jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 17, 2015 5:51:38 GMT -5
My grandpa(dads dad) was a hunter, trap and skeet shooting champion and a fisherman, when you grow up like that it is in your blood. outdoor life is everything. Great Lakes are wonderful to visit, heaven to live here! Memories of such beauty in nature last a lifetime and influence everything when you experience it while young. We are lucky to have had such experiences.  it is a perfect environment. The long cold season is the only drawback. Amazing how the cold slows some people down. Others thrive in it. The little town of Salt Springs Florida is a big destination for snow birds. They could get the best of both worlds. However they have the means to live at two places. I have bought two pristine pieces of land and divided it into 9 lake front lots, sold 7 of them. Six of the seven were purchased by northern folks. I have a primitivish camp on one of them and have enjoyed watching them adapt to the tropical environment. Most of them visit in their motor homes. They all dug right in and converted to Florida crackers. One guy from Nova Scotia, the cussingest man on earth. Can't understand a not cuss word he says. |
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Post by snowmom on Apr 17, 2015 7:39:39 GMT -5
LOL, jamesp, half the population here has the snowbird habit, many own a home in town, a local lakefront home, and a place in FL, AZ, TX, NM or other warm area. Some also own "camps" which would be hunting camps with acreage and family gathering spots in the woods, sometimes on a small lake, river, or creek. Many are hard working middle class families whose homes and camps have been handed down for generations and the properties are shared with the whole family. Some are cake eaters. ( rich people - ref: Marie Antionette- when told that her subjects had no bread she reportedly said, "then let them eat cake").
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ash
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Post by ash on Apr 17, 2015 11:18:25 GMT -5
I really like looking at your pics James, they are always so interesting.  I'm from California. You will have to explain what this "rain" thing is. Come to South Louisiana. I think we had about 6 or 7" on Monday, some of the hardest rain I have seen here in quite a while. |
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Post by iant on Apr 17, 2015 12:33:06 GMT -5
Keep your head above the water Jim. Those are some ugly fish. Hope things dry up soon!
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Post by stephan on Apr 18, 2015 0:50:18 GMT -5
I really like looking at your pics James, they are always so interesting. I'm from California. You will have to explain what this "rain" thing is. Come to South Louisiana. I think we had about 6 or 7" on Monday, some of the hardest rain I have seen here in quite a while. Wow, two days of that, and you'd have all we got for the year. That little rain doesn't wash off the agates very well. |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 5:22:48 GMT -5
ash- about 15 years ago we had 6 inches of rain in just over an hour. About 5 years ago we had 17 inches in 30 hours typical to your hurricanes. They happen ever so often. That fast 6 inch rain was rare and devastating in upland locations. The micro storm that dropped the 6 inch rain was in a 30 mile circle. The 3-4 hour floods it created were unlike anything. It turned small creeks into raging class 5 rapids and altered the landscape.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 5:29:57 GMT -5
Keep your head above the water Jim. Those are some ugly fish. Hope things dry up soon! The jet stream is making a huge dip from Canada down to Texas. Looping down into the Gulf of Mexico and dropping it's moisture on us Ian. It is also bringing cold moist air from Canada down the rockies and dumping snow on them. This jet stream pattern is odd and excessive. Jet stream dominates weather patterns here and probably in Scotland too. |
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Post by iant on Apr 18, 2015 6:01:26 GMT -5
Keep your head above the water Jim. Those are some ugly fish. Hope things dry up soon! The jet stream is making a huge dip from Canada down to Texas. Looping down into the Gulf of Mexico and dropping it's moisture on us Ian. It is also bringing cold moist air from Canada down the rockies and dumping snow on them. This jet stream pattern is odd and excessive. Jet stream dominates weather patterns here and probably in Scotland too. True, it affects us in the very same way. Things are ok just now but when it strays from its usual course and ruins a whole summer it's not great. We don't rely on weather to make our living like you do though so you have our sympathy! |
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Apr 18, 2015 6:36:25 GMT -5
iant- I could only imagine that the jet stream in your area could deliver all kinds of weather. Warm or cold, dry or wet. Or a westerly wind bringing cold air in from the highlands. Most of our local weather blows in from the west-the state of Alabama. If local wind is out of the east it is about always nasty. Now we have a wind turning up north out of the gulf with moisture, but originating from Canada so coldish. Pretty yukky. 80% of the time it is out of the west. And warmish. Or flat hot in summer. So we blame Alabama for all bad weather.
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Post by jakesrocks on Apr 18, 2015 10:50:54 GMT -5
LOL iant, I spent 3-1/2 years in Holy Loch Scotland. Lots of rain. Everything always green. But the folks from that area have absolutely no idea of how to drive on snow. Where I lived, just outside of Dunoon, you had to drive up a short hill to get to town. If there was snow on the road, people & cars were all over the place. Think I made them mad when I, a Yank could drive straight up the hill with no problems.
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Post by iant on Apr 18, 2015 13:54:15 GMT -5
LOL iant, I spent 3-1/2 years in Holy Loch Scotland. Lots of rain. Everything always green. But the folks from that area have absolutely no idea of how to drive on snow. Where I lived, just outside of Dunoon, you had to drive up a short hill to get to town. If there was snow on the road, people & cars were all over the place. Think I made them mad when I, a Yank could drive straight up the hill with no problems. Still holds true - get some snow on the roads and the place usually grinds to halt!  |
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Post by iant on Apr 18, 2015 13:54:52 GMT -5
iant- I could only imagine that the jet stream in your area could deliver all kinds of weather. Warm or cold, dry or wet. Or a westerly wind bringing cold air in from the highlands. Most of our local weather blows in from the west-the state of Alabama. If local wind is out of the east it is about always nasty. Now we have a wind turning up north out of the gulf with moisture, but originating from Canada so coldish. Pretty yukky. 80% of the time it is out of the west. And warmish. Or flat hot in summer. So we blame Alabama for all bad weather. Got to blame someone! |
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Post by jamesp on May 13, 2017 3:27:23 GMT -5
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