On 9/9/2017 10:40 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/9/2017 9:33 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.

Â*Â* eventually.Â* Momma Nature isn't going to stop
cooking up storms.Â* building and rebuilding
lowland structures is rather stupid, but people
are ...Â* 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

Â*Â* do you have cold hands?Â* mebbe it ran away?Â*

Â*Â* 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.

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


Â*Â* songbird


There were plenty of people outside the US tracking it.Â* EU models had
apparently appeared best.Â* The climate change people make predictions 10
years out but weathermen are often wrong 2 days out.

I like the water but don't want to live where a 10 ft tide surge could
flood me.Â* Even inland is at risk.Â* Lower DE is coastal plane.Â* I've
seen storm surge cross the road from the Atlantic ocean to the Rehoboth
bay.Â* Lot of people live there and will eventually suffer.Â* I like where
I live at about 300 ft above sea level in upper DE.Â* A couple of years
ago, if hurricane Sandy had made the left turn a half hour sooner, DE
would have suffered the damage seen in NJ and NY.
That's the beauty of hurricane's, lots of movement and makes people look
for the correct time and way before it eats their houses.

My family had beach houses on the Bolivar Peninsula on the Texas coast
for fifty years or more. Eventually even the land they were on
disappeared too, no more beach houses since. Used to be fun taking the
kids down to the beach, do some swimming, some beach combing (odd stuff
washes ashore in Texas), and a lot of fishing and walking the beach in
the evening. It's been so long since we lost the last "camp" that I
can't even remember it. One aunt actually lived on the beach after her
husband retired and then they had to run and moved back to town.

A large part of my life I was a responder to many problems: storms,
fires, plants blowing up, injuries, and a few deaths. So goes the way of
an active safety professional. Three states, two foreign countries, and
lots of flight time. Now I'm retired but not bored, at least as long as
we have a library nearby. Old friends all say, "Aren't you bored?" Not
as long as I have a book nearby and my loved ones too. I don't have bad
dreams, have no regrets about a busy lifetime. Nowadays I can always
borrow a great grandkid and try to teach them something or, best of all,
just someone to hug regularly.

I will be 78 on 09/23/17 and am glad I'm still around to help the
younger crew.

George