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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 24, 2024 15:11:52 GMT -5
My sister lives at abt 2 ft abt sea level. The winds have been howling and will for several days. I'm worried abt her. She has issues when the wind drives the water up the street. She lives on a Chesapeake bay with the Atlantic Ocean on the other side. I don't see her house lasting long.
Has she had to evacuate because of bad weather before? She hasn't lived there long, but evacuated once before. Needlessly, it turned out. But, yeah her area/street have evacuated many times. |
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Post by titaniumkid on Mar 24, 2024 15:30:33 GMT -5
Has she had to evacuate because of bad weather before? She hasn't lived there long, but evacuated once before. Needlessly, it turned out. But, yeah her area/street have evacuated many times. That must be distressing. People who live in disaster-prone areas (floods or fires) must somehow make peace with the idea that they are at high risk of losing everything. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 24, 2024 15:37:26 GMT -5
She hasn't lived there long, but evacuated once before. Needlessly, it turned out. But, yeah her area/street have evacuated many times. That must be distressing. People who live in disaster-prone areas (floods or fires) must somehow make peace with the idea that they are at high risk of losing everything. She has. I told her I couldn't live there and lose everything I've worked hard for. She says she has nothing that she is so attached to. She's cool with it. Also- the house has been there since the 80s and hasn't flooded yet. It's also fortified to some extent. But, the flooding has gotten worse. She loves her house and it is nice. Just ridiculously close to the water. Her street dead ends to a wharf. She's about 4 houses up. |
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Post by titaniumkid on Mar 24, 2024 15:51:13 GMT -5
That must be distressing. People who live in disaster-prone areas (floods or fires) must somehow make peace with the idea that they are at high risk of losing everything. She has. I told her I couldn't live there and lose everything I've worked hard for. She says she has nothing that she is so attached to. She's cool with it. Also- the house has been there since the 80s and hasn't flooded yet. It's also fortified to some extent. But, the flooding has gotten worse. She loves her house and it is nice. Just ridiculously close to the water. Her street dead ends to a wharf. She's about 4 houses up. It's probably a healthy attitude to have towards material possessions. And there is something very attractive about living close to the water. |
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 24, 2024 15:53:11 GMT -5
She has. I told her I couldn't live there and lose everything I've worked hard for. She says she has nothing that she is so attached to. She's cool with it. Also- the house has been there since the 80s and hasn't flooded yet. It's also fortified to some extent. But, the flooding has gotten worse. She loves her house and it is nice. Just ridiculously close to the water. Her street dead ends to a wharf. She's about 4 houses up. It's probably a healthy attitude to have towards material possessions. And there is something very attractive about living close to the water. Absolutely! I love visiting. She has a lovely home and the sunsets are amazing.  My sister was never a collector of anything and she never had any hobbies, oddly enough. I, on the other hand...... |
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Post by titaniumkid on Mar 24, 2024 16:01:04 GMT -5
It's probably a healthy attitude to have towards material possessions. And there is something very attractive about living close to the water. Absolutely! I love visiting. She has a lovely home and the sunsets are amazing. My sister was never a collector of anything and she never had any hobbies, oddly enough. I, on the other hand...... You get the best of both worlds... the joy of coastal living when you visit but your treasures are safe from the clutches of the sea! Sometimes I want to move to the mountains near here and escape suburbia, but then I remember it's disgustingly humid and it will burn to the ground one day, it's just a matter of when, so it's better to go for short trips only. |
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Post by parfive on Mar 24, 2024 16:21:59 GMT -5
And thanks for clarifying. How embarrassing... I've been saying it wrong for years (along with 40,000+ other idiots  ). I wonder what any visiting Americans thought of us. Don’t worry about it . . . they can’t pronounce Cairo properly in Georgia or Illinois and it’s only two syllables. Syrup on the brain, I suppose. : ) |
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 24, 2024 16:34:37 GMT -5
Absolutely! I love visiting. She has a lovely home and the sunsets are amazing. My sister was never a collector of anything and she never had any hobbies, oddly enough. I, on the other hand...... You get the best of both worlds... the joy of coastal living when you visit but your treasures are safe from the clutches of the sea! Sometimes I want to move to the mountains near here and escape suburbia, but then I remember it's disgustingly humid and it will burn to the ground one day, it's just a matter of when, so it's better to go for short trips only. Actually, I live abt 8 miles from the Atlantic. We never go down there, though- too many tourists. There's better beaches around and Myrtle Beach isn't that far. |
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Post by ThomasT on Mar 24, 2024 18:55:55 GMT -5
When I was young and helped building houses on the NC coast, they were just hoping to get 20-30 years out of them on the beach between major hurricanes.
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 24, 2024 18:58:56 GMT -5
When I was young and helped building houses on the NC coast, they were just hoping to get 20-30 years out of them on the beach between major hurricanes. NC is just about ground zero after FL. |
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Post by gemfeller on Mar 24, 2024 21:56:10 GMT -5
I'll stay away from my views on CA. That's Cave stuff. As to San Mateo's pronunciation, locals say "San-mat-ay-oh." Fair call. And thanks for clarifying. How embarrassing... I've been saying it wrong for years (along with 40,000+ other idiots ). I wonder what any visiting Americans thought of us. , I'd hate to have any Aussies hear how Americans butcher pronunciation of Australian place names! I recall an Australian guest visiting us who said she'd had a flight layover in Oakland. I assumed Oakland, CA and couldn't figure out why her flight was routed there until I realized she meant Auckland N.Z. |
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Post by titaniumkid on Mar 24, 2024 22:47:11 GMT -5
Fair call. And thanks for clarifying. How embarrassing... I've been saying it wrong for years (along with 40,000+ other idiots ). I wonder what any visiting Americans thought of us. , I'd hate to have any Aussies hear how Americans butcher pronunciation of Australian place names! I recall an Australian guest visiting us who said she'd had a flight layover in Oakland. I assumed Oakland, CA and couldn't figure out why her flight was routed there until I realized she meant Auckland N.Z. Maybe she said it wrong? We're pretty good at butchering our own place names so visiting Americans are in good company. My Tas colleague and I (from NSW) accidentally offended Victorian colleagues by mispronouncing town names like Wunghnu and Waaia and deliberately annoyed my former boss by saying Castlemaine in the non-Vic way. New Zealand is special. In a shark doco, the experts from CA, Aus, South Africa were fine but the NZ expert was given subtitles. It was the best |
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Post by gemfeller on Mar 25, 2024 1:30:19 GMT -5
titaniumkid, I'd hate to have any Aussies hear how Americans butcher pronunciation of Australian place names! I recall an Australian guest visiting us who said she'd had a flight layover in Oakland. I assumed Oakland, CA and couldn't figure out why her flight was routed there until I realized she meant Auckland N.Z. Maybe she said it wrong? We're pretty good at butchering our own place names so visiting Americans are in good company. My Tas colleague and I (from NSW) accidentally offended Victorian colleagues by mispronouncing town names like Wunghnu and Waaia and deliberately annoyed my former boss by saying Castlemaine in the non-Vic way. New Zealand is special. In a shark doco, the experts from CA, Aus, South Africa were fine but the NZ expert was given subtitles. It was the best No, she didn't say it wrong. In the Aussie accent "au' is pronounced like the American "oa', or phonetically like "oh." As for NZ, my late son-in-law (who tragically passed long before his time) was a NZer who emigrated to OZ. Maybe my understanding of your country's accent has been skewed by his blended pronunciation. |
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Post by titaniumkid on Mar 25, 2024 2:17:13 GMT -5
Maybe she said it wrong? We're pretty good at butchering our own place names so visiting Americans are in good company. My Tas colleague and I (from NSW) accidentally offended Victorian colleagues by mispronouncing town names like Wunghnu and Waaia and deliberately annoyed my former boss by saying Castlemaine in the non-Vic way. New Zealand is special. In a shark doco, the experts from CA, Aus, South Africa were fine but the NZ expert was given subtitles. It was the best No, she didn't say it wrong. In the Aussie accent "au' is pronounced like the American "oa', or phonetically like "oh." As for NZ, my late son-in-law (who tragically passed long before his time) was a NZer who emigrated to OZ. Maybe my understanding of your country's accent has been skewed by his blended pronunciation. I'm sorry to hear that. There is a lot of overlap between the two accents but also differences, mostly around vowels. We pronounce Auckland as "Awk-land" (but kind of a soft "aw"... also kind of like an "oh". Somewhere in between that). It is subtle. However, this could be another mispronounced word by me, which would be genuinely embarrassing. Youtube is not helpful because the people pronouncing Auckland are not from New Zealand. I'm seeing kiwi friends on Friday, so I will spy on them. I would have said Oakland wrong too. Thanks for taking the time to explain these things to me. I appreciate it. |
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