INSOMNIACS place to talk in the wee hours
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Last night I went to bed at 1 and awoke at 6 or so. Night before I went to bed at 1 and awoke at 2pm - 13 hours sleep straight through. Will be going back to sleep I hope in a little bit. But forgot to log out here and turn off computer.
Thanks for the likes on my The Damn Dog story. Hubby and I got a kick out of re-reading it to the dog (Danny Boy). If we say Damn Dog just right he laughs, the dog, that is.
Sas - no reports it could happen again but we had three out of the blue and for first time ever back then. First took out the biggest trees, second the mid sized then third just blew over but it was still a basement runner when we realized what was coming across the meadow. The best for anyone out of doors in those winds is to get behind a solid barn or house because trees are going to come down, winds can be up to 175mph. One took out the county airport. The one the week before that took the power had pontoon boats out of the resort lakes on both sides of us - just blew them right out and into the roads. One lake lost about 80 trees all around, it was an 8 mi in diameter lake with houses on 90%.
Going for breakie w Hubby and daughter this morn, this will be the second to last Sunday breakfast we will have together as she is leaving for the UK on 25th. I keep telling her when she said she is afraid of leaving here, missing so much of here, that she has to say to herself that she will be back. When I have been depressed or too sick to move that is how I get out of bed - I get up to use the bathroom and tell me I will go back for a nap as soon as I this and that. It is a lick and a promise that sometimes never happens, but I tell me that anyway so I can go on. And so I am telling me now that she will be back or I will be well enough and have the money to go there for five months at a time. Stay in an English country cottage and see here off and on while there writing or whatever I be doing with myself. It's like a good dream.
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Hey Y'all! Glad Irma has gone away and that all are safe.
Feline - How is the preggers niece? Has baby decided to make a debut yet? I know we were all worried for her. Yes, she'll have some memorable stories to tell the babe! Blessings to the little family.
Lookie - We've been missing you. Happy to have you back! When you tour the east coast, how far will you go? If you make it this far down South we can go sit on the beach with our feet in the warm water and soak up some sun. And tell stories of course!
Patty - The owls in the woods behind my house were loudly calling hootie-hoo tonite. Made me think of you
M0mmy - A pumpkin fronted by fall leaves? Picture please! It's so nice to decorate for the different seasons and holidays. Really lifts one spirits
Loverly ~ Invoking WildT's name to scold me? Harumph ... (looking indignant and not at all guilty) I forgive you my friend. Family....We get older and roles reverse. And we lose patience with the ones who continually try us. All you can do is what you know and feel is best. Spend your time with the ones who truly need you. Your girls, DH and Dear Parents need you most. I know it's hard, but not all our loved ones want us to help or can be helped. Somethings are best left in His hands.
Wren - May your DS and family stay safe. Poor GS, hope he can grt to some cleaner air. It is nice of DS to help his friend. Isn't it a wonderful feeling when our children do "good"? You should be proud of yourself for raising such a fine young man!
MammaRay - I am proud of you. Rads will make a tremendous difference! I've had pain go away after just 2 zaps. What day did you start? I know getting in and out of the car and bringing the wheelchair is difficult. I do like to have my own chair though when I go out. I am a wee bit of a germaphobe - no worries of cooties from strange hospital chairs anymore! Plus mine is pretty comfy and I can be bossy and tell FFH what to do!
Sassy - You are so good. Really.
Mari - Have seen the Ventusky weather site? It is supposed to be THE most accurate for storms. Sas, you would like it too. You can put in your zip code and the zips of other places too to see what wind speeds to expect. It is very sciencey.
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Oh Miss Blue - You make us smile with your stories of your babies. Here's a smile for you;
And Junie;
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Shepkitty - LOL that meme reminded me of the Danny Boy story when got fixed at age 6. He was pretty attached to his royal jewels by then, so you can imagine the freak out he had when he realized it was gone. Someday I will write that story. When I feel better. I stopped writing but will again. Hopefully a book or two finished right and published too, someday. Like when I am in a cottage in rural UK, that would be nice.
This morn I hurried off here and opened the windows so I could hear the whip-poor-wills before they went to bed, they yell so when they come back to the nest. But I was too late today. A few morns now we have heard the baby - when the papa gets back with food the baby cries out WHIP WHIP WHIP WHIP. Someday it will have the whole sentence.
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Forgot to add my pic of Pooh when he was that little. Oh yes, he was spoiled, so spoiled.
A story about Pooh - https://skunkiedelight.wordpress.com/2010/07/13/little-pet-skunkbrother-to-call-my-own/ Pooh when he got a baby brother. For all you insomniacs out there with nothing to do.
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Sheppp the washer as a beer holder. cool. Do a load of wash when done. no water wastage. That's my kind thing Hahah OH Hugs. I'll try ventusky. Easy enough name to remember.
Patty, hootie hoo are you feeling better. Thanks for all the support this week Hugs
Blue, Derechoes are kickers. I'd bbe checking out the nearest culvert, if I visited you. Hahaha, Here we have to look in culverts first....... those kids going off, it's tough. Keep us abreast of what's up with her. We live vicariously when possible. Damn Dog. Hehehe. the English cottage sounds so nice. With flowers all around. What's the name of the roof. Sod roof? Oh Pooh is so cute.
Mommie, lay in some supplies. Shouldn't be too bad. But you will be a the top of the wind. The snowstorm out west may help the situation.
Making a bread pudding. The house smells divine.
Waving 1 and all
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Been away for the weekend, beautiful weather
Pregnant neice baby held on in, thank God, due in October. Back home in Tampa.
Cutie possum!
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Morning Owlies Sleep, oh glorious,sleep. Let's see if I can not wreck it's benefits today. I have to admit I'm a computer media junkie. Too many hours a day. One of the points over the break was to gain control over it. I just stepped up reading on the election cycle. Oh well..........I know the lesson, but I keep flunking it.
Electricity outages Florida:
Brevard County: Is totally restorded per chart. I see lot's of trucks on the road.
Broward county the second set of stats is above Miami
I'm guessing , maybe the 12 million for outages stat was the two storms combined(?)
Bummer made a nice little chart that showed the southern biggest counties Miami-Dade and Broward, but it didn't post the same and won't let me delete. Sorry. it would have been nice for those with family in the south. It's not a page I could link the URL.
COUNTY OUT RESTORED AFFECTED TOTAL Brevard 2,290 305,310 307,600 307,600 Broward 12,990 781,570 794,560 933,300 Miami-Dade 52,290 967,965 1,020,255 1,114,000 Total 236,630 4,217,980 4,454,610 4,904,045
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AC lesson:
After the storm: We had electricity, I set the Temp at 76. Normally 79-80 in daytime for energy conservation.
Post storm: The humidity was high, we and floors felt sticky. Chose to set at 76. Everyone felt better and house humidity improved. It went back up yesterday --Sunday--one week post storm. The lesson for me is we felt better which I think, retrospectively, is not a minor consideration. It reduced stress by being comfortable. We are part of the FPL brown out of reducing energy when the broader system needs it. It save 12$ in season /month. FPL didn't need to reduce delivery where it was returned.
This now becomes part of the plan to set temp lower in same or similar circumstances.
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Trivial pursuit travel tip: Money magazine, Sept 2017, pg 16
"A study by the Airline Reporting Corporation looked at 26 million fare transactions and found that the lowest ticket prices can be found on weekends, purchased more than 21 days in advance. The study also noted that Fridays are when you will spend the most to purchase your ticket"
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NPR interviewed the mayor? of Broward county about the electricity outage. Hers has been out for 7 days.
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Went to bed worrying about my SIL being in the path of Maria. She and some other members of her National Guard unit got sent to the Virgin Islands last week to help out with recovery efforts from Irma. They didn't know if they were going to be able to get out of Maria coming at them. Woke up to good news from my brother that my SIL and the others with her there will be getting out of harms way until Maria goes by.
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Wren, trying to reorder the chart. Broward County only.
OUT- 12,990
RESTORED-781,570
AFFECTED--794,560
TOTAL--933,300 served in county.
Bummer, they are in the last phase (last 12.990) to be fixed. Methinks there was something significant about how they got hit.
Like Donnie's friend, his transformer fell. His target fix day was Thrus or fri. They came back to fix it. The transformer was stolen. Took two more days. He got power back yesterday Sun. He had two odd occurrences. Each occurrence dropped him to a lower priority. Initially he was in the secondary or tertiary, but then they had to get a transformer. A parts delay.
On Thurs last, I watched the Orlando Utilities Company explain how the process worked.
Critical fixes first. Hospital, nursing homes. Not sure what else is on the critical list
Primary fixes after criticals are in a grid, and takes 15 minutes or less. Primary fixes highest priority after criticals
Secondary fixes are more complex, but still short things with access.
Tertiary fixes more complex. Major access problem i.e. flooding, substation without access, substation rendered inoperable b/c of whatever.
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It may be worth a question to the controlling power company in a week or so. Why so long? Knowing the answer can lead to another question. How do we avoid this in the future?
1. If it was an "act of God" type thing i.e couldn't have been predicted. OH well. It is what it was.
2. It may have been forseeable, that they will now correct for the future. i.e. flood control that can be corrected, site prep for a substation, upgrading equipment.
Personally, while a forseeable failure just frosts your coffee. They will correct it. Also, knowing the answers to the two questions, allows the affected folks to follow up with the power folks to make sure corrections are made.
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Mommy YAY they are safe. What a relief
Wren DGS< SON< and DIL?
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When I wrote about minimal affect on my community. In addition to the protection of the barrier islands and aggressive surface water management and flood control, codes are strictly enforced.
Housing concrete block. Stick houses (frame) don't do well in a blow. Standards after Andrew seriously changed. Oodles of building code requirements according to Miami-Dade Broward counties. Guessing they are the highest standard in the world.
Trees and debri. Homeowners do allot of property management. I have taken down 19 slash pines over the years. Hated to cut down a living thing. But slash pines can be several stories high. Regretfully, my lot is treeless now. Most coming down was 12 at one time, prior to new concrete drive. It was logical for several compelling reasons. Heavily influenced by neighbor that had several on their house with structural damage & pool enclosure which was a total loss with a blow. I even took down a neighbors tree when he refused b/c it was oddly weighted at an angle over my screen enclosure. Tree removal was $250 for that single tree(cheap). Pool enclosure would be about 10-20 K. No brainer. Rescreening alone after 2004 was 5700$. Roof was relatively cheap b/c there was only shingle damage, but it was cheaper to fully replace. Nothing structural.
My forseeable risk now, is neighbors on both sides haven't been as proactive re: slash pines & other trees. That's always a worry. Regretfully, if they come on my property in a blow, that's seen as an "Act of God". I'm responsible for the damage, they aren't. I wish the law would change in that regard. It would force homeowners to become even more proactive.
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They will be as of later tonight. Took a lot of worry off my mind for SIL. Now waiting for word on my niece who is undergoing weight loss surgery today.
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Sas - may they all have power restored asap - Feline welcome back, relieved you must be for the family's soon to be baby -
Well if we are dreaming of cottages, I could do these for a few months with some friends.
more pics of the bedroom photo cottage second one down...... https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/details/37942657?...
cottage for rent in UK countryside
bedroom of a cottage in a town, but so perfectly tranquil.
5 bed
the converted barn to home above..... and yes it needs flowers and more trees.
and old gloomy above. but those gardens!
I found a converted barn for rent that has sliding French doors across the front and back. Not practical in bear country (another story of why I am surprised I am still here) but in the UK it will be lovely.
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Lovely, Blue. One of my Favorite movies is Quiet Man. Everything was shot in Ireland. I suppose there were a few sound stage shots. But overall it was a rare and new concept to shoot all on location.
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Heard from my niece a few minutes ago. Her surgery went well, she is sore and pretty tired. Told her to get some rest.
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Oh so lovely Sas.
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Feline, wouldn't it be nice to have that projected on the ceiling as a wake up alarm with surround sound. He has some others on youtube, but I haven't listened yet. I would have loved to see and hear Paul Simon's reaction
. I had a call from the niece in Houston. Fema covered the cost of the 3 day hotel room. So, it comes back to me. Yoohoo. Didn't expect that. Nice.
Mags hootiehooooooooooandwhoopdidooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yes, Quiet Man. Though dragging her home wouldn't fly nowadays. She would kick his arse down the hill.
I love Leap Year set in Ireland. Matthew Goode and Amy Adams at their best - that is until she did Arrival this year. Have watched it 6 times since 2015.
Am all about Wales, so the close by countries intrigue me too.
The guitar is beautiful art, look closely. Nice! A fan of folk music, esp that era.
Last night went to bed by 1, slept well, woke at 9. Brushed dog and talked to Hubby. Back to bed at 10 and slept like someone drugged me until 2. NOW I feel better. Rash diminishing and not hot. Heart not racing in my throat scaring me. Much better.
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Hi Blue, Not sure I have heard of Leap Year, but sounds like I should watch it and Arrival. I agree, on the dragging scene in Quiet Man. What an out roar that would cause today. Plus, the cameo of the lady saying " Here's a stick to beat the nice lady with". Oh my. Hahaha.
Glad the rash is subsiding. Had skin issues too, they can drive us nuts. Mine was niduced by my one and only chemo. Took months to subside. Then another issue with RAI-131 with thyroid cancer. I know you thought your's was drug induced b/c of a screw up. Damn doesn't screw up's just want make you want to rip someone a new one. Glad the throat is better too.
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Yes, the screw ups are uncalled for. We have to have knowledge and watch every move and no one likes us to do that.
Mine was due to lupus - I was given an increased dose of prednisone which caused the reaction, I lowered the dose but damage was done. Took Benadryl to help but the third pill in 3 days made me worse than ever and it went up from there. Thought I was going to literally run out of my skin and surprise myself. But avoided the ER. Taking a combined dose of Pepcid AC and Claritin so block both H1 and H2 histamines and it calmed right down though I am still a mess.
Leap Year - wish we could have a party and watch it together. Arrival, Hubby and DD and I watched 3 x in 3 days, it has layers!
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Well, I am in Oahu visiting DS, but I am in Pali Momi hospital. After feasted two days on his mangos, apple bananas, oranges, papayas, and Lemmon from his back yard, I started getting stomach and intestines pains. Trying to be brave for 4 days, finally gave in and walked into ER. They told me that I have small bowel obstruction, sent me to 6th floor, no food , no drink and a NG through the nose. Try to escape this Morning, did not succeed. At least NG is pull off now. Waiting for the lentil soup this evening. 😦Never thought lentil soup will sound that delicious.
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Ahhhh Eeyore, "How tall does the tree grow" "How many ways does this suck". CHIT. Yes, that first 'something' after the NG comes out is special. It truly is special. Even more special, if you don't vomit. That's the ah-hah moment. They move you to the next level. So, hope it goes well.
Once had a women that was a TPN Total Parenteral Nutrition for weeks. The big milk bag. She was transitioned off by clear liquids along with TPN still running. Then the TPN was stopped. Asked what she wanted for her first real meal. "A mounds bar". Cleared it with the doc. Dietary said they couldn't do it. I said "This woman hasn't eaten in x amount of time what can we do to make this happen?". Everyone got into it and it happened. Such a happy lady.
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BLUE "Thought I was going to literally run out of my skin and surprise myself." Your alliteration knows no bounds. Once knew an old Peds doc who spent his last years in a pediatric ER in Akron Children's. Overheard him say in response to a resident that was admonishing a mom for not taking a temp, but did it by feel. "Never discount what the parents or patients tell you". It was an early life lesson for me.
Yes, we need to protect ourselves from those that care for us. Sad, but true. They are human. They reach a degree of understanding in their field. But when they don't listen, things happen, that could have been avoided.
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Out of body experiences. Once had an 02 tank blow. I was trying to show a new kid how to do it safely. WHO HOO , It blew. I found myself many feet behind the scenario, looking at me collapsed next to the tank. The ER people were running everywhere. The curtains were flying.
At a given point I said I had to get back into my body and turn it off. I did. The sound was crushing before and after. I decided to jump back in. In the moments of out of body, it was total silence. I just observed everyone's movement.
I know this all seems totally crazy, but that's what happened. Told here for the first time. I knew no one would believe me about the out of body experience at the time. Since found it is normal
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hmm Not another day in paradice
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