Woodpecker's and a pair of adorable Downey's in the neighborhood
We live right along an old growth forest and a fantastic swamp

[CID1990]

Enjoying the 100 degree heat with no ac?

Me and the girlfriend just purchased a brand new home in North Creek (about 20 miles from downtown Seattle)
Construction finished in March - anyway we have AC and it's glorious

BTW:
We also have a mating pair of Pileated Woodpecker's and a pair of adorable Downey's in the neighborhood
We live right along an old growth forest and a fantastic swamp

So when is the CS.com "Burning Man" gathering going to happen?


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[Grizalltheway]

Enjoying the 100 degree heat with no ac?

Me and the girlfriend just purchased a brand new home in North Creek (about 20 miles from downtown Seattle)
Construction finished in March - anyway we have AC and it's glorious

BTW:
We also have a mating pair of Pileated Woodpecker's and a pair of adorable Downey's in the neighborhood
We live right along an old growth forest and a fantastic swamp

So you're a stone's throw from SeaGriz? That could be bad for your sobriety

[Chizzang]

Me and the girlfriend just purchased a brand new home in North Creek (about 20 miles from downtown Seattle)
Construction finished in March - anyway we have AC and it's glorious

BTW:
We also have a mating pair of Pileated Woodpecker's and a pair of adorable Downey's in the neighborhood
We live right along an old growth forest and a fantastic swamp

So when is the CS.com "Burning Man" gathering going to happen?

Well...
we're going to need to clear about 600 square miles of old growth to get started
We are surrounded by an amazing forest that has to be seen to be believed

http://www.friendsnorthcreekforest.org/

[CID1990]

So when is the CS.com "Burning Man" gathering going to happen?

Well...
we're going to need to clear about 600 square miles of old growth to get started
We are surrounded by an amazing forest that has to be seen to be believed

http://www.friendsnorthcreekforest.org/

I think we'll only need your yard


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