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At Least Beyond A Week, Anyway

Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Life, Perspective, Philosophy, Predictability, Quotes, Rise Up and Salute the Sun, Suzy Kassem, Weather on December 29, 2023| 2 Comments »

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day.

— Suzy Kassem
From her book: “Rise Up and Salute the Sun“

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Rut-Roh

Posted in General Comments, tagged 2023 Atlantic Storms, Canada, Disclaimer, Europe, Florida, France, General Comments, Huricane Katrina, Hurricane Franklin, Hurricane Idalia, Hurricanes, Images, Ireland, Mexico, New Orleans, U.K., Weather on August 27, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I know I’m a worrywart and don’t know beans about weather forecasting, but why do I feel like we have another Katrina in the making…

August 2023 Atlantic Storms Image
August 2023 Atlantic Storms Image (forecast)

What we see in the images are two tropical hurricanes and one Atlantic storm. The one currently over Mexico is named: “Idalia“. The one east of Florida is named: “Franklin“. The third system is to Franklin’s East and is currently unnamed. It is currently headed North by (slightly) North-West.

At the moment, the assumption seems to be the hurricanes will “just” miss each other in time and continue as independent storms… (Hopefully, this is what will happen.)

My conjecture is this “may” not happen, and, in fact, there is a good chance one of two other things may…
1) Idalia pulls Franklin towards the West and they combine into a massive hurricane sliding up the Atlantic seaboard. Or,
2) Idalia doesn’t join with Franklin, but instead is itself pinned against the Atlantic coast all the way to Canada. This might occur if the third (unnamed) storm continues North-West and slows and pins Franklin in front of Idalia.

If either of these scenarios occurs, there will be terrible flooding all along the coast. If neither of these happen, it seems most likely all three storms (the unnamed, Franklin and Idalia) will take their turns hammering northern Europe – specifically, Ireland, the U.K., France and the Netherlands.

Hopefully, none of these things occur and these are wild imaginings of an unqualified doomsayer. But I have this sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach which feels an awful lot like watching TV the week before Katrina hit New Orleans.

Disclaimer: both images were snipped off of images I found on the web. Both are partial cuts from larger images. I make no claim of ownership to the original images.

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Salaam Alaikum, Pakistan

Posted in Environment, Faith, General Comments, tagged Environment, Faith, Floods, Mississippi, Pakistan, Salaam, Thoughts And Prayers, Weather on August 30, 2022| 1 Comment »

As we in the United States are currently experiencing terrible flooding in our South – South / East and extreme deadly heat in our South – South / West, let us take a moment to think about our fellow humanity suffering equally devastating weather related catastrophes in other parts of the world.

Tonight, as I am thinking of / praying for my fellow Americans in Mississippi, I am doing the same for Pakistan where there are estimates of over 1,100 people having lost their lives and over 20 million are homeless due to rain and flooding.

May God / Allah assist you in your time of need…

Salaam Alaikum for and from the people of America.

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Changed Clothes Lately?

Posted in History, Humor, My Journal, Quotes, tagged Garments, History, House Of Sinanju, Humor, My Journal, Quotes, Richard Sapir, The Destroyer Series, Truth, Warren Murphy, Weather on January 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Future generations must know the truth for history in the hands of a man who constantly needs to justify himself becomes like a garment that changes for the needs of the weather. Here I set down truth.

— House of Sinanju

[I have a large number of “quotes” in my journal which are simply attributed to “House of Sinanju“. I am sure they are all (each) from one of the 70+ books in “The Destroyer” series (co-written by Richard Sapir & Warren Murphy) which I was reading back in the 1970’s. I didn’t record which book each quote came out of at the time I found them. So, I’m just leaving them as recorded. If anyone finds the book with the quote in it, and lets me know, I will be happy to attribute the quote accurately. — kmab]

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