Grinders Island: Grinders Island 2

HOLY CRAP it rained. Vista Circle once again became an island.

So the tropical storm came and went with 0.75 inches of rain . . . snooze boring and we were waiting around for MAYBE a thunderstorm Wednesday afternoon. waiting waiting and my friend Elweed calls saying WOW we just got hammered in Madison how are you doing?

I said there is some thunder in the distance and black clouds. Then at 2:54 the skies opened up.

This shows IF it rained for 1 hour at that rate how much would we get. The total was 3.48 inches in 24 hours not including the 0.75 the day before.

We received 0.25 inch in 5 minutes at the 3:44 mark. If Columbus is 4 square miles that means Columbus got 243 million gallons of rain

For reference a 0.50 rate is a good size thunderstorm

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It's been a busy week with little time to write AND I was lazy and didn't feel like it. We have had family here this week so busy busy . . .

Saturday DJ and I took part in a "protest" march in Columbus where i put my knee to the test by walking 6000 steps on a "bad" knee which I guess is not so bad all of a sudden. I was not too excited as I was thinking MAYBE 35 people tops would march.

WELL . . . more then 250 turned out and even though the far right zealots in Columbus kept WANTING to have violence to show how stupid we were . . . . no violence. OH The Cage was passive aggressive as they blocked our way as they decided to all hang out in FRONT of the bar.

It was all good. When we walked past they were very polite and intimidating but then when we were on the OTHER side of the street they all puffed out their chests and played louder music and revved up their little motor bikes.

Of course on face book one rich white Columbus Resident mansplained racism to everybody which was like listening to a Jeffery Dahmer Cooking Show. What a moron.

Just looked America went over the 2 million mark in infections ov Covid19.

MEANWHILE - there is this pandemic. Wisconsin is SO lucky. I was talking to a woman in Ecuador yesterday and asked how it was down there (DIRECT TV Genie issues). They have been in quarantine for 94 days now with protests and so forth. They are really having a rough time down there.

OF COURSE prednisone influences me to have an argument on Facebook about wearing masks. having an immune issue from PMR I feel it's a courtesy to wear a mask even though Wisconsin is doing GREAT

WELL - we are doing great because of social distancing and masks and yada yada. But it seems we are taking our foot off the breaks. I know I have loosened up but GEEZ - if you go to a restaurant PLEASE put a damn mask on when talking to the waitress.

They have to deal with hundreds of unknown people every night, not the circle of 10 friends you know. BUT - then the "Don't take my liberties away" people chimed in. Screw them. I have to wear pants in a restaurant - I did not hear them complaining about THAT liberty that was taken away.

And of course the guys saying Covid19 is just like the flu. sigh! What a stupid ignorant thing to say. Covid19 made it's way around the world IN ONE MONTH - it's amazingly good at spreading.

I post graphs daily on FAcebook with an observation
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Overall a fine day with a couple tiny warning flags. Number of Hospitalizations stop a 4 day decline and number of deaths stopped falling. The only thing that really stands out.

We are not like Florida with 8,500 infections in the last FIVE days. Wisconsin is more like 313 with 35 ending up hospitalized for about 10-14 days and 8 of those passing away.