Subj : Re: Being Full To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Nov 22 2019 02:23:56 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 11-Nov-2019 09:54 <=- NB>> now our area is hunkering down for what could be a major storm... NB>> We have a winter storm watch from tomorrow morning to Tuesday NB>> morning, with up to 10 inches of snow being predicted... I NB>> wouldn't mind if it didn't really hit here... BM> Veteran's Day.... Waking up to a little over an inch of snow and 24ø. BM> Only supposed to get another inch or two -- don't want that ten inches BM> quite yet! Hope your's is the light fluffy kind and not the soggy BM> heavy type. As it turned out, it started out being the heavier type, and switched over to being more fluffy.... and we got just over a foot all told... There's still remnants of it around, over a week later... But this week is supposed to be in the high 40s most days, possibly into the low 50s... maybe something approaching an Indian summer-ish, given how cold it was for a while... :) BM> Oh: had a quirky little thing happen yesterday afternoon. We're BM> standing in the kitchen - bright flash -- what was that?! From where I BM> was standing it looked like the flash reflected off the cabinet, so BM> through the Dining Room window and outside to the west, Could also BM> have come from the other side (east), through the Living Room, BM> reflecting off the cabinets behind me on to the set I was loojing BM> toward. BM> We go out to check, scanning to look for anything wrong: smoke, BM> especially. Nothing - good (?). Across the street (east, so Living BM> Room direction) no one outside but all the windows look dark. Middle BM> of Sunday afternoon so hard to tell, but a couple of lights we thought BM> had been on were definately off. BM> I go on-line to check the MidAmerican Power Outage Map. Pretty quiet. BM> Scroll in: yup, dot right about where I live: 3:07 p.m., estimated 26 BM> people effected. Later did see power trucks. That flash though! Like BM> a bright camera strobe. Don't recall any flash when 'our' pole BM> transformer blew its fuse and that's in the backyard, not across the BM> street and the neighbours' backyards. BM> (Afterthought) Recalling a light 'boom' which made me think a BM> lightening strike, but sounded wrong. Also the UPSs didn't chirp, so BM> the power didn't glitch, which I thought odd. Across the street is on BM> a different grid but with that bright flash would have expected a power BM> dip. Sounds like the neighbors did have their transformer blow, possibly a bit more spectacularly than yours had done... Fortunate for you that you weren't affected.... maybe the power company has got things well enough isolated that it didn't cause even a power dip for your section... BM>> And even be semi-observant of the people around: not the runny nose BM>> will turn into an episode requiring hospitalization while at the BM>> grocery store but one never knows when a cardiac issue could occur, or BM>> even stretching for a can on the top shelf and getting bopped. Neither BM>> has happened to me but I some time back I did help a petite little ol' BM>> lady get something from the top shelf and gently warned her to take a BM>> step back in case I jostled a can and it fell. NB>> Yup, good to keep an eye out for such things.... :) BM> Wasn't thinking of this kind of detail at the time but don't know if I BM> would have been covered by a Good Samaritan Law, just more logical to BM> have her step back a bit. ...Did ask if she needed another -- BM> sometimes I've done the "ah heck, get two" thing. As long as you were there... ;) BM>> It's been a little quiet around here lately; didn't get anything more BM>> done with the extra time! NB>> I'm slowly getting caught up, both here and in the other areas I NB>> post in... :) BM> And I probably gave you a respite one day and a deluge the next: BM> recall no messages for a couple of days and then double the usual the BM> next. When you answer more than just the one set, I just plod through, and answer one set at a time, anyway.... :) And then end up with a day or two when I just don't have time for doing any messages... next thing you know, I'm way behind again.... (Looks like about 10 days at the moment...) Oh, well... I do what I can... :) NB>> ... Flood: A river that's too big for its bridges. BM> Flashback to the live news shots from the Centennial Bridge on the far BM> edge of downtown Davenport (IA): barriers to keep the water from the BM> exit. Reporter was standing in an inch or so of water and could hear BM> the pumps in the background. Yup, perfect example.... :) ttyl neb .... Nine in Ten doctors believe Epoxy can be cured. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .