Subj : weather and climate To : Charles Blackburn From : Ruth Haffly Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 15:08:13 Hi Charles, CB> Re: weather and climate CB> By: Ruth Haffly to Charles Blackburn on Wed Oct 05 2022 13:34:00 RH> Welcome to the cooking echo. I'm located in Wake Forest, NC (where the CB> university got started, then moved to Winston-Salem RH> but kept the name to confuse everybody), just a bit northeast of Raleigh. CB> same here, i live in ormond, but everyone knows daytona so it's just CB> easier LOL Everybody knows Raleigh but a lot of people hear Wake Forest and think of the university. They moved in 1957, taking tobacco money from RJ Reynolds. In 1960, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary moved into the vacated campus, not sure when the The College @ Southeastern moved in. SEBTS is what brought us to Wake Forest, other things have kept us here. CB> JW>>> One of your five worst ones ever. I see in today's breaking news tha CB> although it weakened down to a storm it CB> JW>>> regained strength over the open water and landed again as a full CB> blown hurricane after all. CB> CB>> yup and i have to go up to SC next week for work because of it CB> lol RH> Do you get travel pay for it? CB> oh yea, i have a work truck and they pay fuel, hotels etc. about the CB> only time i get to eat at fancy places like outback etc kik Nice to beable to enjoy meals like that every so often. RH> Sounds interesting. My in laws used to live in Zephyrhills, moved back RH> up to NY State last year. My sister in law and her husband still live in CB> Zephyrhills but summer in NYS. From what I RH> understand, their house didn't have any damage. CB> yea sunday it was supposed to hit just north of tampa, monday morning CB> it was supposed to hit just sounth of tampa, by tuesday it was ft CB> meyers. people are bitching that the ft meyers area only had the CB> shelters open for one day before, but like desantis said. where were CB> the news crews, weather channel etc... they were all camped out in CB> sarasota the day before lol We were watching to see where it would come thru NC--a bit further east and we would have had a lot more damage than we did. CB> CB>> My weather station on the beach in daytona had 780mph winds and CB> the RH> *** ? 78-80? CB> yea that was a fat finger :D I think we all do that from time to time. (G) CB> CB>> highest gust I saw was upwards of 100 miles per hour CB> CB>> off the top of my head. RH> That's windy! We used to live in southeastern AZ; it was quite windy RH> there (usually 30-40mph range) but not tropical storm or hurricane RH> strength. 100 mph, even as a gust, can do a lot of damage. CB> yea i have a number (about) of weather stations LITERALLY on the beach CB> on the lifeguard towers. they all stayed online for the most part CB> until the CB> power/internet went out on beach side. We're about an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours from beaches--depends on which one we want to go to--so our weather instruments are in the house and yard. I've thought about picking up an animometer and maybe something else as Steve likes to give weather reports on several ham radio networks. CB> CB>> unfortunately now, everyone wants things fixed yesterday - as if CB> i CB>> didnt have enough work to do lol.. RH> Of course it has to be done yesterday. (G) Our neighbors lost a tree RH> (came down between 2 houses) with relatively minor side damage to a car. RH> I heard a crew out there yesterday taking out the tree. CB> yea these are places like disney, universal etc you know.... the ones CB> where they say jump and (after the boss has taken his head out the CB> mouses arse) says how high.. I've yet to get to one of those places, probably never will and not miss much. CB> one of them was a little pissed that i cannot do a 3 day install in 4 CB> hours because that's all the time i'd have after finishing off the 2 CB> installs I had in st cloud that i never finished cus ... you know... CB> hurricane LOL CB> now they gotta wait acouple weeks cus im going to SC monday. Hopefully he has a camp stove or something. We've got a small camper and several grills so we can do all kinds of cooking, even without power. CB> CB>> that said... the weather stations my collegue has down in fort CB> myers CB>> where he lives (he's ok) they had sustained winds of 100+ CB> with some CB>> gusts upwards of over 150mph (the wind sensors are CB> only rated at CB> CB>> 155mph). and a lot of them are still up now.. RH> I wouldn't want to be out in that kind of wind, glad your collegue is RH> ok. CB> he wasnt out, he lives there. he has a 2 story block house and the CB> water was 6ft in the ground floor. havent heard anything else since CB> but i do know he is ok. CB> didnt wanna bother him cus he has more important things on his plate Smart idea. (G) CB> CB>> there was a number of them that are still there, but have spotty CB> power CB>> and network access obviously. 0RH> No surprise. My husband is into amatuer (ham) radio and is certified to RH> do traffic calls (passing along messages from one ham to another). He's RH> not had any from this storm; probably the hams down in FL and coastal SC RH> have been busy. BTW, we used to live on the NC coast, never had a storm RH> hit us but had some near misses. CB> yea they were, unfortunately, a lod of them dont have much left to CB> string up, but from what i've heard through the amateur radio channels CB> here is that it's prety much under control RH> You're welcome to pull a chair up to the kitchen table, grab a cup of RH> coffee or whatever and join in the discussion here. We usually discuss CB> any/everything food related but I knew the other RH> folks here would be concerned about us and the hurricane. We used to have CB> gentleman named RH> Ian on the echo but this storm was no gentleman. (G) CB> lol... I see you've talked to others on this echo. I joined it back in 1994 when we were in Arizona--it had a lot more participants. My cooking is a mish-mosh of various ethnic and American regionals. We lived in several states plus Germany (and Steve, Korea) in 26 years with the Army and picked up how to make a lot of our favorites from each place we lived. Stateside, we were in CA, MA, TX, AZ, GA and HI, finding favorite foods from each place. Probably my favorite NC foods are eastern NC pulled pork bbq and banana pudding. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Multitask: make twice the mistakes in 1/2 the time. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .