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2 hours ago, KEITH L.I said:
Shows you how rare pre Christmas,Christmas major snowfalls are rare..we went from Dec 69 to Dec 95 without one
... and the Dec 1969 storm was a slop fest horror in the NYC area.
One of those letdowns for the Weenie in our souls.
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35 minutes ago, rclab said:
For your viewing pleasure Sw. The classifieds, only one showed seasonal room/house rentals in Westchester. Another page housing and acreage ads. An article on the death of Babe Ruth. Movies of that time on another page. Finally my favorite Bohack adds. Tenderloin butts (75 cents a pound) was more than Prime Rib (69 cents a pound) I also remember that part of the tin mans leg, in the movie version of The Wiz, was a Bohack coffee can. Unc, I was hoping to find an A&P ad, haven’t yet. As always....
Too bad we can't travel back in time. We could pack our wallets with our inflated currency, and buy up the real estate market. But then we'd be stuck there without A/C, etc.
I do remember Babe Ruth's message live, I think. I was at a baseball game in Jersey City's Roosevelt Stadium. His message was carried over the loudspeaker system, but he had to whisper. "Pardon my whisper" he said, I think - the rest I do not recall. His throat was shot by then, and he was saying goodbye. I was with my older brothers, and it was perhaps during the previous summer, 1948. - but, per Wikipedia, it may have been the summer of 1947.
Thanks much for those memories.
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5 minutes ago, rclab said:
It’s okay, any excuse to put it off is fine with me. I do miss my lost love. She made it look so easy.Seventh grade in 49, you are blessed and my hero. As always ....
I do regret your loss. That is very difficult, for life. Keep up the good work, your love is still with you in a real way, I do believe.
As far as being a hero, thanks, but it's nothing of course. What I do like to brag about is the winter of 47-48. Lost power in an ice storm around New Years. Thank Goodness for the old gravity forced coal furnaces. A week after the Big Snow. I wonder if all the rain froze into the week old snowpack, and made it more resistant to melting. January was really cold and snowy. I was sorry when the thaw set in in mid February.
Of course I also missed the great winters of 60-61, 76 thru 78, and 95-96. Even 93-94 sounds interesting. Was in Europe in 1960, and on the West Coast for the others. So, I lose bragging rights big time. Now, I cannot regret having moved back East. I feel bad for those still on the West Coast with all that has happened.
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1 minute ago, rclab said:
IF I find the rental ads, I let you know. As always
Those would be interesting, for sure. A dollar went a long way. Happy posting.
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4 hours ago, rclab said:
I was having necessary work done in the halls of my row house. The carpenter came down to my apartment and handed me an assortment of papers dated December 1948 and January 1949. Being over 70 years old their condition was, at best, fragile. The photos below came from the Sunday Daily News, December 26th, 3 cents. I believe today’s Sunday paper is 3 dollars. What caught my eye was two articles which I placed together in the first photo. In the main article the reporter gave a first person description of the over two foot storm that had occurred on that very day, the year before. He compared It to the 19.5 Inch storm that occurred in NYC a week or so before that, saying it’s effect on the city paled compared to the 1947 storm. The small article next to it (Upper right hand corner) relates the bust of a major snow that was forecast for that day. This is probably why the recap of the 1947 event was written. The second photo is a page from the same paper and date highlighting the headlines of 1948. I have no memory of either he 47 or 48 events, as I was 8 montes and 20 months old when they occurred. You never know what you’ll find when you start doing repairs in a time capsule. As always ...
Thanks for this post. I do remember the 1948 snowstorm, since I lived in next-door Jersey City at the time. Would have been in the seventh grade. I also remember waiting for that big storm that fizzled, around Christmas. Forecasting was not as great back than. No computer models, of course. Etc..
BTW, it's tough to clean house when there is old printed material to spend hours reading. I even remember some of the headlines you've shown. "Lippy Succeeds Ott". HaHa. I didn't remember that Durocher was the Giants' manager from that early. Why were the Dodgers called "the Flock", i wonder. Durocher managed the Giants to two pennants and a World Series win, I remember.
Now, quit reading those old papers, and get back to cleaning house. - Just kidding.
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10 minutes ago, rclab said:
For those of who bear the entire responsibility for food purchase, this should bring make one wish there was a time portal to a now defunct 1948 Safeway supermarket. i was amazed (see lower right hand corner) that chicken ai 63 cents a pound was only 2 cents less than sirloin. Post WW2 years and the baby boom ramping up, a time forgotten. As always.....
Wow. Of course, getting 75 bucks a week for a salary wasn't considered bad, at that time, I suspect. Still, it makes my mouth water. Chuck for 45 cents a pound. Lol. Wondering what the rents were like back then as well.
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13 hours ago, stemwinder said:
Came through here at around 9PM and left over 1". Still muggy, and the insects are singing.
My little rain gauge, carefully placed, measured over 2" when I emptied it today.
That was a nice little storm (Thursday, around 9PM). Sorry this is late in posting.
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13 hours ago, Rtd208 said:
Picked up 1.49" of rain for the day here.
My little rain gauge, carefully placed, measured over 2" when I emptied it today.
That was a nice little storm (Thursday, around 9PM). Sorry this is late in posting.
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Came through here at around 9PM and left over 1". Still muggy, and the insects are singing.
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2 hours ago, Birds~69 said:
Well, some sort of line starting to form. Super muggy out...critters raising hell. 78F / DP 74
That line's passing over me now. Will miss the muggy nights, and the insects raising heck.
This Summer has been warm, but most nights here have been tolerable (for me at least). No Heat Dome nights this Summer, when temps stay in the 80s.
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Something is popping up right over the nearby Princeton area. All moving SE. A few rumbles, and some precip, FWIW.
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Something is popping up right over the nearby Princeton area. All moving SE. A few rumbles, and some precip, FWIW.
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3 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:
Yeah have been watching this line that just bubbled up in the past hour and is just sitting there expanding. The sun had finally popped out here about 30 minutes ago and temp is 78 with dp 73. Another unstable day on tap.
This one was right over me this AM. Been escaping heavy downpours lately, until now. Some big CG strikes as well. Air has been like soup lately.
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12 hours ago, uncle W said:
I'll be on the shelf for a while...I had a detached retina operation yesterday...don't know how it happened...old age does funny things...no pain but having a patch over one eye is...
Get well, Uncle. Wishing you a good recovery.
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1 hour ago, uncle W said:
I'm hoping this storm does not track west of the city...if it does we could see some strong winds from the south south east and less rainfall...I'd rather see more rain and less wind...not looking forward to power outages from this...Hazel in 1954 was a much bigger hurricane but tracked well west of the city...winds were clocked at 113mph on the roof of 17 Battery place in lower Manhattan...
I was in Hudson County during Hazel. Great winds, but very little rain. You pointed out elsewhere: it was the third storm to hit the area in 1954.
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38 minutes ago, forkyfork said:
i slept right through it
I've always envied people who can sleep through thunder and lightning.
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1 hour ago, PB-99 said:
I just checked, and it's now 107. Maybe the station is next to a pizza oven?
At any rate, it's hot.
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5 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:
That cell out ahead of the line means business
That formed near me, and I can vouch for the many short CTG strokes I heard. Glad it's moving away. Sorry you're getting it.
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55 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:
It's amazing how far digital has come although I suppose the debate will forever rage about which is better - film or digital. My thing was basically wanting something to move in sync with the earth's rotation to fix on a certain spot to get a longer exposure (without the obvious "streak" as the star "moved").
My humble limit is 24MP. In my amateur film years, Kodak used to make a great, slow film called Royal. Even had an ISO 25 for a while. Great colors. Rivaling Kodachrome. I'm sure you knew all of the good ones. Right now, I've got enough, being 83 yrs old. Leave the new stuff for the kids, except possibly a full frame mirrorless, so I can take (inferior?) photos with some old German lenses I have. I like that mirrorless can take almost any old lens with an adapter. Doesn't make sense, but it's fun.
If I still used film, I'd be tempted to go larger format.
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What a muggy, crappy evening. Maybe the first one of the season here, closer (relatively) to the ocean. Last night was almost pleasant in comparison.
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28 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:
At the time, I was building an early Dolby Digital "home theater", pre-DVD era, with "budget high-end" equipment and a laserdisc player and trying to maintain a couple fish tanks (including 2 saltwater ones where one was a reef tank with corals and anemones, etc). I was in a hi-rise with a balcony and an unobstructed view of the W/N/NE sky, where many phenomena fortunately appeared. I did get an Olympus SLR (L-1, early auto-loading/winding 35mm) camera with a tripod and all kinds of telephoto lenses for it and took I don't know how many pics of Hale-Bopp and other things like the Pleides that I like, but still haven't developed them.
Also liked to occasionally watch for ISS flyovers and now that I am back down on terra firma, I have seen a couple of those.
Looks like my max for today was 95 and it's currently a mostly sunny but hazy 93. Dews hanging in the mid-upper 60s.
Wow. And I'm berating myself thinking of buying a full frame SONY mirrorless, and scrapping all my smaller format camera stuff. It's a lot of fun. I hope you eventually develop those pix. OTOH, after looking down on it for years, I realized by 2005 that digital was great.
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1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:
I think Comet Hyakutake was a year before Hale-Bopp and that one, although brief, was visible (appearing as a fuzz ball on my 'scopes at the time). I had even toyed around with getting a CCD camera for a 'scope but had too many expensive hobbies back then.
Hyakutake was visible as a fuzzy object in a different part of the sky from Hale-Bopp. It would have been my lifetime comet if Hale-Bopp hadn't scooped it the next year. A CCD camera would have set you back big time in those days. And maybe for about a .5 megapixel image at that. Good that you waited.
Hyakutake got me locked out on my fire escape when I was watching it. I had had a few. Lucky someone was around to let me in, late at night.
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1 hour ago, JTA66 said:
Agreed, Hale-Bopp is the gold standard I'll measure all comets against. Halley's was a disappointment as was Kohoutek in 1973. I remember looking for it in the backyard as a 6-year old, but I don't think we found it.
Still would like to experience a total eclipse (will have to plan a trip for that) and view a supernova.
I remember all the hype about Kohoutek. Was at Land's End waiting for it one chilly evening, and never saw it. Maybe we're allowed just one great comet in a lifetime.
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1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:
I managed to hit 95 so far today just after 1 pm, but before that, I have been getting an on and off deck of cirrus that effectively blocks the sun and drops the temps a few degrees (one such period happening between 11 and 1 pm where the temp dipped to 89 from 93). Currently "down to" 92 and partly sunny and breezy, with a broken deck of cirrus. Seems to be some kind of atmospheric mixing going on because it's not a sauna in my location despite still being hot with dews in the upper 60s/low 70s in the area.
I have had some cloud decks during dusk/dawn the past couple days, so little chance of seeing that comet. Still, I think NOTHING will ever surpass the amazing Hale-Bopp. Anything that you could literally see without a telescope, during the light of day as well as at night (where it's orientation would be shifted), and to do so for weeks, AND it had an obvious tail, was enough for me!
Hale-Bopp was great! I lived in San Francisco when it appeared, and was able to enjoy it from a bluff overlooking the Pacific, called Land's End. Having seen a great comet, I don't need to fret over not seeing this one. For anyone who missed Hale-Bopp, I'm hoping something similar will happen soon. BTW, Halley's, years later, was a non-event for me. I thought I would see two great comets in my lifetime, but Halley's fizzled this time around. (1985?)
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Memory Lane
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A great way to look at the December data. What a gap between 1969 and 1990. Never saw it that way, Uncle.