Subj : weather and climate To : Charles Blackburn From : Ruth Haffly Date : Wed Oct 05 2022 13:34:00 Hi Charles, Welcome to the cooking echo. I'm located in Wake Forest, NC (where the university got started, then moved to Winston-Salem but kept the name to confuse everybody), just a bit northeast of Raleigh. On (04 Oct 22) Charles Blackburn wrote to Ruth Haffly... CB> Re: weather and climate CB> By: Ruth Haffly to JIM WELLER on Sun Oct 02 2022 20:23:30 CB> not sure why this is in the cooking echo, but whatever :D CB> RH>> Hurricane Ian CB> JW>> One of your five worst ones ever. I see in today's breaking news CB> that although it weakened down to a storm it regained CB> JW>> strength over the open water and landed again as a full blown CB> hurricane after all. CB> yup and i have to go up to SC next week for work because of it lol Do you get travel pay for it? RH> We got 2.6" of rain from Friday morning to Saturday afternoon. We RH> actually got off easy in this area, this time. We had a power flicker RH> but it didn't go out. We've got some canned goods and other non RH> perishable foodstuffs that could have been loaded into the camper RH> quickly, had we had to evacuate but didn't, this time. Hurricane season RH> ends at the end of November so we've still got a couple of months to go. CB> i maintain the weather stations for a few of the local counties over CB> here on the east coast and central florida CB> (volusia, seminole, orange), most of orlando got around the 26-32 CB> inch mark, a lot of places around by me weren't far off it either CB> after all is said and done. Sounds interesting. My in laws used to live in Zephyrhills, moved back up to NY State last year. My sister in law and her husband still live in Zephyrhills but summer in NYS. From what I understand, their house didn't have any damage. CB> My weather station on the beach in daytona had 780mph winds and the *** ? 78-80? CB> highest gust I saw was upwards of 100 miles per hour CB> off the top of my head. That's windy! We used to live in southeastern AZ; it was quite windy there (usually 30-40mph range) but not tropical storm or hurricane strength. 100 mph, even as a gust, can do a lot of damage. CB> unfortunately now, everyone wants things fixed yesterday - as if i CB> didnt have enough work to do lol.. Of course it has to be done yesterday. (G) Our neighbors lost a tree (came down between 2 houses) with relatively minor side damage to a car. I heard a crew out there yesterday taking out the tree. CB> that said... the weather stations my collegue has down in fort myers CB> where he lives (he's ok) they had sustained winds of 100+ with some CB> gusts upwards of over 150mph (the wind sensors are only rated at CB> 155mph). and a lot of them are still up now.. I wouldn't want to be out in that kind of wind, glad your collegue is ok. CB> there was a number of them that are still there, but have spotty power CB> and network access obviously. No surprise. My husband is into amatuer (ham) radio and is certified to do traffic calls (passing along messages from one ham to another). He's not had any from this storm; probably the hams down in FL and coastal SC have been busy. BTW, we used to live on the NC coast, never had a storm hit us but had some near misses. You're welcome to pull a chair up to the kitchen table, grab a cup of coffee or whatever and join in the discussion here. We usually discuss any/everything food related but I knew the other folks here would be concerned about us and the hurricane. We used to have a gentleman named Ian on the echo but this storm was no gentleman. (G) --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... ... Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans-J. Lennon --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .