On 9/9/2017 8:33 AM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
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Isn't that strange, have lived on one coast or more for years on years,
rode out a few hurricanes, always bought houses on high ground. Harvey
just dropped about 50 inches of well-needed rain on us and ripped up
Houston proper. We never lost power, etc. through the whole storm. Then
along comes another one and it hit Florida. Probably another one will be
coming along.

eventually. Momma Nature isn't going to stop
cooking up storms. building and rebuilding
lowland structures is rather stupid, but people
are ... as long as they want to keep paying the
insurance and costs.


We've always been lucky, none of our families has ever lost a house, not
much ever but a few trees. And a cow disappeared once upon a hurricane,
never found her again. I reckon a rustler got the cow or tornado in the
storm got her. At least I never had to get up early and milk her again.G

do you have cold hands? mebbe it ran away?
Nope, my Dad trained me properly, cold hands on a cow's bag could get
you kicked, at the least. Warmed them with hot water in the winter, just
used bare hands in the summer. Dad grew up on a four generation farm and
knew a bit about cows.

what interested me the most with this one was
how the forecast first started with the storm
being further west, then it shifted quite a bit
east and then back to the west.

i just read an article about the forecast
models being worse than before. as usual complaints
of lack of funding. and not that i'm agreeing
entirely, but basic science should always be well
funded (and usually isn't).


songbird

My wife's family, mostly men, worked for the gubmint for at least forty
years for the two that worked for the gubmit. Her Dad and second
brother, all the rest of the family had real jobs and had to work. My
FIL told me flat out when I asked for his eldest daughter, and all the
rest of her too, that don't work for the feds. Took him at his word,
even though I had a fairly good offer from DC as I was getting out of
the Navy. I never missed not going to work for the feds, but managed to
work 47 years at what I wanted to do. Now I just lay around watching TV,
fetching groceries when needed and loving the other three generations of
our family, all the ones from us. Two kids and families, five grands and
three of their families, and the great grands are best of all, hug
them,and tell their folks it's time to take them home. G

George