IronTy
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I went to the location for our property on the website and it seems to more or less match Onx. Maybe the listing was being generous with the height, I never bothered to confirm the exact value but I guess I will do that this weekend. I like the Onx map because you can view property boundaries in conjunction with your exact GPS location which is nice because it's a large property and sometimes I don't know where I am in the forest.
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According to my topo map it definitely peaks above 3k on our property. I'll measure the high point with my phone gps this weekend and confirm. It could be off but we'll see.
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16-21 was a dumpster fire so I'll take 10-13. I recall a few good events in there. Or at least cold and wind...
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It was unexpectedly hot here today. Low dewps but the wind and sun made it feel like a furnace. Also surprised at how fast we are all of a sudden dry as a bone. Trees and shrubs are really suffering, especially those planted in the past year or two. Leaves are really falling now. Leaving for Bittinger to spend the weekend camping on the mountain property tomorrow morning after rush hour. Temp here is 85 now vs 70 in Bittinger woo hoo. And I'm sure it's even cooler than that on top of meadow mountain 3300ft (where we are located)
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
IronTy replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
Consolation prize, decent rainbow while walking the pup. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk -
2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
IronTy replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
Total failure. Even the showers collapsed and it's back to sun. Drought of the century marches onward. At least it's cooler. -
2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
IronTy replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
A verifiable travesty. -
2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
IronTy replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
What a bunch of horseshit. Line collapsed and then a new one flared right to my east basically along the entire bay. So far more dead leaves have fallen than raindrops. HRRR might win the day on this one. Hopefully that line of showers at least keeps its shit together. -
2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
IronTy replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
I've been getting stressed but that southern end appears to be refiring over SoMD. Just in time, hoooooold it!! -
2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
IronTy replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
Me watching RadarScope...
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Severe Wx Thread (General Discussion Etc)
IronTy replied to Kmlwx's topic in Mid Atlantic
90/67 in huntingtown. Still mostly sunny with nary a breeze. -
Even early this morning in the shade I worked up a major sweat just washing the car. Today sucks, these storms better produce
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We just can't know yet.
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2022 Mid-Atlantic Garden, Lawn, and Other Green Stuff Thread
IronTy replied to mattie g's topic in Mid Atlantic
Just waiting on the pattern shift to overseed.... -
I was confused also, he seemed to sort of contradict himself, at least to me. But the way it was written I was able to interpret it as bullish for cold and snow this winter with PV appearances....so I'm taking it as gospel at least til December when I capitulate and make my way to The Panic Room.
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Bring on the volcanic winter*. *But give me a heads up so I can can more meat and get more firewood first.
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Ok I'll admit it. I hate endless summer. As a HS'er running cross country I can't imagine having to deal with this crap. In Michigan I can remember running in snow with 5/8" spikes in October. Down here it's just as likely I'd be running topless through sprinklers in November. Where's a solid volcano eruption when we need it?
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There's Sudden Oak Death disease which I believe started on the west coast. I believe I live relatively close to @CAPE but on the west side of the Chesapeake (?)...we haven't had any issues with oak here to date. Heat and drought seem to be a larger problem. One tree that has really suffered here recently are white pines. Dozens of landscape white pines have died down here in the last ten years just on my way to work. Not sure the reason, I assume heat/drought. I have one that grows like 5ft per year but this winter when we got all that snow the top broke off so now it looks all funky. Seems healthy otherwise though. Loblolly pine seem to grow better down here.
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I agree. From the heavy snow in January this year a number of locust trees came down in our development so of course i went out with the muck truck and chainsaw to harvest them. I had to sharpen my chainsaw quite a bit cutting the locust. That and leatherwood are extremely hard. The locust trees are never really large enough to split around here so I can't comment on that. I had to make a rocket launcher for my senior project as a EE major. A log splitter would have been a lot more useful, wish that had been my capstone.
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If you have a deck to measure snow depth, at that elevation you might get some snow while the rest of us get mix to rain. I'm at about 90' in Calvert though we have 3400' in Bittinger.
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Electric is nice and easy - quiet and lightweight but you're limited by the design which is for a standard 15A circuit breaker so there's only so much they can do. I've used my little Honda generator to use it in more remote locations but really gasoline is better for serious work. We mostly have tulip poplar to split around here after storms. Randomly the county came by and cut down a while bunch of trees by the sides of the road early this year so I went out with my chainsaw and muck truck and got all my firewood this winter for free. The tulip trees are randomly easy to split, even huge logs. I'll get a gasoline one for the mountain property though.
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Awesome. In a previous life I did flight test instrumentation. RTDs, T/Cs, strain gages, etc. Never did any work on ships though. Sounds like a cool job to get paid for. Bet you get to work on some cool ships.
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Oh I have a hundred years worth of forest to harvest as firewood, but you know what's easier than that? $500 and a phone. Down here in SoMD I agree with you. I can usually find cut wood and split it myself with my electric-hydraulic splitter. We're always one hurricane away from a lifetime's worth of firewood, yes?
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Was that the winter he had his JMA total capitulation? It was so embarrassing, I felt bad for him.
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Oh do expand on that. I'm a consulting engineer for the O&G industry so I do all sorts of automation and electrical engineering which includes world scale tanker ships. Gotta keep Europe's lights on for the time being (local electric bills be damned).
