New Grandbaby -- It's a Boy, a BIG BOY

 

My oldest son Michael and his wife Anna, who are the parents of my lovely Granddaughter Addie, are now the parents of their second child, a boy.  Meet....Otis Boaz, born this morning at 3:35 am California time.  He came into this world weighing in at 9 lbs 9 oz ... but still shy of my record of 11 lbs, 11 oz ... but he is healthy, I was not.  

I was an RH Factor Baby before they had the medical knowledge on how to control that situation.  I am positive, mom is negative, so her antibodies attacked my Red Blood Cells.  Bottom line, the good Doctor cut me out, removed mom's Uterus, and that was that.  Except she was able to go home, I had to stay in the hospital for over a month, but made it home for Christmas. 

In this case, mother Anna and Baby Otis are both doing very well.  And despite the size of this child compared to Addie who came in around 7 lbs, the delivery was much easier this time...Anna had a very hard delivery with Addie.

I had the privilege of telling my mom about her new Great Grandchild.  In a text with my sisters I commented that when they go over to see her, she may not remember that I talked with her and that the new baby was born.  My sister Sandy said, "Good news is we can tell her over and over and over again and it will be as if it was the first time!"  That girl can sure come up with some funny, and in this case true, lines now and then...

On a VERY SAD note, my Aunt Florence (In the above picture, she is seated to the far left, next to Marcia, and then my Mother) died last Friday, October 10th.  She was 80 years old.  Her and LeRoy, "Uncle Red" to all of us (my father's brother), were married for 42 years before he died...which is how old Uncle Red was when they got married...she was 22, he was 42.  He had four kids when Aunt Myrtle died of Cancer, Flo had three kids from a not so healthy marriage.  Couple years after they were married, Baby Lee came along, and the rest was history.  Aunt Flo became a school teacher...not just any school teacher, but one who taught the special ed students...the hardcore students in many cases.  She was a wonderful Mother, Teacher, and Aunt..she will be dearly missed.  

I was surprised this morning that the NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER and
CENTRAL PACIFIC HURRICANE CENTER showed absolutely no weather situations as of this morning.  October is Florida's busy time for bad weather...but not this year.  This evening they show possible, very low risk storms which might form in the next 7 days, but even these don't seem to be a threat to Florida or anywhere else in the nation.  The poor Weather Casters are besides themselves...nothing to report on.  Most the storms that came off of Africa ended up turning north into the open ocean...but on the radio I would hear this:

A tropical disturbance has formed off the coast of Africa and it has a 50% chance of becoming a Tropical Storm and perhaps a Hurricane.  If it develops into a tropical storm as we think it will, it will be called [insert name...the last one was Tropical Storm Lorenzo, which developed on the 13th, and was dead by the end of the 15th].   Then comes their disclaimer...Meteorologist say that this storm will turn north into the Atlantic and won't be threat to U.S. or any Islands.

Soon, Hurricane Season will be over...and so far, no Hurricane has hit the U.S., which is good news for all.

Humberto and Imelda Part Two

 

Normally if we see this picture above in Florida, we are emptying the stores of milk, bread, produce, meat, water, beer/wine/liquor, etc.  So this is the picture on NOAA's site and there is no talk, no panic, no nothing around here.  As I mentioned in my last post 2 days ago, the forecast was/is for it all to turn out into the Atlantic and go away.

Above is Imelda, now a Tropical storm, but soon to be a Hurricane.  You can see the right hand turn that it is going to take, according to all predictions.  In my last post, the right hand turn was going to take place much closer to the South Carolina Coast...but now it turns tomorrow, just about the same Latitude that Orlando has.  (Latitude is "east to west" while Longitude is "north to south").  

Good news, very little affect on Florida other than some rain and higher waves on the Atlantic Coast.  Above is a radar view as of 6:30 Monday Night.  Damage from Imelda to the Bahamas included flooding, power outages, and coastal storm surges, particularly affecting the northwestern and central islands.

Above is the forecast for Humberto.  It looks as "IF" Imelda and Humberto might link together as they head out to the Atlantic, but this is just a "Hopeful Scenario" on part of some Meteorologist.  Speaking of which...

Do any of you ever have the impression that some of the Weather Reporters find some sort of "Glee" when they talk about Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Snow Storms that drop more than 6" on a large metropolitan city except for Denver or Salt Lake City (and a few others) where these snow storms are common???  Last night Marcia and I watched FOX Weather Channel for about 30 minutes to hear about the latest dealing with the Weather.  We had heard about flooding in Arizona, and wondered where it was.  Nearly ALL of the 30 minutes that we watched was reporting on Humberto and Imelda.  We did not even hear about the Arizona flooding, which took place in communities of Globe and Miami in Gila County.  What we did hear was the reporter talking with "Glee" about these two storms, how much they were going to grow, how much "danger" there will be along the coast of Florida and perhaps the Carolinas, and how it looked like the two storms "might" combine into one horrific storm, yet the future models he showed had no indications of them merging.  But phrases such as; "These are just beautiful storms here, especially Humberto which the radar shows to be a perfect Hurricane." and "Doesn't this just look lovely..."  and  a few other phrases which put the importance and focus on the GREATNESS of these storms, and not how dangerous the storms are, how dangerous they will be "IF" they don't turn east and head out to the open Ocean (right over the Bermuda).  He did pull up a live stream camera of the Bahamas, but it was nothing more than normal summer rain storm here in Florida!  One can almost hear the desperation in his voice trying to make these storms into the BIG STORMS that they love to report on.