That annoying hurricane

[Gary]

With the odd 4 syllable name.

It was hell 31 hours with no power.
Not much of a storm here but did worse inland from me.
My power went out at 6am Tuesday morning
That next night was the worst.
Hot, humid, no wind at all. A sweat box here inside and
even outside. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Nothing to do here but read with a flashlight but you
can only do that for so long. And all the time, a film
of sweat on me. Only breeze was to fan myself with a
thin piece of cardboard.

Still off the next morning so I went outside but not
much relief out there either. It did finally come back
on about 1pm and I was sure thankful that I wouldn't
have to spend a 2nd night like that.

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 8/7/2020 6:19 AM, Gary wrote:
> With the odd 4 syllable name.
>
> It was hell 31 hours with no power.
> Not much of a storm here but did worse inland from me.
> My power went out at 6am Tuesday morning
> That next night was the worst.
> Hot, humid, no wind at all. A sweat box here inside and
> even outside. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
>
> Nothing to do here but read with a flashlight but you
> can only do that for so long. And all the time, a film
> of sweat on me. Only breeze was to fan myself with a
> thin piece of cardboard.

No AC sucks this time of year. You were fortunate with only 31 hours I
saw where CT will have some out until Tuesday.

When I was coming up 95 Tuesday afternoon I saw at least 40 trucks from
power companies heading north to help out. I was supposed to leave
Monday but would have caught up with the storm and be in it for the trip.

Instead of a flashlight, there are some LED lanterns that give lots of
light and last for many hours on a few D cells.

[Gary]

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> No AC sucks this time of year. You were fortunate with only 31 hours I
> saw where CT will have some out until Tuesday.

Yes, I saw that. As bad as my situation was, there's always
worse situations.

>
> Instead of a flashlight, there are some LED lanterns that give lots of
> light and last for many hours on a few D cells.

I have 3 things to buy before September which is normal hurricane
season here.

1) a little personal battery fan (3")
2) small battery radio
3) a lantern rather than a flashlight.

I'll also not buy much freezer items until hurricane season ends.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 6:19:05 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> With the odd 4 syllable name.

Isaias? Not different from Isaiah, which is a fairly common
name. A couple of basketball players come to mind.

> It was hell 31 hours with no power.

That is a long time. Makes me glad I have a generator.

Cindy Hamilton

[Bryan Simmons]

On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 5:19:05 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
> With the odd 4 syllable name.
>
> It was hell 31 hours with no power.
> Not much of a storm here but did worse inland from me.
> My power went out at 6am Tuesday morning
> That next night was the worst.
> Hot, humid, no wind at all. A sweat box here inside and
> even outside. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
>

I wish way worse than that on people all the time. The fuckers at my job who don't wear masks, I wish they'd die alone, gasping for breath. I say alone, but I'd kinda like to, as they say, be a fly on the wall.

--Bryan

[Bryan Simmons]

I wear one of these all day at work. https://www.target.com/p/o2cool-2pk-deluxe-necklace-fan-blue/-/A-79629682

--Bryan

[Dave Smith]

That would be your chance to relish in the schadenfreude, watching them
get kicked in the ass by karma. I had a couple instances of that with
a nasty sister in law. While arranging my mother's delayed memorial
service she was quite vocal about how it should not more than 10-15
minutes because she did not want to have to sit through a long boring
service. Meanwhile, her son had gone to pick up her mother to bring her
to the house for supper, but when he was taking her to the car the old
girl's heart gave out and she dropped down dead. Curiously the bitch in
law went out the next day and organized a funeral for her mother that
lasted over an hour.

A few years before that I had been at the hospital to visit my brother
who had had a heart attack. She wanted me to accompany her out to the
smoke put so she could have a cigarette. After she lit up she told me
that my brother was going to have to quit smoking. I suggested that it
might be hard for him to quit smoking if she was still doing it. She
snapped at me" I'm not the one who had a heart attack". Apparently she
was not willing to give up her expensive, dirty unhealthy habit to help
him recover.

While he did quit for a while she fell back into the smoking habit.
Perhaps if she had quite back then instead of smoking for another 22
years she might not have developed the lung cancer that killer her two
months ago.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 5:19:05 AM UTC-5, Gary wrote:
>

> With the odd 4 syllable name.
>
> It was hell 31 hours with no power.
> Not much of a storm here but did worse inland from me.
> My power went out at 6am Tuesday morning
> That next night was the worst.
> Hot, humid, no wind at all. A sweat box here inside and
> even outside. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
>
> Nothing to do here but read with a flashlight but you
> can only do that for so long. And all the time, a film
> of sweat on me. Only breeze was to fan myself with a
> thin piece of cardboard.
>

Instead of holding a flashlight and trying to read, too, why not lay in
a few candles? I know that's added heat with no a/c but do what you are
always telling us. Fling open those windows!

I did it back in March, read by candlelight, not fling open the windows.
Thankfully it was neither cold nor hot at the time. I figured if Abe
Lincoln could do it, so could I.

[S Viemeister]

My son and his wife live in a rural part of NJ, with their own pumped
well and powered sewage setup. His power went out during the storm - and
then his generator failed. They went to a motel until he could get a new
generator fitted. He hopes to have power restored by next week sometime.

[dsi1]

What an ordeal! Sorry to hear about that shitstorm. Unfortunately, hurricanes seem to be trending. I got my cheap Chinese butane burner from Amazon and boy, I can hardly wait for the next hurricane to strike! I should cook some Spam and eggs, just for practice.

In the future, we'll all have to live underground. Of course, we'll have to come up occasionally to clean off the solar panels that will supply all of our power.

https://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/8176/406760/5e307174a12f0/Keeping-up-undergroundKimye-will-be-MOLE-PEOPLE.jpg

[Bruce]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 06:20:39 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
<angelica...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 6:19:05 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
>> With the odd 4 syllable name.
>
>Isaias? Not different from Isaiah, which is a fairly common
>name. A couple of basketball players come to mind.

Are they still alive or did they walk into the police?

[Bruce]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 11:56:07 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>That would be your chance to relish in the schadenfreude, watching them
>get kicked in the ass by karma. I had a couple instances of that with
>a nasty sister in law. While arranging my mother's delayed memorial
>service she was quite vocal about how it should not more than 10-15
>minutes because she did not want to have to sit through a long boring
>service. Meanwhile, her son had gone to pick up her mother to bring her
>to the house for supper, but when he was taking her to the car the old
>girl's heart gave out and she dropped down dead. Curiously the bitch in
>law went out the next day and organized a funeral for her mother that
>lasted over an hour.
>
>A few years before that I had been at the hospital to visit my brother
>who had had a heart attack. She wanted me to accompany her out to the
>smoke put so she could have a cigarette. After she lit up she told me
>that my brother was going to have to quit smoking. I suggested that it
>might be hard for him to quit smoking if she was still doing it. She
>snapped at me" I'm not the one who had a heart attack". Apparently she
>was not willing to give up her expensive, dirty unhealthy habit to help
>him recover.
>
>While he did quit for a while she fell back into the smoking habit.
>Perhaps if she had quite back then instead of smoking for another 22
>years she might not have developed the lung cancer that killer her two
>months ago.

You become pettier and creepier by the day.

[Hank Rogers]

But he gives you lots of opportunities to enjoy your hobby.

[Bryan Simmons]

He's nowhere near as vicious as me, and creepy is a weird choice of words. You may disapprove ethically of schadenfreude, but it's not creepy. It was quite a few years ago, but recent enough that I think it was on FAB, that some far right wing woman posted some kind of bigoted comment. Her husband had died a year or so before, and she'd been appointed to fill the rest of his term. I wrote, "I wonder what it's like inside your husband's coffin right now." That was fun.

--Bryan

[Bruce]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 15:05:48 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
<bryang...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 1:51:02 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 11:56:07 -0400, Dave Smith
>> >

>> >While he did quit for a while she fell back into the smoking habit.
>> >Perhaps if she had quite back then instead of smoking for another 22
>> >years she might not have developed the lung cancer that killer her two
>> >months ago.
>>
>> You become pettier and creepier by the day.
>
>He's nowhere near as vicious as me, and creepy is a weird choice of words. You may disapprove ethically of schadenfreude, but it's not creepy. It was quite a few years ago, but recent enough that I think it was on FAB, that some far right wing woman posted some kind of bigoted comment. Her husband had died a year or so before, and she'd been appointed to fill the rest of his term. I wrote, "I wonder what it's like inside your husband's coffin right now." That was fun.

Just because you're a creep doesn't mean Dave Smith isn't.

[Hank Rogers]

Bruce wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 15:05:48 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> <bryang...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 1:51:02 PM UTC-5, Bruce wrote:
>>> On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 11:56:07 -0400, Dave Smith
>>>>
>>>> While he did quit for a while she fell back into the smoking habit.
>>>> Perhaps if she had quite back then instead of smoking for another 22
>>>> years she might not have developed the lung cancer that killer her two
>>>> months ago.
>>>
>>> You become pettier and creepier by the day.
>>
>> He's nowhere near as vicious as me, and creepy is a weird choice of words. You may disapprove ethically of schadenfreude, but it's not creepy. It was quite a few years ago, but recent enough that I think it was on FAB, that some far right wing woman posted some kind of bigoted comment. Her husband had died a year or so before, and she'd been appointed to fill the rest of his term. I wrote, "I wonder what it's like inside your husband's coffin right now." That was fun.
>
> Just because you're a creep doesn't mean Dave Smith isn't.
>

Congratulations! Another double SNIFF!

[Bryan Simmons]

Asshole would have been a better word choice, and there is a difference between the adjective, creepy, and the (informal) noun, creep.

--Bryan

[Bruce]

On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 16:31:10 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons

Let me suggest a compromise: creepy asshole?

[Dave Smith]

I have nothing to apologize for. I didn't do anything to her. The Dutch
Australian was not there to catch the viciousness of here refusal to
quit smoking to help her husband overcome a life threatening situation.
and total lack of compassion for my brother after his heart attack.
When she made that comment about how my mother's memorial service could
not last more than 10-15 minutes because she didn't want to have to sit
through a long boring service she was hitting me when I was down.

Believe me, I was tempted to remark about how karma had jumped up and
bit her in the ass. I opted to sit back and appreciate the
schadenfreude. That was pretty much the end of our relationship.

[Ed Pawlowski]

On 8/7/2020 11:56 AM, Dave Smith wrote:

>
> A few years before that I had been at the hospital to visit my brother
> who had had a heart attack. She wanted me to accompany her out to the
> smoke put so she could have a cigarette. After she lit up she told me
> that my brother was going to have to quit smoking.  I suggested that it
> might be hard for him to quit smoking if she was still doing it. She
> snapped at me" I'm not the one who had a heart attack".   Apparently she
> was not willing to give up her expensive, dirty unhealthy habit to help
> him recover.

Friend of mine use to smoke. He had a heart attack and the ambulance
was taking him out They asked if he smoked. He said "I used to but
quit" So they asked how long ago and he replied "when my wife called 911"

Bill had five more heart attacks but it is not what killed him. Timely
story though, where I am staying this week is with his wife at the shore
house. He was a great guy.

[jmcquown]

I much prefer Hurricane (oil) lamps to candles with exposed flame.
Better ambiance, too. :) I haven't had to use them in a while.

Seriously, when it comes to reading books during a power outage, get a
booklight. I have a small battery LED booklight that clips onto the
book. When the power went out for four days due to Hurricane Matthew, I
treasured that booklight after dark. During the day the blinds were
open and even though it was cloudy there was plenty of light. I have no
idea how many windows Gary has in his apartment. Just saying, a
booklight is a good thing to have in the event of "nothing to do here
but read". :)

Jill

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Friday, August 7, 2020 at 11:38:04 PM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
>
> On 8/7/2020 12:37 PM, itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >>
> > Instead of holding a flashlight and trying to read, too, why not lay in
> > a few candles? I know that's added heat with no a/c but do what you are
> > always telling us. Fling open those windows!
> >

> I much prefer Hurricane (oil) lamps to candles with exposed flame.
> Better ambiance, too. :) I haven't had to use them in a while.
>

I don't have an oil lamp but when power failures occur you certainly wish
you had one if you don't have an emergency generator.

>
> Seriously, when it comes to reading books during a power outage, get a
> booklight. I have a small battery LED booklight that clips onto the
> book. When the power went out for four days due to Hurricane Matthew, I
> treasured that booklight after dark. During the day the blinds were
> open and even though it was cloudy there was plenty of light. I have no
> idea how many windows Gary has in his apartment. Just saying, a
> booklight is a good thing to have in the event of "nothing to do here
> but read". :)
>
> Jill
>

I hope not to have a need for an oil lamp, candles, or a book lamp. But
a book lamp would be nice to have while reading in bed during a power
failure.

[Julie Bove]

"Gary" <g.ma...@att.net> wrote in message news:5F2D2AB4...@att.net...

Very sorry. I was living on Staten Island when the grid went off for about
two weeks. Mostly I laid in bed, listening to the news station on the radio.

I was the only one in the area with a corded phone. Everyone came to my
house to use it. Cell towers were out.

I remember eating very little in the course of the day. Maybe some peanuts,
kidney beans and green beans. We'd pass the cans around, take a bite, then
throw them out. The heat made us feel sick. Water wasn't much of a help as
it came out of the tap hot.

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 00:37:58 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>
wrote:

Even better is an e-reader with built in light! Plus one can increase
the font size.

[Gary]

jmcquown wrote:
>
> During the day the blinds were
> open and even though it was cloudy there was plenty of light. I have no
> idea how many windows Gary has in his apartment.

Plenty of large windows and light during the daytime.

> Just saying, a
> booklight is a good thing to have in the event of "nothing to do here
> but read". :)

A booklight is a good idea. Either that or a LED lantern.
I do have candles but chose not to use them.

[S Viemeister]

> Even better is an e-reader with built in light! Plus one can increase
> the font size.
>

Even better, a waterproof e-reader with built-in light. |Good for beach
or pool, and excellent for bubble baths...

[jmcquown]

Assuming one doesn't have a generator (in which case you wouldn't need a
booklight or candles or a flashlight) how do you keep the e-reader
charged during an extended power outage?

Jill

[jmcquown]

This is the booklight I have:

https://mightybright.com/collections/book-lights/products/ultrathin-book-light

It's not the perfect solution but it beats holding a flashlight or, if
you're stretched out on the couch or in bed, trying to balance a
flashlight on your shoulder. :)

So, what did you read during the outage? I'm re-reading James Clavell's
'Shogun'.

Jill

[Gary]

jmcquown wrote:

> So, what did you read during the outage? I'm re-reading James Clavell's
> 'Shogun'.

That's a good story but never read the book. The original
12 hour or so mini-series was good but later they shortened
it for movies to about 4 hours or so.

Anyway, I started a re read of an old good book,
"Jumper" (C-1992) by Steven Gould. I like that story.

Interestingly too, just last night the movie of it was on
tv. I've seen it before though and not near as good as the
book. They changed the story too much.

Two other books that I'd like to read first but still can't
find them here. I have them (paperbacks) but I have so many
books, still can't find them.

1) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
2) Black like Me by ????

[Bryan Simmons]

You could read *my* book.


--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 11:28:55 AM UTC-4, Gary wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>
> > So, what did you read during the outage? I'm re-reading James Clavell's
> > 'Shogun'.
>
> That's a good story but never read the book. The original
> 12 hour or so mini-series was good but later they shortened
> it for movies to about 4 hours or so.
>
> Anyway, I started a re read of an old good book,
> "Jumper" (C-1992) by Steven Gould. I like that story.
>
> Interestingly too, just last night the movie of it was on
> tv. I've seen it before though and not near as good as the
> book. They changed the story too much.

I wish they had shot more of it in Ann Arbor.

Cindy Hamilton

[Lucretia Borgia]

True enough! Recently read two paper books, argghgh, couldn't wait to
finish them. I will never go back to paper again.

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 09:19:32 -0400, jmcquown <j_mc...@comcast.net>

I have a gizmo that charges all sorts of tech things, that's more than
enough for two weeks with an e-reader, I had no power for two weeks
and reader did not expire. I just make sure things like that are
charged to the hilt when I know a hurricane is heading my way.

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Saturday, August 8, 2020 at 12:42:00 PM UTC-5, Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>
> I have a gizmo that charges all sorts of tech things, that's more than
> enough for two weeks with an e-reader, I had no power for two weeks
> and reader did not expire. I just make sure things like that are
> charged to the hilt when I know a hurricane is heading my way.
>

When the March tornado hit here I had to charge my cell phone using my
car. It also has an electrical 110-volt plug.

[Bruce]

For two weeks? I'd have emigrated. I find 2 hours of no power
extremely long! And this is the sticks!

[Cindy Hamilton]

Sadly, I have several paper books that aren't available as e-books. One
of these days I'll re-read them.

Cindy Hamilton

[Lucretia Borgia]

I was outside town, on the waterfront and took full force of Hurricane
Juan. It also meant I had no water either as I had a well 375ft down,
a drilled well and needed power for the pump. It was part of my
decision to sell and move to this condo as a few months after that we
had an enormous blizzard most people called White Juan; that time the
plough didn't get down our road for about ten days and I called my
real estate friend and said to him, 'Put the house on the market" to
which he sighed and said "You and about eight others today"

[Bruce]

On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:15:04 -0300, Lucretia Borgia

LOL I had similar thoughts after the recent drought and bushfires
here. But maybe, straight after such a disaster, house prices are
unusually low in the affected area.

[S Viemeister]

On 08/08/2020 14:19, jmcquown wrote:

> Assuming one doesn't have a generator (in which case you wouldn't need a
> booklight or candles or a flashlight) how do you keep the e-reader
> charged during an extended power outage?
>

E-readers last for ages on a full charge. But I always have
fully-charged back-up batteries. I even have a solar charger.

[Hank Rogers]

And the bonus for evil meat eaters is there are lots of burned dead
animal corpses to feed on.

[Bryan Simmons]

I'm looking forward to making a fire with seasoned hickory, and burning some dead animal, a T-bone that's close to porterhouse. My wife gets the tenderloin, and I get the rest. While the texture of the tenderloin is luscious, I like the flavor of the strip better than any other muscle from the dead cow.

--Bryan https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/bryan-simmons/winters-present/ebook/product-176j5weg.html

[Lucretia Borgia]

On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 15:17:37 -0500, Hank Rogers <Nos...@invalid.com>
wrote:

My house was on the ocean with a sandy beach at the bottom of the
garden - never going to be a problem selling, in the end, two doctors
from Calgary bought it, so excited to live by the sea.

[Bruce]

On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 18:17:22 -0300, Lucretia Borgia

<lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>> On Sat, 08 Aug 2020 16:15:04 -0300, Lucretia Borgia
>> <lucreti...@fl.it> wrote:
>>
>>> I was outside town, on the waterfront and took full force of Hurricane
>>> Juan. It also meant I had no water either as I had a well 375ft down,
>>> a drilled well and needed power for the pump. It was part of my
>>> decision to sell and move to this condo as a few months after that we
>>> had an enormous blizzard most people called White Juan; that time the
>>> plough didn't get down our road for about ten days and I called my
>>> real estate friend and said to him, 'Put the house on the market" to
>>> which he sighed and said "You and about eight others today"
>>
>> LOL I had similar thoughts after the recent drought and bushfires
>> here. But maybe, straight after such a disaster, house prices are
>> unusually low in the affected area.
>>

>My house was on the ocean with a sandy beach at the bottom of the
>garden - never going to be a problem selling, in the end, two doctors
>from Calgary bought it, so excited to live by the sea.

And is their house still standing? :)

[Hank Rogers]

You gonna sniff both them Fruce?

[Hank Rogers]

I also eat dead animals. Poor Fruce usually shits his drawers, and
pisses his pants but life goes on. Vegetarians usually get over it
quickly.

[Lucretia Borgia]

They sold and moved back west after a couple of years. The couple who
bought from them still live there but they have let the house
deteriorate, 5 lovely tall cedars that sheilded the house from view of
the street have somehow died. They have added a ghastly garage, I
felt rather sad when I last went to my ex. neighbours and saw it.

[Bruce]

On Sun, 09 Aug 2020 09:15:53 -0300, Lucretia Borgia

I'd hate to see those trees dead.