Topic: AS IF ONE WASN'T ENOUGH (Read 5536 times)

Ginny · « **Reply #30 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:32:17 AM »

Saturday morning greetings! It's still hot and muggy here in SW Ohio, which keeps us inside more than cold weather in the winter. Summer is not my favorite season.

Ginny · « **Reply #31 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:33:24 AM »

I did venture out yesterday to get my nails done and then Richard and I went for a late lunch and some errands. I took a long recliner nap when we got home.

Jane · « **Reply #32 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:34:46 AM »

DR Druxy driving through the fire must have been very scary, especially totaling the car. Did your ex have to abandon her car or did she manage to make it out first?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:34:48 AM »

I think the only disaster I've lived through is my life.

Jane · « **Reply #34 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:36:40 AM »

I watched a scary video taken by a woman driving through the recent Malibu fire.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #35 on:** July 06, 2019, 07:38:23 AM »

The only other "disaster" was the Aug. 14, 2003 East Coast blackout, which began around 5:00pm and lasted until maybe 3:00am, when all the power in my apartment returned. It was less a disaster and more an inconvenience.

John G. · « **Reply #36 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:07:05 AM »

Good morning, all.

Ginny · « **Reply #37 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:07:20 AM »

TOD - In 2008, Hurricane Ike, which was expected to wallop the Gulf Coast, made its way instead to southwest Ohio and did significant wind damage. Lots of trees and power lines were down and the clean-up crews from here had been dispatched to Louisiana and Texas in anticipation of damage they did not receive. Because it took several days to get them (and their equipment) back here, we were without power for almost a week. Closest thing to a disaster I care to experience.

John G. · « **Reply #38 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:07:28 AM »

Slept 10 hours. It was lovely.

John G. · « **Reply #39 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:07:55 AM »

Vibes for Jennifer.

John G. · « **Reply #40 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:08:24 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 06, 2019, 07:34:48 AM

I think the only disaster I've lived through is my life.

You beat me to it.

Ginny · « **Reply #41 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:08:53 AM »

Quote from: John G. on July 06, 2019, 08:07:28 AM

Slept 10 hours. It was lovely.

I wish I could do that. Seven to eight is my limit...

John G. · « **Reply #42 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:09:28 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on July 06, 2019, 08:07:20 AM

TOD - In 2008, Hurricane Ike, which was expected to wallop the Gulf Coast, made its way instead to southwest Ohio and did significant wind damage. Lots of trees and power lines were down and the clean-up crews from here had been dispatched to Louisiana and Texas in anticipation of damage they did not receive. Because it took several days to get them (and their equipment) back here, we were without power for almost a week. Closest thing to a disaster I care to experience.

Mom and Dad were without power for 11 days then.

John G. · « **Reply #43 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:11:25 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on July 06, 2019, 08:08:53 AM

Quote from: John G. on July 06, 2019, 08:07:28 AM
Slept 10 hours. It was lovely.

I wish I could do that. Seven to eight is my limit...

I think yesterday’s acupuncture treatment helped. He did some of my allergy spots as well as my pinched nerve. Almost immediately I could breathe deeper. I think that helped.

John G. · « **Reply #44 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:16:03 AM »

I was on a clipper ship off the coast of Maine when Ike stormed through. We sailed into a supposedly safe port along with Ringo Starr’s yacht and a handful of other clippers. Trying to sleep through the storm was hard. Then everything went dead calm. Trying to sleep through that was more unnerving. The next day we sailed back to port a day early and the cruise ended.

Druxy · « **Reply #45 on:** July 06, 2019, 08:33:11 AM »

Quote from: Jane on July 06, 2019, 07:34:46 AM

DR Druxy driving through the fire must have been very scary, especially totaling the car. Did your ex have to abandon her car or did she manage to make it out first?

We were in 2 different cars. I had my 1 year-old son, my wife's mother, teenage daughter and our cat with me. My wife had her son, other daughter, our dog and our pet rat with her.

We didn't know what happened to them for hours. I went with my car and passengers to my cousin's home in Brentwood. My wife and her kids "ran through flames" to escape.

Her car got towed. Found it and the pet rat (unharmed) the next day in the back seat. The dog was found running around in a field a day later.

Except for the totaled new car, thankfully insured, there was no other injuries.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #46 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:01:13 AM »

Good morning, all.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #47 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:01:55 AM »

Okay, so I was a minute late. I’m not taking it back!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #48 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:04:02 AM »

It’s a busy busy BUSY Saturday. I have about an hour in which to stop running around and relax for a bit, and in so doing, I’m stealing that hour from something else.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #49 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:11:59 AM »

We lived in Florida for a couple of the famous hurricanes of the early 1960s, but we never suffered any real damage that I know of.

My life in L.A. was perfectly positioned between the 1971 and 1994 earthquakes, so nothing to speak of there except for feeling various ones in between.

In 2011 and 2012, the Halloween Nor’easter and Hurricane Sandy caused considerable inconvenience, but we got ours in the May 2018 storm whose effects are still in evidence. And I don’t even want to “go there”.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #50 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:13:30 AM »

I hope this is it for California for a while. Anything around 6+ and up to 7 or thereabouts is ENOUGH.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #51 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:16:59 AM »

May I just say it is hotter than HELL here today?

It’s only 85, but the heat index is 93 and it’s humid as all get-out, so it really feels like the hottest day we’ve had so far.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #52 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:18:47 AM »

Which makes it a perfect evening to sit in a covered outdoor orchestra pit, don’t you think?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #53 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:21:25 AM »

At least I’m only observing tonight, thank God for that much.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #54 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:23:56 AM »

And I guess that’s it from me for a while!

John G. · « **Reply #55 on:** July 06, 2019, 09:30:27 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on July 06, 2019, 09:16:59 AM

May I just say it is hotter than HELL here today?

It’s only 85, but the heat index is 93 and it’s humid as all get-out, so it really feels like the hottest day we’ve had so far.

Here, too. I had yard work to do, but watering was as far as I got.

Jane · « **Reply #56 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:27:06 AM »

Quote from: John G. on July 06, 2019, 08:11:25 AM

Quote from: Ginny on July 06, 2019, 08:08:53 AM
Quote from: John G. on July 06, 2019, 08:07:28 AM
Slept 10 hours. It was lovely.

I wish I could do that. Seven to eight is my limit...

I think yesterday’s acupuncture treatment helped. He did some of my allergy spots as well as my pinched nerve. Almost immediately I could breathe deeper. I think that helped.

Wow & wonderful!

elmore3003 · « **Reply #57 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:28:44 AM »

Here's the latest on the missing check:
Invoiced for $150 on June 14
Check made out on June 25; never arrives
Second check mailed on July 3
Original check arrives on July 6; amount correct
Second check just arrived; amount incorrect.

I am convinced the postman delivered it to the wrong street and the recipient dropped it into a post box to get to the correct person. I have received in June two packages for 202 West 81st, not 202 West 82nd.

Jane · « **Reply #58 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:32:20 AM »

We have lost power so many times I can't count them all. Some of those homes also lost water along with the power as we had wells.

I think the longest stretch without power & water was the first time we lived in Michigan. We went about a week with power. When we returned to Michigan we purchased a home with city water. It was much easier when the power went out though we would still have to trash most of what was in the frig & freezer.

Jane · « **Reply #59 on:** July 06, 2019, 10:32:44 AM »

I have memories of eating the ice cream super fast, pure torture

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