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Gonna be a little cooler today. It's only predicting a high of 32 :o\ Each night gets more difficult to get sleep even with the ceiling fan on full tilt. Hurricane Earl is blasting through tonight and tomorrow morning though it won't hit us here in Halifax full on. We will get a tropical storm with lots of wind and rain and that should cool things down. I may just sleep through it!
I stopped in the grocery store after work to pick up some bread, juice and stuff for sandwiches in the off chance we lose power. I expected the store to be really busy but it wasn't at all. I suppose they will be tonight. Everyone goes into a last minute panic, especially remembering what we went through with Juan in 2003. Some people had no power for 2 weeks because of the damage. Mine was off for 2 days i think. This won't be as bad as we aren't getting the eye of the storm through here. That'll hit southern NS and go up the Bay of Fundy apparently.
And oh, this could be interesting. There's a "Hog Wild" motorcycle convention in Digby this weekend, which is smack in the line of the hurricane. There will be 80 to 100 thousand visitors, many of them camping in tents. Eek! They aren't cancelling their event and really, it's only going to be a real problem the one night and day. The rest of the weekend will be fine! The local area will be setting up emergency shelters anyway. I do hope they all stay safe.
Someone remarked that Canadians seem to complain about the weather a lot. Well, yes. Though it's more that it's a topic of conversation rather than a constant complaint though it often is that, too. Weather makes such an impact on your life, why wouldn't it be talked about? And we on the coast don't often get the real highs and arctic lows for more than a few days at a time so we aren't used to it. Naturally there are complaints :) Really, though, this summer has been really nice. Not much rain at all and the heat waves like this week have only hit one other time that i can think of earlier in the summer.
I'm taking my paperwork to the passport office after work today. Renewal time and hoping they won't bitch at me too much for losing my old one. Yes, my old one seems to have gone walkabout and i can't find it anywhere. This virtually guarantees that as soon as i get the new one, i'll find the old one somewhere. I may possibly have thrown it out inside my broken-zip money belt but i do remember checking it before. It's the only thing i can think of that *might* have happened even though i don't think that's what i did. So I can't do the quick and dirty passport renewal that they brought out since the last time, i have to go through all the bother of getting a guarantor and also getting a document sworn and signed for the lost one. At least the guarantor doesn't have to be a doctor or lawyer or priest or something else "special". You just have to have someone that has a passport that has known you more than 2 years. The sworn document was easy, too. We have a legal department on this floor and having a lawyer sign it isn't contingent of them knowing you for any amount of time. They just have to be able to take your oath that what is in the document is the truth. Sorted. I'm hoping that at 4 o'clock on a friday before a long weekend with impending hurricane will make for short lines at the passport office. But i have a book just in case.
The Nova Scotia International Air show is next weekend and it's back in the city at the old Shearwater base. It was there for years but the military decided to scale that base back and wasn't maintaining the runways so the air show went first out near the airport, then they tried having it in the southern part of the province. Last year the weather wasn't good and the attendance sucked. I would say the 3 hour drive from Halifax and the Valley and other parts even farther away makes a bigger difference. The year before that it was cut short because of a tropical storm and the year before that it was cancelled because Shearwater was repaving a runway (though i thought it was at the airport ... never mind) This year, they're offering a $5 discount off the entrance fee if you take the bus but even that, according to the paper, is still going to cost $15. Wow! It sure has gone up since i last went! They'll have extra busses put on for it and considering how much traffic increases along those roads, it's well worth it. I may even go. I haven't been for a number of years and it would be a good little photo project if the weather cooperates.
Something else i read in the paper to do with a dog that was rescued from a car in a grocery story parking lot. The dog, a daschund, nearly died. He was in the car for about 20 minutes when a passer by got him out. They didn't say if the guy broke into the car but i suppose he must have. The SPCA were called and apparently the owner was "quite surprised that it was such a serious concern and that the dog became so ill so quickly". My god there are some morons out there! In a heat wave like this, even with a window cracked open, the inside of that car would have been unbearable for an animal! It didn't say whether the owner was fined but he should have been!
I stopped in the grocery store after work to pick up some bread, juice and stuff for sandwiches in the off chance we lose power. I expected the store to be really busy but it wasn't at all. I suppose they will be tonight. Everyone goes into a last minute panic, especially remembering what we went through with Juan in 2003. Some people had no power for 2 weeks because of the damage. Mine was off for 2 days i think. This won't be as bad as we aren't getting the eye of the storm through here. That'll hit southern NS and go up the Bay of Fundy apparently.
And oh, this could be interesting. There's a "Hog Wild" motorcycle convention in Digby this weekend, which is smack in the line of the hurricane. There will be 80 to 100 thousand visitors, many of them camping in tents. Eek! They aren't cancelling their event and really, it's only going to be a real problem the one night and day. The rest of the weekend will be fine! The local area will be setting up emergency shelters anyway. I do hope they all stay safe.
Someone remarked that Canadians seem to complain about the weather a lot. Well, yes. Though it's more that it's a topic of conversation rather than a constant complaint though it often is that, too. Weather makes such an impact on your life, why wouldn't it be talked about? And we on the coast don't often get the real highs and arctic lows for more than a few days at a time so we aren't used to it. Naturally there are complaints :) Really, though, this summer has been really nice. Not much rain at all and the heat waves like this week have only hit one other time that i can think of earlier in the summer.
I'm taking my paperwork to the passport office after work today. Renewal time and hoping they won't bitch at me too much for losing my old one. Yes, my old one seems to have gone walkabout and i can't find it anywhere. This virtually guarantees that as soon as i get the new one, i'll find the old one somewhere. I may possibly have thrown it out inside my broken-zip money belt but i do remember checking it before. It's the only thing i can think of that *might* have happened even though i don't think that's what i did. So I can't do the quick and dirty passport renewal that they brought out since the last time, i have to go through all the bother of getting a guarantor and also getting a document sworn and signed for the lost one. At least the guarantor doesn't have to be a doctor or lawyer or priest or something else "special". You just have to have someone that has a passport that has known you more than 2 years. The sworn document was easy, too. We have a legal department on this floor and having a lawyer sign it isn't contingent of them knowing you for any amount of time. They just have to be able to take your oath that what is in the document is the truth. Sorted. I'm hoping that at 4 o'clock on a friday before a long weekend with impending hurricane will make for short lines at the passport office. But i have a book just in case.
The Nova Scotia International Air show is next weekend and it's back in the city at the old Shearwater base. It was there for years but the military decided to scale that base back and wasn't maintaining the runways so the air show went first out near the airport, then they tried having it in the southern part of the province. Last year the weather wasn't good and the attendance sucked. I would say the 3 hour drive from Halifax and the Valley and other parts even farther away makes a bigger difference. The year before that it was cut short because of a tropical storm and the year before that it was cancelled because Shearwater was repaving a runway (though i thought it was at the airport ... never mind) This year, they're offering a $5 discount off the entrance fee if you take the bus but even that, according to the paper, is still going to cost $15. Wow! It sure has gone up since i last went! They'll have extra busses put on for it and considering how much traffic increases along those roads, it's well worth it. I may even go. I haven't been for a number of years and it would be a good little photo project if the weather cooperates.
Something else i read in the paper to do with a dog that was rescued from a car in a grocery story parking lot. The dog, a daschund, nearly died. He was in the car for about 20 minutes when a passer by got him out. They didn't say if the guy broke into the car but i suppose he must have. The SPCA were called and apparently the owner was "quite surprised that it was such a serious concern and that the dog became so ill so quickly". My god there are some morons out there! In a heat wave like this, even with a window cracked open, the inside of that car would have been unbearable for an animal! It didn't say whether the owner was fined but he should have been!