We’ve had really weird weather the past few days- super cold, snow, a melt, then freezing rain and pellets, then it warmed up to upper 50’s, then freezing rain and cold right now, so there is a lot of flooding in my current location. I thought I would take some pics and share it with you all.
Here’s a map of Bethany:
As you can see, the Buffalo Creek loops around the town, with a major change in elevation between the creek and the center of town. Here’s an image in the summer that shows what the creek and town looks like. I’ve labeled it, with my current house (BJHQ), the new house, and the parents house:
The creek is usually really low, with some fishing holes here and there, but usually just a lazy, slow moving bit of water. NOT TODAY. If you look at the legend, you will see some numbers. Here are pictures 1, 2, and 3 from the bridge on the east end of town, with the picture facing north, northeast, and south, respectively:
Here’s picture number 4, which is about 400 yards to the east, looking back at for a westward view of the bridge where pictures 1, 2, and 3 were taken:
If you look in the lower right hand corner, you can see where I took the other two pictures at the town park, facing east and southeast, respectively:
We haven’t had flooding like this since 2004. No one is in danger or anything, but I always find winter flooding to be really menacing and simultaneously fascinating, so I thought I would share.
Mike J
That field looks lie a great place for a car to sit for a few months.
Stay safe.
Lee
@Mike J: Shots Fired!!! LOL
Schlemazel
I assume being in a valley that rain & melting snow would cause angry rivers often. Stay dry!
Pogonip
Is that Subaru Field?
rikyrah
I wish you all nothing but safety. Will send positive thoughts and prayers.
SiubhanDuinne
John, I hope you, your family, and everyone’s pets stay safe and warm and dry.
SiubhanDuinne
P.S. Nutcracker was fun. Interesting choreography, new to me (although not new). Grigorovich rather than the more familiar Petipa.
Iowa Old Lady
That looks scary. What an odd time of year for flooding.
SiubhanDuinne
@Iowa Old Lady:
Proof of a Chinese hoax.
EBT
At least the boat in the next to last shot should be ok?
Mothra
It’s spitting sleet in middle Tn and was 67 and stormy last night with a power outage.
Manyakitty
Wow. I was in Caldwell, Ohio (near Zanesville) yesterday and the temperature rose 25 degrees from when I got there around 2:30 and left around 5. On my way back to Akron, it rained, sleeted, snowed, and drizzled with the temperatures fluctuating and lots of fog. Many creeks and streams looked like swollen, and one big problem with winter flooding is the resultany ice. That stuff gets in everywhere, expands, then all that melt water soaks in.
Pogonip
@Mothra: Yesterday we had snow, rain, sleet, thunder, and freezing rain, in that order.
donnah
We just got home from visiting family in Beckley, WV. Also had weird weather, with freezing temps Friday, hitting the fifties on Saturday, then dropping again Sunday. It was snowing when we got home to Dayton.
Relatively small family get-together, but fortunately we are all anti-trump, so we allowed ourselves an hour of griping and wailing, then decided to back off and put it aside so the holiday could be pleasant and non-political. And it was.
Lots of flooding along Rt35, fields, rivers, and streams pretty high. The weather is wacky. We won’t have snow for Christmas, but I don’t know what else to expect.
Steeplejack (tablet)
That river is lazy, not angry. It’s goldbricking and letting the water pile up. Sad!
raven
Can’t go home if you’re goin’ by the mill
Cause the bridge’s washed out
At the bottom of the hill
Big Creek’s up Little Creek’s level
Plow my corn with a double shovel
Stay all night stay a little longer
Dance all night dance a little longer
Pull off your coat throw it in the corner
Don’t see why you can’t stay a little longer
Yarrow
When it floods in WV it’s bad. So many mountains, towns built close to the rivers in narrow hollers. That water just rushes right through. Stay safe, John. Looks like your new house is much closer to the water than the current BJHQ.
Garbo
John, It looks like you can access your parent’s back yard from the backyard of the new house, is that so?
lgerard
Don’t read David McCullough’s book on the Johnstown Flood.
Central Planning
@Pogonip: we had thunder snow a few days ago.
Another Scott
@Yarrow: Yup. I used to take US-48 from NoVA to Ohio at least once a year. The route would follow various streams and rivers and you could see that it wasn’t at all uncommon for the water level to be ~ 20′ higher than its “resting” level. Scary stuff. When they converted it to I-68 some of the scary areas were bypassed, but one can still see the power of the water if you look.
Stay safe, JC.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mart
@Central Planning: Thunder snow is awesome. When Chicago got 20 inches a few years back, I was in a hotel’s top floor bar pounding the tables with a bunch of other folks shouting “thunder-snow”. Think we were trying to make happy thoughts as we knew we were screwed come morning.
cmorenc
A week after Hurricane Matthew hit the coastal areas near the border of SC and NC, we passed through the area between the Lumber (Little Pee Dee in SC) and Waccamaw Rivers (Mullins-Loris-Longs, SC along SC hwy #9) on our way to check out possible damage to our house in Sunset Beach, NC. We passed by a ranch-style house with a 16-foot boat tied up afloat to a post on the front porch – with the porch and main living floor of the house flooded to window-level on the house. The foundation of that house would be a good seven or eight feet above normal river level, and the porch-level two to three feet above that. I would have very much liked to have stopped to take a picture of the boat tied up to the porch, so startling was the image, but there was no un-flooded shoulder on the road to pull off onto. We also passed by trailer parks where the mobile homes were flooded 2/3 of the way up to their rooflines. Had we come by just a couple of days earlier, the highway itself would have still been impassible due to flooding, and it had just receded enough that the water was a bare foot or so below road level for miles.
What was weird was that the extent of wind and flood damage from the storm was far more severe in a belt 10 to about 20-25 miles inland than it was on the immediate coast out on our barrier island- we had some very minor, easily repairable damage to some fiberglass sheeting that sheltered the upstairs porch of our house from rain. Our next-door neighbors (who are permanent residents) said the causeway to the island flooded underwater a couple of feet during the 3 hours or so at the height of the storm, but the flooding never reached our house or theirs.
trollhattan
This is why we kept paying flood insurance premiums through five years of drought –the water inevitability returns.
Stay dry; stay safe.
AJ
Looking at that aerial picture, I think I found the mustard!
HinTN
@Mothra: There ain’t nothin’ recently unusual about thunder snow around these parts. Clearly it’s Al Gore’s fault. Nor has there ever been anything unusual about water gettin’ up around here. Went canoeing one time on a feeder creek to the Tennessee river. Good running water and cornstalks hanging in tree limbs fifteen feet over my head.
MomSense
We went from minus 20 something Friday to plus 20 something yesterday and snow. Now it’s almost 50 and raining. It’s like a slip and slide on ice out there. Tonight it is supposed to drop to 9 so tomorrow should be a frozen nightmare.
satby
Hope that’s as high as Buffalo Creek gets, and that it starts to recede soon.
I got my car unwedged from being sideways in my driveway and pulled it back into my normal parking space in front of the garage, but the ice storm last night turned the previous snow into a two inch thick layer of ice in most spots, then another inch of snow fell on all of that. It’s going down to -13 tonight, so I bet I have to take a cab to work tomorrow.
Mai.naem.mobile
ly,kKK8http://www.l.com/news-health/20161217/drug-firms-poured-780m-painkillers-into-wv-amid-rise-of-overdoses
PIGL
@raven: bob wills. Used to close my Saturday night radio show with that, back in the day.
FlyingToaster
I can sympathize on the water; we live two blocks off the “mighty” Charles (all of it uphill, natch) and the last major flood was in spring 2009, when it covered Pleasant Street just below us. Now with all of the construction in the “Pleasant Street Corridor” a flood is guaranteed to actually damage something.
Of course, last summer’s drought had nothing going over the Watertown dam. The herons all flew upriver. The gulls flew to the harbor.
germy
@trollhattan: I pay for flood insurance with FEMA. Is FEMA one of the things going away?
Yarrow
@germy: Nobody knows yet. But yeah, probably. Why not? Why should the Federal Government be involved in Emergency Management? States rights! Why should all those red states have to pay for godless liberals? Let them bootstrap their way out of that hurricane, earthquake, flood. And if they can’t? God’s will.
germy
@Yarrow: I feel like a lot of people are currently rubbing their hands together in anticipation of picking my pockets.
Steve in the ATL
@germy: I assume they will keep the FEMA camps open. Got to a place to lock up opponents of the NWO.
Major Major Major Major
It’s like 47 degrees out and I’m thinking about wearing a hat.
debbie
@germy: I’m sure your very kind and honest insurer will be happy to fill any gap left by FEMA’s demise /eye roll/
germy
@debbie: I can think of many adjectives for my insurer. Kind and honest do not immediately come to mind…
germy
@Yarrow:
That sort of thing is best left to the churches.
Snoopy
Gotta say, posting the house locations is really brave. Next thing you know, Michelle Malkin will be outside your house, looking for marble countertops.
debbie
Trump hasn’t tweeted in 20 hours. That has to be some kind of record.
Yarrow
@Steve in the ATL: Won’t they rebrand them as Tump Camps and have them run by the military?
Spanky (ex P-man)
At 2:20 it was 62. I could hear the wind as it roared through a million trees to my west (hi Elmo!). It hit a couple of minutes later. At 2:30 it was 48. It’s now 40, but at least the wind and rain have subsided. A little (as the wind rattles the window).
Yutsano
@Yarrow: “Posse Comitatus? Isn’t that what I did to the intern last night?”
Sucker bet: Melania never moves to the White House.
NotMax
Entering week 4 of rain storms some time (or times) every single day and night. Held off enough yesterday afternoon (as in a break from being heavily overcast and threatening) to allow me to get some mowing done on the most jungle-y parts of the property.
Mike J
Is that a river of drugs?
NotMax
@Yutsano
Rerun link for most but you didn’t seem to be around at the time and might find this a bit of fun. No tubas, though.
Botsplainer
@germy:
When Davy Crockett was in Congress, he said that gubmint disaster relief was for pu55ies and f***ots. When FEMA is closed, you’ll have to rely on the megachurches to supply some fatback and bags of beans, so long as you hang around quite a bit to hear some words about the infinite kindness, mercy and tenderness o’ the risen Personal Lord and Savior Jesus Chraaaast. Failure to accept or listen much that word might lead the merciful to stop aiding you and for that merciful, loving deity to damn you to eternal, everlasting torment in hellfire.
Gimme a hallelujah…
Mary G
Wow. We were madly bitching about it being so bitterly cold here last night. It was 43 degrees. You are so much tougher than I am. Everybody stay safe. Make sure you have flood insurance, John.
Botsplainer
@Mike J:
#MAGA
J R in WV
Last night neighbors hosted their annual Winter Solstice dinner party. I wore a short-sleeved tee-shirt, expecting the house to be warm from the extra 25 people and an oven going all day. I took a nice long-sleeved hoodie with a full zipper as my jacket.
We lounged on the porches til past 1 am, and I only wore the sweatshirt off and on. It was a lovely evening, great people, old-time string band music being played in the front room of the house all night, people passing around banjos and fiddles, two different stand-up bass fiddles.
The food was great, I munched all night. We took a cooler full of mostly non-alcoholic drinks, which was great as later on people wanted refreshing drinks w/o alcohol and that’s what we had, fizzy water with nothing but a tiny dash of fruit flavor in it.
I baked a pineapple upside-down cake, which is a challenge every year, my recipe is for a 9-inch pan, and I use a 14-inch iron skillet to bake in. So I scale everything up nearly double, but some ingredients don’t scale the same as the flour. It takes experience and creativity to make it come out well.
We also got breads at the local home-style bakery in Charleston the day before, foccacia, a big country-style loaf for sandwiches with the big ham and turkey, and a christmas-bread called stollen which was a huge hit.
Between the music, the food, the drink, and the neighbors, whom we have known now for over 40 years, it was a great holiday evening. Plus we were under a mile from home on a one-lane dirt road, so driving home felt safe.
There was a little political carrying-on, especially towards the end of the evening. We were unanimous about the election, so there wasn’t any back and forth about who we hoped would have won.
Disbelief in what is in store for us.
No flooding around here. But we have had some recently, which leads to a funny story. Going to town last week for wife’s physical therapy appointment at 1 pm. Left pretty early, which was a good thing.
On the main road out of the hollow, there was a dump-truck full of riprap rock and a big excavator, they were packing the large stone into the roadbed under the road, where it was undercut by a flood last summer. It is a paved road, but narrow one lane, and the equipment had it completely blocked.
So I turned around and headed down the creek, taking the longer trip around the mountain we had intended to climb, a twisty and slower drive all around. There was an excavator in the middle of that road, and they had dug a trench across the road to place a new (larger!) culvert, which was going to be another hour or two.
SO… we turned around, and headed down the Coal River, an altogether not the way to town drive, heading north while our destination was NE from home. We got to town on the big Kanawha river by about 12:30, and stopped to cal the PT shop to warn them we might be late on account of multiple construction projects.
I made it by 1:01, so pretty good work if I do say so myself.
Got the full set of tortuous therapy in once again. She’s doing very well with rehab.
The weather is the only thing stranger than the politics! Even if it is a hoax!
Yutsano
@NotMax: Whoa…those are definitely some out there saxes!
JPL
@debbie: Someone hid the phone before SNL.
They might have him on sedatives, since yesterday he was inventing not only new words, but a new language.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
She seems, understandably, to be much more supportive of Barron than she is of her husband (or that her husband is of Barron, for that matter). And Barron, going just by face-reading and body language, DOES. NOT. WANT. TO. LIVE. IN. WHITE. HOUSE.
They might come visiting one weekend sometime, but I agree, I don’t think they’ll ever move in.
Betty Cracker
It got into the upper 80s today here in West Central FL. It’ll be in the 70s and 80s all week. I’ve only had to dig out a sweater once this fall. I’m not complaining, but that’s definitely not normal.
Stay safe, Cole.
D58826
@debbie: Vald the Impaler must be beside himself over the success that the hacking (at what every level) has had. The GOP is falling all over themselves to blame it on Obama and/or the intelligence agencies. On Huffington Rancid Pubis said that der Fuhrer would listen to the CIA when they proved to his satisfaction that they were telling the truth. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-not-convinced-russian-hackers-election_us_5856bb86e4b0b3ddfd8d3dad)
So here we are the PEOTUS and all of the conservative patriots willing to believe Putin over our IC. Critter King (the NY ‘reasonable’ one) is claiming that Brennon has done a hit job on der Fuhrer. Funny they didn’t mind when Comey was issuing e-mail press releases.
Putin has really gotten his dime’s worth out of this little exercise.
Mary G
@Mike J: The LA Times had a gobsmacking article about misbehavior by one of the companies that makes oxycodone back in June.
Corporations have already taken over the country; the election just made it official.
Iowa Old Lady
The high today is still below zero. It’s -3 at the moment.
Botsplainer
@SiubhanDuinne:
She looks at Twitler like he’s toe fungus.
Betty Cracker
@D58826: Did you see SNL? They’re openly mocking Hair Furor as Putin’s puppet and his cabinet as Russian stooges. The beauty is you know Hair Furor was watching and seething! No tweets, AFAIK.
D58826
@debbie: He’s BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK. 16 minutes ago a tweet about how all ofthe Hillary losers are calling him names
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/810604216771284992
Emerald
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yep. But it’s normal! It’s all completely normal.
Nothing to see.
Just turn your eyes away from that Putin behind the curtain and all hail the great and powerful Oz.
BillinGlendaleCA
@D58826: ShitGibbon sez wut?
ETA: Just back from the LA meetup brunch.
catclub
@Yutsano: Yes, those are great.
debbie
@D58826:
Poor precious.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: This will mean a complete refit of the Trump Tower headquarters to meet Secret Service living standards. All paid to (and to the benefit of) the Trump company. This scam just gets more rotten as it goes on.
And his supporters don’t care because their tribe won. And the Republicans in Congress don’t care because he’ll sign anything they want.
SiubhanDuinne
@Botsplainer:
She wouldn’t be wrong.
D58826
and who would have guessed
Is it time to turn in our US passports and get Russian one?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/leak-reveals-rex-tillerson-is-director-of-bahamas-based-us-russian-oil-company/ar-AAlI9wJ?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=iehp
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
I just saw a guy in a wool peacoat and a hat crossing the street here. It’s about 65 degrees.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
I saw a piece in the past couple of days that Trump will not stay in Blair House in the days prior to his inauguration but rather in his own name-branded Trump International Hotel down the street. Same rotten scam. (No idea, of course, if the article was factual, and can’t remember now where I saw or heard it.)
D58826
@Yutsano: I saw a week or so ago that the leasing agent for the building has added secret service protection as one of the building amenities. I guess that will bump the rent.
Unfortunately, in another article, most of the small businesses in the neighborhood are suffering declining sales because the security screen prevents the usual foot traffic along the block. But then der Fuhrer always did like to screw the little people.
Elmo
@Spanky (ex P-man): Hi Spanky! I haven’t been around much, so I gather by the nym change that it’s over. I am very sorry for your loss if that’s the case.
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne:
Agreed. I don’t think they’ll move in. But that’s wrong. The country gives them the house to live in. It’s ready with the security they need. For their protection and to save the country money, they should move in. If it wasn’t in Barron’s best interests to move, then Dad shouldn’t have run. Period. I have sympathy for Barron – it’s not his fault and he’s just a kid. But not sympathy for Melania. If she wants to put Barron first and Donald won’t, she can divorce Donald and take care of Barron.
If someone hasn’t already set up a website tallying how much extra it’s costing the country for Donald to run his transition out of Trump Tower, and not live in the White House when he’s president, that needs to be started right now. Add up the costs of extra security. The travel compared to all the trips of presidents in the last 30 years. How much more money does Donald cost us? I mean outside of any changes in policies, which are going to be terrible.
SiubhanDuinne
@D58826:
As I mentioned earlier, either in this thread or another, I attended the Bolshoi live in cinemas transmission of The Nutcracker earlier today. One of the things I like about all the Bolshoi events is that their host is a woman named Katerina Novakova (something like that) who is fluent in Russian, French, and English. I’ve been watching/listening to her six times a year for about four years now, and although I’ve never studied Russian and know maybe half a dozen words, I am actually beginning to have a vague idea of what she is saying before she provides the English or French translation. Not much, but a lot more than previously.
I have no idea if that’s a Good Thing or a Bad Thing.
Baud
@Yutsano:
I would have thought Trump Tower would have already had hookers and blow.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
New title: The First Ex.
Baud
@Yarrow:
Less than Michele Bachmann believes Obama’s trip to India cost.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Agree 100% with everything you say in this comment, especially the part about doing a running total of what Trump’s selfish, unnecessary, egotistical personal living decisions are costing the American taxpayer. Get on it, WaPo!
germy
@SiubhanDuinne: I love the cinema transmissions. A great experience. But why couldn’t someone do a live transmission of Hamilton?
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
I expect they will before too long, if Fathom can come to agreements with the appropriate people.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
Contracts.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yarrow: Yes, but Obama golfed.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Considering how much the ShitGibbon sniffled during the debates, the later goes without saying.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne: @Mnemosyne: It would have been nice while the original cast was still intact. Great for high school class trips. (when I was in high school they took us to Broadway to see 1776)
Mai.naem.mobile
http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20161217/drug-firms-poured-780m-painkillers-into-wv-amid-rise-of-overdoses
Tried to post this.earlier. did you see this John ?
D58826
@germy: When I was in high school we went to Valley Forge and got a t-shirt signed by General Washington:-)
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: So does the former.
NeenerNeener
@SiubhanDuinne: I wonder if Trump will be the first president to get divorced while “in the White House”. He’s already got younger girlfriends on the side and he was probably planning on trading up from Melania after he lost the election.
ETA:
I see I’m not the only one thinking Melania’s a short-timer now.
germy
@D58826: I’m pretty sure he had Brian Epstein fake all those signatures.
germy
(center for public integrity)
Corner Stone
@SiubhanDuinne:
Don’t you mean: The Third Ex ?
Botsplainer
@germy:
The corporate tax rate at zero and opacity are the big draws. I used to be an overseas agent in Anguilla. These arrangements are truly invisible.
mai naem mobile
The twitter machine reports Zsa Zsa Gabor has died. I seriously thought she had died already. Anyhow,she was a few months short of her 100th birthday.
D58826
@Botsplainer: Which raises the question – will we know if he has truly divested himself of all outside financial interests? And who would be in charge of vetting his financial disclosure statements?
magurakurin
@NeenerNeener: who needs Melania when you got Ivanka? Who better than your own daughter for a malignant narcissist? She’s young and his type…looks a lot like one of his former wives…
Corner Stone
@Botsplainer: Tell uzz moar…
raven
@NeenerNeener: Short time means something else to some of us!
BillinGlendaleCA
Here’s some pics of a Pack of Snarling Jackals*.
*aka, today’s Balloon Juice meetup here in LA.
SiubhanDuinne
@NeenerNeener:
You are decidedly not the only one thinking in those terms. Again, read the body language.
Someone recently put up side-by-side gifs of Trump “embracing-not-embracing” Melania after his acceptance speech at the convention (he mostly just pecked her on the cheek and grasped her forearms to show dominance and keep her literally at arms’ length) and his creepy and inappropriate embrace of Ivanka after she introduced him in which he slid his hands down to her hips/butt and gave a couple of little pats.
Roger Moore
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Pictures. I know you took them.
Yarrow
@SiubhanDuinne: Ugh. That is so gross. Makes me ill thinking about it. After one of the debates, Tiffany did this practiced deflection of dear old dad as he came in for an embrace. She knew what she was doing. Telling.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: Just posted 3 of em.
SiubhanDuinne
@Corner Stone:
“The Third Ex” for Trump, but I was thinking more in terms of “First Lady,” “First Daughter,” “First Family,” etc.
We’ve had, AFAICR, one First Lady who had been divorced before marrying her future-president husband (Betty Ford), and one president who had been divorced before marrying the woman who would become his First Lady (Ronald Reagan). If I’m forgetting any, please correct me.
But I don’t think we’ve ever had a President divorce his wife while actually in the White House. Trump could, once again, make his own kind of history by upending the norms.
Elizabelle
@SiubhanDuinne: Had Andrew Jackson’s wife, Rachel, been divorced?
My guess is that the Trump marriage is over, but for show. Body language.
SiubhanDuinne
@mai naem mobile:
Was thinking about her, for some inexplicable reason, just a couple of days ago and wondering how much longer she could last. She and Eva (and to a lesser extent, Magda) were emblematic of women in a culture and an era that was all about (a) being gorgeous for and available to men 24/7, and (b) taking them for everything they had at every opportunity.
If the Twitter rumours are true, RIP Zsa Zsa. You did it well.
Mnemosyne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s me with my back to the camera. I HATE having my picture taken.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle:
Didn’t she pass away before he took office?
Mnemosyne
@Elizabelle:
She had either been divorced or had her previous marriage annulled, and the big scandal was that it might not have been done correctly, which would have made her a bigamist.
Also, she died shortly before or after his election — I can’t remember which.
D58826
Please Please tell me this is a satire site like the Onion:
http://usuncut.com/politics/ivanka-trump-first-lady/
BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Her publicist has confirmed her passing, not a rumor anymore.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
Yes, you’re right, but she died after her husband was elected but before he was inaugurated, so technically was never “First Lady.” Good catch, though!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I aim to please.?
Mnemosyne
@mai naem mobile:
You know who’s still alive, last I heard? Olivia de Havilland. She’s well over 100 at this point.
I myself know two different people who are 106 and still going strong.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yarrow:
Yes, I remember seeing that. She handled it as smoothly as she possibly could. Tiffany is no fool.
BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s been pointed out here before, there’s a reason Marla moved Tiffany across the country.
Germy
@Mnemosyne: The guy who fell off the statue of liberty in that Hitchcock film is still alive, also.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: And June Foray. And amazingly enough Alan Young.
Germy
@Yutsano: Alan Young died this year.
In May.
SiubhanDuinne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Georgia girls ain’t stupid.
SiubhanDuinne
@Germy:
So, Alan Old.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Also Baby Peggy.
@Germy
Norman Lloyd.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: I don’t think Melania wants to be First Lady at all. But something tells me she already knows telling her husband no with anything is a non-starter.
Steve in the ATL
Apparently no one wants to risk a trump precedency (that was intentional). One of our cats has been missing since Friday; just found his body under my bed. Like, right under where my head has been the last two nights. Looks like an aneurysm; poor guy was only 7. C’est la vie, ou, pout être, c’est le mort. Quick cat funeral, then a drive to Memphis for a people funeral.
I can’t wait for this year to end, but I’m terrified of what next year will bring….
Larkspur
@BillinGlendaleCA: Ooh, thanks. Now we have to play Name That Jackal. Who’s who? And who is the gentleman on the left in the bottom picture, with the white long-sleeved shirt under a blue short-sleeved shirt, and what is it that he’s indicating is “that big!”?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Steve in the ATL: My condolences on your losses. As exits go, it sounds like your cat had a good one. Like you, I’m leery of next year. And I know my birthday will suck: January 21.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Larkspur: That would be beloved commenter Ruckus.
BillinGlendaleCA
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Mine as well.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
I am so sorry, both on the cat funeral front and the people funeral front. What a totally sucky year this has been to be sure.
I have one set of friends who had a baby three weeks ago, and my great-niece and her long time boyfriend just got engaged last night. Otherwise, I’m hard-pressed to come up with any genuinely happy news out of 2016.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne: Cubs World Series win is all I can come up with!
ETA: and my sweet 3% merit increase. Thank you corporate America!
Larkspur
@BillinGlendaleCA: Thx. Who is striped shirt man next to Ruckus, then red zip-front shirt man, then woman whose face is bisected by the green balloon string, the blue shirt man next to her, then two dark-haired women with glasses, the nearer one wearing a watch? If it’s not too much trouble, I mean.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL:
I warned y’all about that being a sign of the Apocalypse when the Cubs were playing Dodgers, but did you listen, NO.
Larkspur
Yesterday I helped corral a runaway puppy. Her people were chasing after her, and I surprised her by kneeling down in front of her and saying, “Hey baby dog!” and she came right over. Then an equally adorable little girl scampered over and scooped her up and said thank you very nicely. So that was a good thing that happened this year.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Larkspur: I’m not sure of all the jackals myself; red zip-front guy is valued commenter Roger Moore, woman whose face is bisected by the balloon string is OpieJeane and her husband is next to her, lady with the watch is Mnem.
ETA: Homeless looking dude holding the black stick is your’s truly.
Larkspur
@BillinGlendaleCA: You’re the best. Thanks! It looks like a congenial if subversive pack.
ETA: It’s a very fine stick.
Steve in the ATL
@BillinGlendaleCA: that can’t be right–I thought Roger Moore was much, much, much older.
Steve in the ATL
@Larkspur:
i’m about to eat dinner, so i’m going to assume he’s talking about a fish….
Steeplejack
@Larkspur:
“A congenial if subversive pack.” We should all be so lucky as to belong to such.
Larkspur
@Steve in the ATL: Good call.
opiejeanne
@BillinGlendaleCA: What was the name of the woman between my husband and mnemosyne? I didn’t quite catch it.
Larkspur
@opiejeanne: Hi opiejeanne! Looks like fun was had. Bill has not yet ID’d that woman, or the striped shirt man. We may have to wait till they self-identify, which may be never as the new threads keep popping up.
opiejeanne
@Larkspur: The striped-shirt man between Ruckus and Roger Moore is Cthulhu. Mr opiejeanne is next to me, and then a woman whose nym I didn’t quite catch was between him and mnemosyne.
opiejeanne
@Larkspur: I had a good time, was glad do finally meet so many people whose comments have kept me entertained for the past several years.
BillinGlendaleCA
@opiejeanne: I’m not sure, I always miss a few of the jackals names/nyms at these events. (As I noted in my reply to your comments on Flickr)I really enjoyed meeting you and David.
opiejeanne
@BillinGlendaleCA: I didn’t get to talk to you as much as I wanted. You’ve spent a lot of time really exploring Los Angeles, photographing bits of it that I’ve never seen. I wanted to hear what Ruckus was saying but the room was just noisy enough that I had trouble hearing him.
Dave spent a lot of time talking to the woman next to him, and she did give her nym but I didn’t quite catch it… Dora? Nora? … Could that have been Nora Lenderbee?
Neldob
Wow. I could be ‘that woman’! Nice.
Neldob
And fun to meet you all too.
opiejeanne
@Neldob: Neldob! Not Nora Lenderbee.
I am so sorry. There was just enough background noise that I couldn’t hear you very well. Should have asked you to write it down.
Corner Stone
@SiubhanDuinne:
Alan Not Getting Any Older.
What?
opiejeanne
It was 33 when we got back up the mountain, and it’s going down to 27 tonight. Back home in Washington it will be about the same. Up until today it’s been warmer in the mountains even with the snow then it was back home.
It looks like we may get snow on Christmas Eve in Washington. Yay!
Corner Stone
@opiejeanne:That sounds heavenly. My dad’s (adult) best friend had a farm outside Portland OR but I did not get a chance to visit for many reasons. I want to spend some time in PNW. Maybe one day.
satby
@BillinGlendaleCA: Nice looking group! Hope you all had fun.
satby
@Steve in the ATL: How sad! Condolences Steve.
Currants
John, is this THAT Buffalo Creek? Remind me again that you’re totally upstream from any of those mines, please?
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Currants:
Linky no work. I fix. Buffalo Creek book.
opiejeanne
@Corner Stone: Come for a visit. Seattle is really great and we live just outside it.
The mountain I referred to is not in Washington, it’s in California. We own a tiny old cabin near Lake Arrowhead, about 60 miles East of Los Angeles.
Larkspur
@Neldob: Yay! We have a completely identified set of Juicers! Wish I could have been there. Another time, for sure.
Steve Gough
Hydrologist here. Not sure if that’s what happened here, but you can get monster winter floods from rain on frozen ground, or even worse, rain on snow over frozen ground; the water cannot soak in and runs off to the nearest channel.