What Rachel Said

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Rachel Maddow segment from her Wednesday evening The Rachel Maddow Show. She says what should have been said by President Obama -- I agree and wanted to share it with those who may have missed it.

Hail

Twas an great weather geek day. First there was sunshine earlier in the day but then it started to cloud up. Didn't get all that warm today (only in the 50's) and a half hour before sunset it was already down to 39. That cold air from Alaska is certainly here.

Had several bands of hail pass through late afternoon and tonight. At times it was coming down pretty hard:


While taking this picture of the first band of hail to roll through, I saw my neighbor running back home along the mud of low tide. I figure he was out clamming and got caught by the hail.


About a half hour later, I had a really strong band of hail and took video (up top of this post). Snow is falling in the Coast Range and the Cascades.

Currently 34 outside. The Jotul wood stove is blazing and keeping it toasty warm inside.

Wind On The Bay

Took this short video this afternoon. I love watching the wind blowing towards me. The way the wind wave moves...

A fine day to stay inside, lounging about in fleece and warm socks, while the wind and occasional rain shower blow by. Was able to tinker with the rain gauge and believe I have it working again (whew). Had to use the Tillamook Airport totals (usually less than what I get here on the bay) for yesterday through this afternoon. That amount was 1.23 inches yesterday and 0.35 today at the time I got the gauge working again. Since then, I've gotten 0.28 inches for a grand total of 1.86 inches since I last recorded.

Total rainfall to date from October 1st is 35.02 inches.

The Sounds Of the Bay

This is my first attempt at recording video with my camera. As you can see, I'm still learning but I was amazed at how the audio picked up the sounds of the birds and the ocean roar on the other side of the spit.

Not bad (if ya ignore the zooming and the camera being pointed at the sun thangs) if I do say so myself.

I'm A Fast Woman

*surfacing from utube land* I got DSL the first of the month and have been spending all my time enjoying all the things on my to view list over at UTube. I'm gonna be posting several of my favorites so ya know what I've been enjoying.

I had a friend tell me tonight that there is a new UTube 12 step recovery program she found suring the web - it is a series of 12 UTubes (laughing).

Let's start the evening with some Paul Thorn.

And another.