This is just a heads up. There is a potential tropical system currently near South America’s northeast coast called 98L. If, as likely, it develops, it will get a name, either Hermine or Ian, depending on what another tropical system just off of Africa does. 98L has the potential to be a big, powerful storm that could plausibly enter the Gulf of Mexico in a week or so.
Wind shear being imparted on Invest #98L from #Fiona will continue to keep it weak over the next couple of days.
By the weekend, 98L will begin to move into an area of very favorable conditions for development, with low wind shear & warm water in the NW Caribbean. pic.twitter.com/je4OA3Bs49
— KC Sherman (@KCShermanWx) September 22, 2022
The cone of uncertainty is huge — basically Houston to Miami at the moment. But this might be a good time to re-inventory your plans and start the easy, low cost, reversible prep steps. Cleaning up your yard of tree debris, demucking gutters and putting some of the unused lawn furniture away are tasks that have to get done, but doing them sooner rather than later might be helpful. Checking to make sure that you have adequate prescriptions on hand and that the cat food bin is full would also be a simple prep step. If I lived closer to the Gulf of Mexico, I would have a few two thirds full 2 liter soda bottles filled with water going into the freezer tonight to act as both a deep cold reserve and a clean water reserve. Worse comes to worse, it increases the thermal mass in the freezer and makes it run more efficiently.
Right now, 98L is at the keep an eye on it stage. By the end of the weekend, a lot more information will have been revealed, and much more active and expensive localized preparations should kick in then.
Open Thread
Math Guy
First!?!
Kristine
It’s around this time of year that a writers’ org I belong to has their annual conference on the Gulf Coast of Florida. I haven’t attended for a few years, but when I went, checking the locations of various tropical disturbances a week or so prior became a thing.
The conference is taking place this week, but it looks like folks should be home well before 98L becomes an issue.
I grew up in Florida. Hurricane season is one thing I don’t miss.
raven
I need for this to get over in a month because I have a keys offshore trip 10/25!
Betty Cracker
I hope it spins some fish around and fizzles!
Math Guy
It is a good idea to have several gallons of fresh water tucked away in some corner. Several years ago, back in Missouri, we had a week of unusually cold weather and one morning we woke up to find we had no water pressure. Water lines there are buried about three feet underground so I went to the basement where the line came into the house. Got a hair dryer, put it on incinerate, and started trying to warm the pipe. After 45 minutes of this – off and on – we still had no water pressure. I walked outside to the point where the line came in and saw that there was a gap of two or three inches between the house and the ground allowing cold air to get down to the water line. (We had had a drought that summer and the very clay heavy soil had shrunk and contracted, pulling away from the foundation.) Fortunately, I kept several 5-gallon jugs of water stored for emergencies: I boiled a few gallons and poured it down the gap outside the house and almost immediately the water pressure came back up. Moral of the story: Climate change is going to bite us in the ass in ways we never anticipated.
Baud
I’m just glad there currently aren’t any federal officials who are debating the pros and cons of nuking 98L.
nclurker
posso of big storms in the gulf always get my attention.
they ,quite often,bring huge flooding rains up the appalachians
to my part of the mountains.
time to prep extra dog food and scotch.
thanks for a heads up.
Rainy Day
I use windy.com to track hurricanes. They’ve currently got this one moving up western Cuba to western Florida, making landfall near Cedar Key next Thursday around noon.
jonas
@Baud:
Or redirecting it with a sharpie pen…
Anonymous At Work
Been tracking 98L for almost a week now, from South Florida. Starting too far east means it might not hit land or the poor SOBs in North Carolina. Starting near Venezuela and curling north is the danger zone.
Separate news, apparently a big-shot Russian PM, Gennady Zyuganov, an old school Soviet imperialist/Communist (even today) is saying that troops will be given around 2 weeks of training and shipped to front lines. How true, dunno. How effective, not very. Given the Russians are grabbing anyone with a pulse on any excuse, though, they could be shipping the rawest batch of recruits to the front lines ever.
OzarkHillbilly
Thanx for the heads up. Hurricane season has been so quiet this year I haven’t been checking in with the NHC near as often as I usually do. I’ll have to call the NOLA son.
Ken
Not that you know of.
I am hoping for the sake of Florida’s residents that no major hurricanes hit the state before November. I suspect DeSantis would refuse all federal aid, fearing it would soil his MAGA credentials.
WereBear
I’ve got shaker bottles & bottled water with tubs of protein drink. That and jerky last a long time and both taste better when we are hungry :)
Michael Cain
I started looking yesterday when it became clear that NASA was going to get the SLS fueled and then started making noises about really, really wanting to go for the Sept 27 launch. This morning the GFS (American) model has a big storm well out in the Gulf, heading for Louisiana on that date. The ECMWF has a big storm moving onto Florida at that point.
I’m hoping that the Eastern Range operators tell NASA they won’t grant another waiver for the flight termination system, so NASA has no choice but to put the rocket back in the assembly building. They’re already years late, another month won’t matter. Don’t take chances with the $4.1B rocket, please.
Note: this is the new GFS model, written after the previous American model missed Sandy’s turn into the Long Island Sound until the last minute, while the ECMWF had been predicting it for days.
ARoomWithAMoose
Been watching what ECMWF and GFS models are doing with 98L (windy.com is a cool interactive visualization of the produced datasets). Those two models are quite divergent right now (ECMWF takes the notional storm into Florida’s big bend, GFS is trending towards Texas). The rule right now is that none of these computer models they use perform well more than 3 days out for either storm track or predicting intensity.
Joe Falco
@Ken: I suspect that if parts of Florida were to be severely damaged, I don’t believe there will be photo ops of DeSantis and Biden touring the damage together. DeSantis would be aware of what happened to Chris Christie’s presidential ambitions after the latter had his career “tainted” by looking buddy-buddy with Obama.
Betty Cracker
@Rainy Day: Wait, WHAT???
WaterGirl
Thank you for highlighting this and suggesting simple actions.
eversor
@Baud:
We could nuke Florida!
Anonymous At Work
@eversor: No guarantee that it would kill any Floridians. Worse yet, it’d force every single Florida Man and Florida Woman out into the Sane 49.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anonymous At Work: Sane 49?
WaterGirl
@eversor: Why do I think that’s probably not funny at all to the good people who live in red states.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Surely that number is a typo!
raven
@ARoomWithAMoose: “The Rocket” is Artemis and she does not like being dissed!
Amir Khalid
@Joe Falco:
Two things Chris Christie cannot resist are food and Bruce Springsteen. And Obama happened to be friends with Bruce, so …
The Moar You Know
@Anonymous At Work: if those troops are reservists that’s one thing. If these are raw recruits off the street it would be more effective to just shoot them on the spot to save transport costs of the bodies.
RaflW
I’ll definitely be watching this. My brother & SIL live in Houston. And they have Covid at the moment (she’s about done being sick 🤞🏻, he’s several days behind her). Mild, but I know from my August ‘mild’ case that I was for all practical purposes useless for 4 days, and very easily tired for another four or so.
RaflW
@Math Guy: “Climate change is going to bite us in the ass in ways we never anticipated” Yep.
Same (only!) brother and his wife had their expensive, fancy on-demand water heater destroyed by the cold snap / grid failure in Texas. It’s not just the heat. It’s the gyrations (and in their area, the drastic changes in precipitation. Drought for months, then monster non-tropical-system deluges. Repeat.)
Admittedly, in terms of the water heater, it’s the insane way builders do things down there. It was in an exterior-accessed, unheated closet!
eversor
@Anonymous At Work:
We could nuke Texas as well?
JPL
The southern gas pipeline to GA has had problems in the past, so I’ll plan on filling up this weekend.
gvg
@Ken: I suspect as long as he isn’t photographed hugging Biden Floridians wouldn’t notice. We are pretty practiced at hurricanes. In fact when they hit other places, we watch and say, what are you people doing? and why haven’t you learned anything from our past mistakes? Democratic Presidents normally recruit our FEMA (Florida emergency management agency) officials to head the Federal FEMA. Both Clinton and Obama headhunted us, but we keep on. Andrew in the 90’s was our total mess we learned from.
We had this lull of nothing happening after Andrew, for years and I wondered if any of the planning was any good or would work or be forgotten. Then we had to use it finally after about 15 years and the plans worked pretty well.
After that, it got to be kind of routine. The schools close, the businesses close, the towns have these plans to lower signs and traffic lights, give out sandbags, open shelters, people go home and prepare, people wait, there aren’t that many stupid parties.
DeSantis just needs to not get in the way. If he gets in the way and does something we think is stupid, THAT will hurt him. The home owners insurance problem has the potential to really screw him, but it will do it by screwing a lot of regular people so I hope that doesn’t happen quite. I’d like some more publicity about the threat though.
WereBear
I was trying to be a good citizen and conserve, and it turns out I wasn’t driving the vehicle ENOUGH… so we have a great excuse for fall day tours with the leaves crisping up out here.
MikefromArlington
Where is trump and his forecasting when you need him?
Paul in KY
@raven: Going out to the Dry Tortugas?
Ken
@WereBear: Do you have a hybrid? I recently got a new car and wanted to go hybrid, but after checking my use patterns (under five miles in a typical week), it didn’t quite work out — I’d have to do unnecessary driving to keep the battery charged!
Paul in KY
@Baud: That was thinking outside the box…outside the outside box.
Paul in KY
@RaflW: In the warm states (like Southern FL) they don’t even insulate the homes!
Ohio Mom
@Math Guy: Next time it is so dry the soil is contracting away from the foundation, start watering the soil near your house. We didn’t know to do that and spent a lot of money repairing our shifting basement walls. (Begins sobbing at this traumatic memory).
Ohio Mom
I am not surprised that David Anderson who spends his days crunching the numbers of the what-ifs of health care coverage likes following potential tropical storms, another set of what-ifs.
eversor
@The Moar You Know:
They will not be reservists. Dirty issue is that Russia raids the fair east part for their “ethnics” and then press gangs them into units and ships them off so those in Moscow and Petersburg don’t have to go off and die. This is also why they do not give a fuck about them. It’s also why they show up with WW1 era rifles and rubber boots and men in their 60s along with teenagers.
Their spetsnaz GRU types are “proper” Russians and well trained and equipped but they are a slim faction of their forces. But they have friends and family in places like Moscow so their deaths will be noticed. They are Russias version of our special operations and intelligence units.
This is one of the reasons this is such a shit show. They aren’t summoning up ex GRU types to fight they are randomly constripting old ass people from the Asian part of the Russian federation and marching them off to fight a military trained by American NCOs with plently of combat experience. Then they get hit by weapons they didn’t know existed and cannot comprehend and they have a… metal helmet and wooden rifle from WW1/2.
The war crime isn’t just in Ukraine it’s in the Russian Federation itself now, and there’s a non zero chance it fractures over this. The situation is so fucked the various Stans and Republics under the Federations security umbrealla are back in open conflict with each other because why not! And they aren’t wrong to realize their security umbrella doesn’t work.
The situation is dire. Mass mobilization won’t fix it because war has evolved to the point throwing bodies a things does not work. And they are so corrupt that out of the elite units they don’t have boots, ballistic vests, modern weapons, or even food and fuel.
They’re getting pants by a nation on paper they should have steam rolled, and it’s all the grift. In the US the military is a grift but the equipment does show up and it does work. In Russia it doesn’t show up and what does is decades old and does not work. It’s a brain dead way to run a military. But then again, they don’t have supply sargeants… cause no NCOs.
I also question if their nukes work and call horseshit on that hypersonic torpedo of doom or whatever they were talking about.
M31
hopefully we can get one of those new soft inflatable cones, the old hard plastic ones are great for trapping the cat but are kind of scratchy
Chris T.
One of our TV channel weather-guys pointed out that we’ve been lucky so far this year, that the wind shear in the Atlantic has been slicing up the potential hurricanes so that there have been very few. We’ll see if the luck holds out…
OzarkHillbilly
Nah. He’ll do the bog standard Repub Hypocrisy Flip Flop because when his state gets hit by a disaster, it’s a real disaster, unlike the fake ones they have in Puerto Rico.
OzarkHillbilly
@WaterGirl: Meh, I have no problem laughing at the more ludicrous circumstances of my existence.
WaterGirl
@WereBear: I see that you had the same conversation with your car guy that my car guy had with me!
Geminid
Farmers need to start harvesting their summer crops. The Harrisonberg radio station I listen to has a lot of farm reporting, and a few weeks ago a specialist said that corn planters had a really good crop and the only thing they had to worry about was a hurricane.
Leslie
I hope this turns out to be nothing. Fingers crossed.
Since this is an open thread: Water Girl, there was supposed to be a post last week (?) about an organization that could make voter outreach progress in … was it NV? Sorry for my Swiss-cheese memory. Anyway, I never saw the post or other follow up, and am wondering if I missed it.
Sean
@eversor: A lot of good people live in Texas and Florida. In fact, huge numbers of us share your political ideals and goals and want the best for their state and the country. I get that your joke is tongue in cheek (haha Texas sux, etc), but we’re doing the best we can against seemingly insurmountable odds of bad government legislating our right to vote away (among all the myriad other rights they’ve taken away or limited) and generally making our lives a living hell. Support would be better than a off-hand joke about nuking us. I didn’t choose to be born here, and I didn’t choose the circumstances that make it difficult, if not impossible, to leave. I vote, donate, and participate along with millions of other Texas Democrats. We’re on the same side, despite the failures of our state.
WereBear
@Ken: It’s an Eco-Sport, with the auto-engine cutoff at lights and it’s a tiny SUV so it’s not a gashog. Near-essential in our mountains.
Our only car for the foreseeable future with shortages and high prices being what they are, and a long term with low interest is looking like a genius move now :)
My battery powers a whole computer system now. The tires are this grippy composite that can lose shape when not in motion. Exercised brakes flake off winter rust when used, can get out of control when sitting. Etc.
I decided I’d think of it as a living being which must dodge bedsores and atrophied muscles.
Chris T.
@Ken:
Wow. The average for most people seems to be about 12k miles per year = 1000 miles per month = about 50 per day x about 20 days of driving per month, or about 33/day for 30 days of driving per month (depending on whether it’s “drive to work on work-days” or “drive every day”, I don’t really know, I’m not anywhere near the average).
ian
Wowzers. I must be getting famous! A storm, named after moi?
Fair Economist
Best to all at risk from this or any hurricane. My family used to own a waterfront condo on the redneck riviera and I am so glad to have sold it. Things like this used to stress me like crazy.
WereBear
@M31: LOL!
Ken
@Chris T.: Most of the year, I’m the proverbial little old man who drives to church once a week. I walk almost everywhere else, including the grocery store now that I feel COVID-confident enough to go every two or three days.
Then two or three times a year, I put seven hundred miles on the car in a week, visiting my family. I used to do that with Amtrak, but since my parents died it’s a little more difficult to manage vehicles during the visit.
WereBear
@WaterGirl: LOL! They should have been giving it BEFORE, right?
But maybe they didn’t know how much it mattered.
Like I was explaining to Partner the new economic model of streaming has extended to books and music. We’re the generation who kept buying our music in different forms, and now, I informed him, we get to pay every month!
But I use my Pandora and Scribd subscriptions as a budget. For the price of one album and one ebook, I get access to many more.
There’s another angle: these ways are not the groaning bookcase kind of interest that has dominated my life up to now. Easier finding, playing, packing, and enjoying of the same thing.
Villago Delenda Est
Make plans to leave Abattoir and DeathSentence out in the rain.
Betty Cracker
@Sean: Thank you.
Anonymous At Work
@Omnes Omnibus: @WaterGirl: Compared with Florida, the other 49 are sane.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
Having been through several hurricanes/Typhoons and winter storms, including Super Storm Sandy I can recommend some things to get/do if you can just to be ready:
GoBag- a bag with your meds, some clothes, your important papers, eyeglasses, etc(I suggest you scan those and email to yourself just in case also) If you have to eveacuate you may not have time to grab or remember everything and you may not be thinking straight.
Gobag for your pets, pet carriers, harness, leashes, food, collapsible bowls if possible, blanket/soft towel if possible. make sure they have collars and tags and their tags are up to date. See if there are pet friendly shelters if your area is setting up shelters. And decide if you are evacuating if you can not take your pets…
Already mentioned is water, mostly for drinking.
Your home owners policy and other documents. if possible seal them in a water proof bag or similar and keep them with your go-bag
Ice and coolers. We were lucky as we had food in the deep freeze. So we put it on ice and afterthe storm passed, started cooking it all on the grill, camp stove and smokers(we have 4) . Its’ not safe to try to keep frozen food on ice for too long so we cooked it and gave some to the neighbors.
Your prescriptions and a list of them and of your documents in case they get lost or destroyed
A camp stove or other way to boil water if you have water but its questionable
Non-perishable food that does not need cooking-protein and granola bars, dry cereal, PopTarts, prepackaged dried fruit like raisins, craisins, apple or banana slides, granola (pack in ziplock bags and put in something waterproof.) Baby Formula and baby food. Canned food that can be heated with no need for additional water. Plates or bowls and spoons/forks (this one is a toss up: Paper/disposable doesn’t have to be washed. at least one good knife. CAN opener.
Cash! there was no power to most of my town after Sandy. Most businesses and back were closed/without power. No power, no ATMS…
Tarps – after hurricanes one of the hardest things to find was tarps. This happened to my niece in Houma too
Gas up your cars and generators. After Sandy most of the Gas stations had no power for a little while.
Charged battery packs to charge your phones, extra charging cables for phones/tablets, batteries, flashlights or battery camp lanterns.
If you live in a wooded area see if one of your neighbors has a chain saw. or make sure yours is fueled and ready. After most of the storms we have had some of our roads were blocked by fallen trees. our neighbor across the street lost every tree on their propertie. by some miracle none hit her house
Hope this is not too wordy!
eversor
@WereBear:
What’s this “we”? You don’t get good audio or video off an internet based service. They only exist because of issues likes apples own admission that non of their audio products are capable of high res anything most people are so brainless about what they get you can sell them goat ass and call it wagyu.
Flip that around and there are still people buying actual music and videos using hardware that by far outpeforms any of this bluetooth shit often at a fraction of the cost. Nobody who cares about sound is using bluetooth or apple anything. Nobody who cares about video quality is using crap Netflix 4k.
They trick you into this. Thing is apples headphones aren’t capable of high res anything not only because their codecs and bluetooth but their drivers (not the software, the hardware in the headphones) are so shit bad it wouldn’t matter. So even if you get high res from itunes, doesn’t matter unless you use non apple items! Netflix can’t actually stream you true 4k HDR and they admit that. But there are are 300+ buck players that can do it, if you buy the media.
Most of the younger generation is savy enough to know this.
Don’t get me wrong I have streaming services. But I also have a dedicated 4k player with HDR hooked up to the OLED for the movies the SO loves. We have a dedicated DAC, AMP, and CLOCK UNIT for the music we love when we want to have fun. There’s a huge spike in vinyl of all things now.
Phsyical media is far from gone largely because it produces a better result. All this wireless and bluetooth woo woo doesn’t compare and the younger more tech generation knows this.
Paul in KY
@eversor: Hypersonic torpedo of doom had me laughing!
cmorenc
We have a house on Sunset Beach Island on the SE North Carolina coast near the SC line. We have accordion-style hurricane shutters on all windows and doors that, during hurricane season (July through October) we close before leaving for our primary residence in Raleigh – we also take all porch furniture / objects that could become loose projectiles inside. Takes just over a half-hour to either close up before leaving, or to open back up when we arrive next time.
Sunset Beach Island was ground zero back in 1954 for the worst hurricane (Hazel) to ever hit the NC coast, aside from the Outer Banks – 140 mph winds and 18 foot storm surge, measured at the nearby fishing town of Calabash (Sunset Beach island was uninhabited in 1954, but Hazel wiped out nearly every structure on the Brunswick County islands along the SE NC coast.) The island has been hit multiple times by other hurricanes since then (and since we bought the house in 1995), but fortunately we have been on the weaker side of those, which mostly made landfall 30 miles east near the mouth of the Cape Fear River. But it’s inevitable that we will eventually get a right-front eyewall hit here.
Villago Delenda Est
@eversor: Yup, the lack of a functioning NCO corps is telling. Also, I remember that when I joined the Army there was a great deal of talk about it being “hollow”. Well, if it was, it was still light years ahead of the current Russian Army. While the rot may be in the Strategic Rocket Forces as well, we cannot assume it is, it’s just too dangerous to do so. The grift in US forces is at the defense contractor level for the most part…reporting invisible soldiers and taking their pay doesn’t happen in US Forces. In Russia, it’s commonplace.
gvg
@Paul in KY: yes they do, for air conditioning, to keep the cool in.
WaterGirl
@WereBear: The things you don’t know until after the decision has been made!
WaterGirl
@Sean: Thanks for that.
Captain C
@Anonymous At Work: Maybe it’ll be an updated version of the Banzai charge, perhaps with the goal of getting the Ukrainians so sick of killing incompetent and reluctant Russian troops that they’ll give in. That never works.
eversor
@Villago Delenda Est:
I’m starting to think it is.
@Paul in KY:
No it “exists” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=236ZxZ0TX6I
As in they put it on youtube, shouted about it, but it’s never been tried or tested. Most people think this is nonsense. Especially because their last super sub blew itself up and sank to the bottom of the ocean, they wouldn’t let people help, and everyone died.
Which you know, say what you will about our billion dollar Naval projects they don’t blow themselves up and kill everyone. You’d think not blowing up and drowning your crew would be the test of a functioning “boat” (subs are boats, surface ships are ships) but who knows!
Either way I call bullshit on this sonic nuclear torpedo that checks notes, they can’t even keep a boat alive to shoot the fucking thing from. Also from their own specs isn’t sonic anything.
Frankensteinbeck
@Captain C:
I (strongly) suspect that we’re seeing Putin’s obsessive inability to let go of the past, here. Like Trump can’t let go of “I’m still president!” Putin can’t let go of “I rule the Soviet Union!” It’s what started this shit show war. It’s why he’s been doing all this covert ‘undermining democracy’ shit for decades. He wants his USSR back, damn it!
I mean, all of that is known. But what I think applies here is that his brain is going “Fine, the modern way didn’t work, we’ll do it the Soviet way.” His plan is 100% to drown Ukraine in millions of warm bodies. Literally millions, which is why it was reported this morning that he passed a not-very-secret law to recruit 1,000,000 troops.
And nobody is allowed to tell the boss what a fucking stupid idea that is and how they don’t have the resources to accomplish it. Not even in the ‘warm bodies’ sense.
Fair Economist
@Captain C:
Earlier in the war some Ukrainian soldiers were bothered by how the Russians just kept sending people in to be butchered.
Paul in KY
@gvg: In some apartment buildings they didn’t. Glad a ‘regular’ home has it.
eversor
@Fair Economist:
As a vet we don’t like killing other soldiers. Yeah it has to happen, that’s the job. But most will look at a FUBAR situation and ask them to give up, we have chow and water! Smokes, beer as well if you ask. You’re leaders don’t care for you so come here for a hot meal!
Hell most Ukraine military leaders seem more compasionate to the Russians sent there to die than the Russian military does.
Put down your weapons, we won’t judge you, we know you don’t want to be here, also we have hot food and tea is a hell of an argument. It’s also military diplomacy. Also did I mention hot food?
Leslie
@WaterGirl: Alerting you to my 47, since I didn’t @ you there.
Kent
Back when we lived near the Gulf Coast of Texas the redneck way of doing that was to fill up your bathtub with water every time a big storm approached. In fact there are plastic bladders you can buy for cheap that are basically a giant bag of water you can fill up and leave in your bathtub so you have a big 100 gallon+ supply of clean water if necessary. https://www.amazon.com/WaterBOB-Emergency-Container-Drinking-Hurricane/dp/B001AXLUX2
Here in the Pacific Northwest I don’t bother because we don’t have hurricanes and I have a stream behind the house and the Columbia River 1/2 mile away. but I did buy a big 5 gallon drip filtration system so if I ever need to collect stream water to use I have a way of filtering it.
gvg
@Paul in KY: Depends on how old they are, not so much apartment versus home. 70’s energy prices going up gradually changed things.Plus, it’s a heck of a lot more comfortable to have stable temps instead of changing all the time.
Also the freezes in the 80’s made the South Floridians care more. Along with killing the orange groves in central Florida….school kids in south Florida didn’t even have coats..Florida has actually been getting colder over the last century until pretty recently.
artem1s
@Ken:
It doesn’t work that way. The car battery for starting the gas engine and hybrid battery for running the electric engine are separate. You don’t have to have any charge at all in the hybrid battery to drive or start it. That’s what makes it a hybrid. When you are driving it’s simultaneously draining and charging, depending on whether the engine is breaking (decelerating) or you are accelerating or have something like airconditioning running that needs more power. If you are starting your gas car often enough to keep it’s battery charged, then you don’t have to worry about how often you drive a hybrid.
Betty Cracker
@Kent: A drip filtration system is a great idea. I have a crappy small one but should probably invest in a better and larger one. We lack a tub but live on a river and within canoeing distance of a big freshwater spring, so we’d be all set with a filtration system. Got any recs?
Paul in KY
@gvg: I lived in a piece of crap apt down in Homestead in mid 80s and it had no insulation. Found out when we had a cold snap & it got pretty cold in there. No heat, of course.
mark
What Fiona is about to do to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick then Newfoundland is what should concern everyone, 10 meter waves and 90 MPH winds are going to wipes out a significant part of the atlantic provinces then we can all watch in awe as a TROPICAL STORM CROSSES GREENLAND, might be a bit of a melt factor.