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here is the precise message that was just conveyed to me: Stay in the house during the hurricane. Don’t go out during the eye, expecting that’s the end of it. If you don’t have double-strength windows, tape them up so the glass won’t fly if shattered.
If you live in a coastal area and the authorities tell you to evacuate, listen to them. Hashem helps those who help themselves, after all.
Pick up objects in your yard that could become airborne with a 100-mph wind and either secure them or put them inside, so you won’t be responsible for killing any stupid neighbors who might be outside.
This news didn’t come from Sinai, but it did come from sources “that know.” It’s a message of hope and redemption. Be assured that within a few hours of the hurricane’s start, the hurricane will end.
from ronrsr, a non-prophet insitution.
more important: did you like her? Did you feel a connection? Would you consider her as a mate? How were her middos? Was she kind? Would she make a good mother for your children? were you attracted to her? Did you have a rapport with her?
forget the dress stuff. It’s really not important.
very few people are hurt by the winds of a hurricane, presuming that they stay inside during the whole thing, and don’t make the mistake of going outside during the eye.
Many hurricane injuries come from getting hit by flying objects that are sent speeding aloft by the wins, so your patio furniture, home siding, branches of trees become deadly objects. But you can avoid these mostly just by staying in your home. If you don’t feel safe at home, go to a shelter such as the New Orleans Superdome or a local school.
Much more damage is done by the storm surge, so if you live near the shore, move inland or listen to the radio very carefully for evacuation procedures. Don’t ignore them.
Hurricanes do much property damage, but in the US they kill very few people. Hot weather, for instance, is a much more deadly form of weather, killing 100s of times more people than hurricanes.
I’ve been through four or five in the New York and Boston area, starting with the famous Jewish hurricane, Hurricane (Queen) Esther in 1961. The house shakes, the windows shake, it rains a lot, lots of debris and witches on broomsticks fly by your window, then it gets real quiet for a while (the eye of the storm) and then the storm starts again with great violence. The witches and patio furniture fly in the opposite direction.
My advice: unless you’re on the coast and under an evacuation order, just sit back and enjoy it, it’s a wonder to behold.
During the last heat wave, at least five people died of weather-related causes in Brooklyn alone.
So, don’t be scared. You survived the deadly hot weather, a hurricane should seem like a walk in the park.
no, but she will huff and puff and blow your house down.
Though in my experience, she usually just blows pieces of aluminum siding off, and turns them into dangerous, sharp object flying at 90+ miles per hour.
dear ootinny, I think that the sun rising in the east each morning is a sign that we should do that.
was a time, when all hurricanes were named for females, that I wouldn’t mix with them at all. Getting blown around in the wind could lead to mixed dancing!
I would hope that if Hashem wished to send everyone a clear message, he would send a VERY clear message, or hire a good public relations firm to get the message out clearly.
no message. Just physical forces put in play by the Creator of the Universe at work.
“The Automat”
I feel the earth move under my feet. I feel the sky tumblin’ down, tumblin’ down.
what’s the return policy on a psak?
Ootinny, consider that the problem may lie with your dryer, which is shrinking your clothing excessively.
Seriously though, when I was 11 and very fat, I lost 70 pounds, going from a roundish 180 to 110, by borrowing my dear aunt’s weight watchers diet and adhering to it for a few months. Nobody ever told me I was allowed to cheat.
Two winters ago, I joined Weight Watchers for real and lost 20 pounds in 4 months, and kept about 75% of it off since then.
are men allowed to mix with female-named hurricanes?
I remember Hurricane Esther in 1961. I was a little kid but I was convinced she was Jewish since she had the same given name as my late grandmother.
I vote for Ed Koch.
IN summary, the best interview I heard on the radio said, “it was exciting, everyone should experience an earthquake once in their life, but once is it.”
No one was hurt, no serious damage. You would consider it fun if it happened at an amusement park.
I am sorry for your pain, but I am grateful that you could talk to all of us publicly to help US to understand. I admire you.
Good communications skills and good spelling and grammar are merely consideration for your reader and listener. No one wants to be incosiderate, does he?
very cool.
earthquakes are not rare events. they happen many times every day somewhere.
The opposition.
Homowack hotel
Catered?
do you remember “Picturephones” at the 1964 Worlds Fair? They were pretty cool, you could see who you were talking with. They predicted in five years everyone would have one.
love your in-laws as hard as you can.
do you remember the fresh intoxicating smell of fresh mimeographed sheets? mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Once they had this crazy silversmith named Paul Revere ride a horse from Charlestown to Lexington shouting, “The Regulars are Coming Out!” from his horse.
That was the signal that color war had broken out between the blues and the reds.
I remember when we had to read our emails by candlelight.
My mother remembers when she had to carve her emails into the cave walls.
I remember steam-powered word-processors.
I remember when the Coffee Room served only tea.
there was a typo in my last post, it should read “Instamatic Cartridge”
What happened to you today?
Instamatic icartridge is the name of the type of film.
can we agree that infanticide is wrong?
who says?
too vague for me.
but remember that the some of the roles of a father has changed over time, too.
The real traditional Jewish wedding is one where people would put on the best clothes THEY CURRENTLY OWNED and walk out to a field or synagogue with their friends and relations, set up a SIMPLE chuppah, have the ceremony in accordance with the law of Moses, break a glass, provide a little music, food and booze for the guests, and that was it.
The whole WHITE DRESS business, etc., is relatively new, even in the goyish world. Queen Victoria started that whole shtick not even 200 years ago, and it was a tremendous boon for a huge wedding industry.
I have to say that I don’t really have fun at most large weddings. It’s noisy, hard to talk, there’s too much food and the emcee or badchan is just trying to hard to stuff too much entertainment down our throats.
The real pleasure I get at a wedding is from seeing a nice couple get married and chatting with my friends and relations. Everything else is superfluous.
Almost two years ago, my intended, now my wife and I threw a party for all our friends. Our goal was to have a really good party at which there just happened to be a wedding. It cost us, with clothing, cars, invitations, food, music, etc., just a smidge over $10,000 for 55 guests.
I typeset and printed our own ketubah which we later had decorated by an artist friend ($150 for printing costs and buying fonts, $150 for the artist; her work was partially a wedding gift to us.)
My suit came from TJ Maxx, and her dress came from a yard sale. We borrowed the talis for the chuppah from a friend. We had the ceremony in a park ($25 permit fee) and the reception at a new and lovely VFW hall in our neighborhood ($400). I designed and typeset the invitations and had them printed at vistaprint ($100). We asked people to RSVP by phone or email.
The entertainment was supplied by a 4-piece klezmer band ($1500). Those guys really made the wedding. I’m so glad we didn’t use recorded music or a DJ.
We had a really good and meaningful time. The wedding was very dignified, the bride looked lovely. She had no attendants and was walked to the chuppah by her mother and daughter.
It only took a few weeks to prepare. I personally picked up all the out-of-towners at the airport and train station. Both of us got to sit and speak meaningfully with everyone who came to the wedding, and we still get raves about what a wonderful and personal affair it was.
There was a hot buffet ($5500, with all the silverware, plates, glasses, tablecloths, etc.) and an open bar ($160 total, my family doesn’t drink much), and the VFW hall served our kosher wine and champagne for only $5/bottle). Miscellaneous tips ($300).
Other costs included: Mesadar Kedushin (Rabbi) – $600 or $650. One large rental car for shuttling guests around, about $150. Tailoring for my suit, $40. An uncomfortable pair of shoes for me: $50. Flowers (bridal bouquet, corsages for the mothers) about $150. COntributions to Mazon, about %600. Photography was done by a friend of my wife who did it as a gift in exchange for airfare from California and four days of food and lodging ($400). There was a bottle of wine for the ceremony and the glass, and that was about $15.
Our mothers threw a brunch the next morning for our guests, I”m not sure what that cost.
All-in-all it was a wonderful, fun and dignified wedding that had our very personal touches on every aspect.
Writing well is merely consideration for your readers.
One person writes an entry here and many people read it. If the writer is selfish and skimps on the grammar and clarity, then 100 people are inconvenienced by having to spend time thinking about what the person is trying to say. That’s a huge waste of your readers’ time.
Bad writing in a public forum where others are going to read is simply inconsiderate of your readers, and you’re not an inconsiderate person, are you?
I’m paying about $0.155 per kwh from. The electric utility owned by our small town.
They put lots of nice graphs and figures on the bill, so each year we try to use less electricity in a given month than in the previous year.
Most month’s we succeed. This year we’re having trouble because we got a dehumidifier for the basement we never had before, and we have a foster childnwho has no concept of conservation
For reference we used 520 kwh in June for a household of two adults and two teenagers. We live in a 9 room house with one room air conditioner, one refrigerator and one tv.
There is a list of major donors and sponsoring organizations right on their website. It doesn’t appear to be a big secret.
Luck favors the well-prepared.
He was solid, now he’s a bit gaseous.
What rate are you referring to?
Dear mommamia
I am sorry ro say that the statistics say otherwise. According to the book i mentioned above, there has been a huge increase in the number of girls who have been prevented from being born. In some coumtries in Asia, terminated pregnancies outnumber live births by over 2.5x, much of that to do with sex selection.
It is a huge problem in a world with so many huger, close problems, that we rarely have time to focus on it.
FrequentLy earth is placed inside the cOffin.
Cheyenne, Wyoming?
In some states the coffin must be enclosed in a concrete liner, to prevent sinkholes in the cemetery.
it will lead to more of what the original sex tests led to all over Asia. It is not just China. There is a new book out on the topic, “Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.” by Mara Hvistendal
CF light bulbs and a new energy star refrigerator made a tremendous difference for me, cutting a third off my electric bills.
Con Ed will indeed help you lower your bill by helping you buy more energy efficient appliances, doing a home energy audit and other programs. Check out. http://www.coned.com/energyefficiency/residential.asp. For more info. Conservation saves you money.
Mazal tov, kylbdnr.
Mazal tov, kylbdnr.
Check out the book “Miss Manners Guide to a Dignified Wedding.”. Great book and great comcept. It will tell you how to be excruciatingly correct in every situation.
Try something like this.
Dear xxx
We were so happy that you could join us for our wedding.
Thank you so much for the (insert name of gift here). (say a few nice words about the gidt here, favor adjectives like generous, beautiful, perfect and usefull)
Thanks again for making our day so (special,meaningful,womderful,memorable). (insert bracha here)
With love,
The newly married couple