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The Miscellaneous Thought Thread
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truecoat
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He wore the hat when he played keyboards with the Beach Boys so they started calling him captain and it stuck. Fun fact, Toni also played keyboards with the Beach Boys after she met the Captain and some consider her the only "Beach Girl."
TP2000
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I absolutely love that we have people here who can chat knowledgeably about the Captain & Tennille, interspersed randomly by photos of Herve Villachez using the phones at the Bell System exhibit at Disneyland!!! 
Thank you one and all for making this diverse and rather bizarre little community so much fun!
Thank you one and all for making this diverse and rather bizarre little community so much fun!
TP2000
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In other news, I'm calling it right now... there is going to be big flooding in California statewide within a week or two. That new forest they planted on the southern berm of Star Wars Land is going to be well watered by Easter!
Grow you darn forest, grow! GROW!
The state's biggest dams at Oroville and Shasta will be overtopping their spillways later this spring, I bet everyone 10 churros on it!
Huge "atmospheric rivers" are aiming back at the state for next week and beyond. The weather is naturally warming up as we head into spring, especially below 6,000 feet and south of Bakersfield. (Northern Cal and mountains above 6,000 feet are still going to get HUGE snows and blizzards with next week's storm system, but SoCal snow in LA and SB mountains always melts fast by mid March!)
There are some model runs now calling for 12 feet or more of new snow widespread in the Sierras by next week. Even if only the weakest model runs happen, they'll get six feet of additional snow from Mammoth to Mount Shasta. Then it's going to melt, because the Northern Hemisphere warms in March and April. Then it's going to flood in California's valleys, perhaps catastrophically.
Have a plan. Have food and medicine and supplies and fuel to last two weeks. Have a way to physically defend yourself and your family, especially if you live in a community where you barely know your neighbors. (Waving occasionally when you get the mail doesn't count.)
Fun Fact: For decades we called this type of big rains the "Pineapple Express", or just "Lotso rain!". But now we call it "Atmospheric Rivers!", because apparently that sounds more serious or something? Or did someone at Dole headquarters complain about bad PR?
Grow you darn forest, grow! GROW!
The state's biggest dams at Oroville and Shasta will be overtopping their spillways later this spring, I bet everyone 10 churros on it!
Huge "atmospheric rivers" are aiming back at the state for next week and beyond. The weather is naturally warming up as we head into spring, especially below 6,000 feet and south of Bakersfield. (Northern Cal and mountains above 6,000 feet are still going to get HUGE snows and blizzards with next week's storm system, but SoCal snow in LA and SB mountains always melts fast by mid March!)
There are some model runs now calling for 12 feet or more of new snow widespread in the Sierras by next week. Even if only the weakest model runs happen, they'll get six feet of additional snow from Mammoth to Mount Shasta. Then it's going to melt, because the Northern Hemisphere warms in March and April. Then it's going to flood in California's valleys, perhaps catastrophically.
Have a plan. Have food and medicine and supplies and fuel to last two weeks. Have a way to physically defend yourself and your family, especially if you live in a community where you barely know your neighbors. (Waving occasionally when you get the mail doesn't count.)
Fun Fact: For decades we called this type of big rains the "Pineapple Express", or just "Lotso rain!". But now we call it "Atmospheric Rivers!", because apparently that sounds more serious or something? Or did someone at Dole headquarters complain about bad PR?
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Disney Analyst
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In other news, I'm calling it right now... there is going to be big flooding in California statewide within a week or two. That new forest they planted on the southern berm of Star Wars Land is going to be well watered by Easter!
Grow you darn forest, grow! GROW!
The state's biggest dams at Oroville and Shasta will be overtopping their spillways later this spring, I bet everyone 10 churros on it!
Huge "atmospheric rivers" are aiming back at the state for next week and beyond. The weather is naturally warming up as we head into spring, especially below 6,000 feet and south of Bakersfield. (Northern Cal and mountains above 6,000 feet are still going to get HUGE snows and blizzards with next week's storm system, but SoCal snow in LA and SB mountains always melts fast by mid March!)
There are some model runs now calling for 12 feet or more of new snow widespread in the Sierras by next week. Even if only the weakest model runs happen, they'll get six feet of additional snow from Mammoth to Mount Shasta. Then it's going to melt, because the Northern Hemisphere warms in March and April. Then it's going to flood in California's valleys, perhaps catastrophically.
Have a plan. Have food and medicine and supplies and fuel to last two weeks. Have a way to physically defend yourself and your family, especially if you live in a community where you barely know your neighbors. (Waving occasionally when you get the mail doesn't count.)
Fun Fact: For decades we called this type of big rains the "Pineapple Express", or just "Lotso rain!". But now we call it "Atmospheric Rivers!", because apparently that sounds more serious or something? Or did someone at Dole headquarters complain about bad PR?
I had also never heard the term atmospheric river until November 2021, when we faced one. It’s no joke. Our major highway connecting the lower mainland and the interior was destroyed, it’s still being fixed. Abbotsford and Chilliwack area were underwater. It was crazy.
We had a heat dome that summer (619 deaths), crazy wildfire season (entire town of Lytton gone), and an atmospheric river that fall (640,000 livestock deaths, 5 human).
Not good times in 2021.
disneyC97
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I feel like I should say “Tony Orlando and Dawn” just because.I absolutely love that we have people here who can chat knowledgeably about the Captain & Tennille, interspersed randomly by photos of Herve Villachez using the phones at the Bell System exhibit at Disneyland!!!
Thank you one and all for making this diverse and rather bizarre little community so much fun!
TP2000
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For decades it was called a "Pineapple Express" by West Coast TV weathermen. Or just "A lot of precipitation" or "heavy rain".
But for some reason in 2023 the phrasing of the Pineapple Express was dumped in favor of "Atmospheric River", which (according to Google) is a term long used by meteorologists and scientists to describe how air moisture flows in tight streams at times across the vast Pacific ocean.
My only guess is that the local TV and media are trying to sound more professional or more serious as "meteorologists" instead of just local TV newscasters, and using the new-to-them catchphrase "Atmospheric River" makes them sound cooler and less hokey.
Whatever you call it, we sure have had a lot of rain and snow this winter!
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BasiltheBatLord
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This guy is currently on a trip to ride every operational attraction at every Disney park in the world. He just started yesterday in Paris and has finished Studios with one more ride left at DLP before he goes on to Shanghai.
SuddenStorm
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Someone should price out how much a trip like this costs. $15k is my guess. If not $20k
BasiltheBatLord
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Masks are FINALLY optional at Tokyo Disney starting next week. I believe this makes Shanghai the only park left worldwide with an active mask mandate.
Phroobar
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It's not real money if you use a credit card.
brb1006
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What about Christopher Robin? I actually liked that one.
Disney Analyst
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Phroobar
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Or 101 Dalmatians (1996) or 102 Dalmatians (2000). Live action remakes that are actually live action (not CG).
TP2000
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Talk about being Anti-Science! My God.
I have cancelled my 2020 Japan trip several times now, but am waiting to rebook until they get a handle on reality over there.
TP2000
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More good news for Disneyland's decades-old trees and landscaping with established root systems! 
Another huge chunk of California was lifted out of drought status today, a change made as of Tuesday before these next twoPineapple Expresses "Atmospheric Rivers!" come ashore late this week and through Monday.
Or for a more dramatic change, what the drought looked like just four months ago compared to March 7th...
From worst-case Exceptional Drought to Zero Drought in just 120 days! How come my diets don't work like this???
droughtmonitor.unl.edu
Another huge chunk of California was lifted out of drought status today, a change made as of Tuesday before these next two
Or for a more dramatic change, what the drought looked like just four months ago compared to March 7th...
From worst-case Exceptional Drought to Zero Drought in just 120 days! How come my diets don't work like this???
Current Map | U.S. Drought Monitor
droughtmonitor.unl.edu
waltography
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I need this in DCA. Screw thematic integrity, the park's a lost cause on that front.