offT: Kat, you ok?

Edna wrote:
> In article <byZfj.3655$se5.286@nlpi069.nbdc.sbc.com>,
> Kat Hein <katenigma00 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Aphrael wrote:
>> .
>>> Ha, well, at least you are all safe. I still get a little confused
>>> geographically speaking about where everyone here (we should do a map, I
>>> think).
>>>
>>> Aphrael...
>>>
>> It's easy enough to make a map, using GoogleMaps. I will even start one
>> for us.
>> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.524975,-122.176208&sp
>> n=0.709023,1.2854&z=10&om=1&msid=109605481294211543767.00044306c4c4946713c85
>>
>> That's where I am. If anyone wants added, just let me know with your
>> approximate location.
>
> Kat, if you zoom in, it appears that you live about 100 feet offshore?
>
> Edna
>

LOL Fixed it. I was obviously zoomed out too far when I placed it. We're
a bare 1025 from the shore, but we are on dry land. Well, soggy land
right now. *G*

I also added you to the map.

Kat
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Kathleen Hein wrote:
> Edna wrote:
>> In article <jEBfj.33808$lD6.1663@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>,
>> Kat Hein <katenigma00 DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>
>>
>> The rain washed into our garage, but just barely, so the few things
>> still in cardboard boxes are okay (the cardboard was wet, the contents
>> were not). The newspaper people decided that despite my vacation hold
>> request, they were going to deliver the newspaper every day while we
>> were gone (except today, of course), so we have a huge pile of soggy
>> newspapers and nothing current to read. The garbage men very
>> thoughtfully decided that we had forgotten to put our can out, so they
>> dragged it out to the curb and left it there for a week-and-a-half
>> (they won't stop service for less than two weeks). So much for my
>> efforts to make the house look occupied...
>>
>
> You had the opposite problem that we did- somehow, the light had gotten
> left on, and before we left, the mail carrier had obviously misread the
> stop mail notice, and stopped delivering 2 days before we left!
>
> We were without power for over 4 hours this morning. Luckily, we
> discovered that our landlady was wrong, and our heat does continue to
> work when the power was out. We had hail, a deluge of rain, thunder and
> lightning- the whole works.
>
> Then I noticed a headline on Yahoo News when it came back on, about a
> levee breaking last night and flooding a town "near Reno" The town? The
> one we stayed at the night before and where we were SUPPOSED to be last
> night.
>
> For those of you that are the praying type, say a little extra prayer of
> thanksgiving with me, will you?
>
> Kat

WOW! I guess so!

Ree
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m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
> Edna wrote:
>> Kat Hein <katenigma00.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
> <snip Kat's trip from Reno>
>> Sounds like your trip was even more fun than ours! We arrived home
>> this afternoon from San Diego, right through the storm. First there
>> was the huge dust storm, with car-sized tumbleweeds to dodge. Then
>> came the high winds--we saw at least one overturned semi, and several
>> near misses (including one right behind us). Last was the blinding rain.
>
> At least Kat and Jesse didn't have small kids to keep quiet and reassured.
>
> Car-size tumbleweeds? Dang, they grow big down south! I just saw a few
> person size specimens holding a Tumbleweed Derby in the high winds.
>
>> The rain washed into our garage, but just barely, so the few things
>> still in cardboard boxes are okay (the cardboard was wet, the contents
>> were not). The newspaper people decided that despite my vacation hold
>> request, they were going to deliver the newspaper every day while we
>> were gone (except today, of course), so we have a huge pile of soggy
>> newspapers and nothing current to read. The garbage men very
>> thoughtfully decided that we had forgotten to put our can out, so they
>> dragged it out to the curb and left it there for a week-and-a-half
>> (they won't stop service for less than two weeks). So much for my
>> efforts to make the house look occupied...
> '
> Getting newspaper delivery to stop and start is, evidently, a hit n miss
> affair. A co-worker had to call 2-3 times to get them to stop.
>
> Slow roasting apples for a hot dessert tonight. :>
>

Never done that. Sounds good. Recipe?

Ree.
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>>> I read in the paper that power is out in Pacifica, and the Bay Area
>>> is being hammered by wind and rain. Freeways closed, etc. You and
>>> Jesse and the kitties ok?
>>
>> Megan, are you in the 10 inches of rain, or the 10 feet of snow area?
>
> Rain. I'm not close enough to the coastal mountains that encourage
> weather systems to dump massive water... although, if what I'm getting
> is the mild version of this storm system, whoo-eee. It's a doozy. I've
> just had to nail up a bit of fencing that fell, retrieve some trash that
> came visiting (darn plastic bags), and dispose of some mushrooms that
> sprouted. (I know people who have lost their dogs, because the dogs ate
> mushrooms that sprouted in their yards.)
>
> The dogs have been wiggly all day, since they haven't had their walks.
> Not wiggly enough to go walking in *that* weather, though. I've had to
> shove them to get them to put a paw out of doors. Literally. Shove.

The silver lining, less chance of water rationing this summer.

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Aaron wrote:

>>> Megan, are you in the 10 inches of rain, or the 10 feet of snow area?

>> Rain. I'm not close enough to the coastal mountains that encourage
>> weather systems to dump massive water... although, if what I'm getting
>> is the mild version of this storm system, whoo-eee. It's a doozy.
<snip>

> The silver lining, less chance of water rationing this summer.

Oh, yes. No one (with sense) in California or Nevada is regretting the
rain. Just wishing it had been spread out at less intensity over a longer
time period. :>

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"Kat Hein" <katenigma00.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Edna wrote:
>> Kat Hein <katenigma00.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Aphrael wrote:

>>>> Ha, well, at least you are all safe. I still get a little confused
>>>> geographically speaking about where everyone here (we should do a map,
>>>> I think).

>>> It's easy enough to make a map, using GoogleMaps. I will even start one
>>> for us.
>>> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.524975,-122.1...08&spn=

>> Kat, if you zoom in, it appears that you live about 100 feet offshore?

> LOL Fixed it. I was obviously zoomed out too far when I placed it. We're a
> bare 1025 from the shore, but we are on dry land. Well, soggy land right
> now. *G*

As long as the distance between you and the ocean is a positive number that
should be OK. Of course, given that we're talking about California's
coastline, perhaps another condition should be that the number is a
constant... <grin>

I'm all too familiar with small numbers describing the distance to water:
the family house where my sister lives in New Orleans (we both own it, but
only she lives there) wasn't flooded...but it was only a block and a half
from the edge of the floodwaters.

I'm also quite familiar with the consequences of a storm; when Hurricane
Betsy went through New Orleans I was standing transmitter watch by myself at
the last television transmitter in the city (WYES-TV)...and finally
abandoned it when water started coming through the cinderblock walls. One
odd experience from that: after the worst of the storm passed I walked from
our transmitter site (in downtown New Orleans) to the studios of the NBC
station (WDSU, in the middle of the French Quarter) -- and the entire
Quarter was dark. There aren't too many people who can say that they walked
through the Quarter and were the only person on Royal Street, and not a
single light was burning...

Anyway, it seems that everyone has survived the latest Pacific storm with no
major crises (so far)...let's keep it that way.

Joe Morris
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Well, if you were to stick a pin in Lansing, Michigan that's where Laurie
and I are located!
"Kat Hein" <katenigma00.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Aphrael wrote:
> .
>>
>> Ha, well, at least you are all safe. I still get a little confused
>> geographically speaking about where everyone here (we should do a map, I
>> think).
>>
>> Aphrael...
>>
>
> It's easy enough to make a map, using GoogleMaps. I will even start one
> for us.
> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.524975,-122.1...08&spn=
>
> That's where I am. If anyone wants added, just let me know with your
> approximate location.
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Joe Morris wrote:
> "Kat Hein" <katenigma00.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Edna wrote:
>>> Kat Hein <katenigma00.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Aphrael wrote:
>
>>>>> Ha, well, at least you are all safe. I still get a little confused
>>>>> geographically speaking about where everyone here (we should do a map,
>>>>> I think).
>
>>>> It's easy enough to make a map, using GoogleMaps. I will even start one
>>>> for us.
>>>> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.524975,-122.1...08&spn=
>
>>> Kat, if you zoom in, it appears that you live about 100 feet offshore?
>
>> LOL Fixed it. I was obviously zoomed out too far when I placed it. We're a
>> bare 1025 from the shore, but we are on dry land. Well, soggy land right
>> now. *G*
>
> As long as the distance between you and the ocean is a positive number that
> should be OK. Of course, given that we're talking about California's
> coastline, perhaps another condition should be that the number is a
> constant... <grin>
>

I know exactly how far we are to the water because the insurance company
wanted to know. 25 ft closer, and we'd be paying more, even as renters.

I happen to live in a town that was originally founded because they were
building an excursion train from San Francisco down along the coast to
Santa Cruz. The train was built ON the San Andreas Fault, and promptly
fell into the ocean during the San Francisco earthquake before
completion. Your statement was truth! *GGG*

In fact, about 2 miles South of us, they are building a tunnel to
reroute a section of 1 that has become increasingly unstable.

Kat
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Kat Hein wrote:
> Aphrael wrote:
> .
>>
>> Ha, well, at least you are all safe. I still get a little confused
>> geographically speaking about where everyone here (we should do a map,
>> I think).
>>
>> Aphrael...
>>
>
> It's easy enough to make a map, using GoogleMaps. I will even start one
> for us.
> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.524975,-122.1...08&spn=
>
>
> That's where I am. If anyone wants added, just let me know with your
> approximate location.

A pin in Minneapolis is close enough for me (New Hope is a inner ring
suburb of said city).

'wyrm
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Ree wrote:
> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:

<snip>
>> Slow roasting apples for a hot dessert tonight. :>
>
> Never done that. Sounds good. Recipe?

Do you have a slow cooker? That's what I used. Roughly, take Granny Smith
apples (enough to pack bottom of slow cooker pot), core. (Coring an apple,
btw, is a pain.) Peel the skin off the top third, so it will absorb
flavor. But the apple will need the rest of the skin to hold itself
together. Squirt a bit of lemon juice over the exposed parts, to reduce
browning, if you want. Sprinkle all the apples with about a quarter cup
brown sugar, a teaspoon cinnamon, and dab with a couple tablespoons butter.
Cook on low for 3-4 hours, until apples soft.

Charmingly simple recipe. And not toooooooo unhealthy.

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m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:

> Ree wrote:
>
>> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>
>
> <snip>
>
>>> Slow roasting apples for a hot dessert tonight. :>
>>
>>
>> Never done that. Sounds good. Recipe?
>
>
> Do you have a slow cooker? That's what I used. Roughly, take Granny
> Smith apples (enough to pack bottom of slow cooker pot), core. (Coring
> an apple, btw, is a pain.) Peel the skin off the top third, so it will
> absorb flavor. But the apple will need the rest of the skin to hold
> itself together. Squirt a bit of lemon juice over the exposed parts, to
> reduce browning, if you want. Sprinkle all the apples with about a
> quarter cup brown sugar, a teaspoon cinnamon, and dab with a couple
> tablespoons butter. Cook on low for 3-4 hours, until apples soft.
>
> Charmingly simple recipe. And not toooooooo unhealthy.

Whoops. Recipe courtesy 'Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker' by
Robertson. Side commentary mine.

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"Kat Hein" <katenigma00 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:

> It's easy enough to make a map, using GoogleMaps. I will even start one
> for us.
> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.524975,-122.1...08&spn=

> That's where I am. If anyone wants added, just let me know with your
> approximate location.

If you want to add me to the list, try Oakton, VA. ICBM coordinates:

38° 53' 15.6" N
77° 21' 52.6" W

Joe Morris
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Joe Morris wrote:
> "Kat Hein" <katenigma00.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> It's easy enough to make a map, using GoogleMaps. I will even start one
>> for us.
>> http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=37.524975,-122.1...08&spn=
>
>> That's where I am. If anyone wants added, just let me know with your
>> approximate location.
>
> If you want to add me to the list, try Oakton, VA. ICBM coordinates:
>
> 38° 53' 15.6" N
> 77° 21' 52.6" W
>
> Joe Morris
>
>

Okay, Victoreia, Joe, Lurker, and 'Wyrm are added too.

This is kinda fun. I love Google Maps.

Kat
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