Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

good morning all. An unexpected extra day of calm here, now the nastiness isn't due until Friday though rain coming earlier.
I actually might be able to finish the lawn mowing today, put away some final small things.
If the storm keeps plowing inland it means it will leave here earlier which is good.
supposed to be 90 degrees and hot today, and for sure sticky.

Kyle, there is a water management/ditch district with primary ditches leading to the River. That said, only so much it can handle within so many hours or it all backs up into properties. I expect the front of my property and driveway to be under water. Otherwise have about a one degree pitch going to the road in front and about a one degree pitch in the rear going to main six foot deep ditch. Going to be lawn lakes for awhile.

Wouldn't surprise me if my little garden shed toppled over. More concerned about the solar panel on it, pretty good sized sail. Might think about how I can anchor that building and maybe take the solar panel off and store it. Done for the year anyway so that's a good project for today.
Am also glad I reinforced the tall rv carport with 6x6's originally.

Have been wondering about the sliding barn doors. Don't have any locks on them at all. Think I might drop a few sandbags behind the main doors facing the wind, and go in and out the other end. Far side is near the woods and totally protected.

wind is now projected at ENE so am rethinking that also. That's the big tree side...Nice to have a tree line there, not so nice when large oak trees come crashing down. Fairly confident they will go in opposite direction due to many years of power line pruning. My elevated electric lines are on this side of that tree line so if something does fall this way, not near the house, down go the wires.

David in Hawaii thinking of you too. 20 foot surf, that must be pretty neat to see, from afar...

 

[Thomas]

61F now mid 70's for high sun peek from the clouds now and than...humidity increasing.

Replace so call old ceiling light fixture in the hallway w/new style LED fixture,I am not that all impress but the wife likes it.
E muffin feed little critters slow roll to work.

Enjoy the day all.

>>>>>> All those in the path of that nasty storm know were pulling hard for you!!!<<<<<<

 

[ronjhall]

Poured first cup of coffee. 49° with clear skies this morning. Heading to 77° with partly sunny skies. Did not get anything done after doctor appointment. But it was a perfect day to spend a few hours relaxing on back porch. Another doctor appointment today at noon. Hope to get something done before having to leave for it.

Desktop computer has been spending of the morning doing MS updates. Hope it still works after is up and running.

Those in path of Flo stay safe. Prayers for all.

Good Morning All

 

[toppop52]

Wow! Except for Drew, most if we morning guys have apparently dodged the bullet, and even Drew isn’t supposed to get it as badly. Poor folks in the Myrtle Beach to Wilmington though are in for a ride.

 

[toppop52]

Foggy and 70s this morning, another damp day ahead, had storms all afternoon yesterday. Looks about the same today. Prayers for all in the storm path, and all others.

 

[daugen]

Wow! Except for Drew, most if we morning guys have apparently dodged the bullet, and even Drew isn’t supposed to get it as badly. Poor folks in the Myrtle Beach to Wilmington though are in for a ride.

Nothing makes the worst weather go away than spending hours getting slimed with grease changing front and rear implements on the tractor, getting ready... they are still showing long hours of over 75mph winds here. It's just now pushed back a day it seems but yeah, going inland
which just seems so strange for these hurricanes, usually doing the curve ball.

Am wondering how my friends in Wilmington are doing this morning. Popping some Tums I bet.

 

[ronjhall]

RNG, I like the pictures.

 

[ronjhall]

All is good with MS this morning. Computer finally came back online. Everything seems to running good.

 

[daugen]

One of the riders at last weekend's Airheads Rendezvous posted a link to the photos he took during his trip. A fine time was had by all in this wonderful group of folks!

218-9-7-airheads - Google Photos

great pictures, would be hard to know what to look at next.
Land is sure dry there.
Fun seeing so many offroad BMW's, not something one sees a lot.
Riders look like they are having great fun, RNG, is that normal diversity?

 

[daugen]

friend emailed me, said to pump up tires on the cab tractor to the max,
weld a propeller to my pto shaft
and I'd be all set.
Actually my little Massey has big turf tires that hold a lot of air, would be funny
if it actually floated, tractor is pretty light.
Sure could have some fun with that, waving to your neighbors as you floated by...
Kind of thing you expect to see in some Russian youtube video.

 

[lostcreekranch]

74° here this morning and forecast is for high of 85° with rain chances at 80%.

Not to be outdone, by our East Coast friends, we have Invest 95L trying to form up in the Gulf. 70% chance it turns into a tropical depression so, looking for a wet weekend. All the forecast tracks take “it” south of Houston and straight to us.

Looks like some Kubota Zero Turn riding this morning before the rains come this afternoon.

Our local drought has finally broken and our county wide burn bans, since August 1st, were dismissed yesterday.

We got just barely 3/4” of rain total for July and August but, almost 3” so far in September.

Have an excellent day!

Prayers to all.

 

[txdon]

Good morning! 73˚ and staying in the 80s, another chance of rain today, Litle rains over the past week have amounted to 5". Rain every day through Sunday. Wonderful!

Yesterday was a landmark day as I finished the 5 year Century Study Century Health Study – Home Page.
8 hour round trip drive to Houston's Medical center and 4 hours of test.
I was in the control group - no extra classes, education, test incentives or asked to stay on heart healthy plant based diet but did anyway. Not what they were expecting but glad to see me do it. My reward was evident buy the result of the PET scan and endurance on the treadmill. The Pet scan showed no progression of my heart disease. The disease has been stopped. My heart was all red and orange indicating good blood flow through all vessels in the heart.
They invited me to enlist in the "extended" study so I'm with them another five years.

Ed the diet works!! It is the silver bullet against heart disease.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

We have 2 tributaries on our place and they flowed like crazy and then at peak rain periods, they were even higher. I just kept saying, I feel sorry for those downstream.....which was the big flooding of Lagrange Texas.
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Oh my, those poor chickens at the chicken ranch.

 

[toppop52]

Looks like Calabash is going to get battered, best seafood on the planet is served in the Little Mom and pop spots there. I hope that whole area survives.

 

[PJSprog]

56°F and spotty fog this morning, going up to 79° again today. Supposed to warm back into the 80s for the weekend.

Wife brought home a new rooster yesterday. He's pretty cocky (pun intended). She got it from a couple near Collinsville IL. The husband didn't have a problem with him, but the wife was scared of him, so they got rid of him. My Wife is intent on "retraining" him, and got a start already yesterday when he took a run at her and she knock him on his behind. This should be fun to watch develop. opcorntub:

Looks like a great ride, RNG. Envious. Thanks for sharing the pics.

 

[CWB Wyo]

It's 44° for the low, yesterday was in the low 80's and partly cloudy. Today is going to be about the same with a 20-25 mph wind this afternoon. They still don't show any rain for the next ten days.

I just heard the neighbor shoot at the cows with a 22 with bird shot. He has complains about the cows being around the house for the seven years that he has been up here. But I have yet to seen him work on a old buck and pole fence that was on the property when he got the place.

I talked to a friend in NC last night and he doesn't seem to be too worried about the storm. But he lives north of Charlotte about 40 miles. I hope is is right, the rest of you that are in the path take care.

Hope everyone has good hump day.
CWB.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. At 0945 it's sunny, 84F with 74% humidity. Forecast high/low of 91/73F with 50% chance of rain. 10 day high/low of 94/70F with only 3 days of possible rain. Our longest "dry spell" this summer has been 4 days, so some sunshine would be welcome.

 

[Larro Darro]

Drew and everyone else in the path of the storm batten down the hatches. There are so many new folks in that neck of the woods, many of them have not gone through a storm like this one. Most injuries come during the cleanup, so stay on your toes, even in the days after the storm.

The contents of my backpack would be a good starting point for life without power. A battery bank, an alcohol stove, a water filter, instant coffee, lots of Ramon noodles and packs of tuna, etc, etc.

Stay safe everyone.

 

[newbury]

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Remember that when the power goes off it's very likely that cellular phones will stop working as well. <snip>

And for many of us if the power goes out the landline goes out!

They did away with copper in my neighborhood and it's all fiber. They did away with backup battery systems similar to a computer UPS and went to a container that holds about 20 D-Cell batteries as the ONLY thing authorised to be hooked to the phone system. The D-cell battery system only lasts 8 hours. So now we are effectively WORSE off than back in the 1980's when we could rely on the phone working during power outages

So now I rely on my Mobley hooked to DeWalt batteries.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Drew and everyone else in the path of the storm batten down the hatches. There are so many new folks in that neck of the woods, many of them have not gone through a storm like this one. Most injuries come during the cleanup, so stay on your toes, even in the days after the storm.

The contents of my backpack would be a good starting point for life without power. A battery bank, an alcohol stove, a water filter, instant coffee, lots of Ramon noodles and packs of tuna, etc, etc.

Stay safe everyone.

Welcome home!