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10 cases beer. COSTYAS new 'Kirkland Ultra Ultra Lite'. Less filling, tastes like crap. (Watered down crap)
20 cases SPAM. (The original SPAM, not the Turkey SPAM, not friggin SPAM Lite, (although, with the coupon, you get 110% off if combined with KUUL, but I can only withstand so much crap at once. Even if it is watered down)
50 fifty pound bags of Kirklands new 'Tastes like Rice' rice. Not sure what it is, supposedly rice. If it doesn't taste like rice, and tastes more like KUUL, I'll still have enough bags to keep the floodwaters from rushing in off my patio. ( I just moved here, hence patio)
80 MORE cases of SPAM. I've decided that if my patio, (it will always be 'patio' to me, I'm not naming part of my new house after some friggin island, what's wrong with people over here anyways?), glass gives way, I can stack the cans of SPAM, glue them together with a combination of KUUL and Kirklands TLR, should provide a bonding mixture superior to that of old fashioned mortar.
Last, but not least, 50 cases of Kirklands new 10 ply Ultra Ultra Toilet, Facial, multi use tissue paper. Evidently it's a joint design by Kirkland and Pirelli. And, given that Pirelli makes cars go faster, and the combination of SPAM and KUUL seems to have the same affect on me, should come in handy. If it's a little to tready, I can soak it in the KUUL for a bit, to soften it up. Hopefully the KUUL won't have the same affect on the TP as it did on the TLR.
Spam, rice & toilet paper, those are the three top things that sell out when folks panic. You'd think there'd be better stuff to stock up on, but guess folks is looking for comfort food and it's aftereffects or something.
It's really interesting the differences topography can make in weather. I was in the Bahamas about a week ago and there were huge lightening storms that just kinda drifted in from nowhere. There was a tropical downpour that came out of a blue sky. Nice sunny afternoon, then it clouded up and started pouring in about fifteen minutes. With lightening! It didn't last long, but it was surprising to come out of basically nowhere.
Having mountains makes a lot different weather here in Hawaii than there in the Bahamas even though we're both warm sub tropical areas.
Well, they say in another two days we will find out if that next 'disturbance' becomes a hurricane or not. If the named storm 'Lester' is behind this one, then this one will become something 'M'?
How many of us just keep stocked up during the entire hurricane season? We did a bit of stocking for Darby, but have since eaten most of the stuff we got since it was just several days worth of what we'd usually be eating. Should we stock up on stuff we don't usually eat but stuff that lasts basically forever? Or just get several day's worth of what we are actually gonna eat before the big storm is supposed to arrive?
We used to keep several month's worth of food on hand at any particular time, but now we've cut way back on that and just try to keep more fresh stuff growing.
Having mountains makes a lot different weather here in Hawaii than there in the Bahamas even though we're both warm sub tropical areas.
While elevation can cool you off as you go higher the biggest impact to our weather at sea level is the high pressure that is very prevalent north of the islands (which also impact the US West Coast shifting storms to the north leaving CA dry) - that high pressure brings the tradewinds blowing out the humidity otherwise Hawaii would just be a sweaty mess at sea level - when that high pressure is disrupted, you get that nasty weather like we have had the past few days....
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Well, they say in another two days we will find out if that next 'disturbance' becomes a hurricane or not. If the named storm 'Lester' is behind this one, then this one will become something 'M'?.
Lester is forecast to become a category 1 hurricane, not too far from Hawaii by Thursday of next week.
Location: not sure, but there's a hell of a lot of water around here!
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Lester is forecast to become a category 1 hurricane, not too far from Hawaii by Thursday of next week.
Lester wasn't the one I had in mind. 14E, now TS Madeline, has all the indicators of the type of storm that normally adversely effects the Islands. Forming west of 140, and not actually developing into a hurricane until within 600 or so miles of the Islands. Couple that with it being close to the warmest ocean temps of the year, and light to moderate upper level winds, and, I'M HEADING TO COSTYA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Uuuurrrrr,,,,,, they've already run out of 'P's........
While elevation can cool you off as you go higher the biggest impact to our weather at sea level is the high pressure that is very prevalent north of the islands (which also impact the US West Coast shifting storms to the north leaving CA dry) - that high pressure brings the tradewinds blowing out the humidity otherwise Hawaii would just be a sweaty mess at sea level - when that high pressure is disrupted, you get that nasty weather like we have had the past few days....
I wonder what causes that high pressure area? It seems fairly steady (for an atmospheric condition) and I'm really grateful for it, but is it caused by anything that is likely to change? (I sure hope not!)
Is it time to go check the weather after this cup of coffee? There's a bit of rain, not much and almost no wind at the moment. But that's just looking out the window weather, not anything long term predictive.
Thanks, WhiteViper! It's nice to know that those high pressure areas that make our climate lovely are stable and going to continue. That was an interesting link, I've never really wondered how the weather worked around here, probably since it doesn't usually change that much.
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