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Yeah last night it was not super impressive to the naked eye where I am in Mass, just sort of purple and not as dark as usual (and there’s a LOT of background light) but it’s very bright and visible with a phone pic.Kp-index has max’ed out the scale.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index
P.S.
There are photos from Florida! In areas where it may be hard to see/not visible to the naked eye, a ~3-second exposure with a camera/camera phone may show the aurora.
It’s times like this that I remember anyone driving faster than me is a maniac who’s going to kill someone and anyone going slower is a dumbass who doesn’t know how to drive and should have their license taken away
Yep, but at least not wanting to be behind the semi is kind of a reason to changes lanes, even if they don't go fast enough once they do it. The ones I'm talking about seemingly have no reason...no one ahead of them going slower, etc...just randomly change lanes for the hell of it. I stay in a lane until there's a reason not to, and then I change, but not before checking the lane I want to go into to make sure I'm not gonna pull a douche move.Ugh.
This happens to me every winter when it snows.
I'll see a slow conga line of vehicles a mile ahead, going 45 in the right lane, all following a slow semi in the lead. I'm going the speed limit in the left lane.
Inevitably, after following this semi at 45mph for however long, at least one of these damned idiots will see me in their mirror coming up to pass all of them going 60 - 65 mph in the left lane, and the idiot will go, "Huh... imma do dat, too" and pull into the left lane in front of me when I'm ~3 cars away.
After who knows how many minutes following the semi at 45mph, the idiot can't wait FIVE damned seconds until I'm past, before moving to the left lane. Nope. Gotta cut me off and make me slam on my brakes (in the snow), while they then take their time passing the semi at 45.5mph.
I had a lady do that to me several times on a trip to Flagstaff. By the 3rd time it happened even my wife, a very slow, non-confrontational driver, was seeing red. Completely unacceptable.Oh no. That’s not even close to being the worst.
The ones that make me wish I had a roof-mounted remote controlled .50, are what I call the “Fragile-ego’ed f###sticks”.
I tend to prefer using cruise control on long highway drives, especially with the newer Adaptive Cruise Control. Set my preferred speed, and it’ll maintain that to within 0.5mph of the set speed, even with gentler, rolling hills.
I’ll see vehicles, again from almost a mile away, that are obviously cruising slower than my set speed, as I slowly close in on them over several miles/minutes.
Then when I finally reach these FEFs, either they notice me in their mirrors when I’m about 1-2 car lengths behind and coming up to pass, and they speed up, or THE ABSOLUTE DUMBEST behavior possible; I pass them, they immediately speed up and pass me back, and then the moment they get ahead of me, immediately let off the gas and slow back down below my cruising speed.
WTF is the point of this moronic behavior? If someone’s going faster than I am, I let them pass and continue on their way. If they’re going slower, I pass them and continue on my way.
Why do some people do this shit? They’ve been driving at a slower speed for who knows how long? At least the last ~10 minutes since I spotted them ahead. Why the need to speed up just because they were passed? And WTF is the point of speeding up to pass someone who just passed them, only to immediately slow back down again?
My work van tops out at 64. Nothing like being on a 70 mph highway 5 days a week stuck behind someone doing 63 because if you attempt to pass you'll be plugging up the left lane for at least a few miles. Drives me absolutely nucking futs but I refuse to be that asshole.
Oh no. That’s not even close to being the worst.
The ones that make me wish I had a roof-mounted remote controlled .50, are what I call the “Fragile-ego’ed f###sticks”.
I tend to prefer using cruise control on long highway drives, especially with the newer Adaptive Cruise Control. Set my preferred speed, and it’ll maintain that to within 0.5mph of the set speed, even with gentler, rolling hills.
I’ll see vehicles, again from almost a mile away, that are obviously cruising slower than my set speed, as I slowly close in on them over several miles/minutes.
Then when I finally reach these FEFs, either they notice me in their mirrors when I’m about 1-2 car lengths behind and coming up to pass, and they speed up, or THE ABSOLUTE DUMBEST behavior possible; I pass them, they immediately speed up and pass me back, and then the moment they get ahead of me, immediately let off the gas and slow back down below my cruising speed.
WTF is the point of this moronic behavior? If someone’s going faster than I am, I let them pass and continue on their way. If they’re going slower, I pass them and continue on my way.
Why do some people do this shit? They’ve been driving at a slower speed for who knows how long? At least the last ~10 minutes since I spotted them ahead. Why the need to speed up just because they were passed? And WTF is the point of speeding up to pass someone who just passed them, only to immediately slow back down again?
Ugh.
This happens to me every winter when it snows.
I'll see a slow conga line of vehicles a mile ahead, going 45 in the right lane, all following a slow semi in the lead. I'm going the speed limit in the left lane.
Inevitably, after following this semi at 45mph for however long, at least one of these damned idiots will see me in their mirror coming up to pass all of them going 60 - 65 mph in the left lane, and the idiot will go, "Huh... imma do dat, too" and pull into the left lane in front of me when I'm ~3 cars away.
After who knows how many minutes following the semi at 45mph, the idiot can't wait FIVE damned seconds until I'm past, before moving to the left lane. Nope. Gotta cut me off and make me slam on my brakes (in the snow), while they then take their time passing the semi at 45.5mph.
Mmm pizza!!
