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    Summer Banter, Observation and General Discussion 2018

    in New England

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    Just now, HoarfrostHubb said:

    Beer is serious business.  Glad you are ok.  Severe is not fun up close

     Second time in Greenfield I've been up close although this was way too close.   First time was May 2010 when greenfield lost 150+ trees in a storm so bad we went to the basement.

     The funny thing is I waited about 30 minutes before I called my wife and told her and sure enough first thing she said was " I was worried when you left because it got really bad again".

    Summer Banter, Observation and General Discussion 2018

    in New England

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     OK, here are the details:

     I was driving the work van down Green River Road which becomes Plain Road at approximately 5:20 PM.   I had just stopped home to make sure Windows were closed and dogs were OK.  The worst of the storm had seem to have passed since rain and lightened up and sky was brightening.   So I began my trip south to Northampton for a work event.   Less than a mile from my house the rain became very intense and very quickly and the wind started howling with a lot of small tree debris flying about.  

     I started to think about pulling over because it was sideways zero visibility rain and wind.   I was coming to a break in the residential area where the farm fields were and all of a sudden I saw the tent at the pick your own strawberry fields  crumple and roll away.  Just as I thought "oh sh*t,  Time to pull over"  all of the trees in front of me started to bow  and a huge branch hit my windshield as I watched a tree ripped out of the ground.   Next thing I know a utility pole is swinging towards my head and I  jerk the wheel hard left.  The van went over a small embankment and felt like it was going to tip but landed upright.   At this point I took a quick breath,  shook the glass out of my hair and clothes and saw the powerlines right over my head and drove another 20 or 30 feet into the field. 

     A pick up truck that was behind me pulled up next to me  in the field and asked if I was OK and then told me to keep driving away from the powerlines if I could.

     Ironically power is now out until morning for the entire neighborhood from the tree and pole that almost took me out. 

     

     

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    General Severe Weather Discussion 2018

    in New England

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    4 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

    Remember, Chris, wash your shorts in hot water AND bleach

    Glad you’re ok

    Lol.   Dave, I have honestly never had an adrenaline rush last so long.  Almost 2 hours later and I'm still kind of freaked out, it was very quick and intense.

    Summer Banter, Observation and General Discussion 2018

    in New England

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    Just now, dryslot said:

    That's good, Its peaking here, Its usually second week of June so we are on schedule.

     Early last week I was sitting in the kitchen and yelled to my wife and kid to come look at the yellow snow falling,  just a fog of yellow in the air every time the wind blew.

     Oddly, although my wife has some pretty bad allergies, that is not one of them.

    Summer Banter, Observation and General Discussion 2018

    in New England

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    2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

    I just use a walk behind...(self propelled).   Not sure I need a riding one, but they are nice, especially if they have a big bagger.  

    Anyway, I won't be minding these moderate temp days until school gets out

     I can actually get the yard done faster with a walk behind, just a lot more sweat involved.

    Summer Banter, Observation and General Discussion 2018

    in New England

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Typhoon Tip said:

    Did you guys yet learn of this ?  

    North of 4,600 people were mortally lost, charged to Hurricane Maria, 2017 ?

    I'm faaairly certain we'd have to dust off the annuls back to 1900 to find a U.S. centric-death toll from a hurricane storm catastrophe, with the Galveston disaster.  Sebastian Junger authored a well-written docudrama, "Isaac's Storm."  For those not entirely swept away in the feckless, vapid era of Tweets for twits erosion of society intellect ... I recommend that read.  Particularly as weather enthusiasts ...and professionals alike, it's enjoyable and informative. 

    But ... I'm paused. For 117 years later, and humanity still had not learned the lessons from Galveston - a time span in which civilities, such as Puerto Rico among many ... , so blithely went ahead and constructed dense populations and all components necessary to sustain said populations. I mean .. we always knew this.  Hell, Long Island is probably next... or Miami, or New Orleans, both of which were technically actually missed by Andrew and Katrina respectively.   Imagine 20 years from now... when GW -induced oceanic rise has exceeded model predictions by a half foot post the "Great Greenland Slide.." and a Category 4 hurricane, maintained by unusually warm west Atlantic thermoclines... accelerates NNW right up Chesapeake Bay. What if Sandy was a Category 2 or 3 ... when it hooked left, and not to discredit the suffering at Sandy Hook ... but right into the NY Bite? 

    The events that have transpired are dystopian horrible.  But ... they are not the hell on Earth that's in the mail. It is all a really arresting ... if not gasping concept. 

    I wonder  what the real number of deaths in Texas were from Harvey? A woman I know in Greenfield has a nephew in the Texas National Guard and he claimed the death toll was in the hundreds but I thought the official count was only 70 or something. 

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