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I like those too. But in limited acquisition chocolate situations, I can be corrupted.

Right now, the value pack onhand has reglar, deep space dark, rice crispy, and well, I think they are almonds.

By the way.

Any of your interests include propulsion?

Hugs back, Nauti!

As Milt came ashore, I was watching an MSNBC tower-cam,, probably near landfall, and definitely 5 to 10 or more stories up.

The camera wasn’t getting blown around. Solid as a rock.

Instead, the entire tower was vibrating, as if it were being subjected to stresses in the general vicinity of design load limits. Deflections far enough to blur the entire videoframe.

Since a concern here is wind blown debris, this goes to that, plus some real good news.

In residential and most wood frame construction, a near Universal Standard is the ability to resist lateral or sideload wind at 40 pounds per square inch. This goes way back, at least as far as buildings from the late 1970’s.

Though conversion between pounds per square foot and miles per hour windspeed is fraught with velocity cubed voodoo math, the general standard is 120 mph, which is now, a slight fuzz ABOVE what Milton is throwing at us.

Remember the “damage cutoff” that Andrew imposed between Homestead and immediately adjacent area?

Same sorta deal, except there it was the load rating on the staples used.

I would never... ever... pick on you, fatima. Perish the thought!

(but I probably would poke my hand outside and light the webcams for my under-illuminated colleagues. Have you SEEN the lumens they’re getting out of some of these new LED flashlights?)

Anyway...

I’m clinically prohibited under penalty of utter horrors... by a whole bunch of non-nautical nurses I also won’t think of picking on... from coming anywhere near chocolate, so the good news is the ginormous bag of Hershey Minis is right here and full and ready.

The bad news is I have to be very careful not to get caught, and they are only Hershey Mini’s, not gourmet quality.

Y’all just mark your spots and I’ll have the dump truck drop you a fresh pile, whenever you run short.

...stuff.

Fortunately landfall gets measured when the mathmatical venter of rotation crosses and we don’t have to calculate the inner eyewall rim raindrops per minute or salinity or.. or...

Speaking of drops per minute, Indianapolis had a system that dropped from 4 to 10 inches a few years back, in about 3-4 hours.

The Flash Floods that resulted ranged from 4 feet to 12 feet deep, destroying residental construction on the flats.

Milton doesn’t ... need... a storm surge. 12 inches of rainfall will serve nicely by itself.

Further Indy tidbit. Earlier “reports” of “a WAVE of smash, grab and run” attacks on Gun Stores, with “heavy weapon arsenals” disappearing, turned out to be typical media bullsheisse, with one instance of car versus gun store front door which failed, two years ago, and one instance today whick “liberated” a single AR-15 or M-4, which, in my humble opinion did NOT substantially alter the Indianapolis Balance of Power.

If memory serves,Katrina swung an election.

You guys gonna hit them floodlights or just leave the rest of us flippin thru webcams in vis plus lousy IR filter spill?

;-)

I’m mad at Trump for 8 months of advance warning, resultimg in nothing more than that ludicrous vote grab response.

I has chocolate, in quantity.

We need to cut lanes thru the Helene damage for a seperate Second Recovery Operation, completely independant of Helene Rescue, including transportation lane interference.

If we don’t help that happen, more will die.

Hi NN, All...

I’m here, no idea how long, don’t wanna waste time on why, so ...

...the cigs caught up to me, in the hospital, chemo past, moving to rehab/hospice tomorrow, we got a historical data flow to manage, on top of a mess already.

Hours or days, not weeks or months,

“Momma don’t take my Kodachrome away.

Forward.

Is the Bay going to fill or empty?

Hope the policy reads in your favor.

Mine covers the metastases plus a wide variety of amplified... signals at the sleep threshold, but my affiliation, with this teaching facility, only covers 3 to 5 month of duration.

Should be more than enough.

I am forecast to experience the center storm rotation yet this afternoon, my room has big clean windows, and it is GREAT to see every one again!

No experience here, but it seems to me that the first and quickest insurance applicants get the quickest insurance service.

Also I sure would sure hate to be the only building showing light at night, or making generator noise during the daytime.

In case y’all missed it, the boss-lady was up at 2am, forwarding the latest NHC data.

Nauti’s still earning her stripes.

Ahhh...missed it by 7 miles. Musta been that eastern turn they were calling for.

;-)

I was checkin the old eyes for cracks. Beef veggie soup and brownies contributed to my delinquincy.

What speed did the winds max out at? Before or after she came ashore? I had her aimed directly at Perry, or about 8 miles NW of Dekla beach at around 0300. Where did landfall actually end up?

The eyewall was weird around 2-ish. West side kept splitting into two layers, transforming energy from the inner to the outer, but each time it re-merged into one band on the south side instead of going fully ERC.

I made brownies. :-)

Phat fingers. Mine get that way too.

I’ll believe AI is a reasonable threat when the big iron can predict the weather right at least 72 hours out.

I made brownies. I made several gallons of beef vegetable soup. Need to go get some Tupperware and freeze it.

My house (studio) is torn completely...well...97.3 percent, this control room is still functional... apart, to swap a mixing console Sweetwater warned me not to buy, for 32 of the thickest, richest old-school analog Midas pre-amps ever manufactured, the chainsaw is in-op, the half of the 70 foot tree a storm dropped on a neighbor’s fence is cut and stacked, but the remaining half that had to come down is yet to go, and the grass is a bit taller than I’d like, but life is good here now.

How’s your world?

Who won, you or the dog?

EMS confirmed tornado on the western edge of Avon Park ion Highlands Co, about 0145. Healthy feeder band moving up the center of the peninsula.