Friday Hug - Part 3

Sleep. I'm fading fast now, and will be in bed within a half-hour.

-insert "zzzz" emoticon here-

I already have a twinge in my left shoulder (probably rotator cuff), but what I felt Sunday wasn't it. It may be the way I sit and work at the laptop. Right now, that's where it is: my lap. Sitting shoulders hunched, elbows in, wrists cocked. I'm going to try putting it on a desk and using a full-size, even ergonomic, keyboard.

I've got an appointment with my family prac for Friday. We'll start there.

According to the Farmers Almanac - Full Sturgeon Moon ? August The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month. A few tribes knew it as the Full Red Moon because, as the Moon rises, it appears reddish through any sultry haze. It was also called the Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.

Happy full moon night.

AV

You do understand? It is the whole point of the Friday Hug.

(((((HUGS)))))

and can even name the candles.

You are welcome.

Been there a couple times Santee...it's both "cool" & "scary".

That darn Earl has himself lined up to give PurpleSkys & I a bashing Saturday morning.....we've been watching where "landfall" is "supposed" to be but Nova Scotia & New Brunswick are pretty little provinces...we're going to get nailed with some wind & rain.

We've been though worse....Juan was bad....then we had a snow storm they dubbed "White Juan" about 5 months later.

Batteries are charged....landfall is supposed to be around 8 AM....we'll get pictures :)

You really appreciate the power of nature when you see something like that. You never forget it.

It sounds like the experience of a lifetime, Santee. Maybe one that you don't want to repeat. Back then, no one ever evacuated. They just hunkered down and rode it out.

Hopefully, Earl will spare the east coast.

AV

I really enjoyed your story, and in unexpected ways, too.

I can't tell a story in the tenor or sincerity of this, so I have only to offer this change-up keeping true only to the wind topic.

We lived in Boulder, CO for a number of years. One to three times a year during the winter months we would experience extremely high winds, well over 100 MPH. They would be strong enough to overturn semis, knock down overpasses, etc. One of them flattened our basketball post, and it was not uncommon to see something like a galvanized trashcan riding on the breeze, as if it were a feather. If you wanted to have your car repainted, it was great because it was a sure way to have your car sandblasted.

But the worst one year was around Christmas. The wind unscrewed all the Christmas lights on a small pine in our yard, blew them over to the neighbor's yard, and screwed them into their newly emptied strand.

I would tell you about the tornado experience, but you probably wouldn't believe me.

Juan was only a cat 2 but they said it spawned a bunch of "mini-tornados".

Nobody was prepared for it, we seldom get hit with anything bad here so everyone just sort of brushed off the warnings.

It came through in the middle of the night so we coludn't really see much while it was happening but things sure were a mess the next morning.

Here're a couple links to prictures from the Truro area....

http://www.trurons.com/juan/juan3.html
http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/93040251ZUEpXo

Halfax got it worse than us, it made landfall there, we're 60 miles inland but it tracked over us.....it took down many of the large Elm & Maple trees all over town.

We have a 12' x 8' space enclosed on three sides by the house. Over time, we have discovered that it is an eddy space; no matter how strong the wind elsewhere in the area, or the direction, that area remains relatively calm. Anything too large to put inside goes there, heavy end down, with additional weight provided by cinder blocks.

We've had some storms come through, but never lost anything, not even the rubbish bin.

If I had a boat, I would take it out of the water. I'll never understand why some people don't do that when they've had sufficient warning.

I'll never forget being hit with a microburst at home a few years back. My husband was barbequing in the backyard and I was in the house. I opened my front door and saw that across the street the trees were bending in half with the wind and there was visible debris flying around. It was a Wizard of Oz moment. I told my husband to get in the house NOW!

In a matter of seconds, the wind topped off huge trees in our yard and they were flying sideways. We ran to the basement and all I can remember is the suction of the storm trying to pull the roof off.

Minutes later when it was over and we went outside, the wind had actually pulled the gutters off of the house and destroyed part of the frame. We were very lucky. The guy next door had his entire deck pulled off and destroyed and a tree fell on his house.

Ever since then, I am very careful if there are weather warnings. Things can get bad really quick.

AV