Subj : weather and climate
To : Ruth Haffly
From : Charles Blackburn
Date : Thu Oct 06 2022 20:12:29
Re: weather and climate
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 university got started, then moved to Winston-Salem
RH> but kept the name to confuse everybody), just a bit northeast of Raleigh.
same here, i live in ormond, but everyone knows daytona so it's just easier LOL
CB> JW>>> One of your five worst ones ever. I see in today's breaking news that although it weakened down to a storm it
CB> JW>>> regained strength over the open water and landed again as a full blown hurricane after all.
CB>> yup and i have to go up to SC next week for work because of it lol
RH> Do you get travel pay for it?
oh yea, i have a work truck and they pay fuel, hotels etc. about the only time i get to eat at fancy places like outback etc kik
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 Zephyrhills but summer in NYS. From what I
RH> understand, their house didn't have any damage.
yea sunday it was supposed to hit just north of tampa, monday morning it was supposed to hit just sounth of tampa, by tuesday it was ft meyers. people are bitching that the ft meyers area only had the shelters open for one day before, but like desantis said. where were the news crews, weather channel etc... they were all camped out in sarasota the day before lol
CB>> My weather station on the beach in daytona had 780mph winds and the
RH> *** ? 78-80?
yea that was a fat finger :D
CB>> highest gust I saw was upwards of 100 miles per hour
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.
yea i have a number (about) of weather stations LITERALLY on the beach on the lifeguard towers. they all stayed online for the most part until the power/internet went out on beach side.
CB>> unfortunately now, everyone wants things fixed yesterday - as if 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.
yea these are places like disney, universal etc you know.... the ones where they say jump and (after the boss has taken his head out the mouses arse) says how high..
one of them was a little pissed that i cannot do a 3 day install in 4 hours because that's all the time i'd have after finishing off the 2 installs I had in st cloud that i never finished cus ... you know... hurricane LOL
now they gotta wait acouple weeks cus im going to SC monday.
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..
RH> I wouldn't want to be out in that kind of wind, glad your collegue is
RH> ok.
he wasnt out, he lives there. he has a 2 story block house and the water was 6ft in the ground floor. havent heard anything else since but i do know he is ok.
didnt wanna bother him cus he has more important things on his plate
CB>> there was a number of them that are still there, but have spotty 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.
yea they were, unfortunately, a lod of them dont have much left to string up, but from what i've heard through the amateur radio channels 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 any/everything food related but I knew the other
RH> folks here would be concerned about us and the hurricane. We used to have a gentleman named
RH> Ian on the echo but this storm was no gentleman. (G)
lol...
regards
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