Morning coffee

[Tom S]

Terminal?! How did 'ol Rod S know about Rich's engine?
Sorry, Rich, I couldn't resist.

[RICH MUISE]

That there is funny.

[hiball3985]

Finally a weekend without rain and we hit the road, 405 miles round trip. Lots of road pictures but I'll only post a few. Stopped at a nice air museum in Santa Maria, one of the buildings was built by Disney for the movie The Rocketer. We made it to our destination later that day at the Carrizo Plain. Returned going the the mountains in Los Padres Nation Forest, high point was 5160 ft. There is a major butterfly migration in Calif and I have a great collection on the windshield  I'll need to clean the radiator too.

[RICH MUISE]

My kind of cruising! great pics.

[hiball3985]

My kind of cruising! great pics.

Thanks Rich, I hope you can back on the road, I know you have a major project to deal with and hoping it goes well. The secondary roads required lots of pot hole dodging practice

[djfordmanjack]

Fantastic pics, Jim ! it is so great to see your car out and about! Terrific scenery and backroads, a wraparound windshield and the buzz of a Y block. is this heaven ?

[hiball3985]

Fantastic pics, Jim ! it is so great to see your car out and about! Terrific scenery and backroads, a wraparound windshield and the buzz of a Y block. is this heaven ?

Thanks G. It was so good to get out the rain here has been driving me nuts. One more the wife took at the 5,000 ft elevation

[racton]

   Thanks for posting the pics.You three look great...racton

[hiball3985]

  Thanks for posting the pics.You three look great...racton

Thank You. One from the higher elevation through the mountains shot by my copilot.

[Swank]

Happy surfing Mr. Dale.

https://youtu.be/ZIU0RMV_II8

[djfordmanjack]

RIP, Dick ! Hang loose, man !

[RICH MUISE]

We've had the tornado sirens going off for a 1/2 hour now, along with all our iphones going off...........hopefully nothing will become of it. I hate tornado season, but then again, I've never seen one.

[CobraJoe]

Hang in there Rich, praying for 'ya. I know you're a New England boy, so you know what I'm talking about. I'd rather go through a 100 Hurricanes than one of those No Warning freaking Tornadoes. 

[Thor]

I've seen 3 tornado's myself. Two of them were pretty big ones. The one in 1991 that hit Andover KS and the 1999 Haysville Kansas Tornado. I worked at McConnell AFB and the base took a direct hit during the 1991 tornado. That one was HUGE.

1991 McConnell Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvS0BEWSbig

1991 Andover Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_D4TyZxHO0

[RICH MUISE]

all clear here. Those were some scary videos, Thor. Totally amazing no one died at the base.