Re: How’s the weather

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featureless wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:28 pm Thanks. I'm done with this summer...
Same here, the NWS says the heat wave ends Sunday at 8 pm, but temps don't drop below 90F until Friday. It never dropped below 70F last night. Glad they got your fire contained, that was too close.
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Re: How’s the weather

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At 4:30 am it's already 73F, heading up to 105-107F today. The National Weather Service predicts the heatwave will now end Monday at 8 pm PDT, that was issued this morning. So fans in the morning and a/c in the afternoon.
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Re: How’s the weather

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Hurricane Milton rapidly intensified Monday morning, strengthening into a dangerous Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of around 150 mph as it took aim at a Florida Gulf Coast, which is still reeling from Helene's record-breaking landfall just over a week ago. Millions are facing the prospect of evacuation as Milton gains steam along its path toward the Tampa Bay area, where it is expected to make landfall Wednesday evening. The National Hurricane Center said in an 11 a.m. ET update that it anticipates Milton will intensify into a Category 5 hurricane later today.
As of Monday morning:

Milton was located around 150 miles west of Progreso, Mexico.

It was about 735 miles southwest of Tampa, Fla.

The storm had maximum sustained winds of 150 mph.

The storm was moving east-southeast at 8 mph.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hurricane-mi ... 53308.html


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Re: How’s the weather

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sikacz wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 2:17 pm
featureless wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 1:48 pm Now cat 5. Ugh.
At least it’s supposed to weaken before coming ashore to a cat 3. Hope that prediction holds.
I also hope so, but it jumped from Cat 1 to Cat 5 in one day, with now 175 mph winds. Living in the Southeast's hurricane areas never appealed to me.
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Re: How’s the weather

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highdesert wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 3:39 pm
sikacz wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 2:17 pm
featureless wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 1:48 pm Now cat 5. Ugh.
At least it’s supposed to weaken before coming ashore to a cat 3. Hope that prediction holds.
I also hope so, but it jumped from Cat 1 to Cat 5 in one day, with now 175 mph winds. Living in the Southeast's hurricane areas never appealed to me.
That jump certainly they didn’t expect. They did think it would jump to a 4, but 5 was unexpected. I’m not too thrilled with hurricanes either. But, I’m not thrilled with earthquakes and wild fires either. These seemingly larger storms do make me a bit concerned, but other than moving more inland I don’t really have a good choice.
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Re: How’s the weather

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sikacz wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:38 pm
highdesert wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 3:39 pm
sikacz wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 2:17 pm
featureless wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 1:48 pm Now cat 5. Ugh.
At least it’s supposed to weaken before coming ashore to a cat 3. Hope that prediction holds.
I also hope so, but it jumped from Cat 1 to Cat 5 in one day, with now 175 mph winds. Living in the Southeast's hurricane areas never appealed to me.
That jump certainly they didn’t expect. They did think it would jump to a 4, but 5 was unexpected. I’m not too thrilled with hurricanes either. But, I’m not thrilled with earthquakes and wild fires either. These seemingly larger storms do make me a bit concerned, but other than moving more inland I don’t really have a good choice.
We know people that moved from the wildfires of Sonoma County (CA) to Ashville to avoid climate calamity. Oops.

There are no safe places left.

Re: How’s the weather

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featureless wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 5:44 pm
sikacz wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 4:38 pm
highdesert wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 3:39 pm
sikacz wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 2:17 pm

At least it’s supposed to weaken before coming ashore to a cat 3. Hope that prediction holds.
I also hope so, but it jumped from Cat 1 to Cat 5 in one day, with now 175 mph winds. Living in the Southeast's hurricane areas never appealed to me.
That jump certainly they didn’t expect. They did think it would jump to a 4, but 5 was unexpected. I’m not too thrilled with hurricanes either. But, I’m not thrilled with earthquakes and wild fires either. These seemingly larger storms do make me a bit concerned, but other than moving more inland I don’t really have a good choice.
We know people that moved from the wildfires of Sonoma County (CA) to Ashville to avoid climate calamity. Oops.

There are no safe places left.
So very true. Where I lived before in Southern California there were wild fires every few years, I thought the desert was safer but even the desert burns.

According to a risk survey, the safest place is the tiny principality of Andorra, located in the Pyrenees mountains between Spain and France. It has co-princes who are heads of state, the Spanish Bishop of Urgell, Spain and the President of France. Years ago it was a smugglers capital, now it's a banking capital where people park their investments.



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The co-princes.

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Re: How’s the weather

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When ever I smell smoke on the wind, I get worried. We're lucky this year. Hope our luck holds.

I finally smelled Fall out of the north yesterday. It's a special smell I detect only at this time of year. It does not happen in the Spring. I think this is because the last moisture is being squeezed out of leaves running out of sunlight for making food. The trees are beginning to pull back into low nutrient mode. This last gasp of leaf moisture I think makes the unique smell. The pecan, sycamore, and red bud trees are starting to drop their early leaves. The redbud leaves are golden. The really colorful tree in our neighborhood is across the street. A ginko. Its leaves turn the most brilliant gold around, and that comes just before Thanksgiving. It may very well come to pass that we've seen our last 100 day for this year. But then again, it may not come to pass. I haven't taken out the portable A/C unit yet. He he,

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Re: How’s the weather

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As Milton approaches we hear about this.
Gov. Ron DeSantis Refused To Answer Hurricane Relief Calls From The White House

The White House called out Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at a Monday afternoon press briefing in response to reports that the Republican has refused to answer phone calls from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris about hurricane relief efforts.

“It’s up to him if he wants to respond to us or not,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters with a shrug Monday, confirming the reports.

“We invited the governor, right, to come and survey the damage areas with the president. Obviously, we were in Florida, we invited the governor of Florida to come. It was his decision not ― to not attend or not be there with the president,” Jean-Pierre said. “The president has reached out around Hurricane Helene. He reached out. It is up to the governor. It is really up to the governor.”

Jean-Pierre noted that federal officials, including Deanne Criswell, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, have nevertheless connected with state and local officials to help with storm recovery.

“We’re going to do the work,” Jean-Pierre said. “We’re going to continue to talk to local and state officials, that’s important as well, we’re going to pre-position as Hurricane Milton is coming towards Florida.”

DeSantis reportedly refused to talk to the vice president about hurricane relief in his state less than a week after Hurricane Helene pummeled the area and while another powerful storm, Hurricane Milton, will likely make landfall later this week.

“Kamala was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer,” a DeSantis aide told NBC News of the Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee. The aide added that the Republican governor was screening the calls because they “seemed political.”

When Biden visited Florida last week, DeSantis also decided not to meet with him. The source told NBC they didn’t think the two had talked on the phone despite Biden’s efforts to call DeSantis last week.

The development comes as Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has spread baseless conspiracy theories and lies accusing the federal government of failing to provide adequate storm relief. Last week, Trump claimed Biden hadn’t spoken with Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) after Hurricane Helene. Both Biden and Kemp said that wasn’t true.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desa ... 5b8775fa44

Typical of DeSatan and TOS to play politics while their constituents suffer and then try to blame the Dems.
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So what, Harris has no responsibility for disaster assistance, she's a presidential candidate not the President. State and local emergency management services in Florida are in touch with FEMA. Another example of the biased media.
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highdesert wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:20 am So what, Harris has no responsibility for disaster assistance, she's a presidential candidate not the President. State and local emergency management services in Florida are in touch with FEMA. Another example of the biased media.
She is also the Vice President and some of her duties as such is to assist the president in time of trouble like with disaster relief and helping get information from and to the people in the state government where the disaster has happened. But it is DeSatan and TOS are the ones playing politics with the welfare of the people in the state of Florida. The bias is put there by the actions of the likes of DeSatan and his political minions in Florida, by refusing to take calls from Biden and Harris, to setup the situation where they and TOS can claim the administration did not call and did nothing to help them.
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highdesert wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:20 am So what, Harris has no responsibility for disaster assistance, she's a presidential candidate not the President. State and local emergency management services in Florida are in touch with FEMA. Another example of the biased media.
And another example of Dems politicing and blaming repugs. I'm not fan of desantis, but he's probably got his hands full at the moment. This is the dumbest story of the day.

Re: How’s the weather

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featureless wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:04 pm
highdesert wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:20 am So what, Harris has no responsibility for disaster assistance, she's a presidential candidate not the President. State and local emergency management services in Florida are in touch with FEMA. Another example of the biased media.
And another example of Dems politicking and blaming repugs. I'm not fan of desantis, but he's probably got his hands full at the moment. This is the dumbest story of the day.
I agree, I'm no fan of DeSantis either with his wedge issue politics, but this is the second hurricane to hit his state recently. That was a partisan article typical for Raw Story and HuffPost.
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Re: How’s the weather

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Well, election hysteria aside, we're in the upper 80's today with a week of 80's coming up. And there are bitty bitty rain drops on the ten day map next week. We can only hope for rain. We could sure use it.

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Chuba, chuba, wooley booley. Lookin' high, lookin' low.
Gonna scare you up and shoot you 'cause Mr. Charlie told me so

Re: How’s the weather

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highdesert wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:25 pm
featureless wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 12:04 pm
highdesert wrote: Tue Oct 08, 2024 11:20 am So what, Harris has no responsibility for disaster assistance, she's a presidential candidate not the President. State and local emergency management services in Florida are in touch with FEMA. Another example of the biased media.
And another example of Dems politicking and blaming repugs. I'm not fan of desantis, but he's probably got his hands full at the moment. This is the dumbest story of the day.
I agree, I'm no fan of DeSantis either with his wedge issue politics, but this is the second hurricane to hit his state recently. That was a partisan article typical for Raw Story and HuffPost.
Agree with y’all’s comments. It’s a bit busy there in Florida.
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