We came home yesterday and boy was it wet… several sections of i-35 were being hit with strong heavy rains… and the traffic would slow to a crawl or ???? less.. Along with some spots in OK that are under construction and the stack was about 3 miles before the construction at “creeping” along…
raining enough you can’t hardly see it but that was the Red River… beyond the banks… still and may not go back down for weeks at the present way of things…
Traffic jam about 3 miles from the construction… see we haven’t even been signed to merge yet… the rain didn’t help…
Tried for pictures of the Canadian… missed that due to traffic and construction… tried for pictures of the Cimarron and missed that as well… operator error… but suffice to say the Cimarron is well out of its banks and Ripley has been in flood warning for a week and will likely be in it for another week… With Lake Texhoma going over the emergency already… I am not sure how close Keystone is but I hear that Eufaula is close also and they are all damn big lakes… from the web…
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Lake Eufaula rose to near capacity early Sunday at an elevation of599.44 feet above sea level and water now is spilling through the dam at a level not seen since 2007. At 600 feet, the lake is considered at its maximum.2 days ago
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Lake Eufaula rises to near capacity following deluge – Tulsa …
www.tulsaworld.com/…/lake–eufaula…/article_c006fbd4-c2f8-5f5c-b512-b…
For Keystone they are a bit better off with some room to work… good thing it has not been this much floods in Kansas as that feeds a big portion of Keystone…
I didn’t get much done after we got home last night other than unpack, work on a few small things and get to bed…
Today I was a bit slow getting around… hey , I am retired… I did get a shadow box that I had gotten a few years ago in Oman fixed. One of the little emblems in it had fallen down inside and I figured I could pull the back off and get it glued back in place. I did get it pulled and had to glue a couple of other things before I put it back together and that glue needed to dry so I left it to finish when I got home from lunch. With that in the works and gathering tools for the LED job on the motor home… I didn’t get much else done, although I did get set down for a little bit and picked up one contact with Korea on 17 meters… I had worked that station before on another band but hadn’t added it on 17m so figured to get one more for the log. With that accomplished it was time for lunch.
I headed in for lunch and on the way to pick up Sherrie spotted this, not sure but figure he was having fun (or she)..
It was a pretty nice day, although the humidity was pretty high… but we saw the sun for a change and sure enjoyed that. It gave me a little boost so I went to work on the LED install for the shower in the motorhome. Our shower in there has a sun-light over head but we usually are trying to fumble in the dark when taking a shower… the stars just do not light things up enough… so we had picked up several portable LED lights that we had in there but they were not the best alternative and I figured why not put some of the “water-proof” strips I am using in the CFL replacements… So I had to get the wiring done such that it was hidden out of the way… that required taking a lot of things out to get to the “above” area…
I pulled the CFL light case out… opened up the control panel door and put a small hole in the top of that space into the foam above… then aimed a hole in the foam back to match the hole in the top of the space behind… using a piece of hard wire I was able to fit it through the hole bend over a bit and pull on out to the light hole then feed the electrical wire through that (red and black wire bundle). I was able to run that in behind and just a small area out on the side then into the shower along the top cap of the fiberglass shower insert… and around to where I had the LED strip taped in place for test.
From here I soldered the ends of both strips on to the lead from the light switch, sealed with heat shrink tubing and tested the lights in place before I put them in permanent and finished up the wire behind the shower cap… note one of the portable led lights hanging form the shower in let… will take that out and use it for something else…
The strips put out some light but not as much as I had figured ;( …. so I will need to add one more strip in there… these days I need a lot of light, or I like a lot of light… ha! so still some additions to make before I totally button it all up… but it will be a lot better with a full light up there when we need to use it and they are water proof (used in car head lights)… Not to mention they use a lot less power than the old CFL’s and regular bulbs in the motor home… slowly I am replacing all of them with LED’s to cut my battery use when I need to run on battery… which for us is very seldom but still happens at times.
I finished up to this point at about 4:30PM so I ended what I was doing on that and cleaned a few things up in the shop… headed in and grabbed a glass of ice water (it was humid in the shop)… sat on the back deck and watched the clouds start to build… figure we will get another dose of showers late tonight… maybe… won’t be like the all out rain but who knows could be a down pour in a big storm? It is now after 9 and still no big storm but see lightening in all directions… so time to shower and get to bed so that damn weather radio can start going off…
Oooops spoke too soon the first of many warnings just went off… might turn that thing down a bit…
WD0AJG