Yes, there is a lot of static and dry air around here, too. I've had to give up listening to my MP3 player because, when I take out the laundry, it discharges static and stings my ears and I can hear it popping in my ears. No thank you. I don't want to damage the player, even if the story is good.
Mel -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Martin G. McCormick Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 4:17 PM To: Just Chat; Where Anything Goes ... Almost! Subject: Re: No rain That is fairly typical for Oklahoma between roughly November and March. Of course, typical weather for Oklahoma covers a huge range with the word "too" preceeding most of the descriptors. It goes from too windy to too cold, sometimes too rainy and occasionally even too warm because you don't want it to get warm in Winter which is sometimes a problem in February and March. The trees start to bud out and you can almost count on a killing freeze to end the warm spell. Fruit trees won't produce a crop that year if that happens. We are off for the Martin Luther King holiday today and at 3 O'clock in the afternoon, it is 64.4 degrees F or 18 C. The Sun is out and it is a beautiful day with a typical Oklahoma wind of 13 gusting to 26. You really couldn't ask for a nicer day in late January. The humidity is 24% and one thing you probably notice when it is this dry is static electricity. I bet you didn't know that most of those sparks that jump from your finger to metal objects represent voltages of 5 to 20-thousand volts. While the discharge is not directly dangerous to our bodies, it can destroy electronic equipment or sometimes temporarily scramble the circuitry so that it does weird things. Worse than that, people have actually had gasoline pumps explode as they filled up their tanks. You sometimes get a really good charge built up from sliding off the seat and getting out of the car. There have been a few very rare cases across the country of a spark jumping from the hand of someone filling up their tank in to the nozzle and touching off the gas. It is not pretty. Our dog will wallow around on her back on a rug and if I put my hand on her chest or stomach, a continuous stream of sparks pop away. They kind of sting but I guess they don't bother her because she doesn't seem to notice. Oh well, enough static from me for now. Martin ======================================== The Just-chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/just-chat> You can find an archive of all messages posted to the just-chat group at either of the following: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/just-chat/index.html> or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> You may subscribe with your RSS reader at the following URL: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
