Hi Dave,

 DD> it's projected to blow across the peninsula and miss Georgia and South
 DD> Carolina .... except with the fringes - which can be bad enough.

 RH> Rip tides, storm surges, winds, all that stuff. A hurricane can reach
 RH> out over quite a large area, and one this strong can do a lot of damage
 RH> hundreds of miles from the center of the storm.

 DD> Don't forget the tornadoes it spawned on the East Coast of Snowbird
 DD> land.

Saw that, highest number of tornado warnings ever issued in one day by
NWS.


 DD> Many of the systems that bred the killer winds come up through the
 DD> middle of the country and we have "major" (for our area)
 DD> thunderstorms. Looking at the track from Milty we may get missed this
 DD> time.

 RH> The weather people are talking about high surf and rip tides for the
 RH> lower coastal area of NC but that's about it. We're still a long way
 RH> from normal out in the western part of the state. Talking about
 RH> rebuilding I-40 but need to put down some soil stabilisers where the
 RH> road is washed out clear up to the median divider.

 DD> It's going to be an issue - to the point it's appearing in the
 DD> presidential election ravings.

Saw that.

 DD> I have very few actual cookbooks any longer. I still have "The Taste
 DD> of Gloucester" cookbook I picked up at one of Michae Loo's "clam
 DD> crawl" picnics. Not done pounding recipes into the confuser yet.
 DD> Close, but not done. When I finish I'll find a deserving soul to
 DD> become the new owner of a fine collection of recipes.

 RH> I still have a good collection of them and do like to pick up regional
 RH> ones when we travel. Probably should thin my collection but not yet
 RH> give the girls an inheritance. (G)

 DD> Or let them have what *you* want them to have rather than cause
 DD> acrimony when they split things up after you're gone. When my wife's
 DD> grandmother fell off her perch we were visiting her granfather's house
 DD> after the
 DD> funeral and a bunch of the relatives were discussing who got what
 DD> plunder. And poor grandpa was sitting, stunned, in his chair. Still
 DD> numb from the passiong and funeral. I went off on those old biddies
 DD> for their lack of couth while in front of the poor guy. Made some
 DD> enemies of the old trouts but friends with their husbands.  Bv)=  And
 DD> my mother-in-law since she was in agreement with me.

Sometimes some people need to be put in their place, no matter where or
when the occaision. Anyway, know one daughter doesn't have cook books,
other one has a limited collection. They both rely on the internet for a
lot of their recipies.

 DD> I have my Two Fat Ladies "Obsessions" cookbook already gift-wrapped
 DD> as a holiday season present for my sister-in-law.

 RH> Don't forget where you stashed it. (G)

 DD> Oh, I won't. It's in the pile (already wrapped) with the rest of the
 DD> gifts I have grabbed over the intervl since last gifting season. It's
 DD> my usual practice to buy that sort of thing when I spot it and think
 DD> to myself "I'll bet (insert recipient) would like that". Saves
 DD> thrashing about at the last minute.  Bv)=

Good idea there.

 RH> ... Books are better than TV; they exercise your imagination.

 DD> True dat! Especially around election time.

That's where the mute button on the remote gets a work out. TV is only
on for a couple of hours (week days), an hour on week ends but they sure
cram a lot of political ads in that time.

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Ruth
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