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Troublesome 85 said:
You have me who recently discovered I am scared of weather and all I been watching are tornado videos

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Latest one in Arkansas
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If you really want to lose your shit look up the Alabama Tornado outbreak of 2011. You can also watch the live coverage of it on the ABC 33/40 YouTube channel. James Spann is truly brilliant.
 
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Alicat said:
If you really want to lose your shit look up the Alabama Tornado outbreak of 2011. You can also watch the live coverage of it on the ABC 33/40 YouTube channel. James Spann is truly brilliant.
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Few days ago looks insane. This guy saved some truckers. The warning horns would make me lose my shit.



Was wondering how it felt in the 1800s as a farmer with no weather forecasts or warning horns and just seeing a massive wall of death.

I can probably find 2011 on these channels popping up now
 
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Poor Hattie does not like storms. However, her reaction is to bark at the thunder when it's particularly loud.

Today when the tornado warning was announced, I put her in her crate. Normally she is very calm in there, but she just barked like crazy. Dogs know.

It's still raining. We're under a flash flood warning until 4:45 am. :help:

Oh, and this happened a few miles away from me. Don't stand under a tree in a storm, kids.....

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Bruinaura said:
Poor Hattie does not like storms. However, her reaction is to bark at the thunder when it's particularly loud.

Today when the tornado warning was announced, I put her in her crate. Normally she is very calm in there, but she just barked like crazy. Dogs know.

It's still raining. We're under a flash flood warning until 4:45 am. :help:

Oh, and this happened a few miles away from me. Don't stand under a tree in a storm, kids.....

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We had lightning strike hit a tree across the street from our house while my hubby was watching, it literally blew a chunk off the trunk, it was like a really long, wide piece of lumber. The wood flew across the road, thank goodness no cars were going by. The grass was scorched along where the roots must have been. Very scary.
 
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Morris Wanchuk said:
The GOAT pizza, "Green Mountain Special" from Parker Pier in West Glover VT

Olive oil base, Spinach, Red Onion, Bacon, Apple, Fresh Garlic, Cheddar Cheese & drizzled with Deep Mountain Maple Syrup
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omg. how delicious.
Bruinaura said:
I'm intrigued, but to be honest I can't imagine garlic with maple syrup lol
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That sounds utterly amazing. goat cheese is everything.

We don't eat commercial pizza anymore, because of my food allergies, but we have in the past, at home, done a fig and goat cheese with a little garlic salt and sometimes mushrooms.
 
caz16 said:
We had lightning strike hit a tree across the street from our house while my hubby was watching, it literally blew a chunk off the trunk, it was like a really long, wide piece of lumber. The wood flew across the road, thank goodness no cars were going by. The grass was scorched along where the roots must have been. Very scary.
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A similar thing happened to one of my mom's neighbors. The lightning hit the facia over their small front entry and traveled down the street and made garage doors sound like they were going to explode. The neighbors had a small attic fire in their garage but thankfully it did minimal damage.
 
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Proud Father moment. This will go long. I’ll probably cry. Again.

This is year 3 for lacrosse for one of my boys. Year 1 he was 8, super shy and had never picked up a stick. He was nervous but eager to try it. Coach was super supportive and just a friendly guy. Still, most kids on the other teams were veteran players and the season was tough.

Year 2 he aged up to the u11 team. Sure, he had a year experience but now he was “the little kid” out there. The coach was also an extreme hardo. Last game of the season, coach screamed the f word at a referee. Everybody heard it. It was another very difficult season, and only in the 2nd half of their very last game did my little guy come alive and show some fire. It was incredible.

This season, now he’s the big kid again. He’s definitely one of the tallest, more solid kids out there. Coach from year 1 is back! Along with an assistant coach from last year who we already know and are on good terms with. Still, game 1 my guy was timid and very anxious on the field.

Today was game 2. He started on defense, the same position he has played in every game since starting lacrosse. We noticed early on today that he wasn’t just letting kids run by him. He was hacking away and leaning in on kids. It was encouraging! He played the entire first quarter, and a few minutes of quarter 2 before motioning to us that he couldn’t breathe, so we yelled for him to just run off the field. He did. Coach first told him to go back but they sorted it out quickly.

To start the second half, he overpowered a kid in a 1v1 loose ball battle. Scooped the ball and carried it end to end. Danced around a few players and sailed a shot just wide. Mind you, I’ve never seen him fight for a loose ball. I’ve never seen him get hacked and fight through it. I’ve never seen him carry the ball more than a few steps. And he’s definitely never crossed midfield, Nevermind as the ball carrier! It was f***ing electric.

Coach must have agreed. His next shift he played as a mid fielder. Same thing. End to end rush that he lost control of in the slot.

I don’t know what clicked today. I like to think a lot of it is just GOOD coaching. Supportive, but firm coaching. These guys just get it. It shows. The players listen, they cheer each other on, and they are having fun! Youth sports at their best.

We hardly recognized little TD Charlie out there today. It was 13 hours ago and I’m still riding that high. I am so incredibly proud of that boy.
 
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TD Charlie said:
Proud Father moment. This will go long. I’ll probably cry. Again.

This is year 3 for lacrosse for one of my boys. Year 1 he was 8, super shy and had never picked up a stick. He was nervous but eager to try it. Coach was super supportive and just a friendly guy. Still, most kids on the other teams were veteran players and the season was tough.

Year 2 he aged up to the u11 team. Sure, he had a year experience but now he was “the little kid” out there. The coach was also an extreme hardo. Last game of the season, coach screamed the f word at a referee. Everybody heard it. It was another very difficult season, and only in the 2nd half of their very last game did my little guy come alive and show some fire. It was incredible.

This season, now he’s the big kid again. He’s definitely one of the tallest, more solid kids out there. Coach from year 1 is back! Along with an assistant coach from last year who we already know and are on good terms with. Still, game 1 my guy was timid and very anxious on the field.

Today was game 2. He started on defense, the same position he has played in every game since starting lacrosse. We noticed early on today that he wasn’t just letting kids run by him. He was hacking away and leaning in on kids. It was encouraging! He played the entire first quarter, and a few minutes of quarter 2 before motioning to us that he couldn’t breathe, so we yelled for him to just run off the field. He did. Coach first told him to go back but they sorted it out quickly.

To start the second half, he overpowered a kid in a 1v1 loose ball battle. Scooped the ball and carried it end to end. Danced around a few players and sailed a shot just wide. Mind you, I’ve never seen him fight for a loose ball. I’ve never seen him get hacked and fight through it. I’ve never seen him carry the ball more than a few steps. And he’s definitely never crossed midfield, Nevermind as the ball carrier! It was f***ing electric.

Coach must have agreed. His next shift he played as a mid fielder. Same thing. End to end rush that he lost control of in the slot.

I don’t know what clicked today. I like to think a lot of it is just GOOD coaching. Supportive, but firm coaching. These guys just get it. It shows. The players listen, they cheer each other on, and they are having fun! Youth sports at their best.

We hardly recognized little TD Charlie out there today. It was 13 hours ago and I’m still riding that high. I am so incredibly proud of that boy.
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I love this so much :) Go Little TD!! Congrats dad for sticking with it and simply being there. Now I’m tearing up ❤️
 
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TD Charlie said:
Proud Father moment. This will go long. I’ll probably cry. Again.

This is year 3 for lacrosse for one of my boys. Year 1 he was 8, super shy and had never picked up a stick. He was nervous but eager to try it. Coach was super supportive and just a friendly guy. Still, most kids on the other teams were veteran players and the season was tough.

Year 2 he aged up to the u11 team. Sure, he had a year experience but now he was “the little kid” out there. The coach was also an extreme hardo. Last game of the season, coach screamed the f word at a referee. Everybody heard it. It was another very difficult season, and only in the 2nd half of their very last game did my little guy come alive and show some fire. It was incredible.

This season, now he’s the big kid again. He’s definitely one of the tallest, more solid kids out there. Coach from year 1 is back! Along with an assistant coach from last year who we already know and are on good terms with. Still, game 1 my guy was timid and very anxious on the field.

Today was game 2. He started on defense, the same position he has played in every game since starting lacrosse. We noticed early on today that he wasn’t just letting kids run by him. He was hacking away and leaning in on kids. It was encouraging! He played the entire first quarter, and a few minutes of quarter 2 before motioning to us that he couldn’t breathe, so we yelled for him to just run off the field. He did. Coach first told him to go back but they sorted it out quickly.

To start the second half, he overpowered a kid in a 1v1 loose ball battle. Scooped the ball and carried it end to end. Danced around a few players and sailed a shot just wide. Mind you, I’ve never seen him fight for a loose ball. I’ve never seen him get hacked and fight through it. I’ve never seen him carry the ball more than a few steps. And he’s definitely never crossed midfield, Nevermind as the ball carrier! It was f***ing electric.

Coach must have agreed. His next shift he played as a mid fielder. Same thing. End to end rush that he lost control of in the slot.

I don’t know what clicked today. I like to think a lot of it is just GOOD coaching. Supportive, but firm coaching. These guys just get it. It shows. The players listen, they cheer each other on, and they are having fun! Youth sports at their best.

We hardly recognized little TD Charlie out there today. It was 13 hours ago and I’m still riding that high. I am so incredibly proud of that boy.
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Outstanding !
 
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GordonHowe said:
Can you explain prop bets?
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You combine multiple bets into one bet that costs less and pays more. The catch is you only win if you win every part. So for example:

I bet a) over 5.5 goals scored in the game and b) the Bruins to win.

10 bucks wins 25. If either "a" or "b" loses I lose the whole 10.

Now, this seems easy, but it's very hard to win even basic parlays. There's a reason winning sports bettors "only" need to reach like 56% to be profitable. It's a tight margins proposition.

So prop bets seem enticing, bet a little to win a lot. But look at what happens if you bet those two separately. If you lose one side and win the other you lose a fraction as much.

Parlays overwhelming go in favor of the casinos. Waaaaaaay more than straight bets. That's why they offer them. They are essentially suckers bets that seem low risk.
 
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