Hi Pax Yes some people you have to take with a grain of salt. I out
lived all my very smart friends,and that makes my remaining spacetime
very depressing. I'm old and bent. The Florida hurricanes like my trees
have bent me more. I kid" the terrorists are creating the conditions for
hurricanes of Southern Africa'. Glad your friends visiting
florida are OK Do you think Pax I could go into the record
books as being hit by 3 hurricanes in about a month? They are very
dynamic. My house is a mess but my new webtv is running OK IT is the
tornadoes inside the hurricane that do the devastating damage(and kill
people) It is Vortexes inside vortexes ,and the smaller vortex has the
greater spin speed. Herb
> Hi Pax
Hi, Herb. :)
> Yes some people you have to take with a grain of salt.
How anyone could pick on such a kind and gentle person as you is a mystery
I'll never understand, especially since you don't rant or bring up anything
that's not based on some authority to back up your comments. The only
conclusion is that those people must REALLY be small, dull-witted worms. It
makes me angry. >:(
> I out lived all my very smart friends, and that makes my
> remaining spacetime very depressing. I'm old and bent.
Cut that out! You're not old enough to be old yet! But I know what you mean,
sometimes circumstances can leave you as all but roadkill, and that makes
you feel ancient. Too much calamity too constantly can use a person up.
That's actually the reason I thought I'd try these newsgroups again for a
bit, some of my most memorable times have been talking over what-ifs with
you and my other friends here.
> The Florida hurricanes like my trees have bent me more. I kid
> "the terrorists are creating the conditions for hurricanes of
> Southern Africa".
If they could figure out a way, they would. :) :)
The weather does seem to be changing, if it keeps up, Houston will be in a
tropical zone soon.
> Glad your friends visiting Florida are OK
Thanks. :)
> Do you think Pax I could go into the record books as being
> hit by 3 hurricanes in about a month? They are very dynamic.
> My house is a mess but my new webtv is running OK.
Good grief, Herb! ALL of them got you?! That's horrible!! Your house must be
well built to have withstood them all. Did you flood too?
Our house has flooded 6 times now (including every year for the past 3
years), so I can really understand how devastated you must feel.
We're tiling all the floors with slate this go-round. I've just about
decided to stop buying furniture too. :) We've built a tall platform for our
new bed... (have to use a step ladder to get up in it)... :)... and plan to
do the same for our computers. Think it's time for spray-in foam insulation
and hardy board at least halfway up the walls too.
We're down to the point here at the house where we have what we need and
need everything we have... all the rest is in storage, permanently it seems.
:) We should just move... but, somehow, it's a problem we really want to
figure out how to overcome. Silly, huh? :)
> It is the tornadoes inside the hurricane that do the devastating
> damage (and kill people) It is Vortexes inside vortexes, and
> the smaller vortex has the greater spin speed.
VERY true. Texas is part of Tornado Alley, and we've had our share of close
calls with those suckers too. Wonder why they always seem to go for the
trees? Really never have understood that. We've had them walk down the bayou
behind our house and uproot every tree along our fenceline numerous times.
One just skipped all over my parents place around a month ago, they live in
Central Texas. It uprooted a lot of trees in their forest across the
pasture, then came up their driveway and twisted up all those trees, then
skipped over their two-story house, came right down on the other side, and
twisted up more of the trees in their yard. It was really weird, but they
were really grateful it skipped over their house.
> Herb
Be well, truly! :) - Pax
Richard S. Westmoreland - 24 Sep 2004 21:40 GMT
Oh my goodness, you two get a room!
:-)
Pax - 25 Sep 2004 10:19 GMT
> Oh my goodness, you two get a room!
>
> :-)
Sorry, not very "physics" is it? :) We're very old friends who haven't
talked in a couple of years. :) Just catching up a bit.
Be well - Pax
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May people say of you:
"The world is a better place because you are in it."
From Andromeda:
"Dillon Hunt, there are three kinds of people in this
universe, those who can count, and those who can't."
Hi Pax Looks like I'll be in 4 hurricanes. How lucky can I get?
Talking about hurricanes,and their inner structures tornadoes is
something I can be right inside of. It is more interesting then reading
about them. Next year I'm building a tornado proof capsule in the hope
I can be right inside a tornado.. I think we should use our subs to
track hurricanes as they move across the Atlantic. I have a gut
feeling this century will be the century of hurricanes. Bert
Pax - 26 Sep 2004 02:40 GMT
> Hi Pax
Hi, Herb. :)
> Looks like I'll be in 4 hurricanes. How lucky can I get?
That's awful, Herb! Seems as if you're left with the necessity of only
repairing the absolute musts and waiting until the storms die down, or
spending a fortune repairing and then repairing again.
> Talking about hurricanes,and their inner structures tornadoes
> is something I can be right inside of. It is more interesting then
> reading about them. Next year I'm building a tornado proof
> capsule in the hope I can be right inside a tornado..
Think I saw a program featuring a man who did that. He started with
something like a "root cellar" and then modified it.
> I think we should use our subs to track hurricanes as they
> move across the Atlantic. I have a gut feeling this century
> will be the century of hurricanes.
Must agree with you, at least from present appearances. As long as the
winters continue to be unusually warm, we're going to have trouble. I'm a
bit surprised one hasn't formed in the Gulf and hit near us yet. But then,
our worst flooding has been from tropical storms, Houston's too far inland
to get the full force of a normal hurricane... of course, Eric was no normal
hurricane. That was one really mean sucker.
> Bert
Be well and stay safe :) - Pax
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May people say of you:
"The world is a better place because you are in it."
From Andromeda:
"Dillon Hunt, there are three kinds of people in this
universe, those who can count, and those who can't."
G=EMC^2 Glazier - 28 Sep 2004 10:53 GMT
Hi Pax I'm OK,and you can't get roofers,I had plastic covering the
damage done by Charley,but the other hurricanes blew it away,and the
water on top of my ceilings caused them to fall down(what a costly mess)
I had $30,000 damage,and other houses had $85,000. Be interesting how
State Farm takes care of this. Pax with all this rain I'm convinced
Nature is reclaiming its Florida swamp land to give frogs,snakes and
gators more room. Hurricanes are getting boring. Bert
Pax - 30 Sep 2004 11:52 GMT
> Hi Pax
Hi, Herb :)
> I'm OK, and you can't get roofers, I had plastic covering the
> damage done by Charley, but the other hurricanes blew it away,
> and the water on top of my ceilings caused them to fall down
> (what a costly mess) I had $30,000 damage, and other houses
> had $85,000. Be interesting how State Farm takes care of this.
That's really horrible, Herb! I'm SO sorry you're having such a bad time.
You must be living in temporary quarters right now, either that or learning
what it's like to live "naturally" with the stars for a ceiling (when you
can see them).
I thought State Farm had given up on Florida and decided not to insure
anyone there anymore. But... isn't your disaster insurance actually a
government program, like our Flood Insurance?
> Pax with all this rain I'm convinced Nature is reclaiming its
> Florida swamp land to give frogs, snakes and gators more room.
:) :) :)
> Hurricanes are getting boring.
You've just been numbed by the shock of it all, and no wonder! The one thing
a bit of age gives you is pragmatism, though. Thank God we're given
something by age, since everything else seems to get taken. :) :) :)
> Bert
Stay well - Pax
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What are ten years in the history of humanity? Must
not all those forces that determine the life of a man
be regarded as constant compared with such a trifling
interval? - Albert Einstein - Out of My Later Years