Earl Brunner on thu 12 aug 04
Be safe people. I saw that 110 and related very well to it, but here it is
the temperature not the wind speed.....
Earl Brunner
Las Vegas, NV
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of wayne
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:15 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Florida potters
May we all stay safe and dry.
BTW, this is NOT a good time to experiment with how fast a 110 mile
per hour wind will dry your pots.
Wayne Seidl, hunkering down in
Key West, Florida, USA
North America, Terra
Latitude 81.45W, Longitude 24.33N
Elevation 3.1 feet (1m)
wayne on thu 12 aug 04
May we all stay safe and dry.
BTW, this is NOT a good time to experiment with how fast a 110 mile
per hour wind will dry your pots.
Wayne Seidl, hunkering down in
Key West, Florida, USA
North America, Terra
Latitude 81.45W, Longitude 24.33N
Elevation 3.1 feet (1m)
Ingeborg Foco on tue 17 aug 04
We finally have electricity. Life has been difficult on Pine Island; the
worst part was no water and sweltering heat and humidity. St. James city
was the direct bulls eye for Charlie but it wobbled the last minute and hit
the northern part of Pine Island - Bokeelia; and then moved on to Charlotte
County. We were hit with a category 4 and there was an anticipated surge of
10 - 12 feet coming on top of a high tide. The cat 4 happened but luckily
the tide was half way down and the surge never happened. Many people are
really suffering and recovery will take a very long time.
We feel fortunate to be alive and relatively well off i.e. minor losses.
There are over 300 messages to sort thru, a lot of clean up and much work to
be done.
It is time for bed and to have an overhead ceiling fan running is pure
luxury.
Sincerely,
Ingeborg
the Potter's Workshop & Gallery
P.O. Box 510
3058 Stringfellow Road
St. James City, Florida 33956
239-283-2775
Tom Sawyer on tue 17 aug 04
Finally got electricity. Not sure what was worse the hurricane or the
rampant destruction of trees, darkness & lack of electricity, the lack of
hot water, the hundreds of dollars of food we had to throw away or the
sweltering humid heat. BUT things are improving and none of my friends or
families were injured. At least none that I am aware of; you see I have
about 20 squirrels, rabbits, rats, field mice, dozens of birds and 2
raccoons that I feed every day. You'll know I'm really nuts when I tell you
I spend about $120 a month on animal food. I haven't seen any diminishment
in feeding amongst my squirrels or birds and most of my other denizen but I
haven't seen my rabbits and raccoons yet. Hope they are alright. I did have
the top on one of my cypress trees blown off into the lake behind my house
but I'm certain it will survive. It is such a pity to see hundreds and
hundreds of live oak trees 50-100 years old uprooted and being cut apart to
clear yards and streets. As a 70 year old I know I'll never see their
children in the splendid glory of their parents. In the past several years,
I've been on a crusade parenting palm trees and I am happy to say, I am the
proud parent of several dozen all of which survived intact. They are
relatively easy to start and I have several dozen in pots waiting to be
placed in the ground. However, the live oaks are special. I may have to
figure a way to get some of these started to replace some of our losses.
Thanks to all who expressed concern for us Floridians. By the way, I was
relatively loose about hurricanes thinking that they hit the coast but
rapidly dissipate going inland. I've lived in Florida since 1967 and have
never been bothered. Charlie was the equivalent of a category I when it hit
Orlando. In hurricane parlance a category 2 is 4 times as powerful and a
category 3 is 9 times as powerful as a category 1; you see the strength of
one category compared to another is the square so a category 3 is 3 squared
or 9 times as powerful as a category 1 and a category 5 is 25 times as
powerful. We have major major damage in Orlando with the equivalent of a
category 1 storm, I can't imagine the devastation of a category 4-5 storm. I
I know this for certain if a category 3-5 is heading my way in the future, I
I'm heading another. In the meantime, I still love Florida and if the
frequency of storms repeats its past and not hit Orlando for another 43
years which was the last time, I hope the plants growing from my grave get a
good drink.
I hope to get back to potting tomorrow. Any ideas for a hurricane pot - make
it thick and let it blow up?
Tom Sawyer
tsawyer@cfl.rr.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Earl Brunner
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 12:09 AM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Re: Florida potters
Be safe people. I saw that 110 and related very well to it, but here it is
the temperature not the wind speed.....
Earl Brunner
Las Vegas, NV
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of wayne
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:15 PM
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Subject: Florida potters
May we all stay safe and dry.
BTW, this is NOT a good time to experiment with how fast a 110 mile
per hour wind will dry your pots.
Wayne Seidl, hunkering down in
Key West, Florida, USA
North America, Terra
Latitude 81.45W, Longitude 24.33N
Elevation 3.1 feet (1m)
____________________________________________________________________________
__
Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
melpots@pclink.com.
| |
|
