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Possibly the one lesson I've learned without having to experience it firsthand. I always throw my backpack in as soon as it's unrolled.
Another time at Walker Lake in western NV, we pulled in for an overnight stay on our way to Death Valley. It was a cold and windy evening so everyone was trying to get their tents all set up quickly on the shore of the lake (for my part I just throw my sleeping bag on a tarp and pad and put rocks on it). Anyway, I start to hear screams and look to see people running toward a tumbling tent. The owner HAD placed their backpack, sleeping bag, and bottle of bourbon in the tent and zipped it up. They neglected to stake it down. It looked like a front loading washing machine as it rolled down the shoreline. Since the rainfly wasn't on it we could see all of the contents dismantling inside, illuminated by the setting sun. It finally came to rest when it hit the water. Sad faces and lessons learned. Oh and the bottle disaggregated spilling contents and shattered glass all inside the tent. Sad faces and lessons learned.
I was once with a large group of geologists in Manix basin, southern California for a field review of some recent research. This particular area was notorious for significant winds and participants were warned. We were in a fairly narrow, steep-walled canyon at the end of the first day and everyone was participating in the sunset social hour. Suddenly a cry of dismay rang out, we all looked up to see an intact, 3 person tent sail gracefully over the ridge. It was beautifully illuminated by the setting sun and was never seen again. We all toasted to its sacrifice, having all been there before. Salute to the pumpkin.
Possibly the one lesson I've learned without having to experience it firsthand. I always throw my backpack in as soon as it's unrolled.
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Oct 18, 2026 - 8:32pm
geoff_morphini wrote:
I was once with a large group of geologists in Manix basin, southern California for a field review of some recent research. This particular area was notorious for significant winds and participants were warned. We were in a fairly narrow, steep-walled canyon at the end of the first day and everyone was participating in the sunset social hour. Suddenly a cry of dismay rang out, we all looked up to see an intact, 3 person tent sail gracefully over the ridge. It was beautifully illuminated by the setting sun and was never seen again. We all toasted to its sacrifice, having all been there before. Salute to the pumpkin.
DOUGLAS, Wyo. - Wyoming transportation officials spent several hours Thursday tracking a 28-foot inflatable Halloween pumpkin after strong winds ripped it from a commercial display and carried it across more than 60 miles of eastern Wyoming.The pumpkin disappeared shortly after 10 a.m. when mounting straps failed during a strong wind gust.
"commercial display". SFW is stepping up the holiday show this year.
I was once with a large group of geologists in Manix basin, southern California for a field review of some recent research. This particular area was notorious for significant winds and participants were warned. We were in a fairly narrow, steep-walled canyon at the end of the first day and everyone was participating in the sunset social hour. Suddenly a cry of dismay rang out, we all looked up to see an intact, 3 person tent sail gracefully over the ridge. It was beautifully illuminated by the setting sun and was never seen again. We all toasted to its sacrifice, having all been there before. Salute to the pumpkin.
DOUGLAS, Wyo. - Wyoming transportation officials spent several hours Thursday tracking a 28-foot inflatable Halloween pumpkin after strong winds ripped it from a commercial display and carried it across more than 60 miles of eastern Wyoming.The pumpkin disappeared shortly after 10 a.m. when mounting straps failed during a strong wind gust.
"commercial display". SFW is stepping up the holiday show this year.
One of a few reasons "commercial displays" of these "wind driven" things are not allowed in this town. The rest of the state... freedom!
DOUGLAS, Wyo. - Wyoming transportation officials spent several hours Thursday tracking a 28-foot inflatable Halloween pumpkin after strong winds ripped it from a commercial display and carried it across more than 60 miles of eastern Wyoming.The pumpkin disappeared shortly after 10 a.m. when mounting straps failed during a strong wind gust.
"commercial display". SFW is stepping up the holiday show this year.
DOUGLAS, Wyo. - Wyoming transportation officials spent several hours Thursday tracking a 28-foot inflatable Halloween pumpkin after strong winds ripped it from a commercial display and carried it across more than 60 miles of eastern Wyoming.The pumpkin disappeared shortly after 10 a.m. when mounting straps failed during a strong wind gust.
"commercial display". SFW is stepping up the holiday show this year.
I'm not actually sure. I hear it called oil, but I think it's some sticky sort of binder that never dries out/holds moisture so it keeps the top layer clumpy. I think farmers just use old motor oil after they've soaked fence posts in it.
Down here it's used motor oil. Great for the environment.
I'm not actually sure. I hear it called oil, but I think it's some sticky sort of binder that never dries out/holds moisture so it keeps the top layer clumpy. I think farmers just use old motor oil after they've soaked fence posts in it.
Sweet horrible irony is he's been telling his county commission to cut spending so their budget for dust abatement treatment for dirt roads must've been on the chopping block.
Sweet horrible irony is he's been telling his county commission to cut spending so their budget for dust abatement treatment for dirt roads must've been on the chopping block.
Area Man lives on dirt road, complains about it.
He's one of those moved-here-from-somewhere-else guys who wants to live the maga life. Posts all sorts of nutter stuff on the FB page he shares with his wife.
Kudos to the young man, though. I'd have accidentally sideswiped some mailboxes or a fence, I just know it. Can't be helped.
Area Man lives on dirt road, complains about it.
He's one of those moved-here-from-somewhere-else guys who wants to live the maga life. Posts all sorts of nutter stuff on the FB page he shares with his wife.
Kudos to the young man, though. I'd have accidentally sideswiped some mailboxes or a fence, I just know it. Can't be helped.
Cool. I imagine it's quite an undertaking to refurb that sign - especially all that neon.
Some of the newer LED tech is really great for artistic lighting (we are putting a lot of it in boats). The only thing neon really has on it is the hum.
Lots of history to that place. Took JFW's mother there one afternoon for a coke and fries. The kitchen was closed but they brought us cokes. Later I learned that it had been a strip club for a few years. Yes I took my mother in law to a strip club.
You could buy the shirt! What's odd to me is that as derelict and abandoned as the place clearly is these days, I put a couple of laminated flyers up that only people who got out of their cars would see; they had a QR code linking to this. They were taken down by someone almost immediately.
Cool. I imagine it's quite an undertaking to refurb that sign - especially all that neon.
Lots of history to that place. Took JFW's mother there one afternoon for a coke and fries. The kitchen was closed but they brought us cokes. Later I learned that it had been a strip club for a few years. Yes I took my mother in law to a strip club.
You could buy the shirt! What's odd to me is that as derelict and abandoned as the place clearly is these days, I put a couple of laminated flyers up that only people who got out of their cars would see; they had a QR code linking to this. They were taken down by someone almost immediately.
