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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

here we go....no Bueno...

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-06-27-saharan-dust-africa-caribbean-texas
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jnd1959 · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 6:25 pm Post subject:

Since I'll never make it to Africa, I pulled out one of those small glass jars that we put stuff from our trips in. I'm going to stand outside and see if I can accumulate enough sand to say I've been to the Sahara....er, the Sahara has been to me, actually.

OneMoreCast88 · Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2018 7:33 pm Post subject:

I live in South Florida and the dust is forecasted to lower the chance of summer rain. I will update if anything interesting happens.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:07 am Post subject:

had a business trip (gas turbine compressor coating inspection) to Cote d'Ivorie and took a tarpon rod, but my schedule didn't let me use it (some inspections had me show up at 3am). I did make the drive from Abidjan to the coast my last free afternoon. Remarkable difference between the city life and the idyllic life along the coast there.
I was set up at the best hotel, where the president ate his lunch every day, and had a personal driver. The president owned the power plant, 4 frame-9 GTs simple cycle, making 1.5 GW, about the same need as San Antonio, but selling power to 4 west African countries.

Coolest part of the trip was when the plant engineer took me to his favorite restaurant. The fare was about an 8-lb drum grilled whole, served with the head and a bowl of red sauce. The local brew was porter, and quite good. Used to Europeans, my host told me "white people can't eat the sauce."
Turned out to be ancho peppers, basically adobo sauce - baby's milk for around here.
You'd take a piece of fish in your fingers, dip it in the sauce, and hose-off your hands after the meal was done. The whole restaurant stopped to watch the white guy eat the sauce

Texican · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 7:15 am Post subject:

Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

cool story bulldog
becky
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Vern · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 11:35 am Post subject: I like this part best

"Some minor amounts of African dust will affect the Texas coastline through Thursday, according to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ)."
Coming down on Thursday hope its mostly gone by then. BUT then again since I am going to PINS blowing sand is kind of expected anyway.
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 3974

the skies are pretty hazy out there today!
becky
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jnd1959 · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:42 pm Post subject:

Sounds like a cool business trip bulldog. If I ever get a chance to harass cape buffalo, I'll swing up to the Ivory coast and inquire about the gringo who could handle the red sauce. Very Happy

bulldog1935 · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 4:22 pm Post subject:

waking up on Air France - when the flight attendant asks you if you want orange juice, you don't care what it is, you want it. voulez-vous du jus d'orange
Also, the scariest sight I know is flying across the Sahara - even at 33,000'. It's size is unbelievable.

thanks guys, my Alaska chronicles are amazing. I've fished every week of summer into September, and can guide the Russian and all the Kenai creeks. Of course, if you can fall in the river, you have all the skill needed to catch fish in Alaska.
Gas turbines make all the electricity in AK and of course they overhaul them in summer.
Noteworthy about Alaska business. When you arrive at your work destination, the first thing your client asks is how you plan to play when the work is done. If you don't have a plan, they get pissed - I bought you a ticket up here, and you're not going to take advantage of it.
Obviously, they never said that to me unless they were telling on somebody else.

other good trips include babysitting a critical part fabrication in Olean, NY over a weekend, and took the weekend into the PA Grand Canyon. From the get-go, planned to spend my weekend there. Stayed at a now-defunct B&B (old hotel) on Pine Creek (where the Presidents fish). Turned into a great weekend. The owner was from SA, his chef cooked the way I like to eat. The chef got up in the morning, made my breakfast tacos, packed me a lunch, sent me down the fire roads on a mountain bike to fish Pine Creek and Slate Run.

I could keep going on business trips and exploring rivers and creeks, especially trout fishing - probably helps that I've been a natural reading water since I was 12yo

Vern · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:28 pm Post subject:

Donnie · Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 8:43 pm Post subject:

If you want to see a hellaceous dust storm, you should have been in midland this evening.
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BayFly · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 9:02 pm Post subject:

Well, I don't know about CC, but the Sahara dust storm has reached Austin! Our sky was full of dust all day and it's orange tinted.
Crying or Very sad

Donnie · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2018 9:13 pm Post subject: