Aw, sh**, here we go again.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...300.shtml?5day

Ok, do I have to call Pat Robertson to find out what we did in Mobile
to attract three major hurricanes in two years? As far as I know, we
didn't have Gay Pride floats at Mardi Gras.

Oh, well; maybe I can get the line guys to put Delta in the bizjet
hangar again. Otherwise, it's off to Houston to sit it out at Mom's.

Damned freakin' hurricanes.

--
Dan
C172RG at Hurricane Playground

("Dan Luke" wrote)
[snip]
Oh, well; maybe I can get the line guys to put Delta in the bizjet hangar
again. Otherwise, it's off to Houston to sit it out at Mom's.

Damned freakin' hurricanes.


Have you ever looked closely at a snowflake? Quite beautiful, actually :-)

Say "Hi" to Mom from the Minnesota members of the group.


Montblack
We get an inch of gently falling fluffy snow in January and they call it a
"storm" on the TV news!!

"Montblack" wrote:


Have you ever looked closely at a snowflake? Quite beautiful, actually
:-)

Say "Hi" to Mom from the Minnesota members of the group.


Montblack
We get an inch of gently falling fluffy snow in January and they call
it a "storm" on the TV news!!


Hah! I worked for Honeywell for 13 years, so I've been to Frostbite
Falls (aka Minneapolis) many times. "inch of gently falling fluffy
snow" my ass.

A foot of snow would look pretty good right now, though.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Dan Luke wrote:

Ok, do I have to call Pat Robertson to find out what we did in Mobile
to attract three major hurricanes in two years?

According to National Geographics, weather in the south follows certain cycles.
There have been relatively few hurricanes every year since about 1980. Things
are heating up again, and you can expect seasons like this for at least ten years.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

"George Patterson" wrote:

According to National Geographics, weather in the south follows
certain cycles. There have been relatively few hurricanes every year
since about 1980. Things are heating up again, and you can expect
seasons like this for at least ten years.

Well, yeah, I know it's normal for the the seasons to have cycles.
What's damned unfair is to have three major storms come ashore in the
same place in the space of a year. *That's* unusual, to say the least.
Statistically and historically, such events are usually separated by
decades at any one spot on the coast. I lived in Houston for 43 years
and saw only one direct hit by a major hurricane.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

The price one pays to live in paradise... Some days you get sun, some
days you get rain, lots of rain.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

"Flyingmonk" wrote:

The price one pays to live in paradise... Some days you get sun, some
days you get rain, lots of rain.

I'd call Mobile a lot of things, but "paradise" isn't one of them.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:00:02 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:


"Flyingmonk" wrote:

The price one pays to live in paradise... Some days you get sun, some
days you get rain, lots of rain.

I'd call Mobile a lot of things, but "paradise" isn't one of them.

I lived for a year in Biloxi while in training at Keesler. One of the
good things there was that I was in a "self pacing" program for the
first part of the year. The only requirement was that you had to
pass two weeks class in one week. Pretty neat. I spent most of my
time over at the flying club.

In the summer time, I had to get into a parade formation and march
across the flight line to get to class. This was for my class from 3
in the afternoon to midnight. We got rained on every day at exacly
the point where we were half way across the runway.

The worst part about Biloxi was that I had to go through that tunnel
in Mobile to get back to Tennessee. I decided one time to not spend
the $0.25 and take the free route past the paper factory. Wrong!

Good wishes to you from Huntsville Alabama for the hurricane. You can
leave your airplane here and drive my car back to Mobile. 6 hours,
minimum with a couple of speeding tickets thrown in. Back then, I
would just show them my Air Force ID and they'd give me a warning.

Mike Weller

I was down there for a week once many many moons ago, I was maybe
fifteen, maybe thirteen. I remembered it as being very laid back,
fishing, swimming, floating down the river on tubes, slow paced... This
is my definition of paradise. he he... Yours maybe more like the
Caribbeans or Hawaii.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

and people wonder why I live in the desert..
I've put up with New England winter snows and Bermuda High humidity
I've lived in Texas and Louisiana, cold wet winters and even worse summer
humidity..
North and South Dakota winters and wind.. 9 months of winter and 3 months of
tough sledding.. so the story goes.. but I don't need the -45F temps with
50knt winds, -95F Wind Chill
But even in summer, it was 95 and sticky humid

But here in the desert, it's a dry heat, no hurricanes, no tornados, no
blizzards and ice storms.
Just great soaring weather. Ok, winters get down to the 30s, and I can see
the snow on the local 10,000ft peaks if I want, but I can still wear a "new
England summer jacket" all winter.

Ok, so the ground shakes once in a while.. but you hardly feel it.

BT

"Dan Luke" wrote in message
...
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...300.shtml?5day

Ok, do I have to call Pat Robertson to find out what we did in Mobile to
attract three major hurricanes in two years? As far as I know, we didn't
have Gay Pride floats at Mardi Gras.

Oh, well; maybe I can get the line guys to put Delta in the bizjet hangar
again. Otherwise, it's off to Houston to sit it out at Mom's.

Damned freakin' hurricanes.

--
Dan
C172RG at Hurricane Playground