Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Current Location of Tropical Storm Harvey
I've finally figured out where to get information about where Tropical Storm Harvey is and where it's probably going. This is a map from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, showing the storm as of Tuesday morning.
The winds are 45 mph and Harvey is now back in the Gulf of Mexico. This would mean the storm is again strengthening. Will it reach hurricane force again? I doubt it. I imagine it will reach about 60 mph and make landfall again Wednesday or Thursday in southwest Louisiana. It is currently heading in an east northeastwardly direction.
The likelihood of tropical storm force winds in Louisiana currently is about 85%. If I lived in Lake Charles I would probably go stay in Arkansas or Oklahoma for a few days. The likelihood right now of tropical storm force winds in Arkansas on Friday or Saturday is 10 - 20%. It will probably be a tropical depression by then, with a lot of rain. However, it could still be a tropical storm.
I saw a projection of this storm going all the way to Canada as a tropical depression.
Right now Arkansas has already had 8" more rain than the average for the year, and average temperatures this summer have been 20ยบ lower than average. A strange year.
What say I? A lot more rain in the forecast.
Monday, August 28, 2017
AP News belatedly figures out that Hurricane Harvey was the news HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM
A shark swimming in the Houston freeway
https://apnews.com/1be70a05bd0848c9aba361ab509d0fce/Rescuers-pluck-hundreds-from-rising-floodwaters-in-Houston
What was going on with national news last week, all the way up until Houston flooded, and all the airheads figured out, "HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM!!" ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Now the twinkling purveyors of entertainment dressed up as news want to blame some politician for in not issuing an evacuation order last week. Duh. What about our media? Could they have ever ever reported that catastrophe was afoot? Get out of Dodge? It makes me weep.
Even when Hurricane Harvey made landfall Friday night in Rockport, Texas as a Category 4 hurricane, did they understand that this was the news? They understood President Trump was the news. He was evil evil evil.
Did it ever occur to any of them that they have any responsibility to America to alert us to impending doom? No, they were busy swishing around pumping out a propaganda story they had cooked up.
All day Saturday when many of us were trying to figure out what the news on this devil storm was, there was none!!!!!
Oh, they made mention of the fact that that it had come on shore to some place that I suppose they thought was a cow pasture.
That was about it. No news about rainfall, projected path of the storm, which by the way, is here where I am, never a whisper about barometric pressure even now, or where the eye was located. Tornados? Not interested.
The news had gone home Friday afternoon for the weekend. Saturday there were a couple of minutes, about 3 pm, about how the hurricane was over, just in time for happy hour! The winds were reportedly down to 73 mph, which is one mph less than hurricane strength. Oh really? Where was the tropical storm? Duh, they didn't know. They never mentioned it.
They just declared the story to be over, just in time for happy hour and went home.
They could have been alerting people to the need to evacuate last week. Now they want to point to finger of blame in every direction except at themselves. They think the mayor of Houston should have issued an evacuation order last week. Do they think that they should have reported the news?
You can't fight airheads, there are too many of them.
Sunday, August 27, 2017
MSM crossing the River Styx over Hurricane Harvey
Yes, I speak to you of Main Stream News. Stream? you ask. You just said they were crossing a river. Streams aren't a big as rivers. Well, I'm not the one that invented the expression "mainstream." So I'll take my poetic license and call them Main Styx Media. As usual, I am astonished beyond words at them.
Having abandoned their former homes of news reporting for the shallows of pure propaganda, when news comes along they seem to be confused.
I suppose no one noticed the reporting by national "news", for lack of a better word. News? Was there news? Oh, there was a Category 4 hurricane, Hurricane Harvey. Yesterday as the hurricane tore up Texas, MSM spent their time reviling the President. I suppose they were already huddled somewhere spinning their big story about how he caused the hurricane to hit Texas instead of Mexico, where no one would be harmed, since the Mexicans had moved to the US. How Gramma Neeny had to flee to the attic and then sit on what was left of the roof. All our President's fault. Oh, did he commit a faux pas too? Is he insane? We just need someone slicker than him, don't we?
What did they not do? Well, suppose you were me trying to learn the projected path of the storm, the barometric pressure, the wind speeds and such, there was no mention of these anywhere anytime. While MSM did due diligence and reported Friday evening that the hurricane had made landfall at Rockport, Texas, having said that, they packed up and went home for the weekend.
On Saturday I looked high and low for reports on what location the eye of the storm was. They didn't seem not know. Or care. They seemed to imagine that being somewhere in Texas was enough. The area is "uninhabited." Oh, except for a few cowpokes. That is a word the dear souls in New York City, where the news is broadcasted from, like to use to describe places of 150,000 people.
But what did it matter?? At 3:00 o'clock CNN announced, when they found a minute, that the hurricane had gone inland and was no longer hurricane force. The winds were 73 mph, making it a tropical storm. Wow!! Isn't that wonderful? Hurricane force winds are defined as 74 mph!! Isn't it considerate of the storm to be one mph less than that? Then they declared the storm to be over. YAY!! JUST IN TIME FOR HAPPY HOUR!! they cried.
Uh ho. The "tropical storm", which was still spinning at exactly 73 mph Sunday, had found Houston, our fourth largest city, where a whole lot of cowpokes live. In terrified voices they spoke of the flooding catastrophe, which somehow they had figured out was the bigger threat. Why is Houston the city of 2.3 million and not Galveston? Oh, wasn't there a Category 4 hurricane there in 1900 that washed 12,000 people out to sea to drown? Wasn't that when the people that were left moved inland to Houston?
Still no word of where the eye of the storm actually is. They figured out that there were a whole lot of tornados associated with the storm. No projection of where Tropical Storm Harvey might be heading. Oh so what? Well, they didn't tell Houston to evacuate before it flooded, being still quite close to the Gulf of Mexico, and rain pouring endlessly. Now it was too late and they spent their time warning them not to evacuate while they looked for human interest stories about the plight of Gramma Neeny.
Did they warn others to evacuate, like possibly Lake Charles, Louisiana? It's always a good idea to avoid the rush.
Was there any discussion of the nuclear plants sitting on the beaches of the Gulf of Mexico and how they were faring as the hurricane hit them directly? I heard one mention. There was a nuclear plant but it's fine. End of story. Wait. That's exactly the story I heard about Fukushima...
And what else is in eastern Texas and southern Louisiana? Oil refineries? Is that a problem? Maybe they could spin that as an environmental disaster. Hey, maybe this storm will go back out to the Gulf of Mexico and strengthen and hit New Orleans. Then they could resurrect Hurricane Katrina footage when they were tired of reporting the news.
So I give up. You can't fight airheads. There are too many of them.
Saturday, August 26, 2017
Stories not straight on birth certificate
Interesting point about Mr. Obama's birth certificate. #11 Birthplace of father Kenya, East Africa.
Date Kenya became a nation December 12, 1963, more than two years after Mr. Obama was born.
The Dr. of Common Sense pointed this out on Youtube.
https://www.truthorfiction.com/obama-birth-certificate/
The image below was released by the White House which it says is of the long-form birth certificate of President Barack Hussein Obama. Within 24 hours questions from disbelievers speculating on its authenticity and contents began circulating the Internet en masse. We will be looking into more questions and addressing them on this page so please check back often as new eRumors about the President’s birth certificate develop.
Friday, August 25, 2017
Plumber Shopping
The project to find a new stove has come to an impasse. Home Depot will deliver it, but they will not hook up a gas stove. They insist that I will need a licensed plumber for that.
I've been down the road of plumbers and stoves before. Mrs. Billingsley recommended a plumber for me. He was the first plumber listed in the phone book, under "A Plumber." Wow, what an experience. I really could only ascribe his behavior to malicious mischief. After he was gone, I started to smell gas. I complained about it repeatedly, but everyone would say, "I don't smell any gas."
One day not long after that, I turned on the stove, and flames came roaring out of the back of the stove. I quickly turned off the stove, but the fire got bigger, licking up the wall to the cabinets. I remembered that I had oil lamps stored up there, all fueled up to be ready for a power outage. As the fire took over the kitchen I began to become terribly frightened. It's impossible to describe being in a fire. I decided I didn't have time to get the lamps out. I had to flee. I probably had 15 minutes before the house burned down.
What to do? At first I stood in the yard screaming. Two minutes. I recovered my senses and ran to the house next door to call the fire department. Three minutes. I called the fire department and told them there was a fire. The clown that they had answering the phone was a receptionist who said, slowly, as if I didn't speak English, "Repeat everything very slowly." I repeated everything very slowly. "Your address?" I told her my address. "You're not in our district. You'll have to call the fire department in your district." "What is their number?" She knew not. Five more minutes had passed. My neighbors ran to my gas tank outside and turned off the gas going into the house. They managed to reach the correct fire department for me.
It was probably only five minutes before the fire department arrived, and they saved the day just in the nick of time. The house was covered with soot and smelled of smoke, but there was not much damage. It was a horrifying experience.
They told me that the flexible pipe behind the stove had broken when the "plumber" had moved it out. What he was doing back there I don't know. But I knew he had moved it because it was pulled out while I was there. The fire chief told me that every time the stove is moved when using a flexible hose, it should be replaced. OK. Good to know.
I checked the phone book for plumbers, and went with my usual mantra for contractors, "licensed, bonded, insured." Master plumbers license # xxxx. This almost always turns out well.
I called such a plumber and told him I needed my gas stove hooked up. Did I have the connections already? Yes. (Of course. I'm having my old gas stove replaced with a new one.) OK. Let me know when you expect it. I quizzed him about replacing the hose. "Not necessary," he said. I knew this wasn't kosher. Why was I bothering to have a professional do this to do an unprofessional job?
Well, I guess I'll chat with a few more people.
The last time I saw the lovely fellow that caused the fire he was on the local news on a special segment they had every Sunday on a news program. The broadcasting station is located two counties from here. He had figured that was a safe distance to pull a new scam, and was calling himself "Dr. Preston, psychiatrist." He had a regular segment on the news and said that his specialty was hypnotherapy! Look out. The angels conspired to have an executive from that news station speak at a meeting I went to, and afterwards I told her that Dr. Preston had lived in this county a couple of years before, claiming to be a plumber. If he was a psychiatrist, he had gotten a degree overnight somehow. That was the end of the psychiatric and television career of Dr. Preston.
Stoves Crossing the River Styx
My current stove Kenmore model 790
I wish stoves could be tortured. This product of the netherworlds would pay for its evil. What has it done? Besides a lot of minor trickery, like the knobs refusing to stay on the stove, and one burner not working at all, it has now started making a loud alarm type beep non stop. Furthermore, it has locked me out of the oven. I'm getting hungry because I haven't been able to make dinner for a week. I'm trying not to panic. Repairs? Why would I indulge this instrument of torment with repairs? I am absolutely certain that if I could use the oven it would burn the house down. And the stove laughs at me with this digital alarm!
Clearly, I'm going to be replacing the stove. I even considered a campfire outside with a giant cauldron on a tripod. I knew a home that had such a setup. I thought it was cool. I'm an expert at starting fires, since I was a firebug as a little girl. Each day after school I hurried off to my secret campfire in the woods and built a little fire. Why? Well, I liked my little rock that I sat on and all the beauty around me, and a fire to keep my hands warm in the cold weather. What age was I? Eight.
At around the same time, Santa left me a baby stove for Christmas. At first I wasn't interested. Then I realized that it could make cookies. Everything changed. I fell in love with all things cooking. I had a beautiful tiny sewing machine too, and made myself a little apron with it.
But the years have thrown me a curve ball in the form of what now passes for stoves. As the days turned to months, and the months to years, a darkness fell on the stoves of the land, until someone invented the crock that is in my kitchen now. Not satisfied to merely stop intriguing people with the art of cooking, manufacturers have made it dangerous to impossible, and endlessly vexing.
Where did the mischief begin? Well, cutting quality corners. Flimsy knobs, etc. Then everything went digital. Ha ha! Checkmate cooks of the world! Go back to your little campfires. If it weren't for the digital controls on this hellcat, I could probably at least turn on the stove. But then I learned that the insulation has somehow come out of the stove. It is a self cleaning model, but if I tried to use that feature, I was warned that the 800ยบ temperature would likely cause a fire because of the lack on insulation. Using the stove in the first place made the kitchen about 350ยบ, not just the stove. Oh, but don't worry! 350ยบ probably wouldn't cause a fire!
And so I've been shopping. First of all, I want a gas range. Second, I want no digital controls whatsoever. This is a rarity these days. Whose idea was the digital control of cooking? It is a playground of demons. There will be no more digital laughter from stoves for me!
Now I seem to be in dangerous territory. How many non digital stoves have I located? Three. Well, three is better than nothing. One by GE, one by Hotpoint, one by Amana. Why just three? Apparently not that many people have thought this through. I'm trying not to rush my selection so I can research thoroughly. In the end, I'll have to dive in though. I'll let you know how I navigate these treacherous waters.
Stay tuned.
Thursday, August 24, 2017
Geomagnetic Sun Storm
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings
What's going on on the Sun? I don't know. It says STORM!
Hmmm.
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/alerts-watches-and-warnings
Current Solar Data (from NOAA)
Solar X-rays: | |
Geomagnetic Field: |
X-Ray Flux | Satellite Environment (combined) | Electron Flux |
---|---|---|
Magnetometer | Estimated Kp Index | GOES 8 Proton Flux |
Click on images for full size
Special thanks to the NOAA Space Environment Center for the data and plots.
What's going on on the Sun? I don't know. It says STORM!
Hmmm.
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Monument Destroying Got You Down? Get a Fidget Spinner!
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Who is Gail Moss?
Every now and then I just seem to enter the Twilight Zone. Not often, maybe two or three times a year. What happens? I wake up in bed wondering how I got there and trying to figure out where five hours went. It's caused by narcolepsy. When people see it happen they usually are offended with me, assuming I'm intoxicated, although it isn't caused by drugs or alcohol. I think it's caused by a faulty carbohydrate metabolism or lack of an enzyme one needs to break down the carbs.
One morning I awoke, and puzzled over the day before. I couldn't remember it. I looked at the t shirt I was wearing. Uh oh. I was shocked to see that my t shirt was covered in blood! But I wasn't injured. Oh, it wasn't blood. I looked around. Candy wrappers were everywhere. I was covered in chocolate. Well, I had had a good time.
I asked my husband if I had done anything unusual the day before. Apparently so. He was just spinning about it. Had I done anything unusual?! I was walking and talking in an funny way, and he tried to get me to go to bed, but I was "belligerent" and wouldn't go to bed. No sir! I wanted the Klondike bars. As I gobbled Klondike bars, I told him a wild story about someone he said I called "Gail Moss." He insisted that I told him that Gail Moss came to visit me every day. Every day. He just would not believe that I don't know any Gail Moss and she never visited.
Unfortunately, there was no way I could explain this to him since it was a mystery to me also, and it wasn't something that I could have avoided doing. Eventually he forgot about it, and filed it under, "Helene is insane."
I still wonder who Gail Moss is.
Monday, August 21, 2017
My Eclipse Experience
Amateur shot of the eclipse. OK yes I took it.
This is how things looked from my corner of paradise today. I asked my nephew once to take a photo of me. It looked just like this! Oh, plus a telephone wire in the middle. In my photo there is a mysterious star above my head. Cool. It's probably the planet Nibiru. This was at pretty much the height of the excitement. What did I learn?
One, the page I visited yesterday was inaccurate about the times. I suppose they were in another time zone. I checked it today and the list of times were gone. OK. The times were off by at least an hour.
Two. The moon does not exist. If I could see the sun, why was there no sign of the moon? My mother thinks it's because of it being the dark of the moon. I think she's fallen for media propaganda.
Three. The earth is flat! But in all the sailing the seas why has no on fallen off the edge? Because the arctic blocks it. How could Magellan have circumnavigated the alleged globe then? He kept unwittingly making left turns. One must admit, almost all that most of us know about the purportedly round earth is what we've been told.
Four. Darkness. Darkness you could cut with a knife! Not quite. At the height of the excitement, it was darker. Theoretically I would have been in the 90% zone. How dark? About like the time just before twilight. Very impressive. It was a hot day, around 94ยบ. Many know that I have had a lot to say about this being a surprisingly cold summer. Not today. But the temperature was good enough to drop 4ยบ.
Five. Other than the eclipse, there seemed to be no ramifications, no sequelae, just the lonely feeling of being so small. People were able to drive. The pipeline people continued to work as if the end of the world weren't occurring. The animals didn't go to sleep. They thought about it though. The power grid didn't collapse. NOTHING!
Six. East is not east. West is not west. Imagine my surprise to see with my own eyes the eclipse starting at about 1:00 o'clock on the face of the sun. It was supposed to start at about 7:00 o'clock. Celestial indications of where we are are way way off. Another telling phenomenon. The eclipse went from west to east, so we're told. How could this happen? The sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Now it's over. Here I am with a silly pair of solar binoculars, hoping I haven't blinded myself. One curious thing I noticed at the time of this photo was that there was a rainbow around the sun. It was pretty but I don't see it vividly on my photo.
Friday, August 18, 2017
Wall Street Journal at National Enquirer Levels
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-tangle-of-rhetorical-inadequacy-1503012472
I deeply resent the anti American stance taken by the Wall Street Journal. Filling the headlines of the Wall Street Journal, for want of news, are slurs against the President of the United States. Apparently your editors are either criminal, demon possessed or madmen. I agree 100% with President Trump's assessment of the events last week. Bad people are on both sides. Do I put Antifa on the same moral plane as Neo-Nazis? No, I don't rank Antifa that high. I haven't heard the Neo-Nazis running down our President or trying to overthrow the government or having illegal, violent protests. The violence was started by Antifa in an staged event. Once again, the Wall Street Journal weighs in to say our President lacks in rhetorical skills. Maybe they first need to learn what rhetorical skills are.
The Wall Street Journal sells for $4 an issue. I suppose it matters not to them I will no longer subscribe to their rag. I want to read the news, not propaganda. I find this attack on our President to be repugnant and anti American and without journalistic merit.
I have a hunch the public will soon see through this faรงade of fake news being hurled at them like they are stupid. Yesterday a statue of Abraham Lincoln was defaced in the statue hysteria. Is that also what the Wall Street Journal endorses? In addition to Confederate statues, Antifa has now called for the destruction of George Washington statues.
Is this about statues?
"Ready for Antifa" Thank you Diane
I deeply resent the anti American stance taken by the Wall Street Journal. Filling the headlines of the Wall Street Journal, for want of news, are slurs against the President of the United States. Apparently your editors are either criminal, demon possessed or madmen. I agree 100% with President Trump's assessment of the events last week. Bad people are on both sides. Do I put Antifa on the same moral plane as Neo-Nazis? No, I don't rank Antifa that high. I haven't heard the Neo-Nazis running down our President or trying to overthrow the government or having illegal, violent protests. The violence was started by Antifa in an staged event. Once again, the Wall Street Journal weighs in to say our President lacks in rhetorical skills. Maybe they first need to learn what rhetorical skills are.
The Wall Street Journal sells for $4 an issue. I suppose it matters not to them I will no longer subscribe to their rag. I want to read the news, not propaganda. I find this attack on our President to be repugnant and anti American and without journalistic merit.
I have a hunch the public will soon see through this faรงade of fake news being hurled at them like they are stupid. Yesterday a statue of Abraham Lincoln was defaced in the statue hysteria. Is that also what the Wall Street Journal endorses? In addition to Confederate statues, Antifa has now called for the destruction of George Washington statues.
Is this about statues?
"Ready for Antifa" Thank you Diane
Growing 5 acres of food in 40' building. Oh yaaaas!
http://inhabitat.com/40-foot-shipping-container-farm-can-grow-5-acres-of-food-with-97-less-water/
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40-foot shipping container farm can grow 5 acres of food with 97% less water
by Lacy Cooke
Communities that have to ship in fresh food from far away could start getting local produce right from their parking lots or warehouses thanks to Local Roots‘ shipping container farms. The 40-foot containers house hydroponic farms that only draw on five to 20 gallons of water each day to grow produce like lettuce, strawberries, or kale. Popping up all around the United States, these scalable farms “grow far more produce than any other indoor farming solution on the market” according to co-founder Dan Kuenzi. Local Roots is even talking with SpaceX about using their farms in space.
Local Roots’ 40-foot shipping container farms, called TerraFarms, grow produce twice as fast as a traditional farm, all while using 97 percent less water and zero pesticides or herbicides. They can grow as much food as could be grown on three to five acres. They’re able to do this thanks to LED lightstuned to specific wavelengths and intensities, and sensor systems monitoring water, nutrient, and atmospheric conditions.
The process from setup to first harvest takes only around four weeks. TerraFarms can be stacked and connected to the local grid. CEO Eric Ellestad said in a video 30 million Americans live in food deserts, and their farms could be placed right in communities that most need the food.
Los Angeles is already home to a farm with several shipping containers, and a similar one will be coming to Maryland this year. It could offer local food like strawberries in January.
And Local Roots’ technology could one day allow astronauts to consume fresh produce in space. Their growing systems could offer a food source on long-term, deep space missions. Ellestad told The Washington Post, “The opportunities are global and intergalactic at the same time.”
Images via Local Roots Facebook
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