Yeah, high water temperatures are a big driver of hurricanes. There's times the Gulf of Mexico is in the mid to high 80 degrees F or more in the summer months.

Wasn't lucky - lol. We don't have the water temps you do off Louisiana or be worse...

You'll be damn lucky if that is the only power outage if the storm makes landfall with any power.

Got the power back - for now. Not done yet don't think...

I live in S.E. Louisiana, so owning a generator is pretty much a must for most homeowners. Good luck.

On generator. Might be a while - lol.

Watching the weather, hurricane Lee due to make landfall in a couple of hours. Got the generator ready, but with the trees at full foliage - expect to lose connectivity.

True nixer. I use to belong to a boxing forum that had tons of daily posts and lots of members. Now it is nothing but a shell of its former self with just a handful of posters that just want to argue with one another. I quit visiting it months ago.

The explosion of social media and mobile computing has not been kind to forums - any forum, Rodney.

is it always this dead now?

Still morning in my part of the world. Just before 11 a.m. here in sunny New Orleans.

Afternoon all

Wow, speaking of rain. I just came up from getting the smoker started to do some baby back ribs. It is now raining at the rate of about 2 inches an hour with no let-up in sight.. Crazy weather.

It helped a lot since my ground was showing cracks wide enough to put my hand into them with the soil so dried out. The only plus was it kept the grass from growing and cut back on the 5 times a month cutting to stay on top of it.

Nixer, just the opposite in my neck of the woods. We went without rain for weeks on end and that is highly unusual for S.E. Louisiana in the summer months. We did get a few hours worth of rain this past week.

Finally some sunshine my way. Been a wet summer.

lol that is pretty funny though ?

Turns out Keegan Brown got a hold of his phone ?

Darts twitter going crazy last night. Annoucment from Ritchie Howson saying he hit a 9 darter then later the same day 147 in snooker.

Watching CDC Event 9 right now. Pretty good watch.

CDC in action today - https://champdarts.com/events/2023-tour-weekend-3/

The guy has fallen from the top of the heap to tied for 39th with Simon Whitlock in the Order of Merit. That's quite a tumble. For a while there, you never knew what version of Adrian Lewis was going to show up, the dominating force or the one that capitulates quite easily.

I think Adrian Lewis is so popular because he comes across as a nice bloke who was as good as we've seen post Phil Taylor.

This I agree with.

Yeah, Lewis kind of dropped off the radar, not unlike Colin Lloyd who seemed to disappear almost overnight from the PDC. For a while, Lewis looked like the next heir apparent the way he was making the game look so easy.