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I don't know exactly where Chuck hangs out, but his area is apparently
getting battered.

Eisboch

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On Dec 3, 8:46�am, "Eisboch" wrote:
I don't know exactly where Chuck hangs out, but his area is apparently
getting battered.

Eisboch

There have been reports of 100 knot gusts and 40-foot surf on the
coast.

The major condition we are experiencing in Seattle, since yesterday,
is a torrential rain storm. Gray skies, constant downpour, water
running a couple of inches deep at some of the curbs.....IOW, a
typical winter day in the Pacific North Wet. I could have left my boat
at the club following the Special Peoples' Cruise, but in an open
slip, so I ran back to my covered moorage just inside the locks last
night. No point leaving the brightwork out in the rain for several
days more than need be.

Business will take me to Bellingham today, where it just may be
blowing like Stink. Seattle is somewhat in the lee of the Olympic
mountain range over on the peninsula, and these winds from Hawaii
"split" and run around the north and south ends of that range. They
often reunite in a "convergence zone" somewhere north of Seattle, and
that local area can experience some of the wettest and wildest weather
in all of Puget Sound.

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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:06:50 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

Business will take me to Bellingham today, where it just may be
blowing like Stink

Ok - please to explain "blowing like Stink".

I have never understood that term.

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:06:50 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

Business will take me to Bellingham today, where it just may be
blowing like Stink

Ok - please to explain "blowing like Stink".

I have never understood that term.

It's kinda like, what's the difference between a tavern and an elephant's
fart.

One's a bar room and one's a BAROOOOM.

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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:06:50 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

Business will take me to Bellingham today, where it just may be
blowing like Stink

Ok - please to explain "blowing like Stink".

I have never understood that term.



Stink: a free-spirited high school girl Chuck knew in his youth?

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On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:59:14 -0500, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:06:50 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

Business will take me to Bellingham today, where it just may be
blowing like Stink

Ok - please to explain "blowing like Stink".

I have never understood that term.

Stink: a free-spirited high school girl Chuck knew in his youth?

Now why was that necessary?

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:06:50 -0800 (PST), Chuck Gould
wrote:

Business will take me to Bellingham today, where it just may be
blowing like Stink

Ok - please to explain "blowing like Stink".

I have never understood that term.

Old sail boat term?
It was interesting to learn on the tour of the USS Constitution that the
"facilities" were located in the bow or "head" of the ships in those days.
Since the wind would never be coming from the direction of the bow while
underway, it kept the air quality from going foul over the rest of the ship.

Obviously where the term "head" for the bathroom came from as well.

Eisboch

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On Dec 3, 8:46�am, "Eisboch" wrote:
I don't know exactly where Chuck hangs out, but his area is apparently
getting battered.

Eisboch

COAST GUARD RESPONDS TO MORE THAN 90 PEOPLE TRAPPED BY FLOODING
SEATTLE - The Coast Guard is responding to more than 90 people in
distress due to flood waters around the state of Washington today.

Two Coast Guard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews from Coast Guard Air
Station Astoria and an HH-65C Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard
Air Station Port Angeles is responding to more than 80 people in
distress 20 miles west of Chehalis, Wash.

There have been two confirmed fatalities due to the flooding.

Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles launched an HH-65C Dolphin
helicopter crew to Tahuyo River, Wash., to rescue 10 people trapped in
their homes after a dike broke on the Tahuyu River near Hood Canal in
Mason County, Wash.

Flood updates and other contact information for the State of
Washington can be found at:
http://www.wadisasternews.com/go/site/1105/.

Washington State Public Affairs Television Network information can be
found at:
http://www.tvw.org./index.cfm?bhcp=1

Washington State Department of Transportation information can be found
at:
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/

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Pretty bad. Rained like crazy all day; major flooding and some
landslides locally. 'Course, I'm no fool; I live on high ground. But,
just basic Seattle weather (stay away, go clog some other freeway
somewhere else).
JR

Eisboch wrote:

I don't know exactly where Chuck hangs out, but his area is apparently
getting battered.

Eisboch




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