Hurricane Advice

[Ursuline Chick]

On the switch issue....no switches....but Grandmother and Mom used the wooden spoon. We had holly trees and pines in our yard....that would be very painful.

Well over 20 years ago, My sister-in-law had a wooden spoon with a frowning face on it called, "Mr. Do-Right". LOL just the mention of Mr. Do-Right was enough to bring wails of, "Please I'll never do it again." LOL

 

[RUNuts]

BIL's story. Buddy down street had tamed a raccoon. They liked getting stoned & watching horror movies. The coon learned how to open the screen door, slidle along the wall, mount & crawl along the back of the couch - y'all still with me? - and get in position with no one on the couch aware of what was about to happen.

Now all the kids in the neighborhood would be crowded in the room. The couch *was* a prime sitting spot. Everyone sitting along the walls were watching the coon get into position behind someone's head. Once he was ready, the full grown coon would jump straight up and land squarely on the target's head screaming, grabbing hair with all four feet. Then the target would scream. Then the people sitting next to the target would scream while everyone sitting on the floor was laughing.

This happened more than once...

Or so I am told. All this was before my time.

 

[RUNuts]

Wooden spoons and the flyswatter on bare legs...

And Mom on the phone glaring. Good times and fond memories. Miss Mom.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

BIL's story. Buddy down street had tamed a raccoon. They liked getting stoned & watching horror movies. The coon learned how to open the screen door, slidle along the wall, mount & crawl along the back of the couch - y'all still with me? - and get in position with no one on the couch aware of what was about to happen.

Now all the kids in the neighborhood would be crowded in the room. The couch *was* a prime sitting spot. Everyone sitting along the walls were watching the coon get into position behind someone's head. Once he was ready, the full grown coon would jump straight up and land squarely on the target's head screaming, grabbing hair with all four feet. Then the target would scream. Then the people sitting next to the target would scream while everyone sitting on the floor was laughing.

This happened more than once...

Or so I am told. All this was before my time.

Reminds me of an old college story, 2 roomates owned a ferret for a pet, one day something scared the ferret and he jumped on one of the roommates face and began to gnaw on his nose! He ran around the room trying to pry the ferret off his nose, screaming, while everyone else laughed. The poor man looked awful for months.

 

[adrikeen]

OMG!!!

 

[Flashpoint]

On the switch issue....no switches....but Grandmother and Mom used the wooden spoon. We had holly trees and pines in our yard....that would be very painful.

Wooden spoons are NO fun, either!

The reason she used the mulberry tree is that the branches had more "bumps" whereas the Maple branches were smoother. You can't imagine how many times someone was begging to pick the Maple, but Mom always said no and stated how the "guilty" kid would remember longer. Indeed, I still remember.

 

[Flashpoint]

Reminds me of an old college story, 2 roomates owned a ferret for a pet, one day something scared the ferret and he jumped on one of the roommates face and began to gnaw on his nose! He ran around the room trying to pry the ferret off his nose, screaming, while everyone else laughed. The poor man looked awful for months.

I have ferrets - 8 of them at the moment and up to 15 at one time over the years. Usually they do not bite and seldom even get scared. However, it does happen and sometimes a ferret will bite. And a nose would be just the right size.... and the poor ferret probably had his tooth stuck - hence the "gnawing" part as he/she was trying to escape the thing that had him.

I have seen people who are "ferret experts" get bit on the nose by a new/strange ferret that is utterly terrified of the stranger trying to pry open his mouth or turn him upside down. It's never a pretty picture.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I have ferrets - 8 of them at the moment and up to 15 at one time over the years. Usually they do not bite and seldom even get scared. However, it does happen and sometimes a ferret will bite. And a nose would be just the right size.... and the poor ferret probably had his tooth stuck - hence the "gnawing" part as he/she was trying to escape the thing that had him.

I have seen people who are "ferret experts" get bit on the nose by a new/strange ferret that is utterly terrified of the stranger trying to pry open his mouth or turn him upside down. It's never a pretty picture.

This wasn't pretty either, but we all laughed. College kids, hey!

 

[Flashpoint]

And now, on the weather front:

"
At this time, the majority of forecast guidance still shows Jose curling north, then northeast sufficiently to the east of both the Bahamas and the U.S. East Coast to avoid direct impacts.

But that's not a certainty this far out in time. Some forecast guidance shows Jose passing close enough to the East Coast to at least bring a brush of rain and some gusty winds the first half of next week.

All interests along the U.S. East Coast from the Carolinas northward, as well as Atlantic Canada, should continue to monitor Jose well into next week for any forecast changes.

Regardless, large swells generated by Jose will continue to affect the Bahamas, Bermuda and the north coasts of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands the next several days.

By this weekend, these large swells should reach the Eastern Seaboard, spreading as far north as coastal New England."
---https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-storm-hurricane-jose-forecast-atlantic

Bear in mind that although Jose is now classified as a TS - his speed of 70 is only 4 mph below Cat 1.

 

[rjohns39]

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