To Our Friend in the East

[MacTheWolf]

Oh the Horror of it all, feed the birds then watch hit themselves, or remove the food and water and let them fend for themselves in this cruel hard world. They would need to fly to far off places dodging windmills.


River

Isn't Alfred Hitchcock buried near you, River ?

[artisticlicense]

Been 100+/- three days in a row in north GA; even on top of the mountains. I turned on my AC at 3:PM, for the first time this season. Figured running fans all over the house would be the same $. Days were hot, but dry. Yesterday was rather humid. (Warning signs for afternoon thundershowers.)
We had a very violent storm last night.
Had hail and sun at the same time in the afternoon. Strange sight. Then huge rain-drops, like someone was throwing cups of water down.
Then the thunder & lightning started, with heavy rain and winds that lasted most of the night. Scary, no sleep.
I got lucky. Still have power. Lost satellite for a while though. . .
Folks out on the lake did not fare as well. I have several reports of damages & requests to go take photos already.
Been thinking lately a lot about getting a generator. I can a lot of garden produce each summer, but I still depend upon the freezers too.

[andish153]

There is not any hope but is assurance for saving them by some saving people and neighbours. Pray for them

[MacTheWolf]

Wetherman and tugon have gone without electricity for several days now. That means everything in their fridge/freezers have to be tossed. Neither can afford to eat out so, by now, they may be starving

[sduyck_2000]

my brother in law has a house in the mojave

he moved back to his house in salem the first of may...back to the mojave in october

I'll gladly trade you Slammr, you take my desert and I'll gratefully accept your 70's and sprinkles.

[MacTheWolf]

GOOD NEWS for one of our friends in Ohio. Tugon is alive and well. Jesus received an email from Tugon today. Friends of his are getting electricity from a generator so they have AC and a cold place for food.

Tugon did have to dump everything out of his fridge and freezer. He says no grocery stores have any power yet and those that are open look like dry goods stores as there is no Dairy products, Meats or Produce. Tugon says very few restauranta are open.

Lately, he has had to drive to nearby towns to find a working gas station. No traffic lights there but no accidents yet - knock on wood.

Tugon did say that there is lots of money to be made in the Tree Removal business in his town alone.

I'm happy he's surviving. He did say a power outage is a lousy time to be a diabetic Tugon and I share that malady.

[moi621]

my brother in law has a house in the mojave

he moved back to his house in salem the first of may...back to the mojave in october

There are still a few secrets in California.
One is the whole northern third of the State.
Another is the beauty of the Mojave. I have seen some spectacular wild flower years.
Acres of blue or purple or orange flowered carpets.
Isn't Salem too humid in the Summer for a Mojave resident?
He could just come closer to the Pacific Ocean.
Or move in with sduyck. You don't get that many terribly hot days, do you?

In areas of the East served by Natural Gas, if anyone hears of gas outage, please let me know.
I am keeping track of such events.
Food and Water are areas I could still be distressed.
I believe tastes like rabbit. And rabbit tastes like sweet chicken to me.

I would be willing to make a deal with the East.
The West helps them get their utilities underground as most of the West.
And the East helps the West acquire meaningful rail like the East has.
Deal?

G'luck tugon and Wetherman.

Moi of the West

[MacTheWolf]

More Good News - Wetherman, our chat moderator, returned today

He had saved some food in his portable cooler. He's still without electricity, but he's surviving.

[Riverwind]

Question, is the storm they just had the 100 year storm, like the 100 year tornado's they had last year and the 100 year flood they had the year before? Are these weather patterns happening else where in the world? I wonder what could be the cause?

Are the Russians still running the cruse ship to the North Poll?

These and other important questions will be answered by Moi.


River

[MacTheWolf]

Wetherman said another storm hits tomorrow.

[Dave]

Question, is the storm they just had the 100 year storm, like the 100 year tornado's they had last year and the 100 year flood they had the year before? Are these weather patterns happening else where in the world? I wonder what could be the cause?

Are the Russians still running the cruse ship to the North Poll?

These and other important questions will be answered by Moi.


River

The storm that barreled through WV, VA, MD and DC was the most powerful storm on record.
It was beyond the 1 in a 100 or the 1 in 500 year storm. It was the record storm to which all other will be compared as lesser.

[sduyck_2000]

we have dry heat during the summer ...humidity drops to 20 percent or less as the wind drops off the cascades

my brother inlaw worked for the state of oregon and has a massive state pension and tons of money in the bank

they set up residence in california to be near is brother...who has the house next door...to play golf during the winter...and avoid oregons regressive death tax till we get it repealed.

california has no estate tax i understand

There are still a few secrets in California.
One is the whole northern third of the State.
Another is the beauty of the Mojave. I have seen some spectacular wild flower years.
Acres of blue or purple or orange flowered carpets.
Isn't Salem too humid in the Summer for a Mojave resident?
He could just come closer to the Pacific Ocean.
Or move in with sduyck. You don't get that many terribly hot days, do you?

In areas of the East served by Natural Gas, if anyone hears of gas outage, please let me know.
I am keeping track of such events.
Food and Water are areas I could still be distressed.
I believe tastes like rabbit. And rabbit tastes like sweet chicken to me.

I would be willing to make a deal with the East.
The West helps them get their utilities underground as most of the West.
And the East helps the West acquire meaningful rail like the East has.
Deal?

G'luck tugon and Wetherman.

Moi of the West

[A-1]

Isn't Alfred Hitchcock buried near you, River ?

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Sorry,

Says... Burial:
Cremated, Ashes scattered.

Interesting biography, though...

Alfred Hitchcock

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Birth: Aug. 13, 1899
Death: Apr. 28, 1980

Legendary British Motion Picture Director. Called the "Master of Suspense" he is best remembered for his numerous suspense films, including "Dial M for Murder" (1954), North by Northwest" (1959), "Psycho" (1960), and "The Birds" (1963). He is considered one of the greatest British filmmakers of all times. He was noted for his cameo appearances in his own films. Born in Leytonstone, London, England, he was the second son and youngest of three children to a Roman Catholic Irishman, William J. Hitchcock, a fresh fruits and vegetables grocer, and Emma Jane Wheland. He was named after his father's brother, Alfred.

When Hitchcock's father died in 1914, Alfred left St. Ignatius School to study at the London County Council School of Engineering. Upon his graduation, he became a draftsman for a cable company in London. During this period, he became intrigued with photography and film making, initially working as a title card designer for what would become Paramount Studios. In 1920, he obtained a position at Islington Studios, designing title cards for silent movies. For a short period in the early 1920s, Hitchcock would work as a set designer in the German film industry, and in 1922, he got his first opportunity to direct a movie, "Number 13" (1922), which was cancelled due to financial problems. In 1925, he got a second opportunity to direct, with "The Pleasure Garden" (1925), made at the UFA Studios in Germany, which flopped with audiences. Hitchcock's luck finally changed with a drama thriller called "The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog" (1927), which became a commercial success in both the UK and the United States. In 1926, he married his assistant director, Alma Reville; she would become his closest collaborator, helping him write several screenplays and worked with him on every one of his films.

Hitchcock would go on to create a number of pioneering cinematic techniques, including using "the wrong man" theme (in which a leading man is mistaken for someone else), using famous landmarks as a backdrop for suspense sequences, experimenting in using sound repetition of certain words to stress the impression on the audience, and using incidents from his childhood years to highlight drama (such as when he was required to stand at attention in front of his mother's bed for hours, after he had been bad). In his film, "The 39 Steps" (1935), Hitchcock introduces the MacGuffin, a plot device around which the story seems to evolve, but at the end is revealed to have no meaning to the story. By the end of the 1930s, Hitchcock was so well known in Britain, that David O. Selznick signed him to a seven year contract, and Hitchcock moved to Hollywood. During his period in Hollywood, Hitchcock would continue his suspense films, beginning with "Rebecca" (1940), which won the Oscar for Best Picture (1940). The Oscar was given to Selznick, as the film's producer, rather than to Hitchcock as its director. During World War II, Hitchcock would produce a number of patriotic themed suspense movies, including making two movies for the Free French Government in Britain in 1943-44; his only films in the French language.

In 1945, he served as film editor for a Holocaust documentary for the British Army, which showed the liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps; this film was not released until 1985. In 1945, Hitchcock began filming what is considered one of his best films, "Notorious" (1946), which starred Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, and cited a Nazi plot about using uranium to create an atomic bomb; when the FBI heard about the plot, they put Hitchcock under surveillance. Hitchcock thought his story line was science fiction until the US bombed Hiroshima, Japan. In the post war years, Hitchcock would work with many stars, including James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Grace Kelly, Cary Grant and Doris Day. His list of hit films would be significant, numbering dozens of films.

Hitchcock was one of the early film producers who realized the importance of television. From 1955 to 1965, he was host and producer of a television series, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," which he would introduce the show and give it an epilogue. The television series would make him a celebrity himself, and his mannerisms would become very familiar with American audiences, and often the subject of parody. Hitchcock died of renal failure in his Bel Air, California home at the age of 80. His body was cremated, and the ashes scattered over the Pacific Ocean; his wife, Alma, would die just two years later, on July 6, 1982. Over his life, Hitchcock was nominated for five Oscars as Best Director, and one Oscar as Producer of Best Picture. Sixteen Hitchcock-directed films were nominated for Oscars, and a total of fifty films were nominated for Oscars that Hitchcock had worked on, making him one of the most Oscar nominated motion picture personalities in history. Oddly enough, he never won an Oscar. Queen Elizabeth II made Hitchcock a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1980. He held joint American and British citizenship. (bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)

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