Weekend Check in Thread: Jan. 9, 2010 How Are You?
 

Hello, Folks,

I have been sleeping more or less but I feel sluggish and nap some days if I can.

This afternoon, Hubby asked me if he could help with some of my boxes in order to get the living room looking nicer.
We worked together for a couple of hours.
And we got along! :)


What's going on with the weather??!
It is expected to freeze tonight.
I am warm inside -- thank goodness for heaters. http://bestsmileys.com/clapping/4.gif


M.

wow mari that was a good report!
jeff starts back up again on monday with meetings, classes start again on wed...
What are your feelings on global warming and these temperature changes, I have heard that we should espect these changes from now on....
I am afraid they are right!
bizi

Dear Beth,
We started last week.
Yes climate change seems to be in play here -- not that I really understand all the research and statistics involved.
How are your kitties?
M.

It is cold. 44 F.
In India homes are not centrally heated, so heating is arranged as need based and I hate heaters, even those that come with steamers. So here I am on the computer wearing a ton of woollies. :yikes:

I have been researching for a friend, someone who at the cost of sounding juvenile I think of as my 'best friend', who has Parkinson's. He has been diagnosed for over ten years now. Although the progression has been slow so far, it has now got to a stage where more medications need to be added. Dosage and timing is very important to allow mobility and there are just so many permutations and combinations that have to be tested out to arrive at some kind of an optimal for a certain amount of time.

The Parkinson's forum's support has been awesome. Suggestions to use a simple OT drug which is prescribed for cough has helped a great deal.

ABBIE - the aforementioned drug is also meant to help lupus, fibro and CFS. It is Dextromethorphan.
Here is a link to a google search page that lists a lot of articles on the subject.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...yalgia&spell=1

Nothing much happening really - rather, I haven't had time for much else.
I have put myself on a no grain, no sugar eating program. Fruit, veggies, chicken and fish. Ate too many chocolates and sweets last month. I feel bloated.

Mari, Bizi, I agree. maybe it is the effect of global warming, but from what I gather these extreme temperatures also happened decades ago. So? :Dunno: Too complicated. I will continue with my efforts at living an environment friendly life. Global warming or not, can't hurt on either the micro or macro level.

Enjoy your Sunday all of you.

In my neck of the woods, this weather is normal in a year. Its been the weather we have had the last few years that hasn't been so normal.

Its cold and snowy here. And if my son had been home he would have
missed two days of school. So our schools already have 2 make up days.

Just life here, I'm afraid this is going to be a bad make up days year.


I spent friday night and part of Saturday with my mom and a couple of
sisters. Then back home. To the fact I sent Dale with Derrick to
the Girls Purdue Game today. He plays at half time.

Its not something Dale enjoys but he can handle it. And he needs to learn
to do things Derrick does.

Donna

well the climate is changing that is for sure, at least here, 17 was the low last night, I think I have lost many plants. supposed to warm up though.
my kitties are fine and warm inside cats.
WE went to an art walk (the 2nd saturdays of the month) last night. and a gathering of fringe type artists, goth in nature, my friend was displaying her paintings which were not well lit so you missed out on the subtleties but glad to support her and wished her well. The streets were mostly Deserted due to the cold temps. Walked around a bit stopped at a gallery as we were geting ready to leave that had a wine tasting set up. the wines were good, chardenay and cabernet both very smooth. they do in home wine partys, I don't think I have that many friends who like wine!
But it is a fun thing to think about.
going to watch avatar this afternoon in 3-D...supposed to be very good!
stay warm where ever you are today
(or tonight if over seas waves to waves:Wave-Hello: )

have a great rest of the day!
bizi

Bizi, Mari,
Here is an article about climate change that was in the Guardian yesterday.
Interesting. I thought you may like to read it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...imate-sceptics

Hi, Friends,

I'm going to bed. 'Have to be at work tomorrow.
I'll see you all again tomorrow.

M.

Hi Mari The weather is affected by the"El Nino-Southern Oscellation(2009,2010). It also took the tops of the hurricanes clouds out during the 2009 season I believe. This phenomina is hard to explain. Google it,and it will show maps of the areas that it affects in America. I don't know how to bring it here. I wish that I did. BF:hug::hug::hug:

El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) effect
 

Thank you Steve!

Your post was very enlightening. :) Although I am generally aware of the El Niño phenomenon, i did not know we were in another bout of it, nor did it even occur to me! :o

Ok, here are some links.

Wikipedia has an extensive page on this, with references.
Wikipedia - El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Here are just a few tidbits:
Here's a page from The Franklin Institute Science Museum dating back to the 1997/8 episode of El Niño, that makes an interesting point:
El Niño: Hot Air over Hot Water

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has two brief pages dedicated to El Niño and the complementary La Niña phenomena
NOAA El Niño Page
NOAA La Niña Page

well that's plenty for now i should think.

~ waves ~

Yes,Yes
 

That's it. You got it. Back in 1997,we had a gosh awful bad snow storm to. It was a El Nino event. It also goes back to 1988 where we had three deep snow storms.

I believe it causes wind sheer events that decreases the intensity of the hurricanes on the Atlantic coast of America where I am. We didn't have to many hurricanes last fall,and I think they went mostly to the north,and they where not as severe.

After the El Nino,comes the La Nino. The La Nino has a opposite affect where the waters off the South American coast in the Pacific cool down. There are maps that show where these different weather El Nino/La Nina conditions affect.

Also the Solar Flare Cycle 24 is about a year late. The Solar flare cycle has been at a minimum for about 2 years now. The solar output affects the solar system in many ways. A solar flare cycle lasts about 11 years.

Oh me. I'm not a expert,but I love science. BF:hug::hug::hug:

I'm really lost with all this talk.

But I can say this. I really remember lots of the snowstorms that hit here.

And I'm pretty sure they still are coming.

Donna

I'm sorry Donna. I got carried away. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Donna and Steve
 

Dear Donna...

please excuse us weather techies, hehe! :o;)

But yeah, the snowing you remember had to do with El Niño for sure. There is increased precipitation in the US/wintertime. i was living in California at that time, and what i remember is flooding. so much rain that three reservoirs dumped into the valley. to get around you needed a boat or a gondola any more instead of a car. so much access blocked off. i used to go regularly to Barnes and Noble at night (had a starbucks inside) for book browsing and coffee. And i know a couple times i got turned back by cops - road closed for flooding. (which really sucked for me, because at the time that was my late-at-night, feelin' kinda blue, go out and feel better thing to do.)

Hey i went to quote your post from Abbie's thread to reply in here, but it was gone, lol. Anyway I read that you think you are feeling better. that is great to hear. you mentioned you go backwards sometimes... hopefully only minor setbacks. if you have full relapses though, i would call the doctor. i was wanting to know how you were so i was glad to see the post even momentarily, lol. :) :hug::hug::hug:

Dear Steve...

I enjoy this stuff too. i cross posted to the weather thread. and i added a post showing animated maps of the pacific anomalies. that is interesting about the solar flares. i wonder how "regular" those have been and what the lateness implies. El Niño is irregular, but i don't know about the flares. that was new to me. (again thanks.) :)

i hope tonight is kind to you Steve. :hug::hug::hug:

~ waves ~

Waves The 11 year solar flare cycles have been fairly regular since about 1950. Right around 1958,the sun's output was the brightest that it's ever been recorded.

Click on "Sunspot CYCLE Charts",on Google. It shows you charts of the years of Solar Cycles,and their peaks.

So many things affect the weather,both space,and planetary. BF:hug::hug::hug:

Waves & Brokenfriend

I just was enjoying the weather information. But I got lost, so continue.

The thing is one of the weather messes, we had a ice storm, in March.
It made us have no electricity for about a month. My kids didn't get
to go to school either for 3 weeks. They had to make it up over the month
of June. They did luckily get their Spring Vacation, even though many in our area thought our schools should take this away from them.

They had just endured 3 weeks of nothing, but having darkness, no electricity.
And in many cases they had to figure out how to take cold baths and showers, or go to friends. It was a awful time for us.
So I'm hoping its not going to be one of those.


We have also had many times of the Snow Storms that left much snow,
much damage, and no electricity or other things. So I'm not looking forward
to that either.

So lets hope we don't get it as bad.

Donna

Dear Donna
 

That sounds like a nightmare!!! :eek:

Here's hoping your weather starts to play nice this year! :hug:

~ waves ~

Every thing is interesting until the power goes out. When it gets cold you don't care about light,or food anymore. Back in 1997 when the power went out I didn't have any resources to get warm. I haven't forgotten about it either.

I have those heat pads that hunters use. I have two portable propane heaters,and a Carbon Monoxide detector. I have a car. I lived in a apartment with no fire place. I don't have a fire place available to me now.

It's only the ice storms that knock out the power,for the most part. The last thing that I did was fill my car with gas before we got the 20 inches of snow a couple of weeks ago. I bought bagels,D batterys,and small propane tanks. I was fortunate. The electricity did not go out,or even flicker in this last snow storm. BF:hug::grouphug::hug:

Dear Friend,
I wonder if others have concerns regarding electricity as much as those of us with anxiety do.
Or maybe after someone has been through one tough storm they are more likely to think about being prepared in case there is another.
M.

ummm... when there is no heat...
 

and the outside temps are consistently in the teens ... the indoor temps decline very rapidly.

You don't die from lack of light.

People HAVE died from cold... right in there homes.

It is worse than having the power go out during, say, a hurricane... in a warm climate. lack of light does not threaten one's existence. also freezing cold running water when it's already freezing cold does not offer a way to warm up either. that is if any water is running... depending if the supply is electrically pumped or not, and whether pipes freeze.

Food is an issue, but in our day it is pretty likely for people to have something to eat at home that doesn't require light/heat to consume, even if they haven't expected an outage. It is much likely one will just so "happen" have ways of producing heat without electricity... unless one has given it some thought. We have space heaters, for instance... but they are electric.

i daresay nobody who has been through one of these horrific experiences is going to want to repeat it and will take preventive measures they can to offset the possible storm impact - particularly on temperature.

i can see where those with anxiety might worry more... and possibly make preparations sooner and prepare better than others, but not necessarily if for instance they are also depressed.

~ waves ~ 2 bits