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magnetic_poleThinking of those facing down Florence and Mangkhut tonight.
1. Have you ever experienced a hurricane firsthand? No, luckily.
2. Have you ever experienced outside heat over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celcius)? Often when I was young; I grew up on the edge of the high desert. But 100F / 38C and dry is ten times better than 80F / 27C and muggy. My worst moment was just arriving in Hong Kong, passing out for a moment in the heat, and falling at the end of an escalator. I was a sweaty, dizzy mess with a skinned knee and a sprained ankle. Not my best moment.
3. When and where was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced? Objectively? Probably in January in northern New England, where the temperatures sometimes fell to close to 0F / -17C. Subjectively: the weekend I found myself in St. Andrews, Scotland, in mid March with insufficient clothing and/or backbone. I actually had to turn around and get back on the train and head to London, I was that miserable and unprepared. (These were the days before this California girl had discovered wool. That was a bit of a revelation.)
4. Is your household prepared for a possible power outage of two to seven days? No.
5. Do you have a go bag? No. Hm. I'm starting to think there may be a lesson here.
Textbox below (you can link back to thefridayfive), or just stop by and leave a comment: When and where were you your hottest and coldest, flist?
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And on a completely different and much happier note: a very happy birthday to the incorrigiblelash_larue! I spotted this months ago and thought of you....
Hope you've all had a great week, flist!
1. Have you ever experienced a hurricane firsthand? No, luckily.
2. Have you ever experienced outside heat over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celcius)? Often when I was young; I grew up on the edge of the high desert. But 100F / 38C and dry is ten times better than 80F / 27C and muggy. My worst moment was just arriving in Hong Kong, passing out for a moment in the heat, and falling at the end of an escalator. I was a sweaty, dizzy mess with a skinned knee and a sprained ankle. Not my best moment.
3. When and where was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced? Objectively? Probably in January in northern New England, where the temperatures sometimes fell to close to 0F / -17C. Subjectively: the weekend I found myself in St. Andrews, Scotland, in mid March with insufficient clothing and/or backbone. I actually had to turn around and get back on the train and head to London, I was that miserable and unprepared. (These were the days before this California girl had discovered wool. That was a bit of a revelation.)
4. Is your household prepared for a possible power outage of two to seven days? No.
5. Do you have a go bag? No. Hm. I'm starting to think there may be a lesson here.
Textbox below (you can link back to thefridayfive), or just stop by and leave a comment: When and where were you your hottest and coldest, flist?
And on a completely different and much happier note: a very happy birthday to the incorrigible
lash_larue! I spotted this months ago and thought of you....Hope you've all had a great week, flist!
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Date: 2018-09-15 03:02 pm (UTC)Hurricane - Three that I was actually in the path of. For two of them, I was on The Outer Banks in NC. This was long ago and they were minor. We actually sat out on top of the dunes to watch. It was spectacular. There was a pretty big one when we were on that island up north. That one had me worried because they were predicting torrential rains and a huge storm surge. We put plywood over the most vulnerable windows and taped "X's" on the others, and sevured the boats as best we could.
The rain never appeared, nor did the surge. The winds passed 100 mph on occasion, though. My brother and I went down to the dock to check on the boats during the less violent times, and wound up lying on the foredeck of the big one just watching the storm. It was bouncy, but the way the wind whipped foam from the waves and the clouds raced across the sky was riveting and beautiful beyond description. Mother Nature's violent artistry at its finest.
The lack of rain and surge spared the boats and buildings severe damage, but without the rain, the salt spray in the wind killed almost every leaf on every tree.
Go bag - Not as such. How we are situated makes an emergency evacuation very unlikely, and we couldn't abandon the cats in any event. There is equipment ready to hand for most serious situations likely to arise. Frankly, I'm just too old and beat up to run from much of anything, :)
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Date: 2018-09-16 12:17 am (UTC)The 100 mph hour winds sound genuinely frightening and awe-inspiring at the same time. It think it's the same reason I love looking at the ocean (being up for less excitement than you, generally). There's something deeply affecting about being reminding of your own irrelevance in the universe.
As I was saying to Semi below, I was more prepared for a small emergency--a fire in the apartment building, a gas leak--a few years ago, when all my work files were on my hard drive and on CDs I got lazy when I started to put thing on Dropbox. But I do have a couple things--personal and financial things--that I'd want and need if I had to leave for a while, and I should be more aware of that.
At the very least, I should have a flashlight with working batteries! Going to rectify that this weekend. M.