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)
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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