Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
06-11-2008
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Coffee Shop Part 10
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Yes, Agnes was one of the things that put them over the line. There was a 7 mile long spur in the Finger lakes popularly known as "the Corkscrew Railroad" that was originally a short line and then was absorbed by NYC. It went from Penn Yan to Dresden, NY 2% grade down to Dresden following the Keuka Outlet that connects with Seneca Lake. There was originally a canal that was alongside the and used part of the outlet. It was replaced by the railroad by the turn of the last century. There were a number of mills, the foundations and some remains can still be seen along the old railbed (now a walking trail). It was washed out during Agnes and the line was closed as it was not really profitable by that time anyway. Some time this summer I want to walk the trail and get some photos of what remains. there are some bridges and some track still in place.
June 1972, a rare June Hurricane. Actually was just off shore near Washington, made a second landfall near NYC came across PA and into the Southern Tier of NY as a tropical depression. It was not expected to come back inland and dump so much rain. It had been a dry spring, and major reservoirs up river were reluctant to dump water before the storm hit. When it did they had to dump massive amounts of water to not lose the dams which resulted in the damage where I lived. Some of the worst damage was in Elmira, NY. There is a line near the top of the second story of the Corning Glass museum that says, "water level June, ??, 1972". Floods are not nice!
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jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Good morning.
It's clear and 71 in the Sportsman's Paradise. A high in the low 90's is expected and it is expected to be mostly cloudy with a small chance of thunderstorms.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/11/2008
Heat Index: 76°F
Humidity: 92%
Dew Point: 69°F
So Far Today
High: 74°F
Low: 71°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 3mph SE
Today High: 92 Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds up to 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
It's clear and 71 in the Sportsman's Paradise. A high in the low 90's is expected and it is expected to be mostly cloudy with a small chance of thunderstorms.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/11/2008
Heat Index: 76°F
Humidity: 92%
Dew Point: 69°F
So Far Today
High: 74°F
Low: 71°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 3mph SE
Today High: 92 Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds up to 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
OldGettysk
Running the MC & Buffalo
Good Morning Bill & Jeffrey . Looks like a pretty good day here after the stoms that went through . Altough most of them where further southeast then we are. More towards where Ray lives. 78 and Sunny today nice break from the eighties. have to get more plants in the ground. Josh good luck with the job search ! Jim looks like you survived the wife's get togthere . Well have to go have my mroning coffee and see hat trouble I can get into. Hope you all have a real nice day also !!!!!
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suprduc
Member
Hello all.
Absolute chaos around here with record floods threatening to destroy more towns than what the tornados did about three weeks ago. I cannot even begin to describe the damage that has occurred here in the last couple of days but, I can say that the communities have done a fantastic job of coming together for sandbagging, moving people belonging's out, and for taking care of those who have been put out.
For me, I am away from the rivers and creeks that have been affected but have a few friends and family that did not fair so well. Houses that have never seen river water before are surrounded and full of around 7+ feet of water now. One of my coworkers lost everything except his truck and some clothing, my mother-in-law lost everything but one of her two cars, some clothing, and pictures.
The river crested this morning at 7 feet higher than ever before and now we are to get 3+" of rain North of here which will flow down this way. Sure hope it quits sometime soon.
Absolute chaos around here with record floods threatening to destroy more towns than what the tornados did about three weeks ago. I cannot even begin to describe the damage that has occurred here in the last couple of days but, I can say that the communities have done a fantastic job of coming together for sandbagging, moving people belonging's out, and for taking care of those who have been put out.
For me, I am away from the rivers and creeks that have been affected but have a few friends and family that did not fair so well. Houses that have never seen river water before are surrounded and full of around 7+ feet of water now. One of my coworkers lost everything except his truck and some clothing, my mother-in-law lost everything but one of her two cars, some clothing, and pictures.
The river crested this morning at 7 feet higher than ever before and now we are to get 3+" of rain North of here which will flow down this way. Sure hope it quits sometime soon.
rhoward
S.L.O.&W. Trainman
Mornin' everyone!
Carl my prayers to you, your family, and friends who are dealing with the flooding out there. While I have been personally lucky in that regards, I lived only a few miles north of where the Susquehanna and Chemung rivers come together back in the 1970s. My house was about a quarter mile from the Susquehanna in Waverly, NY. I remember all too well the horror of the Agnes flooding there. I had sung in the Athens, PA Presbyterian Church the Sunday before the flood. The following Sunday it was under 27' of water. Stay safe!
Turned out we didn't get much in the way of storms last night. The worst went to the South and North of us. Every time I would see a cell coming at Geneva, it would split or die out just before us. Today i am cleaning the house as company may be stopping in this weekend as we celebrate my Granddaughter's first birthday. Olivia's party will be held at the State Park in Geneva on Seneca Lake. Hopefully the weather will be good!
Josh hope everything works out for the best for you!
Have a great day!
Carl my prayers to you, your family, and friends who are dealing with the flooding out there. While I have been personally lucky in that regards, I lived only a few miles north of where the Susquehanna and Chemung rivers come together back in the 1970s. My house was about a quarter mile from the Susquehanna in Waverly, NY. I remember all too well the horror of the Agnes flooding there. I had sung in the Athens, PA Presbyterian Church the Sunday before the flood. The following Sunday it was under 27' of water. Stay safe!
Turned out we didn't get much in the way of storms last night. The worst went to the South and North of us. Every time I would see a cell coming at Geneva, it would split or die out just before us. Today i am cleaning the house as company may be stopping in this weekend as we celebrate my Granddaughter's first birthday. Olivia's party will be held at the State Park in Geneva on Seneca Lake. Hopefully the weather will be good!
Josh hope everything works out for the best for you!
Have a great day!
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suprduc
Member
Thanks Ray, we appreciate your prayers. Having grown up around the water I have seen quite a bit but nothing like this. Water is such a powerful natural element that it is very much underestimated by some. I saw the same coverage from Wisconsin that Stve is referencing and we count our lucky stars that we are not experiencing the same here. Truly a scary situation for a lot of people.
Hi all!
Carl: The whole nation is praying for all of you that have had so much flooding. Where are all the billions of dollars in aid like New Orleans got
? You don't have to answer as most of us know.
Jim: I hate to pop your balloon about gas prices coming down, but the Energy Dept. is now predicting $4.00/gal through 2009, with a possible $4.25 by this July 4 and $4.15 in August.
Carl: The whole nation is praying for all of you that have had so much flooding. Where are all the billions of dollars in aid like New Orleans got
? You don't have to answer as most of us know.Jim: I hate to pop your balloon about gas prices coming down, but the Energy Dept. is now predicting $4.00/gal through 2009, with a possible $4.25 by this July 4 and $4.15 in August.
Steve B
Firefighter
Hey Rex, don't mention fuel,,, we are looking forward to a strike by tanker drivers starting this friday, panic buying has set in big time round here, the police had to be called to one garage near here 
MAD
Anyway TANK fun this week involved a total strip down to fit low ration gearboxes, a new PCB as i fried the last one, while i was at it i moved everything round in the hull so the PCB is now very close to a grille and a PC fan i installed to cool it down, it's also up high so if i go for a swim it won't get wet, this was a fun task i can tell you, but still easier than trying to get things done in a OO scale train 
MADAnyway TANK fun this week involved a total strip down to fit low ration gearboxes, a new PCB as i fried the last one, while i was at it i moved everything round in the hull so the PCB is now very close to a grille and a PC fan i installed to cool it down, it's also up high so if i go for a swim it won't get wet, this was a fun task i can tell you, but still easier than trying to get things done in a OO scale train
Afternoon everyone.
Carl, glad to hear from you and that you are OK. The flooding that's taking place in the midwest is absolutely unprecedented and I wish there was some hope the rains would end soon but it doesn't look good. I feel badly for all the people who are so affected by all these storms and am keeping them in my prayers. As you said, nature has nothing that equals the power and unstopability of water.
Steve, that's really odd that they would have fired a CS round towards or into a vehicle. It's not something that would usually be done in training because tear gas doesn't work in a vehicle - you just roll the windows down to disperse it. Assuming they are using the same type of CS rounds that we do, they are 37mm rounds fired from a bloop gun. If the round was fired directly at the officer, it wouldn't matter if he had body armor or not. The 37mm round is a slightly modified version of the 37mm antitank gun round from WWII and will go right through your body at close range. Sounds like someone fired the weapon by accident and at the wrong time. Sad but these things do happen.
Joash, if you have a chance for the police officer position, take it, especially if it's something you always wanted to do. Once complete the academy and get your POST certificate, you can get on with any police department in California. The pay is really good now. I know that LASO starts deputies right out of the academy at $60,000 a year and you can easily make $80,000 a year with overtime. It's a great career for a young, single guy. I really enjoyed it for the time I was a full-timer.
Hi Paul, yes, survived the hen party.
Ray, I remember Agnes and all the flodding, especially in Pensylvania and New York. Weren't those floods part of what put the last nail in the coffin of the Penn Central?
Rex, no balloon of mine to pop. I don't know when oil prices will come down, I just know they wil, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. In the meantime, we'll have to pay higher prices for a while but, when the long speculators finally sell out, you'll see oil fall like a rock. I'm not smart enough to time commodity markets but I've seen these kind of panics before and they always end in a crash. The price gyrations of oil in the last few days are usually the first sign that things are coming unraveled.
We actually got a 10 minute shower yesterday. Lots of thunderstorms all around us today but nothing organized. If we're lucky, we may get a little moe rain later today but I'm not holding my breath. The high was "only" 101 today but I guess I'll take it compared to what the folks in the midwest are going through.
Carl, glad to hear from you and that you are OK. The flooding that's taking place in the midwest is absolutely unprecedented and I wish there was some hope the rains would end soon but it doesn't look good. I feel badly for all the people who are so affected by all these storms and am keeping them in my prayers. As you said, nature has nothing that equals the power and unstopability of water.
Steve, that's really odd that they would have fired a CS round towards or into a vehicle. It's not something that would usually be done in training because tear gas doesn't work in a vehicle - you just roll the windows down to disperse it. Assuming they are using the same type of CS rounds that we do, they are 37mm rounds fired from a bloop gun. If the round was fired directly at the officer, it wouldn't matter if he had body armor or not. The 37mm round is a slightly modified version of the 37mm antitank gun round from WWII and will go right through your body at close range. Sounds like someone fired the weapon by accident and at the wrong time. Sad but these things do happen.
Joash, if you have a chance for the police officer position, take it, especially if it's something you always wanted to do. Once complete the academy and get your POST certificate, you can get on with any police department in California. The pay is really good now. I know that LASO starts deputies right out of the academy at $60,000 a year and you can easily make $80,000 a year with overtime. It's a great career for a young, single guy. I really enjoyed it for the time I was a full-timer.
Hi Paul, yes, survived the hen party.
Ray, I remember Agnes and all the flodding, especially in Pensylvania and New York. Weren't those floods part of what put the last nail in the coffin of the Penn Central?
Rex, no balloon of mine to pop. I don't know when oil prices will come down, I just know they wil, and I think it will be sooner rather than later. In the meantime, we'll have to pay higher prices for a while but, when the long speculators finally sell out, you'll see oil fall like a rock. I'm not smart enough to time commodity markets but I've seen these kind of panics before and they always end in a crash. The price gyrations of oil in the last few days are usually the first sign that things are coming unraveled.
We actually got a 10 minute shower yesterday. Lots of thunderstorms all around us today but nothing organized. If we're lucky, we may get a little moe rain later today but I'm not holding my breath. The high was "only" 101 today but I guess I'll take it compared to what the folks in the midwest are going through.
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I was out looking at a new refrigerator today. My old one finally bit the dust after fourteen years of faithful service. If the new one lasts that long I'll be happy. It will be delivered tomorrow afternoon. In the meantime I have the stuff that was in mine in one of my parents refrigerators.
vato loco
Just a Foolish Saint!
Here's a news flash!
How dumb do you have to be to run into a parked freight train!LOL's I don't care if the cops were chasing you.....That's still dumb!
Truck hits Sanford train; five killed
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/...n=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
How dumb do you have to be to run into a parked freight train!LOL's I don't care if the cops were chasing you.....That's still dumb!
Truck hits Sanford train; five killed
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/...n=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
rhoward
S.L.O.&W. Trainman
Yes, Agnes was one of the things that put them over the line. There was a 7 mile long spur in the Finger lakes popularly known as "the Corkscrew Railroad" that was originally a short line and then was absorbed by NYC. It went from Penn Yan to Dresden, NY 2% grade down to Dresden following the Keuka Outlet that connects with Seneca Lake. There was originally a canal that was alongside the and used part of the outlet. It was replaced by the railroad by the turn of the last century. There were a number of mills, the foundations and some remains can still be seen along the old railbed (now a walking trail). It was washed out during Agnes and the line was closed as it was not really profitable by that time anyway. Some time this summer I want to walk the trail and get some photos of what remains. there are some bridges and some track still in place.
Hey Jim, a stray cloud came by and gave us 1.31" in little over an hour
.
Ray, I think that was Agnes that came in across D.C., West Va., and then on up into Pa and New York while I was still working in Washington. All non-essential personal got the day off when she came across, but I had to fight my way in to work. If I remember, it took me an hour with no traffic to go 19 miles. My car was a sailboat most of the way .
.Ray, I think that was Agnes that came in across D.C., West Va., and then on up into Pa and New York while I was still working in Washington. All non-essential personal got the day off when she came across, but I had to fight my way in to work. If I remember, it took me an hour with no traffic to go 19 miles. My car was a sailboat most of the way
.
rhoward
S.L.O.&W. Trainman
Ray, I think that was Agnes that came in across D.C., West Va., and then on up into Pa and New York while I was still working in Washington. All non-essential personal got the day off when she came across, but I had to fight my way in to work. If I remember, it took me an hour with no traffic to go 19 miles. My car was a sailboat most of the way
June 1972, a rare June Hurricane. Actually was just off shore near Washington, made a second landfall near NYC came across PA and into the Southern Tier of NY as a tropical depression. It was not expected to come back inland and dump so much rain. It had been a dry spring, and major reservoirs up river were reluctant to dump water before the storm hit. When it did they had to dump massive amounts of water to not lose the dams which resulted in the damage where I lived. Some of the worst damage was in Elmira, NY. There is a line near the top of the second story of the Corning Glass museum that says, "water level June, ??, 1972". Floods are not nice!
Rex, we actually had one storm that parked over us and gave us 1.22" of rain too! It was a weird day. We had one period where we had storms headed our direction from the east, the south, and the north. Lots of outflow boundries left over tonight so I'm hoping for more of the same tomorrow. Couldn't have come at a better time, just after I got through watering the entire lawn.
Ray, let's hope another one like Agnes never hits up there. Most of those flood records should stand for at least the next hundred years or so.
Chris, bad guys have never been the brightest bunch of people I ever met. I suspect the driver was looking up trying to find that helicopter and not at the road when he plowed into the train. It was probably some minor warrants or drug possesion and five people died because at least one of them didn't want to post some bail. I've had people flee from me because of something as minor as an outstanding warrant for a speeding ticket. By the time we catch them, assuming they don't kill themselves or someone else, the $200 fine usually turned into about five felonies and 15 years in prison. All over one traffic ticket.
Ray, let's hope another one like Agnes never hits up there. Most of those flood records should stand for at least the next hundred years or so.
Chris, bad guys have never been the brightest bunch of people I ever met. I suspect the driver was looking up trying to find that helicopter and not at the road when he plowed into the train. It was probably some minor warrants or drug possesion and five people died because at least one of them didn't want to post some bail. I've had people flee from me because of something as minor as an outstanding warrant for a speeding ticket. By the time we catch them, assuming they don't kill themselves or someone else, the $200 fine usually turned into about five felonies and 15 years in prison. All over one traffic ticket.
vato loco
Just a Foolish Saint!
Goood Morning From Sunny Florida!
Weather:
8 AM 76 °F Partly Cloudy A mild start.
2 PM 90 °F Partly Cloudy / Thunderstorms Hot, humid, with scattered storms, especially inland.
10 PM 80 °F Clear Early evening storms, then partly cloudy.
Local and National News:
4 Dead, 40 Injured as Tornado Hits Boy Scout Camp in Iowa
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/...=11&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
Nightmare trip for Tampa grads
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/...n=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Personal Note:
We're now starting our rainy season finally! Every evening someone in florida see rain, Lots of hail too! I got those two days but nothing since, I hope we get lucky today! Yes Jim, people who get in trouble with the law ain't the sharpest blade on the mower! It seems lately the rash of stupid crimes are on the rise? Could it be with all this rain we have been getting has been washing them (Stupid people) out from under the rocks? O' well got to got to work! Blahhhhhhhhhhh. Have a nice day everyone!
Weather:
8 AM 76 °F Partly Cloudy A mild start.
2 PM 90 °F Partly Cloudy / Thunderstorms Hot, humid, with scattered storms, especially inland.
10 PM 80 °F Clear Early evening storms, then partly cloudy.
Local and National News:
4 Dead, 40 Injured as Tornado Hits Boy Scout Camp in Iowa
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/...=11&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.1.1
Nightmare trip for Tampa grads
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/myfox/...n=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Personal Note:
We're now starting our rainy season finally!
Every evening someone in florida see rain, Lots of hail too! I got those two days but nothing since, I hope we get lucky today! Yes Jim, people who get in trouble with the law ain't the sharpest blade on the mower! It seems lately the rash of stupid crimes are on the rise? Could it be with all this rain we have been getting has been washing them (Stupid people) out from under the rocks? O' well got to got to work! Blahhhhhhhhhhh. Have a nice day everyone!
Bill Tidler Jr.
Retired N&W/NS Signalman
06-12-2008
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Tipton T&T
Good Morning from Tipton IN !
Tipton T&T
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Good morning.
It's 73 here this morning and the sky is clear. A high in the low 90's is expected and it will be partly cloudy.
I'm expecting the new fridge to be delivered sometime today. They told me it would be in the afternoon but we all know how old Murphy works. Reschedule all your plans for the morning so you can be there in the afternoon but for some reason the delivery team arrives in the morning when you're not there, knocking all your plans into a cocked hat.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/12/2008
Heat Index: 77°F
Humidity: 95%
Dew Point: 70°F
So Far Today
High: 75°F
Low: 72°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 8mph NNE
Today High: 92 Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
It's 73 here this morning and the sky is clear. A high in the low 90's is expected and it will be partly cloudy.
I'm expecting the new fridge to be delivered sometime today. They told me it would be in the afternoon but we all know how old Murphy works. Reschedule all your plans for the morning so you can be there in the afternoon but for some reason the delivery team arrives in the morning when you're not there, knocking all your plans into a cocked hat.
Today's Weather for:
Sundown, LA 71446-6114 6/12/2008
Heat Index: 77°F
Humidity: 95%
Dew Point: 70°F
So Far Today
High: 75°F
Low: 72°F
Rain: 0.00"
Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Gust: 8mph NNE
Today High: 92 Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds around 10 mph.
Tonight Low: 72 Mostly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. South winds around 10 mph in the evening becoming light and variable.
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