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paddledog wrote: Did you guys not look at Google Earth?

Well, that's why you shouldn't boat with people who live in Kansas. Trust me, if google earth was on the phone, we would have been elsewhere. The gauges and surrounding creeks was very deceiving. I love Beech maybe just a bit too much and let it skunk me. Oh well, got to spend some time with two of my good friends I don't get to see as much as I would like to. All in all it was a good day. To my knowledge no one got hurt including us. Who knows, maybe it was meant to be?
Oh and two more words...............Hurricanes Suck!!!!!!!!!!! I'm 0-2.

Yep, if we'd have used the tool that Ryan and I basically invented, we'd have made other decisions. Instead we just drove out early to go take a look. Once upon a time, that was the best way...

Lesson learned. :)

- Fish

Wow, I had no idea you worked for Google or the National weather service.
Thanks for a great product.
I think AL Gore stole your thunder when he invented the internet.

Now that's funny right there.

Yep, a brain-damaged sea cucumber could have created the watershed data that a few folks spent dozens of hours entering by hand (versus just wishing for some GIS tool to do it for us) and then posted for everyone to use. You're no doubt better using Google Earth and the NWS data without that other, basically useless, data cluttering things up. No real value add.

- Fish :)

P.S. - Al Gore invented Global Warming, not the Internet. Just wanted to clear that up.

Fish wrote: P.S. - Al Gore invented Global Warming, not the Internet. Just wanted to clear that up.

Hmmm...an inconvenient truth, I guess. ;-)

Fish wrote:Yep, a brain-damaged sea cucumber could have created the watershed data

Oops, I forgot about the watershed data part,
I thought the discussion was about Google Earth and the radar overlay.
Big kudos to yourself, Ryan and ALL the people involved with the watershed project.
For those who are unfamiliar with the location of any of the creeks in the Ozarks,
there is no better tool to get the information needed. It sure would be great to
get the mobile app that Ryan eluded to.
Seriously, thanks for a great product.

Working on a version of it that will work with Google Maps rather than Google Earth. It should load in high-end mobile browsers, like iPhones, Driod, etc. I never seem to have enough time to finish it tho... Would have been handy the other day for sure.

Also, the real inconvenient truth is that whether you are conservative or liberal, you should be pushing the government hard to kick-start the transition away from foreign oil and gas. Sure we can squeeze in ever more expensive coal supply for decades, but the real big payoff will be from innovation in new technologies. Of course, the U.S. will have to stop living like a frat boy partying on his parent's credit cards and put in some hard work. But the people I know in this country can and will do that, especially if they can get some leadership that tells them the real inconvenient truths, and not that they can have everything they want without paying for it.

Just my opinion,
Fish

Unfortunately, there is a massive lack of truthful, honest, good for the country leadership in Washington DC. Democrat and Republican politicos get to Washington DC, realize the power they have to spend other people's money and go to the Dark Side in a flash.

If each member of Congress would read and understand every line of every bill they vote on at least they would know where they are taking the country instead of passing laws that no one but special interest groups understand.

if they can get some leadership that tells them the real inconvenient truths, and not that they can have everything they want without paying for it.

Hmmm, I guess I shoulda paid attention when my kids started calling me "Omama"??? Maybe their free ride is about to be over . . .

Jan

But Billfish??? wouldn't that mean transition away from 100 year old trends in automotive, oil companies and oil companies paying politicians?? New research and jobs in the exploration of these "new" energy sources and making them more feasible and economic??? new methods of powering our homes other than dangling on the end of a wire in another old and inefficient status quo that would benefit from restructure, research and implementing jobs????

dreamer

paddledog wrote: If you guys realy quit paddling I want to come to your next garage sale....

I second that... BUT, Fish had better not try and pawn off any of his infested paddling booties.. Those should be burned ceremoniously.

ARzach wrote:I second that... BUT, Fish had better not try and pawn off any of his infested paddling booties.. Those should be burned ceremoniously.

I don't believe in getting rid of a pair of shoes that has some life in them. Granted, the life in mine is growing at a somewhat alarming pace...

Which is why I chose the "long car ride with Ryan after a three chili-dog Sonic meal" option than drinking booty juice as punishment last time I swam. My sense of smell didn't fully return for seven months, but better than drinking anything out of some rotten-zombie-fungus booties.

- Fish