BYC Café

[scottcaddy]

and Scott, batten the hatches. I'm pulling for a 'veer East'.

Sir Sour,

How much rain do you guys need this weekend?

Scott

 

[Mtn Margie]

Morning! We could seriously use a few inches of rain out this way. Cold (32 degrees) dry winds are blowing hard and there was another fire. My fire friend called me in a panic asking if she could bring her horses over again. The wonderful firefighters got it contained and I am guessing they worked it all night to get anything smouldering put out, so she is relieved and very happy.
The bear tried to rip into my neighbor's coop but was unsuccessful in the amount of time it had. Thank goodness! They would have been devastated. They do not have an electric fence and have not been bothered before. I wonder what they are thinking now.
Stay safe in the weather!

 

[Bunnylady]

Fran and Hugo proved that even 150 miles inland might not be safe.

Kinda funny memories I have about those storms.

Hugo (1989): Huge, scary storm. The forecasters kept saying "it's gonna turn north, it's gonna turn north," but it made a beeline for Charleston. Then it put down legs and took off running to Charlotte, at which point it finally made its northward turn.

My in-laws were living in Elizabeth City (a small coastal town fairly close to the North Carolina/Virginia border) and my FIL was having fits over this storm. He kept calling us, urging us to leave the area. We were living in a rental even further inland than we are now, so other than the usual mess and power outages, we weren't at grave risk. Even though his area wasn't in the area of concern, he evacuated . . . . to Charlotte. In my last conversation with him pre-storm, I told him that we would be more at risk on the road than sitting tight. We lost power for a couple of days, but with the storm making landfall so far to the south, as expected, we had a lot of mess, but not too awful. But Charlotte was a disaster area. The hotel my in-laws stayed at was undamaged, but there were trees down everywhere; they were stuck in Charlotte for a week without power because they couldn't get out (and the Elizabeth City area wasn't affected).

Early in the tropical season of 1996, it seemed that every storm had our name on it, one way or another. First Arthur, then Bertha; I told my mother, "if I see a 'Hugo' sitting out there, I'm gonna run screaming for the hills!" And then, there was Fran. My parents were living in a little town called Newton Grove at the time, which is about an hour and a half inland from us. On the phone with Mom a couple of days before landfall was expected, she told me we were welcome to come stay with her, and I told her, "I'm not sure even that would be far enough . . . . if we went to stay with Critter's brother (who lived in Greensboro), I'm not sure we'd escape this beast." Well, we went to stay with my folks anyway. On the night Fran made landfall, we watched the news until about 11, at which time the power went out, and we all retired for the night (seriously, how well do you sleep with that kind of thing happening outside?!). I remember waking up around 2 a.m, listening to the rain, and the wind, and the occasional crash of tree branches . . . . and then it got quiet. I knew that was too soon; the storm was so big, it would take a lot longer than that for it to pass. I thought, "great, the dratted thing followed us up I-40!" Sure enough, that was the eye passing; the wind began picking up about half an hour later. The mess that Fran created in Raleigh is almost legendary.

Margie, I'm glad the firefighters got that fire contained. I don't envy them their job; fighting fire is bad enough in warm weather, but with the temps just above freezing, that must be nasty. I wish I could send you some rain; we don't need it here, that's for sure!

 

[scottcaddy]

Morning! We could seriously use a few inches of rain out this way. Cold (32 degrees) dry winds are blowing hard and there was another fire. My fire friend called me in a panic asking if she could bring her horses over again. The wonderful firefighters got it contained and I am guessing they worked it all night to get anything smouldering put out, so she is relieved and very happy.
The bear tried to rip into my neighbor's coop but was unsuccessful in the amount of time it had. Thank goodness! They would have been devastated. They do not have an electric fence and have not been bothered before. I wonder what they are thinking now.
Stay safe in the weather!

Good Morning Margie

I would if I could send you all of the rain we will be getting this weekend

it would save me a lot of mess and muck to clean up

I hope that your neighbors are asking where to buy hot fence 'right now'
Scott

 

[Mtn Margie]

Guess what? Just shy of 20/20 one week after surgery. Helps me dodge the snowflakes blowing down from the Divide! Coffee!

 

[scottcaddy]

Margie, 20-20 is a nice thing to have if you need to use a 30-30, did they fix your shooting eye 1st?

Good Dry (Humpday) Wednesday Morning all of you guys

This mornings new forecast has Mattew doing the Easterly turn sooner and going a more southerly route and maybe missing Bunny's house altogether.

and I wouldn't get much rain at all

and to my local Weather Witch

Please keep up the good work!
Coffee is on and ready Enjoy the day!!
Scott

 

[WVduckchick]

Awesome news for Scott and Bunny!

Happy Wednesday!

 

[sourland]

Good news on the projected path of 'Matthew'.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Morning! Officially snowing but I don't think it is supposed to accumulate. Fingers crossed for you guys with that hurricane.
My day will be all about trying to continue getting ready for winter plus drinking coffee.
Need to get the DS$ off to school......

 

[Tumbling K]

Margie, 20-20 is a nice thing to have if you need to use a 30-30, did they fix your shooting eye 1st?

Good Dry (Humpday) Wednesday Morning all of you guys

This mornings new forecast has Mattew doing the Easterly turn sooner and going a more southerly route and maybe missing Bunny's house altogether.

and I wouldn't get much rain at all

and to my local Weather Witch

Please keep up the good work!
Coffee is on and ready Enjoy the day!!
Scott

howdy Scott........how's for a cuppa coffee?