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Comments (65)Well said minibim. I never take these storms lightely but I seem to have developed a 6th sense as to whether they are going to be bad or much to nothing. I am so used to afternoon thunderstorms where we sometmes have microburst and wind gusts in excess of 50 mph. I have been through so many storns and even sat through one in a rente mustang. My mother and I had gone to a football game in New Orleans and hurrican Helana had been fickle and was running up and down the coast. We enjoyed the game and spent some time in the French Quarter when we heard that hurrican Helena was headed straight towards Slidell where were wre staying. We were in an interior room and would have been safer staying there but my Mom wanted to get out of town. We goton I-10 and headed home. The rain got worse and worse and finally it got to a point where I could barely see the road and the wind was pushing the car around. The radio person stated that the hurricane was coming ashore between Biloxi and Gulfport. I looked up and saw the road sign that said Gilfport next three exits. We sat the fist part of the storm under I-10 next to a giy in a VW. I was never so happy as when this big semi pulled up behind us. The both decided to turn around and face the other direction and they told me to make sure the gust was not coming when we made the turn or it would flip the car. We were having 160 mph gusts. They left me furing the eye so I got back on the interstate and I was going to take the interstate up north. There was a semi flipped on its side and another on top of a van. I got down onto the other road and realized that I was going to hit he front wall of the storm. You have never seen anyone back up a ramp so fast in your life. We got to the next exit just as the storm hit again and took shelter under the roof of a convenience stor with three oil changing pits, etc. The building was between us and the ocean. I looked over and saw the gas pump handled blowing in the wind and hoped they had cut the gas to the pumps off. I got out and ran around and took pictures of the wind blowing sideways until I saw a tornado coming that lifted the roof off of the gas station half a block away. My mother is now wishing we were back at the hotel. After the storm passed we headed towards home and saw numerpus twisters forming and still do not know how we missed geting sucked up into one that passed right over us and touched down on the other side of the road. I knowthe angels had their protective wings over us. I know the power of these storms and I respect them, but I have learned not to stress out over them. If thre seems to be a truly bad one heading our way I pack Lee up and we head out of town. Disney does make us come in sometimes when we should not be on the roads as the govrnor asks but it is our job and we do have guests to tend to and take care of. Disney has rideout teams that take care of th park and guests when things get really bad and they also take care of some of the cast members who have nowhere to go. They let me stay in one of the resorts for $8 a night when Charley came through. So I watch and wait and then make decisions. The truly bad storms are generally predictable though we have had several that were fast and deadly. Lee's idiot children refuse to leave Key West as they say they are protected by an angel. They even drove down the road during the eye of a storm when you had to guess where the road was. So it is appropriate to do the basics and have that kit ready 365 as hurricanes are not out only disasters here. We alo sit on an earthquake plate and I have experienced two small tremors. We have an inactive volcano in the north Florida area that is so small that no one can locate it anymore and we have lightening, tornadoes, microbust and nasty thunderstorms. That is the price we pay for living in paradise. I hope everyone is okay and I will start a chech in thread. Linda...See MoreAnyone else hate their ceramic cook top?
Comments (30)I feel so guilty even saying this because my children bought me a beautiful looking GE Stainless steel, ceramic top stove and I absolutely despise it! How I wish I could have had either another electric coil top or my fave - a gas top. Ceramic is a joke to cook on. It takes forever to heat up or to cool down, you can't leave anything simmering because it does NOT simmer, and nothing really cooks correctly. Who cares how "lovely" it looks if you can't actually cook with it. I wish I could return it!!!!!!! I am an experienced home cook, but the ceramic glass top is enough to reduce the most experienced cook to tears because it does not really work. You cannot simmer, fry, stew, or sauté correctly without taking the pan on and off. I finally bought an electric counter top skillet which I use for frying and sautéing. I use the glass top to boil pasta water, and tea. That's about it. I use my slow cooker for stews and tomato sauce or thick soups and my electric skillet for everything else. My stove bakes perfectly so I use it for baking. BUT to think that my children paid a fortune for this stupid stove is sad and just plain WRONG....See MoreReborn Restoration Hardware Reinvented - What!!??
Comments (86)I agree! When I got the catalog and took a look, I thought...what the hey!?! Not only was the stuff weird and unappealing, the catalog was a mess and barely readable. Whoever published/printed their catalog used WHITE print against LIGHT backgrounds...I couldn't read what some of the product descriptions and prices said! Yet someone at RH had to approve the catalog before it went out. I hate to say it, but that person should be fired. That was a total dereliction of his/her job duties to let that catalog go out like that. I've been to our local store several times this year. They renovated it, repainted, redesigned it, etc. NOW they don't carry much of what is in the catalog. The clerk will have to order it online for you (no shipping fees that way). I couldn't take a look at some things I had seen in last year's catalog, because the store doesn't have even a sample sitting out (like task lamps). They did have samples of most of their drapes, and that's where I bought my velvet drapes. They were clearly of a superior quality to Pottery Barn's and others that I'd seen. But they had to order them for me; they didn't have enough panels in the store to cover my window (and this was a basic camel velvet that I'm sure they sell a lot of). All their furniture is too large for my small house and my taste. I threw away the catalog, and I look at their stuff online. I figure that they are trying to become lean and mean in these recessionary times, hence the small inventory in the store. But there's no excuse for that horrible catalog. (BTW, the task lamp I bought and the velvet drapes are absolutely beautiful and high quality. They cost a pretty penny, but at least I got my money's worth. I couldn't be happier with them, and with their customer service, which is top rate.) As for their weather-washed huge furniture, another poster mentioned it was a Swiss style or something. Maybe. But furniture from Sweden, Norway, etc., is usually small scale with simple lines. The RH furniture was enormous, with round feet, large bulky posts, besides being that unattractive gray. I can't imagine that style will sell much. It certainly doesn't suit me. But then, I probably wouldn't buy furniture from RH to begin with, because of the price....See MoreAlstroemerias anyone?
Comments (10)" 7cm pots were eye-wateringly expensive (at least for this cheapskate) - can I expect much this season?" I don't know about the UK climate but here, definitely not. The original species were mostly high altitude South Americans. Through breeding at places like U Conn, the (perennials) garden forms were selected for being able to grow in our climate. But they still need a year to establish, and they are a bit fussy during that establishment period. However after a couple years, when the roots probably have sufficient mass, some of them, at least, are vigorous, free-blooming plants. Thus I was amused to see recently that some are being sold as "temperennials" or "expensive annuals". I'm guessing someone took the cut flower strains and selected them for being able to size up in a year...in a European garden. The excellent (for that kind of thing) local-to-me nursery called Groff's Plant Farm was devoting a huge amount of bench space - maybe 30 feet or so - to this dubious (to me) prospect. I really have trouble believing they will develop well in a few months, in our climate at least, and be worth any price other than free, which they weren't. I think they wanted 3.79 for a tiny tea cup sized pot. AND on top of that these aren't being sold in the perennials section, so they might not even last through a cold winter. I think the wholesale marketers are always pushing some new 'might be but really isn't perennial' geegaws to the masses...hoping you'll buy the latest thing even though it's destined to die. It's all part of the plan...they select the plants to make sure they _won't_ survive an average winter in your area. Take these new showy Osteospermums. Granted I didn't buy it to be perennial, but it obviously died outright on the night of the first freeze, just like an annual would, while the wild-collected Osteospermum right next to it stays semi-green until it gets really cold. (and survived to past two rough winters you might have heard about) And based on what I've observed, I have a hard time believing that the so-called 'Digiplexis' were surviving in the colder/interior parts of the UK. I even wonder if some of the new ridiculous looking coneflowers are actually surviving YOY in most people's garden. Though they are derived from perfectly hardy species. In the rare case someone breeds these kind of plants to actually be _hardier_ than their parents, the retail market - the nurseries - decide not to buy them because they'd rather you come back next year to buy more plants. In the early 2000s a professor at NCSU wanted to create perennial Gerberas. The seeds were very expensive but I bought a pack from Park Seeds. It was something like $5 for 12 seeds. They were hard to germinate and keep alive which has always been my experience with antipodal Asteraceae. Two of the plants grew and survived a fairly cold winter for me, but that was the year my parents sold their house so I lost the garden I'd started when I was 12 or so. I could only move a few really precious plants and had to skip those. Well, that seed strain was never seen again....See Morecarolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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