Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

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LA Speed Check -- the untold story
Back when I was stationed on the left coast we were on patrol off of SoCal far outside of the usual shipping lanes and one morning there was a contrail moving across the sky 5-6 times faster than an airliner. I made note of the course and looked at a chart and nautical charts don’t show that far inland but the contrail was headed straight for Palmdale.
 
Man, I love a good conspiracy theory, but if you look at the map, Kings Mountain is in the Piedmont area and not near the floods. That's where the lithium mine is.
If you had remote controlled hurricanes, you could probably come up with some better targets.

breakfask? I bet this guy's name is Biff.

I worked with a guy for years who pronounced it "brefix", and I'd think to myself You've been saying it that way for 60 plus years, no one ever corrected you?
 
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The PDM facility for the SR-71 was Palmdale. In the mid 80s when I was at George AFB the civilian check pilots would sometimes bring them over to George and beat up the overhead pattern. Kind of funny because the Beale active duty guys would fly down to fly straight in approaches and they always were chased by a T-38.

I used to fly over Palmdale back then and at that time they had quite a few A-12s wrapped up and stored behind one of the hangers.
 
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We had a bad storm knock out power over much of the city. On one house, when the electric provider reconnected power, they connected line neutral to house hot, and line hot to house neutral. When they did that, the gas line glowed like this. The officer on the Engine that responded is the son of another Fire Captain that is also an electrician. He sent his dad a pic exactly like this. His dad said (appropriately) "Pull the meter right now!"

The electric company did the exact same thing on a different house, and it caused a structure fire, originating in the attic. Which is the worst place for a fire to be.
I saw it one other time at a house, unfortunately it wasn’t glowing and I bumped my arm against the gas flex and it burned the shit out of me. Told them they needed an electrician and I was out. Both of these were older homes prolly built in the 50s so who knows where stuff was grounded too.
 
Man, I love a good conspiracy theory, but if you look at the map, Kings Mountain is in the Piedmont area and not near the floods. That's where the lithium mine is.
I too love a good plausible theory, but it’s almost as though valleys with rivers can tend to flood when torrential downpours happen. Also these places were obviously not built with flooding in mind I’ve been there and live where it floods semi-regularly. It isn’t the first time these areas have had this happen either so it’s just rare not unheard of. You get 20” of rain on valleys when everything is already saturated this is what can happen.


It’s terrible, but I seriously doubt it’s man made to mine lithium. There’s so many small dead industry towns within an hour or two drive that would jump at the chance for mine jobs.

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Now if you want to talk about mining companies using this act of nature to their advantage now that the land is vacant it’s plausible. There’s talk of people saying they may never be allowed back on their own land.
 
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Back when I was stationed on the left coast we were on patrol off of SoCal far outside of the usual shipping lanes and one morning there was a contrail moving across the sky 5-6 times faster than an airliner. I made note of the course and looked at a chart and nautical charts don’t show that far inland but the contrail was headed straight for Palmdale.
Blackbirds (and U2s) were stationed at Beale AFB in Marysville (North of Sacramento) back in the day… Palmdale was their “home” though, of course.
 
Just Say No to bad photoshop nipples. :(

ETA: How did I miss the "I can palm a basketball with ease" hand? Did a cartoon character hit that thumb with a hammer?

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She's a fairly well known online insta-bimbo, so I know she's not AI, What were they trying to enlarge, the mug?
 
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