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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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Typhoon Hagupit ("Ruby") and I are scheduled to meet in Manila, Philippines, on Monday evening. Your prayers for safe travel and arrival would be appreciated.
Oh, and I don't know when I will next get decent internet access. Could be a while...
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They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying; and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace. - The Fool in King Lear
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Yikes. ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Leaf
Shipmate
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For your safety.
For others who may suffer from this
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Holding you and the whole of The Philippines in the Light.
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I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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((IngoB and those in the path of this typhoon))
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"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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Piglet
Islander
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for the people of the Philippines, and for IngoB.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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Ingo and all
Be careful, ok? Maybe keep some simple emergency supplies with you. There are emergency flashlights that have a radio and a cell phone charger. FWIW.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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Watch your ass and scream into the wind, baby. I look forward to you telling us the tales when you get back.
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Traveling mercies.
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This is the last sig I'll ever write for you...
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Raptor Eye
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Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Hedgehog
Ship's Shortstop
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Travel safely, Ingo. May the Lord provide shelter from the storm.
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"We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it."--Pope Francis, Laudato Si'
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Checking in.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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Thanks everybody.
While the weather agencies predicted that I would be flying into 60-100 kph winds and that there was a significant chance of flooding where I am staying due to torrential rain, in fact we landed just fine and ended up having merely some medium heavy rains which barely buckled the river's water levels.
Who says prayers don't work? Thanks again. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Internet sucks though, so I will be quieter for a while (even more answered prayers, eh? ![[Biased]](wink.gif) ).
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They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying; and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace. - The Fool in King Lear
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Piglet
Islander
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Glad to hear you're OK, Ingo - long may that continue!
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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Ingo--
Glad you're ok! Thanks for letting us know.
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Originally posted by IngoB:
Internet sucks though, so I will be quieter for a while (even more answered prayers, eh? ).
ROTFL.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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Not perhaps in the same league, but dirty weather coming in from the Atlantic. Tonight will be wild in the Isles and wet in the West: ferries not sailing, flooding expected. And snow to follow.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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I don't think it's coming from this particular bit of the Atlantic - it's been calm, sunny and very cold here for the last couple of days.
Famous last words ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Glad to hear you made it in one piece, IngoB-- stay safe!
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
I don't think it's coming from this particular bit of the Atlantic - it's been calm, sunny and very cold here for the last couple of days.
Coming from Iceland - apparently what's known in the trade as a 'weather bomb'. 45 ft waves off Barra, and winds to 80 mph to come.
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Golden Key
Shipmate
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A much lesser, but fierce, storm is rolling into the San Francisco Bay area today. SF itself doesn't usually do--or need--big storm preparations. But schools are even closing--and, given that most parents hold jobs outside the home, and may not be able to find or afford childcare, that may mean a lot of kids home alone. (I always worry about that.)
The city is, commendably, trying to get the homeless into emergency shelters. But, in non-storm situations, we have many more thousands of people on the street than we have shelter beds.
Anyway, prayers appreciated.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Golden Key
Shipmate
# 1468
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Re SF storm:
I'm ok. Power was out this morning. Other than that, I'm fine. Lots and lots of problems all over from the storm.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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It's not that bad so far-- just incrdibly wet. i was freaked out, too, though, as the SFUSD closed all schools. Literally, the last emergency school closure in the district was 9/11. If the SFUSD is cutting kids some slack, one of the four horsemen must be on the way, I thought.
A city of working parents having to relocate their kids is nothing to sniff at, though. And my sis was not only rained out of work downtown, but flooded out of her house next to the redwood city mud flats. She had to hide out in our den until the tide went out.
But hey-- less drought!
[ 11. December 2014, 21:47: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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I was thinking about you Californians when some of your weather made it on to the "wild weather" report on the Canadian Weather Channel earlier today.
Hope you're all safe and well.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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basso
Ship’s Crypt Keeper
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One thought that popped into my mind today as we watched the traffic go past was this:
This is the first really big storm we've had in the Bay Area in six years. That means that there is a whole group of drivers out there on the roads who have never driven in a rainstorm.
California drivers are notorious as it is for forgetting from year to year that things change when it rains. (¨It takes longer to stop on a wet, oily road? Are you sure about that?¨)
Introducing a flock of novices could add a whole level of scary to that.
(We had the time to talk about things like that while the power was out and we didn't have much to do but clean up.)
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DangerousDeacon
Shipmate
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Lots of storms here, but no cyclones (yet!).
All this as we commemorate the 40th Anniversary of Cyclone Tracy, which destroyed most of the city early on the morning of Christmas Day, 1974.
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'All the same, it may be that I am wrong; what I take for gold and diamonds may be only a little copper and glass.'
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