All’s quiet on a Pacific Isle.

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,051

Nobody knew:

 

“Just because you can’t dance doesn’t mean you shouldn’t dance.”  

 

I liked Bob Dole. I liked his cutting wit. His ability to be rational, how he could cut through the verbiage. He worked well on both sides of the aisle we necessary for key issues. I liked this quote of is as grew older and sat back to watch the America he helped further become sometimes: “I don’t like to second guess, but I do believe we have lost something, I can’t get my hand on it but we’re just us not quite where we should be as the greatest democracy in the world.’ Yeah I likes Bob Dole, the war hero, the congressional fighter, the good man with the wry sense of humor quite a bit.

 

A lot of police departments are setting up their facilities to accommodate the safe delivery of packages now that porch piracy has again become rampant. That’s a nice gesture. But what does that say about our society. About trusting others.

 

If you’re looking for me tonight, I will be with my spirit in Buffalo where my beloved Pats play their most important game of the season against the mighty Bills. I am counting the seconds.

 

I dressed my dog up as a cat for Halloween. Now he won't come when I call him.

 

 

The Question:

This is a question about weather forecasting history, and a couple of guys named Charles. If you get it, you may go down in Tids history. Who are Charles Pierce and Charles Mitchell?

 

The Headlines:

--Dow Continues On Fire at 3:00, Though Slight Slippage Between 2:00 and 3:00; Moderna Getting Thumped; Fauci Downgrades Severity Of Omicron Elating Investor Community; Bitcoin Stabilizes After Weekend Plunge.

--Russia Threat To Ukraine Deepens; Putin And Biden To Talk Tomorrow.

--China Threatens Retaliation If Biden Follows Through With Order Of Diplomatic Boycott of Olympics.

--Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Sentenced To Jail

--NYC Mayo DeBlasio Expands Vax Mandate To Private Employers.

—Colorado State U Study Says Men Biggest Spreaders of Covid; Singing Emits More Particles Than Talking.

 

A sign said, “Do not allow your dog to chase, injure, or worry wildlife.” How is a dog going to “worry” wildlife? Run up to a bird: “Hey, I think you’ve got something on your beak. It could be a tumor.” --Andy Kindler

 

Let’s hear it for U of Cincinnati’s football team, the first ever smaller conference team to crack the good ole boy networks. I’ll be rooting for them all the way.

 

Rhode Island was the first state to vote to end the Prohibition Amendment. It’s always been fun here.

 

Some crime enablers are calling the smash and grab thuggery a rise in shoplifting. I call it an attack on civilized society. And the concept of civilization in general

 

Jim Harbaugh gave his entire $3 million bonus to all of the employees of U Mich athletic department who were furloughed during Covid. There is an awful lot of money laying around these days that can be put to a better use than buying success scorecard points

 

Speaking of giving, the good news is that “Giving Tuesday” rose a healthy 9% to $2.7 Billion! Yay Americans. Meanwhile, Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales extravaganzas fell quite a bit below the estimates. That is probably because people started Brick & Mortar shopping earlier due to supply chain fears, and in the case Cyber, most likely because cyber stoppage is the new national habit.

 

Buying stuff you don’t need is kind of like a charitable gift to retailers.

 

I have heard of a group of older women who after their good solid regular workout at the gym, gather together to enjoy a buffet of homemade sweet rolls, coffee cakes and various and sundry pastries. Wow, that seems like the exercise group for me!

 

The Answer:

At 9:00 am EDT on September 21, 1938, the Washington office issued northeast storm warnings north of Atlantic City and south of Block Island, Rhode Island, and southeast storm warnings from Block Island to Eastport, Maine. The advisory, however, underestimated the storm's intensity and said that it was farther south than it actually was. The office had yet to forward any information about the hurricane to the New York City office. At 10:00 am EDT, the bureau downgraded the hurricane to a tropical storm. The 11:30 am advisory mentioned gale-force winds but nothing about a tropical storm or hurricane. That day, 28 year-old rookie Charles Pierce was standing in for two veteran meteorologists. He concluded that the storm would be squeezed between a high-pressure area located to the west and a high-pressure area to the east, and that it would be forced to ride up a trough of low pressure into New England. A noon meeting was called and Pierce presented his conclusion, but he was overruled by "celebrated" chief forecaster Charles Mitchell and his senior staff. In Boston, meteorologist E.B. Rideout told his WEEI radio listeners – to the skepticism of his peers – that the hurricane would hit New England. At 2:00 pm, hurricane-force gusts were occurring on Long Island's South Shore and near hurricane-force gusts on the coast of Connecticut. The Washington office issued an advisory saying that the storm was 75 miles east-southeast of Atlantic City and would pass over Long Island and Connecticut. Re-analysis of the storm suggests that the hurricane was farther north and just 50 mi (80 km) from Fire Island, and that it was stronger and larger than the advisory stated. Rhode Islanders were expecting just another coastal storm. 433 RI’ers were killed out of the total of 600 New Englanders. Shore line communities were wiped out.

 

And the people of Pearl Harbor enjoying the day off happily worked around the yard that Saturday, looking forward to the peace of church the next day, December 7. “Could be a good day for a nice picnic, right mom?”