Subj : Re: Wegman's To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Aug 26 2019 22:02:36 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 13-Aug-2019 19:55 <=- NB>> Replying to this set of messages on 29 July, currently 10:55am... NB>> still home, even... ;) BM> Must be getting antsy by now! Actually, not too much by then... I didn't leave again until the 13th of August... it was nice not to have to go too soon again... ;) BM>> Bad news is rain and thunderstorms might continue through tonight, and BM>> tonight is the Red White and Boom event for Davenport's Fourth of July BM>> celebration. Bettendorf holds their festivities on the 4th. NB>> Rather old news at this point, but as this set is the last I've had NB>> from you... So, did the rain stop in time for your festivities...? NB>> Or was the boom only from the thunderstorms....? BM> Based on the 'Red, White and Boom' comment that must have been written BM> July 3rd. I'm fairly certain the rain held off. Next day was July BM> 4th and Bettendorf holds it's celebrations. We went with Autumn and BM> her perents to Middle Park where there was a Street Fest and 'kiddie BM> stuff'. Did look to rain but for the most part held off; as leaving BM> there were some larger scattered raindrops but didn't rain (went BM> south). For that night's fireworks was scattered clouds IIRC (was BM> looking towards the night sky, after all!). Sounds like it was fine... :) Or at least, fine enough... :) BM>>> And the water has stopped seeping in to the basement -- well, the BM>>> channels around the periphery and into the sump pit; the yard has BM>>> dried out -- mostly as still damp from the rain. NB>>> Progress, for sure.... :) BM>> Well, it had stopped seeping into the basement and was drying out! BM>> (Opening comment.) NB>> And then more heavy rain arrived.... oh, well.... BM> And the cycle starts all over! ...As long as the water gets pumped BM> out and none into the basement. Exactly. :) BM>>> The Mississippi is finally back below flood stage after 96 days (!) BM>>> -- mathematically that's 26%, or just over a quarter of the year! NB>>> Just crazy.... But very good that finally it is below flood stage NB>>> finally... :) BM>> Yes; the recent downpours do raise the river levels but not back over BM>> flood stages. Still a lot of water in the ground: Duck Creek is a BM>> local major tributary and it is still running very high. It did not BM>> flood like it did in past years; there was some work done to make the BM>> flow less restricted. NB>> At least something was effective... ;) And good that the river is NB>> down enough that the rain didn't make it flood again.... BM> Right. I don't expect any more flooding this year. Next Spring..... One can hope for not quite so severe weather next year.... ;) BM>> I got interested in the 'Millikan Oil Drop Experiment' somehow when I BM>> was probably in Junior High, maybe late elementary school. Have a BM>> book (wonder if packed away in a box in NH?) which explains it, plus BM>> how to build one's own. Was going to. NB>> Maybe some day you'll find the book again, and run the NB>> experiment... ;) BM> I didn't even think of it while visiting! Probably just as easy to BM> look up the project online. ...Well, there is at least one kit BM> available; manual here: BM> https://hepweb.ucsd.edu/2dl/pasco/Millikans%20Oil%20Drop%20Manual%20(AP BM> - 8210).pdf BM> I'm pretty sure my book showed how to build one's own device; didn't BM> see a from-scratch instruction but quite sure just didn't use the BM> correct search terms. And possibly the book you have is out-of-print now, too... :) BM>>> I was looking for some correlation between lightening and release of BM>>> the snow, which in warmer months would be rain. NB>>> But it looks like there might not really be a correlation, since NB>>> it's different polarities... and thundersnow is very rare.... NB>>> More often, we just get snow.... just like we often just get rain NB>>> (even very heavy rain) without any thunder/lightning.... :) BM>> True. Maybe when Daryl gets back he'll explain it to us. NB>> I don't think I've seen him jump in on this yet... BM> A week or so ago I had received a distribution from Daryl indicating BM> he would probably be off-line for a while with kidney surgery and BM> storms / bad weather in his area. He's been back since... and while you were gone, did post quite the treatise on thunderstorms.... I saved it to a textfile for reference later, although it didn't exactly answer our wonderings... :) ttyl neb .... Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .