Kentucky Weather

This is from the recent flooding we had, followed by around 5" of snow and ice.

Just never a dull day around these parts... 🙂

At it again folks. :(

Power was off from before 2am until after 4am. Weather forecast was for the worst part to move out during the day but we had another outage of around 3+ hours around noon.

Heavy rains, winds, all the usual. No snow or ice at least.

This is my wife driving to work this morning on Spurlock Creek:

We were talking about S-10 pickup trucks, you know (the light ones with no weight on the rear end?) on the BBS's so I thought I'd show how I worked around bad weather when I had a GMC Sonoma (which is a slightly better version of the S-10).

This was during a winter storm in February 2016. We got something like 16-20" of snow in our area in a very short time. I had to work that weekend so I knew if I could just get there I could stay and drive back Monday morning, hopefully after things were dug out a bit.

The following pictures were taken right before and during that storm. :)

This is what the road on Wilson Creek looked like yesterday when I tried to drive home from my son's house after movie day... :)

The summer thunderstorms in Kentucky are at it again. Last time we lost power for almost 24 hours, this time, hard rain accompanied by very strong winds lashed through the area.

We didn't lose power this time, thank goodness (it blinked) but we lost a long time resident in our front yard... (see pictures).

"There is trouble in the forest, unrest among the trees"

I swear, I never saw you take that picture - where were you standing?

Oh, and those aren't regular bungee cords, those are "power" bungee cords, thank you very much! :)

I saw this and couldn‘t resist.

Lol!

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Yes. It's a legitimate screen capture showing where you edited your account and changed your location from "Portland" to "Prestonsburg"...

Didn't know you had moved - be nice to have a fellow Atarian as a neighbor.

Welcome to the neighborhood! :)

Problem there is, JP doesn't live in Prestonsburg, KY...he lives in Portland...so it's a bogus screen...a setup. Nice try though... :)

Speaking of weather...I saw this message on your BBS... I definitely care about the weather there. I may not have replied to this thread until now, but I have been reading it. 😉

We did finally get the snow. Nothing like the foot or so some people are posting about. In fact, I think where we got ice -> transition to rain -> transition to snow, it took away from the overall snow total here. It looks like we got about 3" total (so far, it's actually still snowing lightly). 3" is nuthin' to me and my Trailblazer! That ice underneath it though...Hmmm.

Here's a couple of pictures I snapped when out walking the dog around 9am this morning. Kinda pretty, isn't it? :)

Here's a picture from the front of my house earlier this morning. No snow yet, they are saying we'll get that as the temperatures drop through the day. When I took that picture it was around 31 degrees and wind gusts up to 35mph...

That's ice, in case anyone is wondering. :) It's also on the porch, cars, roads, etc..

I researched that and apparently it is only counted -once-.

My question about the number of COVID positives - is it counted every time you get tested positive as a new positive case? Let's take my friend for example. He got COVID last year - tested positive. He has COVID again now - tested positive? Is that one person that has COVID or is that counted as two cases? Grrr!!! COVID can just move on. It will most likely come to a point where we treat it like the flu. Instead of cold and flu season, it will be COVID season. You don't know who to trust for accurate anything, so I trust the people that I know that work in the hospitals and medical offices. And it all depends on where you are living too, I suppose.

--Matt

Yep. People in the medical field knew it was being miscounted from the beginning. My wife is a nurse in an ICU at a local hospital and I was a respiratory therapist at a small rural hospital up until July of 2020. We both saw questionable practices concerning Covid. For example, an very elderly woman who had cancer and other life-ending problems was on a ventilator in her unit. She acquired Covid during her stay there. Mind you, she was on deaths door. She passed, and it was listed as a "Covid Death". There's a verified news report of a 26 year old man who had no other problems but was diagnosed with Covid. He was walking across a street, struck by a car and died. Covid death. Sounds impossible, doesn't it? One

thing a lot of people didn't know but medical facilities that used "Covid" as part of a patients diagnoses would receive *extra* pay for that patient. I'm not sure if they

are still doing that now though. Point being, it's a conflict. Think about it, someone is going to pay you extra money if you just put Covid down on their chart. What does anyone think is going to happen? :)

Another statistic that's going to be interesting when/if it comes out...the media and congress-people are trying to get the CDC to release information about this scenario: a person goes to a clinic, ER, whatever with a laceration, fracture, UTI, constipation, whatever...while they are there, during routine testing, it's found they are covid positive. Now the thing is, they are asymptomatic, they came in for something totally unrelated but listed as a covid incident. It's really not. Lots of people want to know the percent for that and the CDC is dragging it's heels about releasing this information. That alone makes it very suspicious.

I don't think you are downplaying, you are stating facts. At the very beginning, everything was a COVID death (for all intents here). It is the same question I ask when I hear about someone dying from COVID - did they have some underlying condition that they did not know about? My wife corrects me and reminds me that even healthy people are dying from it. But, yes, I agree that the death count is "off".

Well, you can drop that total death count. The director of the CDC admitted a couple of days ago that "over" 40% of the reported deaths had at least -4- co-morbidities...which just proves what a great many people have been saying all along, the death count has been over-reported.

Mind you, I'm not trying to downplay the severity of something that causes hundreds of thousands of people to die. I'm just pointing out the facts.

Can't wait for this to reach the point where it's a seasonal thing like the flu...

And with the weather, holidays we get this:

US Totals:

And Lovely California :

If this was a dashboard related to lottery winners, most of the world would be in millionaire status..

Nah. It would take a "40 days and 40 nights" amount of rain to reach us. When we first built here, we had to do research at the local county courthouse for the insurance. Turns out our place has never been flooded, according to the "100 year floodplain" documentation. Lowered our insurance too. :)

That's the plan. :)

We finally wound up with 6-7" overall before it tapered off. Supposed to get better in the next couple of days, and...100% chance of rain on Sunday. So...with all of that snow, it'll flood. :)

We have some of that white stuff on the ground too. Right now we are dealing with some cold weather. I wisely cancelled my run this morning. And I am sure the sidewalks were WORSE than they were yesterday. DarkLord - just get the heat cranking, sit down with your retro gear, and just quarantine away!

I was thinking more like "double - whammy!"... :)

Beauty! Perfect weather to quarantine :)