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TP2000

TP2000

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The first of April is an important day for California, as it marks the end of winter storms and the outlook on how the state's massive system of reservoirs and snowpack looks for the upcoming growing season.

And there's good news and bad news... šŸ§

The good news for Disneyland's gardeners and Horticulture Dept. is that California has a third year in a row of reservoirs above average (118%), and an exactly average year for snowpack statewide (100%), but that snowpack is well above average in the northern third of the state where most of the reservoir storage is found (121%)!

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The bad news is mainly contained to the Monsanto salesman who has the contract on Disneyland's Astroturf.

Sorry Mr. Monsanto salesman, but I think your best sales days in Anaheim are behind you. :(

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mickEblu

mickEblu

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TP2000 said:
The first of April is an important day for California, as it marks the end of winter storms and the outlook on how the state's massive system of reservoirs and snowpack looks for the upcoming growing season.

And there's good news and bad news... šŸ§

The good news for Disneyland's gardeners and Horticulture Dept. is that California has a third year in a row of reservoirs above average (117%), and an average year for snowpack statewide (99%), but that snowpack is well above average in the northern third of the state where most of the reservoir storage is found (121%)!

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The bad news is mainly contained to the Monsanto salesman who has the contract on Disneyland's Astroturf.

Sorry Mr. Monsanto salesman, but I think your best sales days in Anaheim are behind you. :(

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I want to see all the real grass back for the 70th!
 
chadwpalm

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Welp, it looks like I'm pulling the trigger and following in the footsteps of @TP2000 and moving out of California. The plan is to move to Henderson, NV. I'll be driving down at the end of May to apartment hunt (with a possible side trip to Disneyland on the way back) and looking to move late June or early July which is when my lease is up here.

Now TP will have someone to wave at when he's going down I-15 through Vegas!
 
TP2000

TP2000

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chadwpalm said:
Welp, it looks like I'm pulling the trigger and following in the footsteps of @TP2000 and moving out of California. The plan is to move to Henderson, NV. I'll be driving down at the end of May to apartment hunt (with a possible side trip to Disneyland on the way back) and looking to move late June or early July which is when my lease is up here.

Now TP will have someone to wave at when he's going down I-15 through Vegas!
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Come on in, the water's fine! šŸ¤£

You'll be amazed at how much cheaper day-to-day life is going to be; it all adds up. Electricity is cheaper, gasoline is cheaper, natural gas is cheaper, groceries are cheaper, taxes are much lower, etc., etc.

Also, people smile a lot more. And that's free.

I'm headed to San Diego later this month for a family Easter weekend, and then sticking around another week for a Concours car show in town for the sights and the parties, though you'll still be a Californian then. But about the second week in July (after my important judging duties are concluded for the neighborhood bike parade on the 4th and any audits of the scores are completed) is when I plan to make my main pilgrimage for the summer through September, so I'll honk when I get to the Starr Avenue offramp for you. šŸš˜
 
TP2000

TP2000

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That car fire today in the Pixar Pals structure is pretty dramatic, as car fires in full garages always tend to be. You can hear some tires popping, and it's reported the fire spread to multiple cars.

I wonder, with such low clearances, what type of equipment does the Anaheim Fire Department send into a structure like that?

 
TP2000

TP2000

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And.... don't you just love Google? In the old days, car fires were probably easier to deal with in the Disneyland parking lot, out in the open as it was.

This '56 Chevrolet is toast. What is that to the left? I'm thinking it's a 1960 or '61 Plymouth or Dodge station wagon? Those ugly early '60's things from Chrysler Corporation nearly crashed the company before they could all be redone for '65.

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Parteecia

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TP2000 said:
And.... don't you just love Google? In the old days, car fires were probably easier to deal with in the Disneyland parking lot, out in the open as it was.

This '56 Chevrolet is toast. What is that to the left? I'm thinking it's a 1960 or '61 Plymouth or Dodge station wagon? Those ugly early '60's things from Chrysler Corporation nearly crashed the company before they could all be redone for '65.

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One happened when I worked there, in the CM parking lot. A TR7, lucky for me not close to my car but it did take out a few around it. I still remember walking past the burned out hulk and its damaged neighbors on my way out.
 
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MoonRakerSCM

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Heading to Indiana and Kentucky in less than a month... have tickets to tour and visit Buffalo Trace Distillery... This is currently their gift shop-

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Not good news coming out of there. I hope people stay safe and that the impact is minimal...

Per USGS now (and reports from earlier today), the Kentucky River is expected to peak tomorrow morning at ~49.5ft (currently at 48.2 ft)-

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As a lowly Southern California peep, and one who calls a foot wide bit of water a 'river'... it's fascinating to see that the river has gone up ~FORTY FEET in the past 3 days. FORTY...

Stay safe anyone who's out in the cray weather back east lately.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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A few thoughts from my trip yesterday which happened to be the best one of the year. Beautiful warm spring day, not too crowded and got on a bunch of rides. Flowers blooming. Baby ducks walking around. Disneyland is in ā€œclassic modeā€ if you will. This is my Peak Disneyland.

Mickeys Runaway Railway works better when you stop viewing it as an E ticket (of a concept that had so much potential) and start viewing it as a modern Fantasyland style dark ride.

Hyperspace Mountain looked and felt better than ever yesterday. So Good. For me itā€™s the best Star Wars ride Disney has made if weā€™re talking about capturing the feeling of Star Wars with the adrenaline, classic Star Wars music and being in a dog fight in Space.

Rode ROTR yesterday for the first time in a while. So good to see the canons working again. What a difference they make for that scene. My sonā€™s theory was that ā€œthey turn them on for Season of the Force.ā€ Lol. Also as I looked around the transport scene during the pre show going back and forth between Admiral Ackbars doppleganger and the sceen in the back where we always sit. Feeling the simulators movements and just really taking it in right before we step into that cold gigantic hangar bay I couldnā€™t help but feel like ya know - maybe we are just a little jaded sometimes. Kind of crazy that ROTR only opened to lukewarm reception from non normies.

Rode Tiana too. Really stings that my son got over his fear of drops right after Splash closed. If nothing else please Disney just invest a few hundred k into that last tunnel of nothingness before the lift hill. Removing all the possums, rabbits and the two vultures for two screens is just criminal. Itā€™s well documented that Splash was my favorite ride at DL and TOT at DCA. Even though the structures and ride systems are still there it honestly feels like those rides are gone. What they were replaced with are so flat and one dimensional (in every sense of the words) that it honestly feels like theyā€™re gone compared to the attractions that preceded them. At least in the void of the feelings that those well rounded adventures evoked.
 
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