Ivan! Jeanne! & Karl & Dennis The Menace & Katrina

Goodnight Letty. Best wishes to you and everyone.

Fingers crossed, Letty... and Phoenix... and Panzade... and O'Bill (and any of you I may have missed).

Glad to hear that the Panzade family is safe -- that drive must have been a total nightmare. I'm really glad to hear that storm has been downgraded again. Those strong thoughts on weakening the storm may have paid off. (Sure gave me a headache though.)

This is making me nervous since we have to go to Atlanta at the end of the month. Is Atlanta likely to get a hurricane?

PS -- What's a Pee Wee Bike?
PPS -- What was meant by between the bands? (Can't get back to the exact quote now that we only get ten posts per page -- something about O'Bill running between the bands to get back after re-parking his car --- which was btw a good move. Miatas are too cute to go out to sea.)

Piff he was signifying rain bands which precede a hurricane.

Between the bands meant between the feeder bands which are waves of storms thrown off by the hurricane. This is a PeeWee Bike (though mine's a little prettier)( girlier? ):

Atlanta is unlikely to suffer a hurricane. They really are fairly rare.
Thanks for weakening the storm for us!

"Between the bands" refers to, I believe, the nonchalant attitude that folks in FL exhibit ever year, I say every year during hurricane season.
I've seen it once. Bill was walking back towards his fourth floor condo facing the storm and there were all of these musicians on the boardwalk, playing every kind of music you could imagine with the stormclouds building behind them and the wind picking up. Bill threw a few coins into their tip jar; it made no sense to try to toss a bill in, it would just blow away and you wouldn't see it again.

Haha, RJB! Feeder bands are waves of storms? Hmmm... those galactic-type arms that the hurricanes have? The spiral-y ends?

Cute bike... gosh... is that a teeny, tiny motor? Ahhhh, a PeeWee motor! I think we could call that a manly bike. It uses gas, doesn't it?

I am very glad to hear that Atlanta won't have a hurricane.

Must admit, I did catch a butterfly and kept it from flying around for a while.

Certainly rjb, it was a Jimmy Buffet tribute band.

Oh i don't know
I say i don't know
I don't know
Where i'ma gonna go
When the hurricane blow . . .

Miserable thief...put that volcano word back in there.
I'm just pissed cause he beat me to it.

Be safe you guys. He's coming!!!

Hugs

So a Pee-Wee bike is one of those bikes all the old Chinese fellas around here have? How cool! Little motor. I like them. The dogs hate 'em. Silly dogs.

"all the old Chinese fellas"... You mean like a gang or something? My dad bought one in Wisconsin and his is the only other one I've seen in person? Where is this plethora?

See my location?

Near there.

On most weekends, I see at least 2 or 3 of those things heading down the street - usually under an elderly Chinese gent wearing gloves and with a tennis racket strapped to the side. They're quite "the thing".

Tarana, one of the largest Chinese cities in the world outside China . . .

(also known as Toronto . . . )

Why gloves?

Interesting. Gloves would probably be to guard against blisters... because of all the blistering power!

I'm not sure why they wear gloves, but they look most elegant. The fellas usually have nicely pressed pants and shirts on, nice casual vests, sporty hats and cotton gloves. The other thing that really strikes me is their extraordinary posture while on their bikes - they sit up SOOOOO straight. It always makes me straighten up when I see them.

I'm sitting up straighter here just thinking about them.

Answering a post from pages ago, I'm not a hurricane maven as such, nor an earthquake maven as such, am interested here because, dammit, I love you all.

I am floored by all the shifts you all have to make to cope in hurricane season, and how goofing up can be devastating.




Super tangent, but not really -
this guy came to our office once, smart man. There were a few sparks between my then boss and him, both being asian fellows with design savvy. He built a house in Venice that was made to float in case of liquefaction, not such a farfetched idea as it seems, as Marina del Rey and batches of Venice are on liquefaction zones. I think my old house missed the line by a block or two, which we know doesn't count. I am sadly surprised how hard he is to find on google.. as he was in the LA Times more than once and I think in various architecture mags.


http://www.architectsworkshop.com/index.html




Warning - tangent (wish I could indent all this part)
As a side point, am very interested in building. I am licenced in an allied field of site design/planning and read widely on architecture/construction, which I'd love to have a forum on here, no interest shown by posters so far (a good reason not to start a forum).. but I may try to put some more building stuff into what? art or home improvement. Which one of them - both being limited re the possible span of construction, architecture, urban design, site planning, regional planning.

My ex broinlaw is a very senior inspector in LA; I learned a lot from him through various earthquakes. Which is why I keep piping up here re mobile homes, tie downs. I asked here if some steel frames beam could keep the thing on the ground. even if ugly. Someone answered smartly, that it had to do with variation in pressure and walls imploding (or vice versa), forget which That and the general flimsiness, but I can see that a beam wrap wouldn't help (trying to think outside the box.)

Now you face floods. I'm not so many blocks from the ocean and bay myself, thinking...

Hmmm, giant drains? No good, no where to drain to, eh?

More interesting still. How do they sit so straight. Do they have their Pee Wee Bikes fitted with ape hangers?

Osso, cheap metal straps attached to each truss will hold the roof on a real house. CBS construction itself is an anchor. Mobile homes aren't worth what it would cost to storm proof them. Everything about them is the weak link. If you beef them up all around, they'd cost too much for a home that goes down, rather than up in value.

Just saw a headline that Vick had an absolutely miserable outing. Perhaps the Falcons are ready to do another trade with the Packers?