Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Four

[MattB101]

Scary!!!

"The maximum rainfall predicted to fall in any 24-hour period during the 5-day period from 5 am EDT October 2 to 5 am EDT October 7, according to a high-resolution Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model run done by MetStat, Inc. (http://www.metstat.com.) In some areas of North Carolina and South Carolina, 24-hour rainfall amounts one would expect to fall only once in a thousand years are predicted. MetStat computed the recurrence interval statistics based on gauge-adjusted radar precipitation and frequency estimates from NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8, published in 2013 (http://dipper.nws.noaa.gov/hdsc/pfds/.) MetStat does not supply their precipitation recurrence interval forecasts or premium analysis products for free, but anyone can monitor the real-time analysis (observed) at: http://metstat.com/solutions/extreme-precipitation-index-analysis/ or on their Facebook page.

Using about a century of precipitation records, NOAA has constructed a Precipitation Frequency Data Server, which estimates how often we might expect to see extreme rainfall events recur. According to NOAA's Precipitation Frequency Data Server, these could be 1-in-1000 year rains for some locations. (Hydrologists would refer to a 1-in-1000-year rain as having a typical "recurrence interval" of 1000 years. The idea is that such events are not always separated by 1000 years; the same amount of rain could conceivably occur the very next year, or might not occur until thousands of years later.)"

from Wunderground.com

Looks like it's going to rain a bit! We're floating around here with the rain and the tides.

 

[MattB101]

It's actually stopped raining here. Not permanently for sure but at least going to give the streets a little time to drain. It's looked like dusk all day if you know what I mean.

 

[Kenna]

Abby Dabby is doing great. A little tender for sure but, starting to move around a little more. Nice thing is she is leaving the area alone so we haven't needed that stupid elizabethan collar. She's laying in my lap as I type this. Thanks for asking.

Awww. Give her lots of snuggles & keep her warm. She'll heal faster!

 

[Kenna]

Scary!!!

"The maximum rainfall predicted to fall in any 24-hour period during the 5-day period from 5 am EDT October 2 to 5 am EDT October 7, according to a high-resolution Weather Research Forecast (WRF) model run done by MetStat, Inc. (http://www.metstat.com.) In some areas of North Carolina and South Carolina, 24-hour rainfall amounts one would expect to fall only once in a thousand years are predicted. MetStat computed the recurrence interval statistics based on gauge-adjusted radar precipitation and frequency estimates from NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8, published in 2013 (http://dipper.nws.noaa.gov/hdsc/pfds/.) MetStat does not supply their precipitation recurrence interval forecasts or premium analysis products for free, but anyone can monitor the real-time analysis (observed) at: http://metstat.com/solutions/extreme-precipitation-index-analysis/ or on their Facebook page.

Using about a century of precipitation records, NOAA has constructed a Precipitation Frequency Data Server, which estimates how often we might expect to see extreme rainfall events recur. According to NOAA's Precipitation Frequency Data Server, these could be 1-in-1000 year rains for some locations. (Hydrologists would refer to a 1-in-1000-year rain as having a typical "recurrence interval" of 1000 years. The idea is that such events are not always separated by 1000 years; the same amount of rain could conceivably occur the very next year, or might not occur until thousands of years later.)"

from Wunderground.com

Wow, that is SO scary! Please stay battened down everyone! If you need to evacuate do it, don't be stubborn, just do it. Praying for everyone affected!

 

[yiddleboge6]

For those ladies.....or anyone dealing with numbness, loss of feeling etc. in the pinky, and or ring finger on your hand...

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000789.htm

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00069

this is not because of your shoulder or neck/spine issues. I have a 6" scar on my inner arm from the surgery to move the nerve from under the elbow bone and moved to the inside of the arm where it was stapled to the bone to hold it there. There is no guarantee that the nerve will regenerate itself.....it is a slow process only about an inch a month from the elbow to the fingers, so.....take a look at how many inches there are in that distance.

From the tingly feeling that the fingers are falling "asleep" to loss of control of the fingers, loss of your grip and atrophy of the muscles in your hand can happen rapidly, leaving you with a hand that can't be used !!!

Please don't self analyze. You NEED both of your hands. Get to a good neurologist.

 

[Kenna]

I want one! Thanks for the link.

Try to do something about it before it forces you to stop moving!

I'm sure you will!

I feel for ya. It turns out that the noisy teenagers with the loud pulsing music happen to live right about this old lady's room. My daughter suggested I switch with my grandson. But, his room is smaller than mine. Thinking about it still.

As usual, in Texas it's gonna be dry. Imagine that!

There are noise ordinances. I call the apartment line & they send our Courtesy Officer (local LEO's) & they pay a visit, then they get a follow up call from the Management to let them know they got a noise or whatever complaint & a warning. If it's a fight or something like that I call the police.

 

[Kenna]

I inverted the Scott Kelly pic of the sunset. It was either that or stand on my head to get the perspective to which I'm more accustomed.

What's being depicted is still a mystery to me. My best guess is that from the perspective Scott had from the space station, the sun is disappearing behind super-thick clouds rather than beyond the Earth's horizon. Doesn't it look like the sun is dropping into a lake or something?


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I love the colors & that "ring of fire".

 

[bigbells]

I read the first chapter and before I continue to Chapter 2 I'll recommend this FREE book to y'all. Written by a friend of a friend.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YDWQA1Y/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_S6Sdwb0GYC3KZ

 

[Kenna]

Tell me you spoke with him in Cajun-ese ..

Last discussion with my Dr ..

Willie : Hey, this lower back pain, although not debilitating yet, is gettin' kinda bad .. on some days, those Aleves are just not cutting it .. do you think we should do some x-rays or an MRI to see what's going on .. ??

DR : Why .. ?? To show me what I already know .. ?? You're getting older, you have bad posture, you're carrying 20 extra pounds you need to lose, you don't exercise regularly, you sit at a workbench hunched over for hours on end .. an x-ray or an MRI is gonna show your lower spine is experiencing disk compression .. it's normal, be glad it's not worse than it is .. you've not shrunk in height in the 20 years I've been seeing you ..

Willie : How about a refill on the opiates .. ?? Those really, really help when I really, really need them ..

DR : Stop trying to continually get me to dish out the oxy or what not .. why not do Yoga or Pilates .. ?? Try some stretching exercises, walk more, lose the weight that I've been harping you on for 4 years .. the pills are just masking the issue, take things in your own hands .. if that does not help, we'll talk ..

Willie : Well, I thought maybe there was some surgery these days that could make the pain go away .. ??

DR : Or make it worse .. try to take my advice for a change ..

Yeah, surgery can cause a whole set of new problems. I was in much better shape 3 surgeries ago. But then I was dying, so there's that.

 

[oldbroad]

I want one! Thanks for the link.

Try to do something about it before it forces you to stop moving!

I'm sure you will!

I feel for ya. It turns out that the noisy teenagers with the loud pulsing music happen to live right about this old lady's room. My daughter suggested I switch with my grandson. But, his room is smaller than mine. Thinking about it still.

As usual, in Texas it's gonna be dry. Imagine that!

Switch! Smaller room maybe, but better sleep for sure!!!

 

[oldbroad]

You all are beginning to make me rethink this surgery route!!!

 

[Kenna]

Abby Dabby is doing great. A little tender for sure but, starting to move around a little more. Nice thing is she is leaving the area alone so we haven't needed that stupid elizabethan collar. She's laying in my lap as I type this. Thanks for asking.

My sister's golden (Sara) had surgeries 2 weeks ago to remove growths on both of her hind legs. She came home with a drain in one. She had to wear the collar, & they had to go back to the vet & get one for the Bulldog (Brutus) so he'd leave her alone.

 

[Kenna]

You all are beginning to make me rethink this surgery route!!!

Mine were all abdominal, so nothing like what you are looking at. Ive never talked to anyone that had hip or knee replacemt that regretted it.

 

[bigbells]

Not very exciting, but it will only take 33 seconds of your time to see the wet and hear the breeze at my house. The videos posted by beach-dwelling friends in VA and NJ are much more interesting.

 

[clnire]

Been a long day and lots of rain in Lancaster PA. You folk in the Carolinas and coast areas stay safe!

 

[bigbells]

 

[Kenna]

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WHAT????

 

[bigbells]

WHAT????

Steamed salmon with a little vinegar and lots of turmeric; beans and rice with crushed red pepper; butternut squash with cinnamon and sugar. Mmmm!

 

[Kenna]

ok, everything except lots of tumeric sounds really good!

 

[MattB101]

My sister's golden (Sara) had surgeries 2 weeks ago to remove growths on both of her hind legs. She came home with a drain in one. She had to wear the collar, & they had to go back to the vet & get one for the Bulldog (Brutus) so he'd leave her alone.

Well if the cat end up licking the dogs belly I got problems no stinking collar is gonna fix.