Coffee This Sunday June 8th

[mxvet57]

i know it is short notace but does any one else need a caffeine fix?

I'm thinking        Common Grounds
                         5159 6Th ave
                         kenosha WI 53140
                         http://www.foodspot.com/commongrounds/#

opps forgot to add,  at 10:00 am

any one interested?


i know this will bring Joe out.

[FRZY]

I'll try to make it  

[RedCBRRider]

I can do it.

[Seeker]

Ed,
 I can be there, 10:15ish

[CBRXXBLACKBIRD]

Hey that's one of my favorite places    Michelle and I will be there.

[Condor]

Nan and I can make that.......

[Sparky]

I can make it!  

[mxvet57]

I'll try to make it  

don't give us this BS.  you will be there.

don't make us come to your house agan.  

[Thunder7]

I might be up for that.

[Breadman]

Oh, all right.  I'll show.

[Mark Milanowski]

we will also attend.

[DavidLSI]

I am on the road heading home. We left NYC this morning with one stop to visit the Hershey Chocalate Factory.  The GPS tells me we will be home around 1:30am, if I can get up I plan on being there too.

SeeYa
DaviLSI

[HipGnosis]

I'm in

[Brightrider]

Would love to...but will be on the road for work.  Enjoy the meet and have a great day!

[RedCBRRider]

Now I don't know if I can make it.  I'm fighting a flood in my basement.  It's 1:00 AM and I'm heading back to the battle zone.

[Thunder7]

If the rain and forecast keeps up, I may either pass or cage it.

[FRZY]

After all the storms yesterday do we really need more  


IF I'm going to make it, I will be in my truck.

[FRZY]

Now I don't know if I can make it.  I'm fighting a flood in my basement.  It's 1:00 AM and I'm heading back to the battle zone.

That sucks my friend, I hope you got things under control before to much damage was done.

[mxvet57]

ya it looks like you guys got nailed by the storms pretty good.

rain here but nothing to bad.

good luck


edit:    the sun is out now

[CBRXXBLACKBIRD]

Sunny now and warm. Cause two years ago Michelle and I did this over the weekend.

[RedCBRRider]

I can make it, but I'm brining the cage.  I got wet enough yesterday.  There is still some water in the basement, but it can wait for awhile.  I think I may need a new wet vac to finish the job.  The old one was smoking.  Is that a bad thing?  

[mxvet57]

I can make it, but I'm brining the cage.  I got wet enough yesterday.  There is still some water in the basement, but it can wait for awile.  I think I may need a new wet vac to finish the job.  The old one was smoking.  Is that a bad thing?  

well ya. make sure your standing in water and then grab the cord.  

i know from experience.

Tuesday i was removing sprinkler pipe at work from a mezzanine that is getting torn down i was using a sawzall to cut the pipe and grabbed the cord to move it and got zapped. i guess one of the wires was exposed.

[Breadman]

That helps explain a lot, Ed.  How many times were you zapped as a child, praytell?

[FRZY]

crap it's already after 9 and I'm still not ready to leave

looks like I'm going to miss yet another coffee meet  

[oblivion]

This is just up the road.  And in 5 minutes.  Do I run to make my first coffee meet?

[oblivion]

I made it!  Nice to meet everyone whose names I've already forgotten (including my neighbor - small world)!!!  Great little spot for a meet.  I'd run across it just this spring on a wandering ride I took. I need to take the missus there.  

I pulled back into my subdivision just as the rain started - got literally about 20 drops on the bike before I got in the garage. It's POURING now.  Whew!

It's not that I mind getting rained on, mind you, but I DID just wash the bike yesterday (first time this year), so I'm glad it's not grunged up already.

Until we meet again . . . .

[Razors]

Hope you made it all back safe. I think dry is out of the question.  I quickly found out that that Bandit also acts as a surf board in deep water.  I ran into a lot of flooded out roads in  Zion especially the underpasses.  

[RedCBRRider]

Hope all of you guys that rode made it home alright.  I drove through some very heavy rain on the way back.  The basement is flooded again, and the internet just started working.  Now back to the battle in the basement.

[mxvet57]

all i can say is "Holy Severe Thunder Storm Batman" it pored the whole way home. it acutely got worse the closer i got to chicago. hit one storm that the wind started to push me around on the road. had to drop the speed to 40 mph.

other than that it was a very good turn out for what the weather was.


some of the riders that rode today and Sparky's Toyota Pries




Ben thinking how much water is in the basement.


the storms are coming


Even easy rider showed up


did i say rain gear rocks

[RedCBRRider]

Hi gang,  This is Tina posting using Ben's account since I don't have one of my own.  He is back down in the basement battling the flood.  I'm starting to get a little worried.  I think he may have fallen victim to some sort of demonic possesion.  He is speaking in some language that I have never heard before, even from him!  Have you ever seen that mad skipper STN shirt that he has?  The one with the skipper and the read eyes on the front?  That's sort of what he looks like right about now.  If one of us doesn't post again in a few hours send the fire department bio hazard clean up team.  I think this basement situation is going to make his head explode.    I have to go now.  I need to get back to the flood.  I just came upstairs to get a cross and my rosary beads.

[mxvet57]

Hi gang,  This is Tina posting using Ben's account since I don't have one of my own.  He is back down in the basement battling the flood.  I'm starting to get a little worried.  I think he may have fallen victim to some sort of demonic possesion.  He is speaking in some language that I have never heard before, even from him!  Have you ever seen that mad skipper STN shirt that he has?  The one with the skipper and the read eyes on the front?  That's sort of what he looks like right about now.  If one of us doesn't post again in a few hours send the fire department bio hazard clean up team.  I think this basement situation is going to make his head explode.    I have to go now.  I need to get back to the flood.  I just came upstairs to get a cross and my rosary beads.

if Ben's head starts to spin in circles and spiting out some liquid that you cant identify then i would say there is a problem.

[Mark Milanowski]

Hi Tina,

This is Mark. You should get your own account then you can monitor everything that goes on.
I too am battling the waters. One of my sump pumps burned up late in the day yesterday. I went to menards and bought 2. One a 3/4 hp and the other 1/2 hp.

The 3/4 is great it pumps 5000 gallons per hour. It can keep up. It ran for a solid 1/2 hour before it cycled off. Thats how fast the water was coming in!

The 1/2 hp sump was for the front sump. The old sump was not keeping up with the water coming in. I just got the 1/2 hp installed about 1 hr ago. It ran steady for 45 min befor it cycled.

[HipGnosis]

I went west on 50 when I left.  Went thru the worst of it fairly quickly.

Then I took 45 north.   Wide variety of rain rates.  Got really windy at one point.   Quite a bit of water on the road.  
I NEED to re-waterproof my boots.

[Thunder7]

Matt, Kris and I decided to wait the worst of it out at the coffee shop. At some point I mentioned stopping at Andy's drive-in for some of the greatest root beer, EVER. Home made and very tasty, served in frosted mugs. Matt took pics so you'll have to wait for those.

While waiting out the initial storm, we did discover and unmask an until now unknown Power Ranger:

[oblivion]

if Ben's head starts to spin in circles and spiting out some liquid that you cant identify then i would say there is a problem.

Especially if that liquid is the color of my suit.

After I got home and the first gully-washer passed, the wife and I loaded the kid in the Honda Pilot and headed down to Trader Joe's (first time shopping there) down 41. Around Lake Bluff, it was really hairy. I even had to back the SUV down to 30 or so.  Even sitting at a light, the wipers couldn't keep up. I was glad to have 4 wheels at that point.  

Glad to hear folks checking in safely. I did see one full dresser heading north around Great Lakes. Yikes.

[FZ1 Matt]

Then it rained.

Fred, Kris and I waited until the rain let up, then we rode to Andy's Drive In.


There was a threat of bacon.




I had a root beer float.




Then we rode home. The roads were mostly dry and we found some nice rustic roads on the way home.

You all should have waited.  

[oblivion]

You all should have waited.  

My early departure was predicated more on household harmony than on the weather.  I still need to give the Olympia a good soak test.

[Breadman]

A proper report I say Matt, a proper report indeed.  That was my best Yoda voice, by the way.


It turns out you guys are pretty nice to converse with.  Who'da thunk it.

Thanks to Mark and Joe for your help.

[Thunder7]

A proper report I say Matt, a proper report indeed.  

That was my best Yoda voice.

It turns out you guys are pretty nice to converse with.  Who'da thunk it.

Yeah, except for the waitress's abject failure at providing a change of topic..............  

[Breadman]

There is a built-in risk when deciding to talk with me.  Sorry.

[Thunder7]

There is a built-in risk when deciding to talk with me.  Sorry.

  It really wasnt an issue- just funny!

[CBRXXBLACKBIRD]

   okay... spill the beans what happened??

[Thunder7]

   okay... spill the beans what happened??

Nothing. Nothing at all....... What happens at Andy's stays at Andy's.....
 

[CBRXXBLACKBIRD]

Gotcha  

[Razors]

Better late than never... here are my random pics...


Chatting, drinking, the usual


Calm before the Storm


A reminder that Flag Day is coming up


Somebody made a funny


Is that a Power Ranger suit?


Matt , well... being Matt


My artzie fartzie image of the week


Taking a break during the severe rain!  I hit three separate storms on the way home.