Here in Belgium we had -3° this morning and not above 5° during the day. I had a parade this afternoon and the wind was blowing and it was very, very, very cold:sad:. Luckely it was only for one hour.
Greatings Peter.
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The weather's great now. It should get to around 85 today...nothin' but sunshine.
Still living like Gypsies.
The pregnant lady (aka JCB) went to the grocery lastnight to make a salad for supper. She also picked up a few essentials...meaning some fig newtons to tide each of us over during our drive from my sister's house to someplace to eat breakfast.
Right, wouldn't want to starve to death durning that 15 minute drive.
Still living like Gypsies.
The pregnant lady (aka JCB) went to the grocery lastnight to make a salad for supper. She also picked up a few essentials...meaning some fig newtons to tide each of us over during our drive from my sister's house to someplace to eat breakfast.
Right, wouldn't want to starve to death durning that 15 minute drive.
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efb - Posts: 755
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I can relate to the awe you felt watching the destructive power of nature EFB, I grew up in Oklahoma…
I have seen trees, store signs, and even a car flying through the air. The funny thing is, when it’s happening we tend to stand and stare, and eventually grow nonchalant about the whole phenomenon. I remember on May 3rd 1999 the sky went that foreboding green and pink and I eventually saw this:
(not my picture but I did see two tornados that night)
An interesting anecdote, I worked at a convenience store during collage and whenever the tornado warnings went off their was always a rush on beer…
I have seen trees, store signs, and even a car flying through the air. The funny thing is, when it’s happening we tend to stand and stare, and eventually grow nonchalant about the whole phenomenon. I remember on May 3rd 1999 the sky went that foreboding green and pink and I eventually saw this:
(not my picture but I did see two tornados that night)
An interesting anecdote, I worked at a convenience store during collage and whenever the tornado warnings went off their was always a rush on beer…
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rpardo
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Hi Efb,
Hopefully you recover soon from this terrible experience.
Here in the Netherlands we are glad that we don't have such tornadoes.
The only thing that scares us is the water: storm from the sea or high rivers full of smelting water from the Alpes.
Last major disaster was in 1953 when a lot of dykes collaped and 1800 people drowned. To comapre with Katrina's flood in New Orleans and the broken dykes of the Mississippy.
A group of Dutch experts went to the US to give advice how to deal with high water from the rivers or from the sea. Hope they listen (and act).
Blicero: scary thing!
Hopefully you recover soon from this terrible experience.
Here in the Netherlands we are glad that we don't have such tornadoes.
The only thing that scares us is the water: storm from the sea or high rivers full of smelting water from the Alpes.
Last major disaster was in 1953 when a lot of dykes collaped and 1800 people drowned. To comapre with Katrina's flood in New Orleans and the broken dykes of the Mississippy.
A group of Dutch experts went to the US to give advice how to deal with high water from the rivers or from the sea. Hope they listen (and act).
Blicero: scary thing!
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It's kinda been on the back burner around here...because of the mess and being without TV but, the Mississippi is flooding right now. It's not anything like a disaster yet but, it's floodin'.
Do y'all know how big that sucker is (I'm speaking to my friends in Britain and Europe now)? I'm just asking. I drive over it all the time at Vicksburg and a lot times I don't think about but, it is GIGANTIC. I wouldn't want it comin' at me or my house.
The levee system in New Orleans is a very seedy story. Some of y'all might be shocked if you knew just how slippery politics in Louisiana can be. Maybe they'll actually get it together this time...given the attention that's being paid.
As for dealing with rising sea levels...nothing, short of the hand of God, is going to stop a 30 ft sea wall traveling at 175 miles an hour.
Once we get our intraweb back I'll post some pictures from the coast right after Katrina...it's hard to believe.
We got lights clowns. The cable's next. Hopefully, that means I'll be surfing the world wide intranets at my house tonight.
Thanks for all the well wishes.
Do y'all know how big that sucker is (I'm speaking to my friends in Britain and Europe now)? I'm just asking. I drive over it all the time at Vicksburg and a lot times I don't think about but, it is GIGANTIC. I wouldn't want it comin' at me or my house.
The levee system in New Orleans is a very seedy story. Some of y'all might be shocked if you knew just how slippery politics in Louisiana can be. Maybe they'll actually get it together this time...given the attention that's being paid.
As for dealing with rising sea levels...nothing, short of the hand of God, is going to stop a 30 ft sea wall traveling at 175 miles an hour.
Once we get our intraweb back I'll post some pictures from the coast right after Katrina...it's hard to believe.
We got lights clowns. The cable's next. Hopefully, that means I'll be surfing the world wide intranets at my house tonight.
Thanks for all the well wishes.
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efb - Posts: 755
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Springtime in Jackson Mississippi on Wed. night a week and a half ago...
Two days later....
The worst part...aside from the actual damage done to the lives of human beings...is the loss of the Live Oaks. They're always the first to go...they have such shallow roots systems.
Notice that it ripped up part of the curb when it went.
For a little perspective....the lovely MrsTemp, fashionable as allways in her emmesspaint sunglasses.
Fortunately our's is still in tact in the back yard.
Two days later....
The worst part...aside from the actual damage done to the lives of human beings...is the loss of the Live Oaks. They're always the first to go...they have such shallow roots systems.
Notice that it ripped up part of the curb when it went.
For a little perspective....the lovely MrsTemp, fashionable as allways in her emmesspaint sunglasses.
Fortunately our's is still in tact in the back yard.
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efb - Posts: 755
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Folks were out cleaning up that afternoon.
As you know, we were in the dark for a day or two.
Here's the fellas (or chaps if you insist) that fixed us up. The one staring into the walkeetalkee is the man that flagged the workers down. It won't mean much to most of y'all but these jokers were from Arkansas (they all had Razorback stickers on their helmets...google it clowns
...and insisted that we root for Arkansas the next time they played the Gators. No problem, I said, the next time they play 'em in baseball I'll be happy too 
. Fortunately they just laughed and didn't cut our power back off).-
efb - Posts: 755
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It's a widely known fact that my wife, the lovely JCB, is pregnant. While monitoring her...condition, I have discovered a seventh sense. The ice cream sense.
We were sittin' outside, Tuesday night, watching the electricians. Them and ten others...trucks everywhere, all running their motors, bucket lifts buzzing around, beeping to back up...we were surrounded by a blurred wall of noise.
"I hear the ice cream truck" she says. Y'all I did not hear anything like an ice cream truck but, I didn't argue...just looked at her like she was crazy (when she wasn't looking
). Sure enough about a minute later I hear it...and without bothering to ask, I went into the street to find it and flagg it down.
The ice cream truck pulled into drive just as the lights came on.
Dig it...this what a pregnant woman looks like when she gets her lights and hot-water back, after four days, AND ice cream at the same time.
It all turned out alright in the end.
We were sittin' outside, Tuesday night, watching the electricians. Them and ten others...trucks everywhere, all running their motors, bucket lifts buzzing around, beeping to back up...we were surrounded by a blurred wall of noise.
"I hear the ice cream truck" she says. Y'all I did not hear anything like an ice cream truck but, I didn't argue...just looked at her like she was crazy (when she wasn't looking
). Sure enough about a minute later I hear it...and without bothering to ask, I went into the street to find it and flagg it down.
The ice cream truck pulled into drive just as the lights came on.
Dig it...this what a pregnant woman looks like when she gets her lights and hot-water back, after four days, AND ice cream at the same time.
It all turned out alright in the end.
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efb - Posts: 755
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That's two. I f we get more it'll be complicated. It already is! Better not drink and paint. Drink the PINT not the PAINT. Ooops.
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