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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