ingalls

@ingalls@pdx.social

Portland based renewable energy meteorologist trying to make #wxtooter a thing. Mediocre geologist. Standard bio disclaimers apply. Usually toots using metric units.

Also tooting my thoughts about urban living, my LDS faith, family life, and some other random stuff from time to time.

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ingalls, to pdx

We should do a casual Mastodon meet up sometime.

ingalls, to transit

Question for Mastodon’s and crowd: Does anyone know of a good way for me to attach a second adult-size bike to mine to pull it as a trailer?

We don’t have the battery power to make it to the coast, but if my wife road the bus and I took the bikes that would give me extra battery availability and allow us to use the bikes to get around whatever town we decide to go to. We both have Lectric Xpeditions.

ingalls, to food

My wife said I “literally could not overdo the pineapple on her side of our pizza” and “go crazy with it” and I took that as a challenge.

Update when she comes downstairs.

ingalls, to random

Fortnight and score (20) are two words we don’t use often enough in American English.

ingalls, to random

Man some suburban people live in perpetual fear of everything. Take the possible serial killer action going on in Portland - people in Columbia County commenting about being mortified to come into town at all. One commenter specifically said they cancelled plans to go to IKEA.

Like yes, it’s worrying, but seriously people.

ingalls, to ebikes

We’re going to get a new dishwasher soon and looking at the specs on my , affordable trailers I could buy, and dishwashers at Ikea it is absolutely possible for me to tow this thing home myself.

We’ll probably get it delivered but man I really want to be that guy towing a dishwasher on a .

ingalls, to random

I’m so excited we have a functional @nadocast_bot on Mastodon thank you @ai6yr.

ingalls, to internet

Musk threatens to hand NPR’s account to another entity if they don’t start tweeting again.

This is the sort of thing that won’t happen on a self-hosted instance.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign

ingalls, to Futurology

A train derailment and bridge collapse sent eight rail cars into the River near Big Timber, Saturday morning. There is a possible chemical spill and downstream users, including irrigation districts and the city of , are closing head gates.

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/06/train-derailment-bridge-collapse-in-montana-causes-chemical-leak-into-yellowstone-river/

ingalls, to FIRE

According to Washington DNR, all six major Cascade wildfires started over the weekend were started by idiots using fireworks.

#fire #wildfire #wawx #wafire #weather

ingalls, to random

Some people want us to think the failed but for me it didn’t. I feel far more engaged with the community here and it feels like the an active small town.

I wasn’t ever here or on Twitter for followers, mostly just to chat about weather, but I also have more followers here after less than a year than I did on Twitter even though I was there for more than a decade. Engagement on my posts is more than the other place too.

ingalls, to random

A DUI conviction should come with confiscation of your vehicle (if you own one) and a permanent ban on driving. The same goes for if you kill someone in a crash you cause.

ingalls, to portland

Time to see how fast Cascadians can jump from “I’m sick of the rain” to “it’s too hot I’m ready for fall.”

ingalls, to random

I just learned that I can use the Snapchat AI to help me learn Spanish. I had a short conversation with it about my recent trip.

It asked me relevant questions and when I told it I didn’t understand something it would reword it or tell me what it meant in English. Pretty neat.

ingalls, to random

Brush in Central started by abandoned campfire.

https://centraloregondaily.com/cascade-lakes-highway-brush-fire-campfire/

ingalls, to random

Just got tickets to our first Thorns game. Excited to take my daughter and to go to my first major sports event.

ingalls, to Florida

Nearly 125 mm of rain has fallen along the #Florida Gulf Coast south of #Tallahassee today with thunderstorms possibly producing another 75-125 mm of rain there this afternoon creating a significant flash #flood threat.

#flwx #weather #wxtooter

ingalls, to random

Is there a TL;DR of the Apple conference floating around?

ingalls, to portland


Tuesday, July 4, 2023

🌡️ HEAT ADVISORY until 23:00 Wed
🔥 RED FLAG WARNING until 23:00 Wed

Sunny, hazy, and hot with a high near 35°C. Breezy and dry this afternoon and evening promoting extreme behavior including during peak time. If there was ever a day to be an anti personal firework evangelist, it’s today.

Similar conditions tomorrow; temperatures moderating toward the weekend.

ingalls, to food

Apparently 20 seconds in the microwave is enough to start a small fire on a potato.

ingalls, to portland

Early hints of an Independence Day for the Pacific Northwest in the modeling. Not a whole lot of confidence yet, though. Stay tuned.

ingalls, to portland

The city is closing about 10 km of streets to vehicle traffic in Northeast #Portland from 11:00 to 16:00 today for the second Parkways event where people can #bike, #walk, or otherwise use the roads without having to worry about cars.

There will be live music, vendors, information, and free basic bike tuneups along the route. I wish I could go, but I’m working today.

#pdx #urbanism #pdxbikes

https://www.portland.gov/sunday-parkways/northeast-event-2023

ingalls, to MountainBiking

Very excited to have done the full waterfront loop (including going around a train on Front) on my own power by today (not using the e-bike motor at all, though I did take my battery just in case). Today’s 17.7 km is way better than last time’s 5.9 km.

It’s still a bit short of what I could do when I rode regularly but this is a big motivation boost.

ingalls, to Texas

There is a fake Twitter account mimicking the National Weather Service in Lubbock tweeting out false #tornado ratings for events like the #Matador, #Texas tornado. Be sure to pay attention to small details in the handle and username.

#txwx #weather #wxtooter

ingalls, to random

Interesting clouds this morning southeast of the . These are formed by the air being forced up by the ridge south of US 12 between Wallula and Walla Walla.

As the air moves northeastward and rises, it reaches the point where the temperature equals the dew point of the parcel, forming clouds downwind of the ridge.

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