Hurricane Season
This is the first day of the 2007 Hurricane Season.
Jeff Masters has the forecast outlooks, which aren’t very nice.
The first name for the season was Andrea, with Barry the next name on the roster.
Now we can wait for the official end of the season on December 1st.
Events:
1495 – Friar John Cor records the first known batch of scotch whisky.
1660 – Mary Dyer is hanged in Boston, Massachusetts, for defying a law banning Quakers from the colony. She is considered by some to be the last religious martyr in what would become the United States.
1967 – The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.
1980 – The Cable News Network (CNN) begins broadcasting.
Births:
1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (d. 1612)
1780 – Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general (d. 1831)
For some reason I didn’t make the list.
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Happy birthday, Bryan.
Thanks, John. I assume that you as ready as we can be for whatever comes. It’s a little spooky seeing Erin back on the list of names, although they did retire Opal.
Happy birthday, Bryan! Somehow it seems appropriate that your birthday coincides with the start of hurricane season. 🙂 Have a great one, and live to see many more!
Happy Birthday! May you stay away from fast winds and rising water!
Thank you one and all. At least I don’t have to pay sales tax on hurricane supplies for the next two weeks.
HAPPY HURRICANE DAY !
I’ve got: batteries for the flashlights, some candles and matches, charcoal for the grill, bottled water for us all. I still need: hurricane food for me, small bag of cat food and small bag of dog food [in case we need to evacuate], and I’m dithering on whether to buy another cat carrier.
Not sure if I have enough cat litter, maybe I should get more of that too.
Speaking of lists, we were renaming all the storms at work this morning. This one is Beowulf, with Beelzebub getting second place in the voting. I don’t think Bryan made it onto the list of contenders.
Happy One-Year-Closer-To-Medicare Day!
At least “Barry” looks to be somewhat beneficial with all that rain and maybe not too much in the way of wind.
Not even enough wind to blow out all those b-day candles….:)
Hipparchia, this is the Panhandle, if there’s one thing we have in abundance it’s sand. Cats can make out with sand, even if it doesn’t clump or deodorize.
As for another carrier, you don’t want to know about the Opal evacuation – 20+ hours in the cab of a Toyota pick-up with a vocally unhappy cat.
Thank you, Blogmother. It would take a cat 4 to blow out the candles now required, a virtual conflagration of wax sticks. We can sure use the rain in South Florida and it might put out the Lake Okeechobee fire.
busted!
normally i buy only bags of top soil or play sand for the litter boxes, no steenkin’ perfumes, and about half the price of cat litter [or cheaper]. but for preparations for evacuating 7 animals, i have to have boxes of cat litter, preferably the lightweight stuff.
yep, i was here for erin and opal [and frederic, and some others]. well, no, for opal we packed up the dogs and the parents and headed for the hills. lots of my pet-owning friends didn’t leave town early enough and rode out the storm in their cars, pets included.
thanks for the reminder. i need to call a few motel chains and re-check their pet policies. for the past few years i’ve been using days inn almost exclusively whenever i travel, just because almost every single one of their motels allows pets.
For Opal I ended up in a Ramada Inn near Huntsville, the closest room I could find where they still had power. The transformers were blowing out has I drove North on I-65, and at one point I had to stop and use my chain saw on a tree that dropped onto the road.
About a dozen of us had to clear the road to continue North.
They accepted pets, but I think that was because everyone was showing up with pets.