@halifaxhops that sure is a nice looking Malibu you have for sale.
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Mustang madness today.
I have a feeling this isnt going to be any fun. I think the aftermarket motor mount is going to interfere with the rack mount.
I have a feeling this isnt going to be any fun. I think the aftermarket motor mount is going to interfere with the rack mount.
Yes, It was a beautiful city until the storm went through. Hiawatha (north Cedar Rapids) was hit hard with 106 mph straight line winds for about a half hour. We weren't effected as the storm was further south. You can see crop damage start about 15 miles south of Waterloo and it gets worse the further south you go.
yeah and because its a flyover state, the main stream isn't covering it very much. A couple sentences here or there. They're estimating 14 million acres of corn and soybeans were destroyed. Iowa is one of the top 3 crop producing states in the US and the world for that matter, and thats not counting the number of crops lost when several grain bins and silos went with the wind. Given grocery prices were already thru the roof this year with covid, its gonna go up even more.
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Stuff like that makes me appreciate the 40 and 50mph paint stripping, chrome wrecking, windshield pitting winds we had in the desert.
My SIL Picked it up to make a few bucks, he is impatient though....
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Ewww just had a wicked thought about the ready mix plants i used to run, most of which had a cement silo sticking 60' up and usually with 50 tons of cement in them and a wind like that. 
Yep!!!!!Ewww just had a wicked thought about the ready mix plants i used to run, most of which had a cement silo sticking 60' up and usually with 50 tons of cement in them and a wind like that.
each of those bins has got to be at least 30-60 thousand bushells or more. I mean, my bin i just bought is a 10,900 bushel bin and its maybe 1/4 of the size of those.
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As a farmer these pictures just rip my heart out. The second and third tier consequences of this agricultural destruction are immeasurable.
There was a lot of last years crop lost in the grain bin damage as well as the flattened present crop. Iowa grows about 20% of the world's corn.
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The flattened mound there in the upper left was where we stored our form lumber when we were remodeling SLC 6 at Vandenberg. My concrete plant right next to those yellow refer trailers/shop. One afternoon I just happened to look up at the boneyard above us and 4x8 sheets of 3/4" plywood were flying through the air like the leaves off your maple tree in the fall.
i've long said i agree with the theory that history repeats, I think we're starting to re-live the period similar of 1920-1940. I really do. Too many similarities.
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Interesting you mention that. The weatheristas were mentioning yesterday that many of the extremely high temperatures from the last few days in numerous areas haven't been seen since somewhere in the 1920s.
This is from a tornado but a powerful image none the less.
I heard that too. Cyclical it is.
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A Model A Roadster with about 500" of RB in it would be a nice remembrance of the '20s to have around 
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It's Thames Tuesday!
Good morning.
Remember this Thames?
Yep. It's also why I think we're in for some very rough years over the next decade.
In highschool, I had a teacher, Mr Lewis, hilarious teacher and there's few teachers who I can remember lectures from, he's one of them. His style was so different and abstract that it sticks. Anyway, we were studying the Grapes of Wrath and the Great Depression in which it is based. I remember him saying this one thing, over and over. "If history does in fact repeat itself and we find ourselves in another Great Depression, it will be far worse than the first as people are more urbanized and less self sufficient than they were leading up to the Great Depression". It wouldn't be until I started studying demographics years later that I figured out what he meant by that. Back in the late 1800s thru the 1920s, according to census data shows up to 90% of the population lived on a farm or raised/grew their own food. As of 2010, that percentage is down to just under 1%. so if we have some bad economic years and happen to have bad weather in the plains.... LOOK OUT
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Hmmm no cloud cover up there this morning. Windy or hot is my prediction 
76 here today.
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