Fay
Baird Stafford
because I don't love y'all any more. It's because the projected paths
for Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay keeps creeping closer and closer to the
Space Coast, or at least the paths projected by the computer models do.
As y'all will have noticed in 2004, lack of power makes it difficult to
post.... And, since I'm on a well, it also makes flushing difficult.
Guess what *my* most vivid memories of that year are!
Blessed be,
Baird
mark
> If, perchance, I should go silent over the next day or two, it isn't
> because I don't love y'all any more. It's because the projected paths
> for Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay keeps creeping closer and closer to the
> Space Coast, or at least the paths projected by the computer models do.
Oh, crap.
> As y'all will have noticed in 2004, lack of power makes it difficult to
> post.... And, since I'm on a well, it also makes flushing difficult.
>
> Guess what *my* most vivid memories of that year are!
Nothing to do with four hurricanes hitting FL, and three on the east coast,
and one actually hitting y'all with hurricane force winds?
Nahhhhh....
And my wife tells me it didn't used to be this way, that hurricanes *very*
rarely used to hit central FL (the Space Coast), since the way the Gulf
Stream flows, it pulled them away (look at a map of FL, folks - Cape
Canaveral sticks way out, and you can guess what the currents do).
Good luck, both of you.
mark
Baird Stafford
mark <whit...@rcn.com> wrote:
> Baird Stafford wrote:
> > If, perchance, I should go silent over the next day or two, it
> > isn't because I don't love y'all any more. It's because the
> > projected paths for Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay keeps creeping
> > closer and closer to the Space Coast, or at least the paths
> > projected by the computer models do.
> Oh, crap.
My sentiments exactly. And the project path of the storm has drawn even
closer since the last time I posted.
> > As y'all will have noticed in 2004, lack of power makes it
> > difficult to post.... And, since I'm on a well, it also makes
> > flushing difficult.
> > Guess what *my* most vivid memories of that year are!
> Nothing to do with four hurricanes hitting FL, and three on the east coast,
> and one actually hitting y'all with hurricane force winds?
Two. I rode the first one out alone in the house except for the cat
(she didn't like it, either!) and went to stay with some people we know
for the second one.
> Nahhhhh....
> And my wife tells me it didn't used to be this way, that hurricanes
> *very* rarely used to hit central FL (the Space Coast), since the way
> the Gulf Stream flows, it pulled them away (look at a map of FL,
> folks - Cape Canaveral sticks way out, and you can guess what the
> currents do).
Prior to 2004, the worst hurricane to hit this part of the world was the
one that sank the _Atocha_ and accompanying fleet off Sebastian Inlet.
> Good luck, both of you.
Thanks, Mark.
Blessed be,
Baird
Joseph Littleshoes
Hmmm.....all this time i thought you were ensconced in England.
--
JL
.
Gale
> If, perchance, I should go silent over the next day or two, it isn't
> because I don't love y'all any more. It's because the projected paths
> for Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay keeps creeping closer and closer to the
> Space Coast, or at least the paths projected by the computer models do.
> As y'all will have noticed in 2004, lack of power makes it difficult to
> post.... And, since I'm on a well, it also makes flushing difficult.
Hadn't noticed, since Fay is a comparatively modest hurricane. I've
become a bit hurricane jaded.
>
> Guess what *my* most vivid memories of that year are!
Mine are of the next year, when Katrina became the first known hurricane
to make its way all the way to us in northern Mississippi while still
packing hurricane-force winds. Then we almost got caught in a Rita
spawned tornado while visiting my kid's school in Arkansas, came home,
and learned another Rita tornado had just blasted a building on our campus.
I hope your problems prove minimal.
--
Blessed Be,
Gale
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Baird Stafford
Joseph Littleshoes <jpst...@isp.com> wrote:
> Baird Stafford wrote:
> > If, perchance, I should go silent over the next day or two, it isn't
> > because I don't love y'all any more. It's because the projected paths
> > for Tropical Storm/Hurricane Fay keeps creeping closer and closer to the
> > Space Coast, or at least the paths projected by the computer models do.
> > As y'all will have noticed in 2004, lack of power makes it difficult to
> > post.... And, since I'm on a well, it also makes flushing difficult.
> > Guess what *my* most vivid memories of that year are!
> Hmmm.....all this time i thought you were ensconced in England.
Nope. Closest I've ever been to England was several generations and
three wars back, starting with the Revolution (the American one, not the
Glorious one).
Blessed be,
Baird