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Cool! Thanks for the tip, and thanks for staying online long enough to answer!!

That is wild!!!! Good execution.

Nice.

Looking good so far, David.

Which one, Raoul? The one by your work? Did you leave any on the shelf for the rest of us?

MOST of the Colorado's Lake Mead and Lake Powell water goes to California. And, it is true the water levels of the reservoirs have dropped, but it's not so much that things have dried up as it is that rainfall levels have returned to more normal (historically) conditions. When the 'levels' of the reservoirs were established, abnormally wet conditions were thought to be the norm. Basically, the levels were set too high. Now that nature has returned to historically more normal conditions, the levels have dropped. It's not that conditions are drier, its just that conditions are not as opulently wet as they were when the "normal" levels were determined. It's all about definitions. If you define the world as flat, then a sphere would be abnormal. If you set your fuel jets too high, your car will run too rich. If you call that normal, it is your normal.

Yes. Stupid Motorists. We have them just about any time there's a heavy rain. We get about a half dozen rains each year that generate enough flash flooding to cause the idiots to try inland sailing in their cars. The rains/flooding we've had over the past 3-4 days has been described as a "200 year" weather event. Not likely to re-occur for a couple of centuries. The national news channels yesterday were showing residents on the roofs of their homes in the middle of raging floodwaters being rescued by sheriff's and state DPS helicopters. That's different than any other old time it rains. Any other questions?

G is exactly right, but that's actually only a part of the problem. The rest of the issue is that this is the desert. 90% of the time it is sun-baked, hard crusted soil. So hard that rain doesn't soak in well. Then when you dump huge amounts of rain and runoff in a very short period of time, there is no saturation/soaking at all, there is just gravity. So, ALL that water starts heading for the lowest level, which is downstream from anywhere, including here. The fact that people built a city between the mountains and the ocean is of no consequence to nature. When the monsoons hit, everything gets wet on top and on the uphill side. The storm drainage system is a minor factor. As G said, we usually don't get much rain. Average annual rainfall is 7 inches. Doesn't take much of a drainage system to handle that. But my side of the valley got 3-1/2 inches Sunday night and more than 4-1/2 inches Tuesday morning. The foothills ABOVE us averaged 4 - 5 inches each day Sunday through Tuesday. It flows downhill. It's supposed to rain tonight, too. We can't wait! PS: The TV films you saw were in my neighborhood. The flood control drainage channel overflowed about 3/8 mile from my house and flooded Interstate 17 for 6-7 miles adjacent to us. My neighbor has a boat. He's now my best friend.

Very nice!

What did I get today? 4-1/2 inches of rain!

Be careful what you wish for. We've been wishin' and hopin' for rain for months if not years. Got it Sunday and today. At least 4" in a couple of hours this morning! Our neighborhood is surrounded by water ~ Interstate 17 is flooded & closed (1/2 mile West); Carefree Highway is flooded & closed (3-4 miles North); flood control levee next to us overflowed; major canal 1/4 mile NE & E is at the banks. Three ways out of here; one closed by flooded washes and the other two are just passable. There's three good things, though. We have power (thousands of people don't), we have no where we have to be or have to go), and, we're high and dry and not at risk! Of course, it's supposed to rain again tonight . . .

They have an overabundance of pedestrian population. They're probably just trying to thin the herds. I'm guessing Californya probably falls into the 'not-most' category of my post.

Very nice!

Nice birds, Aaron. Sorry I missed this post before ~ glad it was reprised.

Not true. The Illinois statutes that Harry quoted are consistent with most states, and as the law firm website quite accurately says, pedestrians who cross streets outside crosswalks (commonly referred to as "Jaywalking") or cross against traffic controls may be deemed at fault, depending upon the specific circumstances. Being a pedestrian does not grant carte blanche legal authority to do whatever one wants. The real key is crosswalk. Inside a crosswalk, the pedestrian has the presumptive majority of right of way, but outside a crosswalk, the pedestrian has no more right of way than cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, horseback riders, skateboarders, or any other 'traffic unit.'

Keep in mind, Robert, the Revell '37 Ford pickup and panel kits replicate passenger car based light commercial vehicles. The larger truck you are modeling would use the same front axle as the BB, not the smaller axle from the passenger car/light commercial series vehicles.

Striking! Many moons ago, I drove a company truck that looked just like that ~ same color and all. Looking forward to this one.

There's another magazine?

OUtstanding.

I'm in with Les Paul, Roy Clark, Dick Dale, Eric Clapton, and Keith Urban. There are others, but these guys are consistently great.

Excellent model, Russell, that certainly withstood the tests of time! It looks as good and as contemporary today as it did 20 years ago. Looks better topless, BTW.

Spectacular.

Unfreakinbelieveable!!!!

Great save, Mike!

Spectacular!