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  1. #20801
    Great!! Delighted for all our parents of college bound kids.

    Get ready to shed some not so secret tears as these fledglings happily hop out of their nests.
    Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'

  2. #20802
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Quote Originally Posted by -jk View Post
    Awesome! My elder kid got into engineering schools at Mason, Rutgers, and RIT - 3 for 3! Still waiting for said kid's decision...

    -jk
    Cool! Congrats!

  3. #20803
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    This weekend, I'm sitting down with Number 2 son who is going through the application process for a second time. He's applying as a transfer student. He's got his anxiety disorder under control. He's been living on his own this year, working at a part time job, and taking a class at the Harvard Extension School. He's taken classes there for 4 semesters now and has straight A's. We'll see if that balances out his mixed high school record and the disaster that was his one semester at Michigan State. He's only applying to schools withing a 3 hour drive from home and Duke. Because, of course he's applying to Duke. My mother will do his laundry too. Only thing though - dorm life is never going to work for him. No matter where he goes, he will be living off campus in his own apartment.

  4. #20804
    Good luck BosDev. Sending very positive vibes.

    No power today out here in the boonies. It's definitely an extremely strong windstorm barreling through here.

    weezie over and out to conserve phone power.
    Nothing incites bodily violence quicker than a Duke fan turning in your direction and saying 'scoreboard.'

  5. #20805
    Join Date
    Apr 2010
    Location
    Winston-Salem
    Quote Originally Posted by weezie View Post
    Good luck BosDev. Sending very positive vibes.

    No power today out here in the boonies. It's definitely an extremely strong windstorm barreling through here.

    weezie over and out to conserve phone power.
    That sucks!

    We had heavy wind last night, so heavy it kept making my neighbor's car alarm go off.

  6. #20806
    Quote Originally Posted by mattman91 View Post
    That sucks!

    We had heavy wind last night, so heavy it kept making my neighbor's car alarm go off.
    No joke. Happy no branches came through the roof.

  7. #20807
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    The wind has arrived here today.

  8. #20808
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    The wind has arrived here today.
    Nuh uh. We still have it. How can it be there too?

  9. #20809
    Things that I have learned do not mix well with bomb cyclone high winds:

    - trash day, whether the bins are empty (and thus half a block down the road and/or in neighboring yards) or full (yikes)
    - home construction sites (specifically, shingle paper and silt fencing fabric)
    - 30+ year old wooden fences
    - plastic playhouse roofs
    - umbrella-topped patio furniture, whether the umbrella is open or closed.

    Hoping not to add "old trees from neighboring properties" to the list before this thing blows itself out.

  10. #20810
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Quote Originally Posted by IrishDevil View Post
    Things that I have learned do not mix well with bomb cyclone high winds:

    - trash day, whether the bins are empty (and thus half a block down the road and/or in neighboring yards) or full (yikes)
    - home construction sites (specifically, shingle paper and silt fencing fabric)
    - 30+ year old wooden fences
    - plastic playhouse roofs
    - umbrella-topped patio furniture, whether the umbrella is open or closed.

    Hoping not to add "old trees from neighboring properties" to the list before this thing blows itself out.
    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you might be a new poster in the LTE. If so, welcome.

    Also - 10 years and 2 months later and we're still getting newbies!!

  11. #20811
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Also - I just made my sons go grab the trash bins before they blew down the street. They were not amused.

  12. #20812
    Thank you for the kind welcome - I have enjoyed reading the LTE for quite a while, but you may be right, this may be my first post in it.

    Also, literally as I typed, my wife confirmed that the neighbor's tree came down, so it appears I should start the Off-Topic, LTE anti-jinx thread . . . .

  13. #20813
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Quote Originally Posted by IrishDevil View Post
    Thank you for the kind welcome - I have enjoyed reading the LTE for quite a while, but you may be right, this may be my first post in it.

    Also, literally as I typed, my wife confirmed that the neighbor's tree came down, so it appears I should start the Off-Topic, LTE anti-jinx thread . . . .
    Did it hit your property? Hope it didn't do any significant damage!

  14. #20814
    Things I've received a free day off for in 6 years as a teacher:
    • actual snow
    • the threat of snow
    • extreme cold
    • threat of power outage due to hurricane winds
    • ice
    • today we can add wind

    I enjoyed sleeping in this morning while my roommates got up to go to work.

  15. #20815
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Quote Originally Posted by kmspeaks View Post
    Things I've received a free day off for in 6 years as a teacher:
    • actual snow
    • the threat of snow
    • extreme cold
    • threat of power outage due to hurricane winds
    • ice
    • today we can add wind

    I enjoyed sleeping in this morning while my roommates got up to go to work.
    What - no heat? I guess schools are all air-conditioned now. Growing up in NC, there were a few times, early in the school year during that last week of August, where we got "heat days". (My elementary school did not have air-conditioning.)

  16. #20816
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    What - no heat? I guess schools are all air-conditioned now. Growing up in NC, there were a few times, early in the school year during that last week of August, where we got "heat days". (My elementary school did not have air-conditioning.)
    In Virginia, unless you get a waiver from the state, you can't start school before Labor Day. My county has applied for and received a waiver for the last 2 years so we start the week before. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before the AC goes out somewhere and they get a day off but since my school is one of the newer ones (opened 7 years ago) I doubt it will be us.

  17. #20817
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Boston area, OK, Newton, right by Heartbreak Hill
    Yeah - so this is about a mile from where I live. It's also the street I have to drive down to get to rehearsal tonight. Rehearsal has been cancelled. Whew.

    http://www.universalhub.com/2018/wat...e-down-cascade

  18. #20818
    Quote Originally Posted by IrishDevil View Post
    Things that I have learned do not mix well with bomb cyclone high winds:

    - trash day, whether the bins are empty (and thus half a block down the road and/or in neighboring yards) or full (yikes)
    And just to think, the PM97 family canceled trash service last week and have no empty bins out today.

    Now, on the other hand, our mailbox blew into our new (6m old) car as my wife was checking the mail.

    :/

  19. #20819
    Quote Originally Posted by Bostondevil View Post
    Growing up in NC, there were a few times, early in the school year during that last week of August, where we got "heat days". (My elementary school did not have air-conditioning.)
    That was like '98 or '99?

  20. #20820
    Join Date
    Feb 2007
    Location
    Washington, DC area
    So SWMBO and older kid went up to Rutgers for the admitted-student thingie today. Coming home, the Tydings bridge on 95 over the Susquehanna and its old-school mate, the Hatem bridge, were both closed for wind (and still are). They're working their way up to the Conowingo dam with everyone else trying to get somewhere...

    Also, here in MoCo, about a third of all Pepco customers lost power today. Oddly, a nearby, newish townhome community (with buried feeds) was among them. So far, we've just lost cable/internet (at about 9am, alas - VZW keeping us going!). Our trashcans have been roaming around our (fenced) back yard all day. Around one corner, a neighbor's tree came down on their sunroom, and around the other a power line was pulled off a house along with some siding. Couldn't see what did the pulling.

    Still blowing!

    -jk

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