Everyone stay safe!
Floods, fires, storms and earthquakes and everything else.
Floods, fires, storms and earthquakes and everything else.
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That should tell the store owner what NOT to stock any more!
I bet, that is a lot of rain. Now I know where our rain went this year!
Yes, everyone take care, and stay safe!
Yup.
Isn't Florida just a river pretending to be land anyway? Or is that just the southern part? 
Yesterday was the 22-year anniversary of Hurricane Fran making landfall in Wilmington - we were without power for almost two weeks that time. Three years later, Hurricane Floyd turned us into a virtual island for a few weeks before the rivers retreated back within their banks and roads became driveable again.
I hear you, @getaclue. We have had a very wet year too, and up until a couple of weeks ago, the constant refrain was, "what if we get a hurricane on top of all this? It'll be Floyd all over again."
So here we all go again; watching the forecasts, doing our prep, and praying it'll be unnecessary.
Yesterday was the 22-year anniversary of Hurricane Fran making landfall in Wilmington - we were without power for almost two weeks that time. Three years later, Hurricane Floyd turned us into a virtual island for a few weeks before the rivers retreated back within their banks and roads became driveable again.
I hear you, @getaclue. We have had a very wet year too, and up until a couple of weeks ago, the constant refrain was, "what if we get a hurricane on top of all this? It'll be Floyd all over again."
So here we all go again; watching the forecasts, doing our prep, and praying it'll be unnecessary.
Rained most of the night here. Not heavy just the type of rain the farmers love to have in the spring. But it's too late for this growing season. They are calling for the heavy rain to hit here tonight with a flash flood watch through Saturday night.
We are pretty much safe from any flooding directly as we sit on top of a ridge, but there is a creek at the bottom of the ridge to our east that has a bridge going over it that floods regularly, another to the west and the road that goes to the north usually turns into a hog wallow that only the bravest travel. I've seen mud to the hubcaps on it so we are just going to sit tight and hunker down. Sometimes if there is no lightening or thunder we will brave going out in the rain to look at our pond and hike back to the timber to see how the creek is doing as a branch of the creek to our east runs through our timber.
The interesting thing is that we are going into an extended sun spot minimum. There have been no sun spots for at least 138 days this year. HAM operators keep an eye on the sunspot activity, no pun intended, because they affect the bandwidths and radio signals. The higher the sunspot activity, the better it is to getting radio signals out. The lack of sunspots is also why they are now predicting a very cold very wet winter this year into 2019. If you want to read something scary interesting, read about the Maunder Minimum here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum that caused a 30 year ice age back in the 1700s.
We get daily sun spot reports and the last week they were talking about going into this new minimum which was going to stretch into 2020 and beyond. It does not bode well for the weather at all.
The good news is that solar activity occurs in 11 year cycles and we are going towards the end of the minimum. The bad news is that we have to endure crazy weather till then and hold on until it ramps back up again.
We are pretty much safe from any flooding directly as we sit on top of a ridge, but there is a creek at the bottom of the ridge to our east that has a bridge going over it that floods regularly, another to the west and the road that goes to the north usually turns into a hog wallow that only the bravest travel. I've seen mud to the hubcaps on it so we are just going to sit tight and hunker down. Sometimes if there is no lightening or thunder we will brave going out in the rain to look at our pond and hike back to the timber to see how the creek is doing as a branch of the creek to our east runs through our timber.
The interesting thing is that we are going into an extended sun spot minimum. There have been no sun spots for at least 138 days this year. HAM operators keep an eye on the sunspot activity, no pun intended, because they affect the bandwidths and radio signals. The higher the sunspot activity, the better it is to getting radio signals out. The lack of sunspots is also why they are now predicting a very cold very wet winter this year into 2019. If you want to read something scary interesting, read about the Maunder Minimum here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum that caused a 30 year ice age back in the 1700s.
We get daily sun spot reports and the last week they were talking about going into this new minimum which was going to stretch into 2020 and beyond. It does not bode well for the weather at all.
The good news is that solar activity occurs in 11 year cycles and we are going towards the end of the minimum. The bad news is that we have to endure crazy weather till then and hold on until it ramps back up again.
Morning everyone hope all are safe this morning lack of things on shelves Alaskan refers to with basics like milk and produce or frozen foods most take for granted 80's to early 90's it was that way in Juneau also
That is a lot of rain!
It will be sunny here but there is a new fire North of Redding
oh crud Ron I did not know of that one
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