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George Shirley wrote:
.... 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? 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 |
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On 9/9/2017 9:33 AM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote: ... 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? 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 There were plenty of people outside the US tracking it. EU models had apparently appeared best. 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. Even inland is at risk. Lower DE is coastal plane. I've seen storm surge cross the road from the Atlantic ocean to the Rehoboth bay. Lot of people live there and will eventually suffer. I like where I live at about 300 ft above sea level in upper DE. 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. |
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On 9/9/2017 10:40 AM, Frank wrote:
On 9/9/2017 9:33 AM, songbird wrote: George Shirley wrote: ... 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 |
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On 9/9/2017 8:33 AM, songbird wrote:
George Shirley wrote: ... 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 |
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