Fay, Again
Baird Stafford
National Weather Service has issued the follwing warnings for the county
in which I live:
BREVARD
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
TORNADO WATCH
FLOOD WATCH
RIVER FLOOD WARNING
It takes a *lot* of water to cause the Indian River to flood....
Blessed be,
Baird
nervously
Wood Avens
Good luck. Please let us know when you're sure everything's OK again!
--
Wood Avens
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should that mean that it is not real?"
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Yowie
I had a dream about this last night. It was very strange, but if my
dream meant anything at all (and I'm not known for my prophecies), it is
*very important* that you get things packed away properly (in the
dream, things had to be put into a very big mesh bag or net) or you'll
lose something precious.
Otherwise, it will be a sleepless night, but you should come out fine.
I hope my dream works out for you.
Yowie
Baird Stafford
Wood Avens <wood...@askjennison.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:34:52 -0500, Baird Stafford
> <ba...@newstaff.com> wrote:
>
> >Fay will be passing right over us during the night. At present, the
> >National Weather Service has issued the follwing warnings for the county
> >in which I live:
> >BREVARD
> > FLASH FLOOD WARNING
> > TORNADO WATCH
> > FLOOD WATCH
> > RIVER FLOOD WARNING
> >
> >It takes a *lot* of water to cause the Indian River to flood....
> >Blessed be,
> >Baird
> >nervously
> Good luck. Please let us know when you're sure everything's OK again!
That won't be until this blasted storm has taken itself somewhere
*else*. It has been sitting almost directly on top of me for more than
twelve hours, now, and shows no signs of wanting to move on.
I mean, yes, we had a drought here last year, but surely there's such a
thing as overcompensation!
Blessed be,
Baird
Wood Avens
<ba...@newstaff.com> wrote:
>
>I mean, yes, we had a drought here last year, but surely there's such a
>thing as overcompensation!
>
And I'm sure you weren't so unwise as to have worked any rainmaking
magic ...
--
Katy Jennison
Gale
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:50:49 -0500, Baird Stafford
> <ba...@newstaff.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>>I mean, yes, we had a drought here last year, but surely there's such a
>>thing as overcompensation!
>>
>
>
> And I'm sure you weren't so unwise as to have worked any rainmaking
> magic ...
>
According to CNN today, residents of Melbourne have been warned of an
alligator swimming in the streets. I'm impressed -- it takes a bit of
water to float an alligator.
--
Blessed Be,
Gale
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Baird Stafford
Gale <gal...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> According to CNN today, residents of Melbourne have been warned of an
> alligator swimming in the streets. I'm impressed -- it takes a bit of
> water to float an alligator.
Alligators? We got *fish* in the streets.
Not that I'm inclined to described a lake three or four deep as a
"street," mind you, no matter what may lie underneath it....
Blessed be,
Baird
Baird Stafford
Wood Avens <wood...@askjennison.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:50:49 -0500, Baird Stafford
> <ba...@newstaff.com> wrote:
> >I mean, yes, we had a drought here last year, but surely there's such a
> >thing as overcompensation!
> And I'm sure you weren't so unwise as to have worked any rainmaking
> magic ...
I'm not such a fool, having seen what happened when Magic was worked to
try to steer Hugo, years ago (an act of folly in which I declined to
participate, by the way). All it did was push Hugo out over open waters
where it became too strong for *anyone* to manage, then slam into the
Carolinas with devastating results. Mother Gaia does not respond nearly
as readily to Magic used to influence Her as we mere mortals do.
Blessed be,
Baird
Sings With Coyotes
deluge of Fay in good shape, Baird! Here in Iowa, things are slowly
getting back together, though the city of Cedar Rapids, about an hour
and a half drive east of me, will never be the same. I'm on high
ground, so we not in any danger, but the ground was squishy for a
while. Oddly, it stopped raining like that sometime after the floods,
and farmers are actually complaining that it's too dry!
Blessed be,
Kevin Romaine
Baird Stafford
<f5be71dc-d500-4033...@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
Well, the sun came out for a couple of seconds today and scared the Hel
out of me 'cause I didn't know at first what it was....
When the SO and I were house-shopping back in '92, one of the things I
did was to dig out the Old Man's collection of USGS topographical maps
in order to compare what I saw on paper with what I saw around me. In
spite of having canals on two sides of the property, we're actually
pretty high, here - about halfway up the side of an old sand dune, in
fact - and the street out in front slopes down towards the canal.
Drainage is not a problem. Even if the canal were to overflow it's
banks, the water would have to come up another three or four feet before
it got anywhere near the house. As it was, the water stayed about a
foot below the top of the bank - here. Downstream (downcanal?) was one
of the parts of town hit hardest, however, because the banks are lower.
Which does *not* mean we were stupid enough to believe Washington Mutual
when they told us we didn't have to have flood insurance several years
ago. Maybe *they* don't think we need it, but *we* see not one but two
canals...and so we got flood insurance on our own. I think that may be
one reason we haven't had a problem: these tropical systems know we
wouldn't be wiped out if they flooded us so they don't even try.
Maybe. I'm going to keep the flood insurance, just in case....
My sister called this afternoon with the news that pictures of Melbourne
under water had made it into both the New York _Times_ and whichever
Boston paper she reads. I was able to reassure her that not only the SO
and I but the in-laws as well were all safe. The twin-in-law, his wife
and mother-in-law were in a trailer park - I beg your pardon, I meant to
write, "mobile home community" or "manufactured housing community;"
"trailer park" is no longer acceptable - anyway, they had a foot or so
of water under their floor but apparently it stayed out of the trailer -
er, mobile home. They had no power but by the time I talked to them
this afternoon they were able to drive their vehicle (slowly) out in
order to get food, water and the like.
The SO's oldest brother, his wife and kids and my own mother-in-law were
likewise uninundated, for which I'm grateful. Even the new house
they're building down Valkaria way was untouched, although the lake out
back had expanded to cover the space that will eventually be their lawn.
(Typos in this missive are due to feline assistance: Leila just came up
to claim that no one has paid her any attentnion for *hours*....)
Thanks for the good thoughts, though; and I'm glad to hear that you and
yours also survived the attentions of Jupiter Pluvius undrenched.
Blessed be,
Baird
Gale
<snip>
>
>
> Well, the sun came out for a couple of seconds today and scared the Hel
> out of me 'cause I didn't know at first what it was....
The rain bands of Fay made it here sometime last night -- we've the
sounds of the constant wind outside and a moderate bit of rainwater
draining across the yard. Since the center is well southeast of us, I
wasn't expecting the rain yet -- the weakening storm seems to have
spread out more than a bit.
I'm glad to hear you've pulled through okay, Baird. Also good to hear
from you Kevin -- I hadn't realized you resided in Lake Iowa (as I guess
it was this Spring).
Sings With Coyotes
in June! In '93, Iowa was being called the sixth Great Lake, and
President Clinton was put to work filling sandbags in Des Moines (no
kidding!)
Hopefully you'll get some nice rain from Fay; we wished that we
could've sent you some of the rain we got earlier this summer.
Blessed be,
Kevin Romaine (Sings With Coyotes)
Gale
> LOL, Gale, yeah it was pretty squishy around here for a while
> in June! In '93, Iowa was being called the sixth Great Lake, and
> President Clinton was put to work filling sandbags in Des Moines (no
> kidding!)
> Hopefully you'll get some nice rain from Fay; we wished that we
> could've sent you some of the rain we got earlier this summer.
We totalled about 5 inches over 72 hours from Fay -- a reasonable, heavy
rainfall for this area and a very good thing. We've been in minor to
moderate drought for, I guess, the past year, with the states to the
east of us in severe drought. Fay's also done them more than a little good.
Joe Tarot
> Sings With Coyotes wrote:
>
>> LOL, Gale, yeah it was pretty squishy around here for a while
>> in June! In '93, Iowa was being called the sixth Great Lake, and
>> President Clinton was put to work filling sandbags in Des Moines (no
>> kidding!)
>> Hopefully you'll get some nice rain from Fay; we wished that we
>> could've sent you some of the rain we got earlier this summer.
>
>
> We totalled about 5 inches over 72 hours from Fay -- a reasonable, heavy
> rainfall for this area and a very good thing. We've been in minor to
> moderate drought for, I guess, the past year, with the states to the
> east of us in severe drought. Fay's also done them more than a little good.
>
Heating up here, but this is really just a test to see if my ISP's new
protocols are working
--
Joseph Littleshoes
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Baird Stafford
Gale <gal...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> We totalled about 5 inches over 72 hours from Fay -- a reasonable, heavy
> rainfall for this area and a very good thing. We've been in minor to
> moderate drought for, I guess, the past year, with the states to the
> east of us in severe drought. Fay's also done them more than a little good.
<grump> I'd have been happy to send 'em some of ours. The St. John's
River, which falls about an inch every mile, is still rising from Fay,
downstream. <end grump>
Blessed be,
Baird
Joseph Littleshoes
Aside from that little 'hiccup' it appears they are.
>
> Heating up here, but this is really just a test to see if my ISP's new
> protocols are working
> --
> Joseph Littleshoes
--
Joseph Littleshoes
.
Gale
You may have (quite unintentionally) succeeded. I'm seeing reports that
the drought-stricken Carolinas are now the flood-stricken Carolinas --
all from Fay.