Book Board Chat

lookwhatbobfound Francis and Jeannie shifted from their classification from Hurricane to Tropical Storm above us [or close enough not to make any difference]. I am north of Tampa. In 2004 it seemed like ALL the storms at one time or another where charted to roll right over top of us. I was rushing around getting all ready for Charlie. Poor Rusty [see avatar] was all upset watching. He couldn't even chew his cud. I mean, I was hauling stuff to put out in his barn and under normal circumstances he would have been 'helping' and I didn't what to worry about him tryng to get out of the pasture while I was going back and forth [sometimes on the riding mower with the trailer, which definately always gets his attention].. And hauling stuff to cover windows from the barn. Then all of a sudden, his sad little ears perked up and he started following and poking around [i.e. helping]. I went into the house and listened to the TV which was on full time and heard the meterologist [Jon Winters] say that it looked like Charlie stopped or turned inland early. A couple minutes after that it was definately declared a 'turn'. For Francis and Jeannie it was all sad ears. For Ivan he was all bright eyed and bushy tailed [so to speak] and he had a grand time watching me on top of the garage roof replacing ridge singles that Francis knocked off. So I did suspect Ivan wasn't going to hit but thought it might be the first heavy rain since Francis.

This Irene looks like she's going to be nasty, but for us over here on the west coast all she's going to do is pull any rain we might have gotten away from us and into her monster cloud system.

aquiltmaven had Charley, Francis and Jeannie all go over her. I forget how long her power was off. She is a bit south of you.

lludwig The only First Line I have gotten is WAR OF THE WORLDS.