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I normally think of economic disasters, war, epidemics, when I consider survival. Here I sit at work, my job is considered essential, watching tropical storm Lee wash thru New Orleans.
The wind is so strong that it is blowing the rain sideways. The rain is coming down so hard you can't see thru it, it looks like a silvery curtain. The rain is blowing UNDER the doors and making pools of water in the hallways. Trees are sheding dead branches all over the roads. The usual idiots are driving as tho there is no wind or rain. After all, they are in 4 wheel drive vehicles. A number of them are in the swamps along I-10. It's easy to leave the road when it curves. In this kind of rain you can't always see the road. Driving in the dark, on a blacktop highway, in a driving rain, the water pooled on the road disappears. It's similar to black ice in that you can easily lose control. Unfortunately, I-10 west is bordered by swamps.
Tomorrow everyone will come out, look around, and life will resume. I am looking forward to retiring so I can sit in my house on the top of a hill, and watch the storm
I normally think of economic disasters, war, epidemics, when I consider survival.
Me too. I think just about everybody over the age of 5 has had experience with some type of weather event. If they can remember it, they survived it! Yet, not everyone over the age of 5 or 65 is a prepper. This special, rare breed of cat is sensitive enough to detect changes in the economic and political fabric of society. Not so all the rest. They think life will just continue as it now is, ad infinitum. Maybe it will; I hope so!
What was it Shakespeare said in Macbeth ' That struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing'.
Lots of wind and water, levees failed on a minor scale as they were topped by flood waters, people discovered levees would hold water in as well as out. . . . . people complaining that the government isn't doing enough; in the end, nothing learned from the experience.
And, another tropical depression has formed formed off the coast of Africa and is predicted to become a tropical storm later this week.
We are getting rain from this Lee, which will probably ruin repairs made, but not yet completed, in VT and NH to roads and missing bridges.
Weather and me just are, and I plan to set up camp in the rain come Thursday, but at 3,000 feet.
I think that this winter is going to be a record breaker, in terms of cold...my friend agrees with this, they have a badger, and have never seen as thick of a coat on that animal as he has for this winter. This is really going to be a bad one.
I think that this winter is going to be a record breaker, in terms of cold...my friend agrees with this, they have a badger, and have never seen as thick of a coat on that animal as he has for this winter. This is really going to be a bad one.
Odd, I've had that feeling too. This summer was the hottest and wettest in any local's memory. I don't have a badger, but for the past two weeks my cattle have been coming in to be grained (which they rarely do when we are pasturing them, and with this year's overgrown pasture, they have plenty) twice a day, and being very aggressive about the food bowls... They are trying to fatten up. My neighbors kid me about my giant woodpile, but I just smile and keep cutting and stacking...
The weather patterns here portend that there is something in the wind, and it isn't balmy breezes.
I think that this winter is going to be a record breaker, in terms of cold...my friend agrees with this, they have a badger, and have never seen as thick of a coat on that animal as he has for this winter. This is really going to be a bad one.
Al Gore is still pushing global warming. Don't know why. They won't take back his Nobel prize or the money!
I can't help but wonder tho, if we go into a cooling phase what effect it will have where I live. More hurricanes? Fewer? Snow? More ice storms?
I read a diary where the people described crossing over a frozen Tennessee River. Can you imagine the disruption in our economy if we had a cold spell like that now?
The biggest problem southerners have with snow is that they think they can drive on it the same way as they do normally...fast and furious... or with 4-wheel drive engaged. DUH
I'm from New York originally, so I know what needs to be done when driving. But you will not find me on the road when it's snowing or icy here in Texas. I value my life too much to risk it here. I spent the bulk of last winter at home because of the crazy people on the roads.
There was plenty of food in the house, and since I didn't need to go to work every day I made it just fine.
I too think this winter will be much worse than last year. Or maybe I'm hopeing it will be. We need a ton of rain to get out of the drought situation we're in... what we don't need is bitter cold temps to go along with it however. That would be bad as the majority of trees here have shallow root systems and break fairly easily in a strong wind or heavy ice situation. We had a lot of downed limbs last winter...surprisingly there were not many power outages however.
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is sensitive enough to detect changes in the economic and political fabric of society. Not so all the rest. They think life will just continue as it now is, ad infinitum. Maybe it will; I hope so! 
Lee has come and gone
