Re: Weather Was: Summer Plans
  By: Daryl Stout to DAMON A. GETSMAN on Sun Aug 23 2015 13:30:21

 DS>  I don't do a much work with the BBS as I used to...including playing
 DS> the doors. But, I'm in the process of making a software switch from
 DS> Virtual Advanced to GT Power. The work isn't hard, but it sure is
 DS> tedious.

  Yeah I haven't gotten much time lately for my BBS, either, unfortunately. 
I'm probably letting some new users slide off due to my lack of time throwing
up new content and the like.  :P
  Virtual Advanced to GT Power?  GPU issues?

 DS>  The only thing I use Internet Explorer for is Windows Update.
 DS> Otherwise, I use Google Chrome.

  Yeah that's pretty much what I do when I'm on a windows box, too.

 DS>  Rob Swindell (aka Digital Man) just released version 3.16 of
 DS> Synchronet.

  Yep, I'm running 3.16b.

 DS>  I pass a lot of weather related traffic via amateur radio...and I've
 DS> been dubbed "The Jim Cantore Of D-Star". Jim Cantore is one of the
 DS> meteorologists with The Weather Channel...and D-Star is a digital mode
 DS> of amateur radio. But, unlike Jim Cantore...

  Heh.  Always good to have a little fame in your own circles of interest.  ;)

 DS>  Florida may be the lightning capital of the world, but at times, I
 DS> dare say that Arkansas is a close second.

  Yeah I was stuck out in the woods in Arkansas when I was cross-country
homeless at one point...  With my 2.5 year old son...  A cloudburst happened
right after I got the tent set up.  Still don't have any idea what else
could've been out in those woods off of the highway; I'm glad I never had the
opportunity to find out.  There was a _lot_ of lightning, though.  We were on a
hilltop, too, due to lack of time to find out exactly what resources we had to
workwith before the clouds opened up.  It was kind of a terrifying night...  I
wish I remember how far through the state we were at that point.  That was
awhile ago, now, though.

 DS>  With one episode of storms, in a 12 hour period, 25,000 lightning
 DS> strikes were recorded across Arkansas. In a 1 hour period during that
 DS> time, in Pulaski County (Little Rock), there were over 500 lightning
 DS> strikes!! One of those hit a power substation in west Little Rock,
 DS> putting much of the western part of the city in the dark for several
 DS> hours.

  I believe it.
  Ugh work calls.  :P

  -D
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