Afternoon, everyone.
Mikey, being a native Clevelander, I've already lived in both ends of what Hell may be like. I was married to my late wife in 1966. We went out to LA to visit her parents on our honeymoon and then got back to Cleveland in December. The lake was completely frozen over then. I said "That's it, we're moving." Moved out to California in March 1967 and never looked back.
Sandy, always nice to see you. Of all the places in Colorado, Aspen is my least favorite. You can practically snort cocaine out of the air.
My son engineered a "ski cabin" there for the former president of Frontier Airlines (before he drove them into bankruptcy). It was just a small place - 6,000 square feet and 1.5 million dollars.
It did make the Sunset list of Top 10 Colorado homes 2 years ago though so he's proud of it.
Ray, you're installing
how many switch stands? Man, I'll bet it will look good when you're done, assuming you're not in an insane asylum.
Chris, you still should get some rain as Fay slowly traverses her way west but you have been just on the edge of the main rain bands the whole time. Could be worse though - I understand the Melbourne area has had 25 inches so far! I'll take one of those air conditioned mowers along with a hamburger today.
Rex, I'm really glad to hear you're not having any pain. sounds like you've got a really good dentist working on you. I forgot to mention the whole speech therapy issue. I would guess it took me about three months before I could talk normally again. I saw that rain on radar last night but, of course, we got nothing. Some clouds from the advance spirals of Fay now but still no rain. Looks like you've got some more storms forming up there right now, you rat!
Paul, I'm glad that kite surfer hasn't died (although he may wish he did with those spinal injuries) but, at 28, he's really old enough to know better. Really dumb move. Too bad about that son. He'll get it when he gets old and lonely too.
Steve, that looks like a nice aquarium. Nothing I like better than spending the day with fish. Chris is right about that shark. I ran into a bull shark while diving at just about that same angle. He just swam right by with no problems but it did increase the pucker factor a bit. Nurse sharks, OTOH, are about as docile a shark that exists. They spend most of their time resting on sandy bottom areas and you can touch them without them ever even turning their head. I picked up a 2 foot long baby nurse shark once at 60 feet and he was content to have me tote him around for a while.
Fay is turning out to be a real puzzler. She is finally back onshore again in Florida, having just passed over the Flagler Beach area and is now moving west at a whole 4 mph. She can't move north because of the high pressure ridge over the east coast but the steering currents here are so light that she can move in almost any other direction, including south. It looks like she may now pop out again just south of the Big Bend area into the Gulf and reform as a tropical storm again. Tropical storm warnings have just been raised in that area. Depending on how much time she spends in or near the Gulf, she even has a slight chance of finally becoming a hurricane before making landfall again, probably near Mobile Bay. If her path is just 50 miles north of predicted, she will likely fall apart over the Florida Panhandle and south and central Alabama. At this point, I don't have a clue as to how close she will get to us or what side of the storm we'll be on. I'll just take some rain if can get it without a tornado outbreak. Looks like it will be sometime this weekend before she has any real impact here. As a point of interest, Fay is now only two days away from braking the record for the longest time spent as a tropical storm but never developing into a hurricane. If she hold together over north Florida, she just may be a new record. Go Fay!
! Now, if he were a Model Railroader messing with his trains......... he would be safe and in one piece
