(meteorobs) Lew & Norm

[Jeff Wilson]

Reminds me of this guy named Andrew.

Jeff W.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman W. McLeod III" <nmcleod at peganet.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Lew & Norm


> Three days later, and large numbers of people still are without power, and
> many without other services as well.  Yesterday we went to church 3 miles
> out the east side, and nobody past downtown that direction has power save
> one grocery store a little further.  Few traffic lights operating so that
> triples the time to get anywhere.  Am glad to stay home for a couple of
> days.  Ice and drinking water are the valuable items in the August heat.
>
> A couple of medium-grown banana plants made it, and there's plenty of
young
> replacements.  We lost about half of the mango tree -- the largest upright
> branch is the one that broke.  At least we harvested a number of
pineapples
> the week before.  I did salvage one bunch of bananas that should partially
> ripen ; lost four other bunches, two during Charley and two a month
earlier
> due to tree collapse.  Should have put a support under them sooner.
>
> The award for stupid goes to a man who went outside at the height of the
> storm to have a cigarette.  How did he expect it to stay in his mouth?
And
> how did he get it lit?  Maybe he didn't get that far -- a large falling
> tree branch hit and killed him.  One more cigarette death.  I don't know
> what city that happened in, could be anywhere between here and Daytona on
> the Florida upper east coast.
>
> I figured Lew was safe just by staying on the lower east coast, well out
of
> reach of Charley.  Am glad he checked in quickly.  Thanks from us to all
> who expressed concerns in writing or by phone -- we appreciate your
thoughts.
>
> Deep blue sky this morning.  I did check the pre-dawn sky and it was LM
> 6.2.  Saw a couple of casual meteors.  I want to get my Perseid max data
> posted shortly, maybe later this evening.
>
>
> Norman
>
> Norman W. McLeod III
> Staff Advisor
> American Meteor Society
>
> Fort Myers, Florida
> nmcleod at peganet.com
>
>
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