Owlice; you might have a new resident for over the winter!
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:52 pm
by owlice
Orin, there's another one, mostly hidden by leaves, at the bottom of the frame.
I finally got around to making coffee; I was loading the dishwasher while it brewed, looked out the window, and saw one vulture on the ground and my little cat watching it intently. I thought he might be stalking the huge bird! He wasn't.... but two other cats were:
And they succeeded... well, the white and silver tabby succeeded, I should say... in getting the vulture to abandon his prize:
I shooed the ferals away and brought my little cat in; the vulture moved higher in the tree, defeated:
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I hope he or one or more of his buddies return, because I really don't want to deal with what's left of his morning snack.
But now back to the weather... there've been a few bands of wind and the sky is quite grey, but no rain is expected until much later today.
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:10 pm
by owlice
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:27 pm
by Beyond
Interestingly notated weather map, owlice. According to the CT. weather guy, this hurricane/Nor'easter, is just going to be spending the week dieing over the North-East. So i vote they call it a 'slow-cane'.
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:33 pm
by orin stepanek
OK-- I thought that was a stub of a tree branch; I can see it now!
I hope the storm doesn't do too much damage! The weather station makes it sound like doomsday! Anyway I'm glad that for this week I live waaaaay inland!
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:35 pm
by orin stepanek
Beyond wrote:Interestingly notated weather map, owlice. According to the CT. weather guy, this hurricane/Nor'easter, is just going to be spending the week dieing over the North-East. So i vote they call it a 'slow-cane'.
Bet the wind isn't very slow!
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:44 pm
by Beyond
It is... so far. It's just moveing the evergreen branches around a little and blowing some leaves around. Somewhere between monday morning to tuesday evening is supposed to be the worst. Up to 70mph gusts. Hopefully, it'll clean out the gutters
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 3:50 pm
by owlice
Orin, he's hard to see! The longer I looked at the tree, the more vultures I found in it. When I got north of six, I headed inside for the camera.
Beyond, that map made me laugh. Orin is right: the weather reporters make it sound like doomsday! There was no ice left when I was at the grocery store last night, and some of the bottled water shelves were completely empty. Saw one guy leaving the store with nothing in his cart except a huge package of toilet paper.
The grocery store even has snow shovels on sale! Snow shovels! Here, in October!!
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:31 pm
by orin stepanek
owlice wrote:
The grocery store even has snow shovels on sale! Snow shovels! Here, in October!!
I'm thinking; you didn't buy one!
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 6:01 pm
by Moonlady
Owlice, I wondered why vultures would come to your garden, but reading dead squirrel answers my question.
Oh I am glad they did not want your cat!
I red at first, you used a gun...shooted and shooed is not the same.
The weather chart is really funny.
Doomsday prediction...hmmm there were the Mayans telling us something about the calendar not going further than 2012
Here in Germany, the meteorologist predict a week ago that the temperature will drop from 25 °C to 0°C and that it will be snowing...I thought that they
will not be right. But they were accurate!
The temperature dropped here below zero Celsius and it snowed at friday night! Every place was covered under a layer of snow, at day it melted.
Today was sunny and cold.
Re: Weather!
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:56 pm
by owlice
orin stepanek wrote:I'm thinking; you didn't buy one!
You are absolutely correct!!
Moonlady wrote:Owlice, I wondered why vultures would come to your garden, but reading dead squirrel answers my question.
Oh I am glad they did not want your cat!
Me, too, but if he runs up any more vet bills, I might be changing my mind on that! He is now officially The Most Expensive "Free" Kitten I Have Ever Had.
I often see vultures in the neighborhood hanging out in people's yards. This is the first time I've had a committee of them. They still haven't come back for that squirrel; I'm not enthusiastic about the idea of very wet smelly dead squirrel in my yard. (Ick!)
Moonlady wrote:The temperature dropped here below zero Celsius and it snowed at friday night! Every place was covered under a layer of snow, at day it melted.
Today was sunny and cold.
Very polite of your weather, to give you the pretty without the problems!
Looking on the bright side
Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:00 pm
by owlice
Tweet by a friend: "Upside to-day: the UV index is low."
How does a flooded house catch fire? That's somewhat ironic if you ask me. Anyway, the first thing I heard on the radio was about Hurricane Sandy and the effects it will have in the upcoming election. Apparently Wall Street is closed today as well as yesterday. Flooding has destroyed subways in Queens and Manhattan. Basically, Sandy is Katrina East.
Re: Weather!
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:22 pm
by geckzilla
Flooded houses catch fire in the presence of some kind of accelerant, like natural gas leaking from broken pipes.
I don't think it even comes close to the devastation of Katrina, at least as far as life, property and breadth of area affected are concerned, unless I live in a strange, unaffected bubble just far enough away from the chaos not to notice.
Are there insurances in the US who pay for the damages that happen by weather and nature? Like this hurricane?
Owlice, how is your town doing?
Neufer...I never liked Grease, now Missing Sandy Song doesnt help either...and I will now never forget whom it is about in Grease
Re: Weather!
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:46 pm
by Chris Peterson
Moonlady wrote:Are there insurances in the US who pay for the damages that happen by weather and nature? Like this hurricane?
For these homeowners, it may be a good thing their houses burned down. That's because nearly everybody has insurance, and that insurance always covers fire damage. But it only rarely covers flood damage- that coverage is optional and all too often skipped by homeowners.
Re: Weather!
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:55 pm
by geckzilla
Breezy Point is a flood prone area, though. You'd have to be crazy not to insure it for that! ...And crazy as an insurer to issue the insurance, too. Then again, don't the insurance policies all have exemptions from the nebulous "acts of god" clause? That's always confused me.
Re: Weather!
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:05 pm
by orin stepanek
It's a tough time for a lot of people; I hope for a fast recovery for all! Some places to get up to two feet of snow!
Re: Weather!
Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 4:07 pm
by neufer
geckzilla wrote:
don't the insurance policies all have exemptions from the nebulous "acts of god" clause?
Hurricane Sandy made landfall along the southern New Jersey coast on the evening of October 29, 2012, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported. As the storm came ashore, it continued to pack strong wings—roughly 85 miles (140 kilometers) per hour. Tide gauges recorded storm-surge heights of 12.4 feet (3.8 meters) at Kings Point, New York.
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this image of the storm around 3:35 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (7:35 Universal Time) on October 30. This image is from the “day-night band” on VIIRS, which detects light wavelengths from green to near-infrared. The full Moon, which exacerbated the water height at the time of the storm surge, lit up the tops of the clouds.
Sandy’s clouds stretched from the Atlantic Ocean westward to Chicago. Clusters of lights gave away the locations of cities throughout the region, but along the East Coast, clouds obscured city lights, many of which were out due to the storm. On October 30, CNN reported that several millions of customers in multiple states were without electricity.
OK-- I thought that was a stub of a tree branch; I can see it now! 
