In Other News...
Feb. 23rd, 2015 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonWho's got the whole Jap army, chasing him around?
Godzilla the freshman, the biggest guy in town!
Who wrecks the entire city, turns it upside down?
Godzilla the freshman, the biggest guy in town!
He stomped my ukelele! He stomped my saxophone!
He ate all our professors, and now the school's gone!
Who has destroyed Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Brown?
Godzilla the freshman, the biggest guy in town!
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So, it looks as though Greece may be allowed to remain part of the German Empire after all.
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I've seen it speculated a few times now that both sides want Greece out, but neither one wants to be seen as the proximate cause.
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So, it snowed heavily here Saturday, and while I cleaned off most of the car, I didn't bother with the roof. Thus it was that I had a big thick patch of snow up there that froze hard when the temperature plumetted again Sunday. Today, the sun heated the interior of the car, and melted off a lot of the snow from the roof, despite it being only about 10F out. The melt ran down, and in the shade under the rear bumper formed these big fat stalactites that fused to the pavement in a kind of ice curtain. It made a huge, loud *boom!* when I drove off and it broke loose.
Godzilla the freshman, the biggest guy in town!
Who wrecks the entire city, turns it upside down?
Godzilla the freshman, the biggest guy in town!
He stomped my ukelele! He stomped my saxophone!
He ate all our professors, and now the school's gone!
Who has destroyed Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Brown?
Godzilla the freshman, the biggest guy in town!
*****
So, it looks as though Greece may be allowed to remain part of the German Empire after all.
*****
I've seen it speculated a few times now that both sides want Greece out, but neither one wants to be seen as the proximate cause.
*****
So, it snowed heavily here Saturday, and while I cleaned off most of the car, I didn't bother with the roof. Thus it was that I had a big thick patch of snow up there that froze hard when the temperature plumetted again Sunday. Today, the sun heated the interior of the car, and melted off a lot of the snow from the roof, despite it being only about 10F out. The melt ran down, and in the shade under the rear bumper formed these big fat stalactites that fused to the pavement in a kind of ice curtain. It made a huge, loud *boom!* when I drove off and it broke loose.
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Date: 2015-02-24 12:58 am (UTC)This morning's wind-chill in my area was -40. Don't ask whether that's °C or °F — they're the same at -40. It's been weeks since my dog got walkies. Thankfully he's doing better with the puppy pad this year than last. The non-wind-chill low was -27°C (-17°F).
Can we have some Global Warming? Please?
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Date: 2015-02-24 01:41 am (UTC)I don't see that being one of the likely outcomes. First, it's by no means clean ice. There's dust and salt incorporated into the stalactite, plus the parking lot surface is dirty, and the underside of my bumper is likely none too clean as well. The ice is unlikely to adhere strongly to either surface, plus my bumper uses a spring mount like all modern cars do. Since I backed out of the space, the bumper's taking compression in a direction that it was designed to survive, and much less (I'm reasonably sure) of a compressive load than it was designed to take. The ice curtain is about ten inches long, so that's a hell of a lot of shear forces operating on something that is presumably poorly-attached at either end.
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Date: 2015-02-24 01:45 am (UTC)