Re: Hanging clothes
- From: "Ann" <nntpmail@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:57:04 -0400
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:11:05 +0100, Janet Baraclough wrote:
> The message <pan.2005.08.21.22.35.52.924027@xxxxxxxx> from "Ann"
> <nntpmail@xxxxxxxx> contains these words:
>
>> >> You were replying to Fran, not Ann. Encouraging to see though that
>> >> you can brain-fade too. <g>
>> >
>> > Sorry to disappoint, Ann, but I knew that. As Al has recently
>> > informed you, my posts are eagerly read by the entire universe. IOW,
>> > even when I'm responding to a post from Fran, I reckon all my fans
>> > like you and Al are going to read it too. That's how usenet works.
>
>> Present company excepted of course, but I've been known to watch some
>> perfectly dreadful people/material on TV. That doesn't make me a "fan".
>> If I'm interested in a thread and/or have posted to it, I'll generally
>> glance at all posts, at least for a while. No, I don't read everything
>> you post; just happened to see the aside to me.
>
>
>> Now, please explain it. Most people who have lived on the US east
>> coast know about water/wind-carried salt, hurricanes being the extreme
>> example.
>
> I have already explained it to you in another group, Ann.
This is getting stranger by the post. What "another group".
> The
> prevailing wind here comes from the south-west, across 3000 miles of
> ocean. That produces high wind, lots of rain all year round, and often,
> there's salt in the rain and wind, picked up from the ocean. After heavy
> rain and a high wind, the windward windows will be filmed with salt.
> Washing left on the line for a week could be salty enough to feel
> stiff, like clothes heavily soaked in sweat do.. So I don't leave the
> washing out getting free rinses until it dries.
You seem to think that is something extraordinary that happens only in
Scotland. Again, I assure you that the ocean off the US east coast has
salt in it too. From an article in "Flower and Garden" magazine:
" Salt can be a major problem along the coast, as no chemical or
fertilizers will neutralize the effects of salt. After a major blow, it is
best for seashore gardeners to put on their sprinklers, thereby rinsing
off all their plants."
> AIUI, on your east coast the prevailing wind is from the west (mostly
> across a large land mass). What would the annual rainfall be?
Prevailing wind is one thing; the direction(s) summer storms move is
another. The average annual rainfal in New Jersey and Delaware and in New
York City is 45-47". Where I now live is ~150 miles inland and we're
lucky if we get 32" In the northeast, we can have two types of cyclones
("low pressure systems with counter-clockwise circulating fields of
wind"), hurricaes that form in tropical waters and northeasters that form
in the "mid-latitudes". A storm moving S->N between me and the coast may
not provide much initial rain, but the wrap-around rain from moisture
picked up over the ocean can be significant.
.
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