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On 14-9-2018 19:26, Kenneth wrote:
> "Kenneth" <kdw### [at] gmail com> wrote:
>> So... Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the east coast of the US (I live in
>> the state of Virginia, right on the coast-- and near the bull's eye of
>> landfall.)
>>
>
> [update...]
>
> Well... for my area, the hurricane has turned out to be "much ado about nothing"
> :-)
>
> Not that I'm complaining-- but after a week's worth of breathless doom-and-gloom
> predictions (for MY area) by ALL weathermen and newscasters, they're going to
> have some explaining to do. (Unless the storm re-strengthens over land, which is
> unheard of.) Predictions were that Florence might even grow into a Category 5
> before it hit the coast (the strongest monster winds); instead, it went from a 4
> down to a 2, then a 1! Here, we've had almost no rain, and the winds have
> *maybe* topped out at 30mph-- more like a typical Autumn day than a hurricane.
> All good news, of course (for us at least) but there are going to be lots of
> irritated people here who evacuated their homes and left the area. Yes, it's
> better to be "safe than sorry"-- but it looks like accurate weather prediction
> still has a ways to go (it might truly be impossible-- chaos theory, etc...)
>
> That butterfly in China must have suddenly reversed direction, or something...
>
>
Maybe this tells why:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06684-8?utm_source=briefing-wk&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=briefing&utm_content=20180914
--
Thomas
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On 2018-09-10 02:32 PM (-4), Kenneth wrote:
> So... Hurricane Florence is bearing down on the east coast of the US (I live in
> the state of Virginia, right on the coast-- and near the bull's eye of
> landfall.)
>
> Hey, Mother Nature, this won't do!! I'm feverishly working on some POV-Ray code,
> and must not be interrupted! Take your hurricane elsewhere...
Hey, when Hurricane Irma bore down on the Virgin Islands (185 mph
winds), I decided that I wasn't going to be the old man yelling at
clouds. I figured my GemCuts project could wait, and focused on
backups. GemCuts would have been toast anyway if my house had blown
away and I didn't have my data in the cloud. (Irma developed so quickly
I didn't have time to open a safe deposit box for my backup disk.)
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On 2018-09-11 09:37 AM (-4), dick balaska wrote:
> On 09/11/2018 06:48 AM, Kenneth wrote:
>> "Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm worried about flooding-- not from the ocean swells etc, as there are beach
>> sand berms between me and the water-- but from a fresh water lake only a few
>> blocks away. *That* flooded my area a couple of years ago, just from a really
>> bad days-long storm (a "nor'easter"). My house escaped that flood by a hair; I
>> may not be so lucky this time :-/
>
> Pfft! We lost power for 17 days after Sandy. Couldn't leave the
> neighborhood for 4 days.
Is this a contest? I lost power for 122 days after Irma. There were
people on the island who couldn't leave their *house*, let alone the
neighborhood. I got a flat tire the day after, and couldn't get it
fixed for another week and a half. Then *second* hurricane hit. You
know the rest: the paper towels, undercounting of deaths, etc.
Is there a Puerto Rican on these newsgroups who can one-up me?
> I was prepared, neighbors were not. I have an
> elder with "needs" so I had the whole house running on an 8500 watt
> generator. (Now everybody has one).
> I set up a table with extension cord and coffee pot. Charge your phone
> and have a cuppa. The neighbors were impressed/annoyed to learn that
> the generator lugged down at 6am when I turned on the hot water heater
> for showers. I thought I was so clever, then I realized that at $50 a
> day in gasoline, that's $1500 a month in energy cost.
We got a generator after Hurricane Marilyn (1996), but it seized up due
to disuse. My sister flew a 2000 watt generator from the states, so we
could have refrigeration, lights, and some limited POVing; but at 2000
watts, any sort of heating was out of the question. The toughest part
was keeping my father out of the damn refrigerator; we are in a
role-reversal state, and he has forgotten that we are not
air-conditioning the whole neighborhood.
> I was surprised to learn that clocks still use the wall 60Hz for a
> clock. Every clock ran 8 minutes a day fast. Even my coffee pot. I
> figured it's a computer, it has a crystal.
What??? That's quite an ASSumption on the part of the clock maker! I
can't imagine any such clocks would be any more than useless around here.
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On 2018-09-12 06:20 AM (-4), Stephen wrote:
>
> And we think the British weather is bad. :)
Perhaps it is bad in that understated British sort of way.
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On 16/09/2018 02:19, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> On 2018-09-12 06:20 AM (-4), Stephen wrote:
>>
>> And we think the British weather is bad. :)
>
> Perhaps it is bad in that understated British sort of way.
>
It is just grey and unreliable. On the plus side we don't get the
extremes of temperature you get on continents nor monsoons or
earthquakes. At least not big ones.
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 16/09/2018 02:16, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> I was surprised to learn that clocks still use the wall 60Hz for a
>> clock. Every clock ran 8 minutes a day fast. Even my coffee pot. I
>> figured it's a computer, it has a crystal.
>
> can't imagine any such clocks would be any more than useless around here.
Not an assumption at all. Until the 1980s a lot of electric clocks used
an AC synchronous motor. The early ones did not self start. You had to
spin the motor manually. I have one that uses a lever and ratchet to
start it. Others could be made to run backwards. They were accurate to
one ac cycle a day if your grid was half decent.
So there! ;)
Your comments about armchair hurricane watchers are apt.
But it is human nature.
--
Regards
Stephen
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Le 16/09/2018 à 10:54, Stephen a écrit :
> On 16/09/2018 02:16, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>> I was surprised to learn that clocks still use the wall 60Hz for a
>>> clock. Every clock ran 8 minutes a day fast. Even my coffee pot. I
>>> figured it's a computer, it has a crystal.
>>
>> What??? That's quite an ASSumption on the part of the clock maker! I
>> can't imagine any such clocks would be any more than useless around here.
>
> Not an assumption at all. Until the 1980s a lot of electric clocks used
> an AC synchronous motor. The early ones did not self start. You had to
> spin the motor manually. I have one that uses a lever and ratchet to
> start it. Others could be made to run backwards. They were accurate to
> one ac cycle a day if your grid was half decent.
> My pc clock is 1·9 seconds behind according to https://time.is
>
>
Earlier this year, in continental Europe, we add a small scandal about
two countries playing bad with the grid: all the microwaves' clock were
getting late, to the point of getting in the TV news of 13h and 20h !
The cumulated delta was about 20 minutes in April, IIRC, the assholes
having pushed a 49,5Hz instead of 50Hz, in order to not provide the
other with a better current, while pocketing the money...
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On 16/09/2018 10:57, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 16/09/2018 à 10:54, Stephen a écrit :
>> On 16/09/2018 02:16, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>>>> I was surprised to learn that clocks still use the wall 60Hz for a
>>>> clock. Every clock ran 8 minutes a day fast. Even my coffee pot. I
>>>> figured it's a computer, it has a crystal.
>>>
>>> What??? That's quite an ASSumption on the part of the clock maker! I
>>> can't imagine any such clocks would be any more than useless around here.
>>
>> Not an assumption at all. Until the 1980s a lot of electric clocks used
>> an AC synchronous motor. The early ones did not self start. You had to
>> spin the motor manually. I have one that uses a lever and ratchet to
>> start it. Others could be made to run backwards. They were accurate to
>> one ac cycle a day if your grid was half decent.
>> My pc clock is 1·9 seconds behind according to https://time.is
>>
>>
>
> Earlier this year, in continental Europe, we add a small scandal about
> two countries playing bad with the grid: all the microwaves' clock were
> getting late, to the point of getting in the TV news of 13h and 20h !
>
> The cumulated delta was about 20 minutes in April, IIRC, the assholes
> having pushed a 49,5Hz instead of 50Hz, in order to not provide the
> other with a better current, while pocketing the money...
>
No wonder the Brexiteers have the sway, here. ;)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Am 16.09.2018 um 09:58 schrieb Stephen:
> On 16/09/2018 02:19, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> On 2018-09-12 06:20 AM (-4), Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>> And we think the British weather is bad. :)
>>
>> Perhaps it is bad in that understated British sort of way.
>>
>
> It is just grey and unreliable.
Unreliable? I thought it was always either raining or intending to be.
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On 09/15/2018 08:51 PM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
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>
> Hey, when Hurricane Irma bore down on the Virgin Islands (185 mph
> winds),
How *are* you guys doing. The VI left our consciousness a year ago.
(Puerto Rico would have too, except the Idiot in Chief keeps opening his
mouth. Hmm, so maybe that's a good thing).
The best story I saw was from June 2018 on npr. Hopefully your grid is
back and your blue tarps gone.
--
dik
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