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Posted: Mon Sep 29th, 2008 12:25 am | 201st Post |
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Taking a stroll down a street in St Kitts
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Posted: Mon Sep 29th, 2008 01:59 am | 202nd Post |
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| Dave, are those AC units on the buildings on the left or something totally different?
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Posted: Mon Sep 29th, 2008 03:45 am | 203rd Post |
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hstrybuf wrote: Dave, are those AC units on the buildings on the left or something totally different?
York split systems. Two tons (24,000btu/hr) central A/C units. Necessary in the Caribbean to avoid pig-like sweating!
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Posted: Tue Sep 30th, 2008 12:47 am | 204th Post |
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Don't you just love it when big corporations make careless mistakes in public? Since I cruise in November I sure hope I don't have to wait for an extra day in September! This was up all day....I can't believe nobody noticed it and fixed it...
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Posted: Tue Sep 30th, 2008 01:24 am | 205th Post |
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great shots, kimdave...all of them.
grinningramps wrote:
Don't you just love it when big corporations make careless mistakes in public? Since I cruise in November I sure hope I don't have to wait for an extra day in September! This was up all day....I can't believe nobody noticed it and fixed it...
LOL, gg.
you should email them "RoyGBiv" and "Never Eat Sour Watermelons", as reminders.
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Posted: Wed Oct 1st, 2008 03:15 am | 206th Post |
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I think I found the reason why so many of us claim the Dawn as their favorite!
Even on a BAD mushroom day, rest assured we can find our way home!
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Posted: Wed Oct 1st, 2008 03:17 am | 207th Post |
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| Interesting shot Dave!
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Posted: Wed Oct 1st, 2008 05:33 pm | 208th Post |
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Belize City Light
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 02:12 am | 209th Post |
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Bad camera day Dave? 
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 06:38 pm | 210th Post |
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hstrybuf wrote: Bad camera day Dave?
I'll be on her in 10 days. I let you know if she looks that way after the martini clinic.
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 06:52 pm | 211th Post |
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From the Crown Last October
Attachment: P1000844.jpg (Downloaded 100 times) Last edited on Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 06:58 pm by captN
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goodml wrote: hstrybuf wrote: Bad camera day Dave?
I'll be on her in 10 days. I let you know if she looks that way after the martini clinic.
dont miss the smallest drawbridge in the world
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 07:11 pm | 213th Post |
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captN wrote: goodml wrote: hstrybuf wrote: Bad camera day Dave?
I'll be on her in 10 days. I let you know if she looks that way after the martini clinic.
dont miss the smallest drawbridge in the world
Where is this?
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Calmac wrote: captN wrote: goodml wrote: hstrybuf wrote: Bad camera day Dave?
I'll be on her in 10 days. I let you know if she looks that way after the martini clinic.
dont miss the smallest drawbridge in the world
Where is this?
In Bermuda on the road to Kings Warf
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 07:14 pm | 215th Post |
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captN wrote: Calmac wrote: captN wrote: goodml wrote: hstrybuf wrote: Bad camera day Dave?
I'll be on her in 10 days. I let you know if she looks that way after the martini clinic.
dont miss the smallest drawbridge in the world
Where is this?
In Bermuda on the road to Kings Warf
Yet another reason to visit Bermuda. Still considering NCL Dawn in October 09.
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 09:33 pm | 216th Post |
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hstrybuf wrote: Bad camera day Dave?
Ocho Rios...enough said.
Pales in comparison to absinthe day in the Big Apple! 
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Posted: Thu Oct 2nd, 2008 11:33 pm | 217th Post |
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... chuckling here.
Haven't tried the real Absinth...yet. The Green Fairy. Hopefully there is still time, maybe i should try it just before I go totally senile.
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Posted: Sat Oct 4th, 2008 06:12 am | 218th Post |
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Bad landing day.
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 01:15 am | 219th Post |
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| an expensive mistake?? pilot error??
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 02:55 am | 220th Post |
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Actually a victim of Hurricane Wilma.
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 03:05 am | 221st Post |
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I thought of you today when I read this....
http://www.newsday.com/ny-bc-ny--gaspump-lightning1003oct03,0,2105307.story
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seawitches wrote: I thought of you today when I read this....
http://www.newsday.com/ny-bc-ny--gaspump-lightning1003oct03,0,2105307.story
The last incident in 2006 was just like that. I did not see the bolt but the sparks from it fell around me and the shock was incredibly strong like when you hit your funny bone but 1000x worse and from head to toe! I was defauling a large bilge strainer when it hit and was lying in a foot of water at the time and thought for sure I was going to drown as I could feel myself passing out with my face nearly in the water.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kogmz2Qacyo
Nice shot on water! I've had them hit even closer to me while on a dinghy. The flash is orange from the sodium in the saltwater and the misty breeze is warm like that feeling when you really cut yourself and you feel blood running down your face.
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 08:38 pm | 223rd Post |
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| YIKES!!. Catching that bolt on film would've made my day!!!
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 09:58 pm | 224th Post |
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That would be the rare gigabolt which can lay one on their ass miles away picking its destructive path along buried paths in the ground.
I've yet to capture one as a still in the open but this is what it looks like fairly close:
In 1993 while filming severe weather cloud formations (the early development of a tornadic vortex directly overhead) a gigabolt struck the neighboring building and electrified the doorframe I was standing in sufficiently to send a streamer into my left arm, through my body and into the video camera I was holding. My fingerprints were burned into that camera. The tape had to be mechanically extracted and shortly after doing so I was anxious to see what I captured. I was frantically trying to get a free 8mm deck and pulled out an a/v cart and begain unplugging patch cords from the bay when I felt it again! Sparks jumped from the connectors to my hands holdhing the cables at the same time I heard another explosion outside! Yet another bolt struck and lit up the CATV feeds! So I thought three strikes and you're out so I sat down for a while.
When I finally watched the tape it was like watching one of those videos from the Iraq war. A camera mounted on a missile where you see video until it reaches its target then you see snow. So if it killed me that's all that would have showed up!
Since it's so hard to predict when the lightning is going to strike the next step is to be able to do it by pushing a button. Triggered lightning is nothing new. NASA has been doing it at Wallops for years with rockets with wires. The new way is to create a plasma trail with a powerful laser. Basically you shoot at the cloud and it shoots back! 
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Posted: Sun Oct 5th, 2008 10:37 pm | 225th Post |
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| Amazing pic Dave.
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