Subj : weather and climate To : Charles Blackburn From : Ruth Haffly Date : Sun Oct 09 2022 20:15:42 Hi Charles, CB> CB>> same here, i live in ormond, but everyone knows daytona so it's CB> just easier LOL RH> Everybody knows Raleigh but a lot of people hear Wake Forest and think RH> of the university. They moved in 1957, taking tobacco money from RJ RH> Reynolds. In 1960, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary moved into CB> only bit of NC I know of is the bit where i95 runs through it im CB> afraid, that and of course "south of the border" which im still yet to CB> go to, it's always 2am when im going past there. I know the I-95 corridor; my in laws used to live in FL so we'd take 95 down thru GA and into FL, then go various ways to get to Zephyrhills. When we lived in Savannah, I-95 up to where we could cut over to I-81 was one way we headed north. We've stopped at SOTB twice, had a mediocre lunch at a Mexican restaurant (in October, so past the main season) one time. I think the other time was for ice cream, but it was less than memorable. RH> the vacated campus, not sure when the The College @ Southeastern moved RH> in. SEBTS is what brought us to Wake Forest, other things have kept us RH> here. CB> if you like it, why change right ? The situation has changed; we're talking about maybe moving out west in a few years. CB> CB> the CB>> only time i get to eat at fancy places like outback etc kik RH> Nice to beable to enjoy meals like that every so often. CB> yeqa it's about the only time I do.. that said, i do try andd take the CB> missus somewhere at least once a month. I'm sure she appreciates that. We'll hit up a casual place now and again but try to go to someplace better for special occaisions. Missed that this year for our anniversary as I was in the leg immobiliser but will make up for it on the cruise ship next week. (G) RH> We were watching to see where it would come thru NC--a bit further east RH> and we would have had a lot more damage than we did. CB> yea we got lucky as i say, was supposed to come right up I4 over the CB> top of us and then took a bee line down the 408/528 to cocoa. Steve wanted to move to FL several years ago; I'm glad I talked him out of it. (G) CB> windy RH>> there (usually 30-40mph range) but not tropical storm or CB> hurricane strength. 100 mph, even as a gust, can do a lot of CB> RH>> damage. CB> oh yea for sure... stormsurge though is the worst thing.. I remember CB> during hurrican matthew a number of years back, I was doing footage CB> for the tv station and I watched coquina rock (A REALLY dense CB> limestone full of shells etc) the size of a fiat 500 car be tossed CB> around like it was styrofoam... one ended up on the road and they CB> needed 2 bulldozers to move it. I can believe that. RH> We're about an hour and a half, maybe 2 hours from beaches--depends on RH> which one we want to go to--so our weather instruments are in the house RH> and yard. I've thought about picking up an animometer and maybe RH> something else as Steve likes to give weather reports on several ham RH> radio networks. CB> other than the NWS stations, the closes wx station sfor our stuff is CB> chapel hill, cary, CB> clayton, smithfield etc nothing on your side. but it does appear to be CB> a very warm 43 degrees there according to the little airport you guys CB> have just to the north east (triangle North KLHZ) Up in Louisburg? CB> CB>> taken his head out the CB> CB>> mouses arse) says how high.. RH> I've yet to get to one of those places, probably never will and not miss RH> much. CB> to be honest, you aint missing much... 180 bucks each (FL Resident CB> price OOS is higher) 5+ hour waits just to go on a 3 minute ride oh CB> yea, not to mention 10 dollar bugers, (not incl. fries) and 4 dollar CB> water bottles... CB> yea no thanks.. Agreed. (G) CB> that said, KSC is worse... last time we went to KSC, there was 5 of CB> us.... cost us 75 bucks to park, and another 600 bucks just to walk in CB> teh door.. if we wanted a tour etc that would be even more. What is KSC? RH> I see you've talked to others on this echo. I joined it back in 1994 RH> when we were in Arizona--it had a lot more participants. My cooking is a CB> mish-mosh of various ethnic and American regionals. RH> We lived in several RH> states plus Germany (and Steve, Korea) in 26 years with the Army and CB> i've been lucky to live the world over so have had my fair share of CB> "weird stuff" RH> picked up how to make a lot of our favorites from each place we lived. CB> Stateside, we were in CA, MA, TX, AZ, GA and HI, RH> finding favorite foods RH> from each place. Probably my favorite NC foods are eastern NC pulled RH> pork bbq and banana pudding. CB> never really been that much of a "BBQ" fan. but banana pudd'n... CB> that's a whole new kettle of fish LMAO Our state fair is offering a frozen banana pudding (don't remember if it's on a stick or in a taco shell) this year. Since we don't go to the fair, we'll not get to try it. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... The first rule of intelligent tinkering: Save all the parts! --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .