Re-Runs

Yep, I've done this scene before. I hope I'm not running out of blip material and have entered the "re-run zone." It's a possibility.

Auntie has a cold and she needed some supplies and so I went shopping and then went over to her place today, and on the way I pulled into a parking lot of a business that is right by wetlands and this lovely view of Mt. Hood. An easy blip, except for the cold wind roaring down the Columbia River Gorge*. Where I live there is no gorge effect wind, but where she is, it's in the heart of the wind tunnel.** Anyway, I stopped at her library and got her some books so she can have some entertainment. She hates to be sick, but then...not many, if any, enjoy having a rotten cold. I sympathized and left as soon as I could!! I don't want a rotten cold either.

See ya.

*Periodically the Gorge funnels wind, hot in summer and cold in winter, into the Portland/Vancouver area, the largest population center in the Columbia River Basin, with dramatic effects. In summer, the hot wind can blow temperatures to over 100 degrees F and cause a marked drop in humidity in the Portland area. The winds continue down the river all the way to Astoria, where the temperature might climb into the 80s or 90s. Yet just a few miles south of Astoria, where the river wind doesn’t reach, it will be 30 degrees cooler and foggy. In winter, cold winds blowing down the Gorge can chill the Portland area to well below freezing. When a warm, wet weather system overrides the surface-level cold air, the temperature difference between the surface and about 2,000 feet in elevation can be 15 or 20 degrees — enough to keep the inevitable rain from turning to snow before it hits the ground. These storms can be vicious, dumping up to 10 feet of snow in the western end of the Gorge, although that has not happened since the early 20th century, but more commonly laying down a coating of solid ice. Such a storm paralyzed the Portland area for four days in January 2004.

**She is a manager (not a full on one, but it keeps her busy at times nonetheless) and she tells new tenants to keep their screen door securely closed as the wind will blow it open. She tells them and tells them, but do they listen? Somebody called her today and said, "I don't know what happened but our screen door is hanging by one hinge!" Duh