Aw, sh**, here we go again.

"George Patterson" wrote:

According to National Geographics, weather in the south follows
certain cycles. There have been relatively few hurricanes every year
since about 1980. Things are heating up again, and you can expect
seasons like this for at least ten years.

Well, yeah, I know it's normal for the the seasons to have cycles.
What's damned unfair is to have three major storms come ashore in the
same place in the space of a year. *That's* unusual, to say the least.
Statistically and historically, such events are usually separated by
decades at any one spot on the coast. I lived in Houston for 43 years
and saw only one direct hit by a major hurricane.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

The price one pays to live in paradise... Some days you get sun, some
days you get rain, lots of rain.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone

"Flyingmonk" wrote:

The price one pays to live in paradise... Some days you get sun, some
days you get rain, lots of rain.

I'd call Mobile a lot of things, but "paradise" isn't one of them.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 07:00:02 -0500, "Dan Luke"
wrote:


"Flyingmonk" wrote:

The price one pays to live in paradise... Some days you get sun, some
days you get rain, lots of rain.

I'd call Mobile a lot of things, but "paradise" isn't one of them.

I lived for a year in Biloxi while in training at Keesler. One of the
good things there was that I was in a "self pacing" program for the
first part of the year. The only requirement was that you had to
pass two weeks class in one week. Pretty neat. I spent most of my
time over at the flying club.

In the summer time, I had to get into a parade formation and march
across the flight line to get to class. This was for my class from 3
in the afternoon to midnight. We got rained on every day at exacly
the point where we were half way across the runway.

The worst part about Biloxi was that I had to go through that tunnel
in Mobile to get back to Tennessee. I decided one time to not spend
the $0.25 and take the free route past the paper factory. Wrong!

Good wishes to you from Huntsville Alabama for the hurricane. You can
leave your airplane here and drive my car back to Mobile. 6 hours,
minimum with a couple of speeding tickets thrown in. Back then, I
would just show them my Air Force ID and they'd give me a warning.

Mike Weller

"Mike Weller" wrote:

The worst part about Biloxi was that I had to go through that tunnel
in Mobile to get back to Tennessee. I decided one time to not spend
the $0.25 and take the free route past the paper factory. Wrong!

There used to be a toll for the tunnel? That must have been before I
got here.

Good wishes to you from Huntsville Alabama for the hurricane. You can
leave your airplane here and drive my car back to Mobile. 6 hours,
minimum with a couple of speeding tickets thrown in. Back then, I
would just show them my Air Force ID and they'd give me a warning.

Thanks, Mike: that's a hell of a nice offer. If I have to leave I'll
fly to Houston & stay at Mom's.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

I was down there for a week once many many moons ago, I was maybe
fifteen, maybe thirteen. I remembered it as being very laid back,
fishing, swimming, floating down the river on tubes, slow paced... This
is my definition of paradise. he he... Yours maybe more like the
Caribbeans or Hawaii.

Bryan "The Monk" Chaisone