@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Are they ants perchance?

@Cerberus no

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 They had hot rods in the 1930s?

@cyberskull google.com/…

Ah, so it is a kind of car, not made of reed.

Okay, call finally started.

Have fun.

In the 1930s the top speed was 30 mph

Play some samples from the Great Language Game for them.

in the 1930s people only saw in black and white

everyone wore hats

and there was a depression going on

it was really great

i'd be depressed to if the fastest car only went 30mph

and they called it a hot rod

@cyberskull 30mph is a lot if you know no differently.

speed is relative

E = mc^2

Basement is now flooding. It appears that the water table is now up way past the foundation, whether you live on a hill or not. Two points of entry, one is from the ground-level crawl space opening, the other a foundation crack.

Any chance of the foundation collapsing?

Hope not.

If the water is moving that means it is taking away the soil with it...

Fast and Furious is now all about guns and punching people instead of cars =( Good bye old Fast and Furious

Oh crap, looks like Lyons just lost its sewer plant. Water is completely down in the town, and much of it washed away.

Yikes.

sticks finger in dike

goodness

What the heck.

Somehow I don't think my finger is going to help there.

We had extreme rain too, yesterday and most of the week.

But we're used to water, I guess.

When it surprises you, that's when it does damage.

the north of England was flooded on the weekend, but it didn't come down south

Was it bad?

Was it rivers flooding?

no deaths as far as I know, but property was ruined

Yeah, I think it was river flooding

OK.

Eeek. I hope you and your kittycat stay safe and dry, @tchrist.

People are getting pulled over for driving their jet skis around town.

!

@MattЭллен You'd have to ask them. I think it's likely someone called it in by cell and they are working from someone's scribbled notes.

What happened to "Too Localized" as a close reason?

@tchrist by the boat police?

The water police.

Surely you have those?

Maybe out on the big lakes, but I'm completely landlocked.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Off-topic > Other

@AndrewLeach thank you.

Insomnia

Hello! Help me please, is it ok to say "you are desirable to be there at 3 p.m."?

(or desirably)

Hi! No.

You could say, "please be there at 3 p.m.".

@Nimza No, I would say "It would be desirable that you be there at 3 pm."

That would be grammatically correct...

good, thank you, but it sounds like "you are likely to pass the exam" :(

@Nimza Why do you need to use the word: desire?

@cyberskull Ah, just out of interest

@Nimza the most desirable time of arrival is 3 pm

aha

@Nimza That is a special construction, an exception that is possible with "likely" but not with most other adjectives.

I think it is called raising.

@Cerberus aha, likely/bound/sure/certain, and I tried to expand the list)))

Yes!

You can say you are requested to be there.

but request is more strict than desire

how about "prefer"

@Nimza Sure.

@cyberskull I don't know...maybe it's grammatical, but it sound rather unidiomatic? You are preferred to be there at 3 p.m.

@cyberskull why did you use "you be there"? "It would be <adj> that x <infinitive> y" is some fixed form?

@Nimza After a main clause that is a command or request, some dialects use the present subjunctive, which has the same form as the infinitive.

Other dialects use should + inf. instead.

@Cerberus ah, very good! thank you!

@Nimza l didn't know you wanted a fixsd form

@cyberskull no-no, I didn't just understand why you had used the verb in infinitive)))

now it's clear

He insisted that she bring him wine / that she should bring him wine.

great thanks)

People will also use the simple indicative here, but that is considered less...educated by some.

> Cranston hopes that "Breaking Bad" will earn a place in the canon of American tragedies, and argues that the show will be tragic only if the audience believes to the end that walt can still reverse his course.

> In the second season, he told [Vince] Gilligan, "I really think Walt's doing it for his family," and Gilligan replied, "No, I think he's actually kind of selfish."

> Gilligan says, "It dawned on me, slowly, that I was telling the actor he's mistaken about his own character—and that my stupidity was jeopardizing the whole show. You don't have to be Freud to know that Hitler thought of himself as a wonderful guy."

@RegDwighт ^ (From this week's article 'The One Who Knocks' by Tad Friend, writing in The New Yorker)

I will be back in a few minutes.

They greenlighted the Just Call Saul spinoff, BTW.

Cranston says the upcoming episode is the best one in the whole series.

Please change "believees" to "believes"?

Anyway, I'm out. Just popped in to lay that on you.

I have rewatched the last episode, BTW. And just as I expected, it is sort of growing on me already. If only because that's what I'm rewatching it for in the first place: to see it for what it was meant to be, not for what it is.

I mean, I don't want to be mean and say my opinion got better because it couldn't possibly get worse. That'd be an exaggeration. It still was a fine hour of television, just not the finest hour of Breaking Bad.

Anyway, the thing is. It really is the execution. I am sort of okay with the general direction this is going, even though I don't like those scum nazis one bit, but that's sort of the point. Just like the TV Critic said, to get rid of some not-so-fine people Walt had to unleash even worse people, the worst kind of people, and rather than controlling them he's now under their control.

That’s on my street.

Nais.

You moved to Madeira?

No, Boulder is having a disaster.

Streets are become rivers, and rivers are become lakes.

Well. Some people commemorate 9/11 by having a disaster, others just take free mini muffins.

To each his own.

Your street is rather green I must say. From the satellite imagery it looked like the middle of the desert.

We normally get only 18" of rain a year.

Including snow.

We got 8" last night alone.

What about your garden.

It’s been raining for three days and nights, and no relief in sight for days.

I’m not literally flooded, but my basement is because the water table is now crawling up to within a few feet of the ground.

I live on a hill.

It's been raining here a lot, too. But a lot in terms of time, not quantity. Four and a half days of more or less constant rain, but very light rain.

Couldn’t sleep last night it was raining so hard.

Couldn’t hide in the flood basement either.

Global warming. Wake up sheeple.

It was in the 90s still for the week previous to this, which is toasty for September. Storm moved in Monday night and hasn’t left. Stationary.

And the 15 miles of mountains rising up to the 14,000-foot Continental Divide is catching all the rain and shoving it at me.

Fast.

Dams have failed. Sewer plants have failed. People have died.

And it’s going to get worse before better.

Governor declared is a disaster, freeing up relief funds.

@tchrist Why that?

Why worse?

Yeah.

Because it keeps raining hard, and the water table is utterly full.

I mean everyone should have got the message by now.

No place to go.

Hm.

Can’t soak in.

Wait, I mean water no place to go.

What about the mountains? No shelter there?

Some places are isolated.

No, not really. Climb high.

They’ve been running siren in the canyons, telling people to climb to safety.

Walls of water and debris have been levelling everything.

10' debris walls,20' water walls.

I really pictured you living in like the Death Valley or something.

Interesting.

No.

My brother is on his way to Georgetown, CO in a hand-built jalopy with no wipers.

Green here.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 No he isn’t.

@tchrist yeah.

All that moly talk, the mountains, the satellite images.

Some pics here.

I hope he turns back. I can't pay for his new house.

Those are old. The live news feeds show much worse.

Oh, that image with the cars, I briefly saw it earlier today. I think @Cerberus posted it?

I had no time back then. Actually I have to go AFK now as well.

Ah no. It was you, and Cerberus was around.

Where do these cars even come from? Almost looks like the flood got them there. Couldn't be they just collectively fell over right there.

It is not just Boulder, although Boulder has it bad.

-_-

I guess two feet of rushing water is all it takes to sweep a car away sometimes.

Yup.

Lyons has it worse. Denver area is starting to suffer similarly.

That's how it looks to me.

But places like Lyons and Boulder and Golden are at greatest risk, because we are immediately at the base of the mountains.

Well folks, I'll be back later.

K

I might not be.

Power.

Oh.

@RegDwighт Thanks!

Looks like another dam just went. Trying to figure out where it is.

Landline's down. If I lose power, I’m sunk, because I keep cycling through a mountain of towels and the spin cycle of the washer.

Giant firetruck just inched past my driveway. I think just welfare check not evac, but dunno. It’s come up from the ground everywhere outside now.

Helicopters are grounded. Raining too hard.

We have a fire crew trapped on a mountain side. The storm took their truck away.

They’ve called out the National Guard.

OFFS they’ve called out the Coast Guard.

I knew when that guy on the jetski got pulled over by a cop in a boat on a regular street that things were going downhill.

We’ve now had 6 months of rain fall in the last 24 hours.

And no sign of it stopping.

@tchrist That seems appropriate at this point.

Are you OK?

"Yes"

Barely.

We seem to have a break from the downpour. Catching up on bailing.

Phone is out.

Bunch of levies and dams are starting to fail.

Hard to find consistent good quality on the site (esp on this side of the pond) so stay out of the pond.

Sheriff scanner.

It’s all pond though.

Maybe time to go to higher ground (wherever that may be).

I am higher ground!

I have never seen the National Weather Service use the word “biblical” before!

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DENVER/BOULDER CO
941 AM MDT THU SEP 12 2013

.UPDATE...MAJOR FLOODING/FLASH FLOODING EVENT UNDERWAY AT THIS
TIME WITH BIBLICAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS REPORTED IN MANY AREAS IN/NEAR
THE FOOTHILLS. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES IN EXCESS OF AN INCH AND
A QUARTER ON GPS SENSORS CERTAINLY SUPPORT LOTS MORE RAIN TODAY
AND TONIGHT.  13Z HRRR RUN HAS ANOTHER 1-3 INCHES OF RAIN
PREDICTED IN THE FOOTHILLS THROUGH 04Z SO THINGS ARE NOT LOOKING
GOOD. WILL EXTEND THE AREA OF THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH TO INCLUDE

So screwed.

They don't usually say "things are not looking good" either.

Really.

NWS link

No good news.

Except that we are moving into a 60-minute let-up period right now, less rain.

I wasn't skeptical. Just surprised, and the second unusual wording's what drove the seriousness of it home for me.

"A dire situation which will not improve in the next 24 hours"

That's my street, about 2 blocks a way. A body was found down there earlier today.

Whoa.

@tchrist That is alarming on so many levels. A: When the weather service runs around yelling "The sky is falling!" and B: When they use such imprecise terms as "biblical" alongside precise measurement scales, C: WTF, why you bring religion into dis shit?

I’d hoof down to the liquor store but no time. Bailing required every 5-10 minutes.

Listening the scanner traffic is awe-striking.

Harder and harder for them to get around. So many closures, roads out, bridges out, etc.

Do you have any food?

Lots.

@Robusto where is their god now?

@RegDwighт I rewatched it as well, and the little giddy disconcerting moments went away for the most part, but I agree that this was a low point in terms of execution. Who directed this mess, anyway? Hmm, Michael MacLaren directed from a Sam Gastras script. They've done this shit before without fucking the pooch. What gives?

@tchrist great!

Yay for not starving!

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Yes. You kind of get the feeling that Christianity is the religion of Battered Wife Syndrome. God comes home pissed off, kicks the shit out of you, then leaves sometimes for weeks with no word.

They just declared the drinking water in Lyons to be unsafe.

WTF, is Boulder in a ravine?

@Robusto I want to star that very badly.

What the hell.

Good girl.

^_^

Haha, I copied the search terms, not the URL. Oh well.

@JohanLarsson: You might be interested in this music.

Another one. Damn, these YouTube folks realize normalize the waveform within an inch of its life, don't they? I don't think they could crank the gain any higher without clipping.

Puppy met a partridge today, I did a meh job gimping away the GPS collar

@Robusto Liked the second one better

@JohanLarsson Lotta good stuff on their album "Chronchitis."

That’s highway 36 north of me running toward Lyons.

OEM just declared that any county residents with wells should assume water contaminated.

That’s downtown Boulder right now.

Do you have uncontaminated water?

I just asked my brother if he's turned around yet. He's 75 miles from Denver, not turning around, and proud of it.

@Robusto Enjoy your up-pizza.

There's a guy at work whose name is an anagram of "alarming" — you can probably figure out who I'm talking about.

Hmm, now that I think about it, it also anagrams to "marginal" . . .

My brain hurts. Bourbon and chai tea latte to the rescue.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 He must not understand. They will stop him.

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Mmm.

@tchrist I hope you're right.

@Robusto are there enough jalapeños?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Never! We need moar!

@Robusto atta 'busto!

@tchrist chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/11203421#11203421

@Robusto I guess you have heard the Tron soundtrack

@JohanLarsson The original one or the Legacy one?

@Robusto the one by Daft Punk + London Philharmonic, not sure which one it is

What is with the recent worldwide boner for Daft Punk?

dunno, they are pretty good

@JohanLarsson Yeah, I've heard that.

Check 'em out.

nice, I was worried that the song would spoil it before they started to sing but it is good

@Robusto A Swedish old goodie, lyrics are good but you will never know :P

@Cerberus he was a Dutch immigrant^

I assume you know so much that I have to go Swedish on you :D

Maybe you have missed this, really clean.

@tchrist That looks nasty.

Hi!

Hi!

this is a gem that is not played much.

@JohanLarsson Name sure looks Dutch!

I don't think I would have been able to tell it was Swedish...it's much harder in song than in regular speech.

Ah I see Holland!

@Cerberus He learned the language really well, typical dialect of south Stockholm (Söder)

Nice.

I hear "Gots grat" or something?

Somliga går med trasiga skor = Some walk with broken shoes. Broken is probably a poor translation, worn out might be better.

I’m falling behind.

Rain intensifying, with thunder.

how many mm have you had?

Wait.

skor = shoe(s)?

looks at Skor bar

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 plural

I wish I had a Skor bar, because I really want one now.

@JohanLarsson thank you.

what is it?

Chocolate-covered toffee.

It's like a Heath bar, only vaguely Scandinavian.

@RegDwighт: Sorry, that was Michelle MacLaren and George Mastras. Some days it don't pay to get out of bed.

the crown in the logo looks Swedish

Skane!

The Anglo-Saxons called your country Swiorice.

Come back, Skane!

Wow, you know your old movies.

Well, cats are whining. I am powerless to do aught but feed them.

Latours.

Meow!

Is a Heath really the same?

I must conduct private research.

Don't torment me. We’ve had a foot of rain.

@tchrist ouch, sounds like Bible stuff

Is.

is your house in danger?

So the NWS was right then.

Mmm, Skor bar. Forgot about those. Those are delicious.

@KitFox how do you compare them to Heath? I have a feeling I'll find a Heath much easier.

They are quite similar.

Skor bars are a different shape, and a little more grown-up tasting.

@JohanLarsson Only from water table saturation.

Not in creek path.

So I'd guess they have slightly less milk in the chocolate coating.

But it’s come up from the bottom of my house.

There isn’t supposed to be water at what you are looking at.

Oop! Dinnertime. Later.

@tchrist strange that you still have power

Hush,.

Yes.

National Guard is here.

I drove through 50 mm rain in one hour this summer, can't even imagine how extreme one foot is.

liked this pic

It isn’t just the foot here that’s killing us, it’s the foot up slope to the west. Everything runs down here.

The ground can’t hold any more. Long since. All runs down at us.

Great, new flash flood warning for the next 3.5 hours.

Like we haven’t noticed.

That just means it’s raining hard again.

Stupid kids.

I blame the weed.

the bike under bridge pic is nice

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Oooh. Good one.

Off topic, but a great pun.

Went out on expedition.

Soaked.

Rivers where roads should be, rivers where nothing should be.

It’s suppose to start to rain heavier again, instead of merely heavy.

Body count up to 4 found, 2 missing.

This is how they hold back the flood in Russia.

Represent.

Night all.

@RegDwighт Wow...does that work?

@cornbreadninja麵包忍者 Stop trying to bait @tchrist. He's enduring biblical wrath of God stuff right now.

@RegDwighт sees parallels with Dutch boys and dikes

How many times haven't you seen my complaining about floods here!

Ok, how do I plug the hole in the fucking dike?

I have a hole in the caulking in the tile in the basement.

The water is streaming out if that wee little hole.

@JohanLarsson I drove through a rainstorm coming up from Galveston to Houston and the rain was so thick I couldn't see the front of the car. So my girlfriend and I took the exit, crept off at a snail's pace, and wound up in the parking lot of a mall. We took a nap. Two hours later the sun was out. I needed a bathroom break, so I got out of the car and stepped into — six inches of water. In a parking lot. In the flattest place in Texas.

Like a quarter inch.

Oh, dear!

Have to figure a way to plug it.

Cork?

I'll try anything.

Something made of rubber?

Pencil eraser.

Uh...

Is it leaking out, or spouting?

More spouting than leaking.

Like a gushing stream.

About 3mm by 11mm

Grout failed.

@RegDwighт How is this GR? How could you possibly easy look that up on dictionary.com?

Please reopen.

@tchrist That's hard to stop, especially if the material around it is weak.

Something stiff made of rubber?

You'd be better off trying to wedge a pencil down in there.