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.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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