Random Jabber Jibber thread

[tangerinegreen555]

Yea it was like eerie like this weird gloomy color and everything stopped raining but there was stuff blowing but no wind sound and it was quiet like dead quiet and all the cars were pulled over

Yeah, I hear ya.

I'm not afraid of many things but I am afraid of storms.

A guy who was in my kindergarden class died on the golf course I was a member of in 1973. Lightning hit 20' away and jumped. He was 19 years old.

And I probably watched too many storm docs on the Weather Channel.

I guess that's why I have like 10 weather apps on my phone and a radar app on the 1st page.

 

[420God]

Anybody else's roads buckling because of the heat? We have 4 major highways undriveable right now.

 

[jerryb73]

Anybody else's roads buckling because of the heat? We have 4 major highways undriveable right now.

Nah, I think our roads are used to it..

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

not that hot here, our roads fall apart because 10 million assholes a year come to visit the park

 

[420God]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.stevenspointjournal.com/amp/748344002

 

[ChingOwn]

Anybody else's roads buckling because of the heat? We have 4 major highways undriveable right now.

For real man? I didnt even know that was a thing that could happen, course my average summer temp is 105. Only thing ever got closed was the Phoenix airport last year at 121 and that was because the planes tires were melting on the runway. Guess we just live in complete opposite climates, if it sneezes snow or rain freezes the whole state shuts down.

 

[tangerinegreen555]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.stevenspointjournal.com/amp/748344002

That's incredible.

Ours are so full of potholes and patches it's hard to notice. I've never heard of heat doing that. Ice and thaw and salt definitely fucks them up in spots. Maybe that makes them vulnerable to heat later?

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

they build the roads in section up north, with small gaps between them, to handle the expansion and contraction from the heat and cold, guess this year is just past the tolerance of the road...and it's just gonna get hotter....

 

[ANC]

 

[tangerinegreen555]

they build the roads in section up north, with small gaps between them, to handle the expansion and contraction from the heat and cold, guess this year is just past the tolerance of the road...and it's just gonna get hotter....

Come to think of it, that's why my old car with 22 yr. old suspension goes bump bump bump bump bump when I'm going 65 heading into the city.

There's a lot of black top patching going on there.

 

[420God]

This was a few years ago. Our roads don't like the heat.

 

[Olive Drab Green]

Anybody else's roads buckling because of the heat? We have 4 major highways undriveable right now.

My state’s notorious for sinkholes and potholes, heat be damned.

 

[Fubard]

Anybody else's roads buckling because of the heat? We have 4 major highways undriveable right now.

Naah, Belgian roads don't need excessive heat to fall apart, they're pretty much always a wreck.

 

[tangerinegreen555]

My state’s notorious for sinkholes and potholes, heat be damned.

And it's only going to get hotter and hotter.

That 200ppm of extra co2 now is great for growing though.

We're going to have to adapt, it's not getting fixed anytime soon.

 

[420God]

My state’s notorious for sinkholes and potholes, heat be damned.

I saw a commercial from Dominos saying they'd fix potholes on your road if you report them. Idk how I feel about corporations fixing our infastructure but it's a nice gesture I guess.

 

[Fubard]

For real man? I didnt even know that was a thing that could happen, course my average summer temp is 105. Only thing ever got closed was the Phoenix airport last year at 121 and that was because the planes tires were melting on the runway. Guess we just live in complete opposite climates, if it sneezes snow or rain freezes the whole state shuts down.

Had it happen here in Belgium, we had a heatwave and the road expanded more than the expansion joints allowed, one piece buckled up a couple of inches and people suddenly ended up with wrecked wheels and suspension when they hit it at 70mph.

 

[Singlemalt]

This was a few years ago. Our roads don't like the heat.

Prolly your melting permafrost

 

[Fubard]

That's incredible.

Ours are so full of potholes and patches it's hard to notice. I've never heard of heat doing that. Ice and thaw and salt definitely fucks them up in spots. Maybe that makes them vulnerable to heat later?

Of course it does, the patch expands and contracts at different speeds than the road, it doesn't bind properly with the old surface, water gets in behind it, add heating and cooling plus effects from the patch not being bedded in as well as the old road surface leading to more cracks, etc, around the patch so the patch gets looser, wears out faster, needs repatched sooner.

But the biggest difference is how the road is surfaced in the first case, the difference between Belgian roads and Dutch ones, never mind the German ones, being significant.

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

I saw a commercial from Dominos saying they'd fix potholes on your road if you report them. Idk how I feel about corporations fixing our infastructure but it's a nice gesture I guess.

i was thinking it was "shame" campaign, to make local governments get off their asses so they don't look like cheap lazy fucks....but apparently local governments are ok with being cheap lazy fucks, as long as they get to be cheap, lazy fucks..........

 

[Fubard]

i was thinking it was "shame" campaign, to make local governments get off their asses so they don't look like cheap lazy fucks....but apparently local governments are ok with being cheap lazy fucks, as long as they get to be cheap, lazy fucks..........

The old "we don't get enough money from the county/state/DC to pay our excessive salaries, expense accounts AND fix the roads" excuse?

Same everywhere, big snouts need big troughs.