WEATHER OR NOT?

Over 100F here yesterday, high winds and bushfires all around!

Just Lovely - SEND RAIN!!!

Yes heard that on the news, will be holding y'all in the light for the fires to burn out and for the rains to come.

margo, what you need is a good typhoon, tons of rain are associated with those things. Of course the downside are the winds.

We're under a winter storm watch here -- it's now 6 to 8 inches of snow they are predicting. However, last week we were supposed to get 4 to 6 and wound up with roughly 1/16", so there is still hope. I think I'll take a snowstorm over an ice storm or a typhoon any day. As long as we don't have too many in any given year -- then they get bothersome. Once in a while (especially if timing is such that I don't have to drive too much) they can be quite enjoyable. And, yes, you can preserve your food outside (as long as you can protect it from the wildlife) if the electricity goes off in a snowstorm. In my area, however, more often than not the snow only sticks around for a day or two or three and then melts away.

Cool website. I loved the way I could make the water ripple and the stars move with my mouse. Thanks. Guam is a lot different from what I thought.

Aloha, pueo!

Keeping you in my thoughts for a break in the weather.....as well as all my friends in Oz.

How old is your daughter now?

Whoops! They just upped the snowfall to 7 - 10". And it's not gonna start till mid morning which is the worst possible time because everyone will already be at school and at work and it will be a pain getting home. Booooo! Still better than a typhoon, though.

Sorry about the update, bandylu.....Wish I could make it here instead of there.....

Aloha Rae, My oldest daughter is 5 and the youngest is 3.

Piffka, is Guam more than you thought it would be or less?

The grass is always greener.....

Misti, hope you don't mind if I post a thread.

More Guam information:

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1534&highlight=

Well, we finally got it. I mentioned earlier that the storm seemed to be just missing us. It was very close. I live northwest of Columbus, Ohio. The south and west sides of town have gotten 2"+ of fine, granular, wet snow. There was just a "dusting" on the north and east sides.

Some poor soul, of an apparently egalitarian bent (reverse pun--wait for it), decided to equalize traffic conditions across the city, running into a utility pole, which was thereby laid on the highway (there it is--bent, get it?), blocking a major north-south thoroughfare on the east side. Sigh . . . Ohio drivers . . .

More, Pueo, much more. I didn't realize that it had such an archeological history. Didn't realize that the original people were so badly treated, didn't know about the Star Navigators. Sadly uneducated. I very much enjoyed hearing that the fishermen were careful to take the mature fish & creatures, leaving good stock for the future. Just very impressed. I always thought it was mostly a military outpost and didn't think it was very large or had mountains. You came there to work for the military, right?

Nope, private enterprise. My Honolulu office asked me to come to Guam almost 8 years ago to open a regional office. It was SUPPOSED to be a temporary assignment. I don't think 8 years is temporary. The main office has been hinting that I expand to Singapore. I act like I don't get the hint, and I never ask about our China operation, it would be just my luck to be sent there temporarily.

pueo, Next time you get a "temporary" assignment, make sure you get it in writing, detailing the period of time in months - not years. If it extends beyond the number of months stipulated in your 'contract,' make sure there's a clause that includes a substantial salary increase. Actually, a one year stint in Singapore shouldn't be too bad an assignment. I have friends there that I can introduce you to; a business man and a physician. The only problem is their strick regulations on cleanliness; $500 fines for tossing anything on the ground, and not flushing a public toilet after use - if you get caught. c.i.

pueo, I'm not surprised at the criminal acts by the Japanese military during WWII and before. They have never learned to apologize for their atrocities, and never will. They are a stupid culture that does not understand humanity nor humility. Maybe, just maybe, in another two generations or more, they will understand the necessity to apologize, provide reperations, and ask for forgiveness for what their fathers, brothers, and others of Japan have done that sometimes exceeds the crimes of the Holocaust. c.i.

pueo, I've been to Singapore a number of times and Guam 1 time for 2 hours. I love Singapore and would go there in a flash. One thing about the fines c.i. brings up is Singapore is clean, very, very clean. It is a very unusual city in the Orient. It is also just a great starting point for many other neat places in the Orient. Gees, I would go anywhere to get off the Rock. Well, yes, okay, even China!

Have a good day!

Aloha c.i. and BillW, the thing that bothers me about going to Singapore is that I'll be farther away from Hawaii. I can imagine that after I'm established there, they will ask me to go on to Vietnam, Thailand etc. If that trend continues I may just end up one day in Boston. Man, that would be a bummer talk about going to a strange land .

You could end up on Fatu Hiva!

Interesting that you mention Fatu Hiva, my aunt has been compiling a family tree and contends that we have relatives (albeit very distant) in the Marquesas.