6/21/2018 12:43:18 PM

FreeWilly, It looks like we might get rain this evening and tomorrow. I don`t know if the 2 days of sun will help or not. We went to Helena yesterday and there was high water everywhere.

6/21/2018 12:39:10 PM

Maybe you forget that I shoot and blow things up for a living. Hearing for me is something that has suffered in the line of duty.

That said, I was talking about speaking louder to folks who didn`t speak English in an effort to get them to understand, not to people who couldn`t hear.

6/21/2018 12:38:29 PM

So now they revise the crest level, down by 3` how can you be off by 3`?
Crest between 6 and 8 PM will be lower than 2011. Well it was a good excuse to sit and drink a lot of beer.

6/21/2018 11:57:42 AM

I can`t hear schitt so I always respond with "YUP". No need for anybody to repeat to me - at 76 - was probably not something worth hearing anyway.

6/21/2018 11:53:04 AM

FW - maybe you ought to invest in some pontoons for your place. Tie it to a tree and be safe and dry...HaHaHaHaHa It really isn`t funny though. I hope the water doesn`t get to you.

6/21/2018 11:29:17 AM

Freewilly,
Good luck out there with that flooding river. Make sure you don`t get swept away. Sorry ya"ll lost the old cotton wood bench. We have had some heavy rain during thunderstorms around here in Va. but no major flooding, although the James river was up to flood stage or over a while back maybe two or three weeks ago. But I never heard anything about any damage from the water. I guess it always affects you because you own that trailer park right there by the river. Maybe you need to find another landlord for that thing wo you can quit worrying about it. Good luck and stay safe, keep you flotation device close bye...….

6/21/2018 8:21:43 AM

Fire Dept was around last nite handing out evacuation warnings. At that time the water was no higher than it was 2 weeks ago. This morning we`re still shy of the 2011 level. Nobody really seems to know when the peak is, was told last nite midnight and today noon. Only loss so far is an old rough cottonwood bench.
Made a tour around the park this morning. One resident sandbagged his trailer, two bags high. Good grief the trailer sits 30"s off the ground, not sure what he`s accomplishing.
The word was this would exceed the historic flood levels of 1953. As EOD knows we are on an 11 year cycle, `53,`64,`75,`86,`97(when we bought this place on the river) skipped in 2008, came later 2011. So this one 2018 is trying to return to the cycle.

6/21/2018 4:03:22 AM

" I guess it`s better than talking louder to people who can`t understand you. I`ve heard lots of people do that and its bizzare. Oh, you don`t understand me. Let me say the same thing LOUDER! Maybe that will help. Idiots!! LOL"

EOD.....I`m thinkin` that just maybe you`re not quite old enough yet to have experienced what you said above as (not) being idiot like at all.

I don`t have a hearing problem, but many, many of my golf league buddies do and my wife now also has hearing problems. Many of these folks don`t always wear their hearing aids as they should. As a result, I`m chatting away in the golf cart and I have a deep voice and the other guy in the cart leans in and didn`t get what I said.



So, saying the same thing OVER AGAIN but also LOUDER does become the result. it gets damned old and frustrating to have to repeat yourself over and over again.

6/21/2018 2:30:04 AM

Most of our creeks and rivers in north central and western Montana are near or at flood stage again. No rain today but it`s supposed to start again tomorrow. I wish I could get it all down to Arizona. We really need it there.

6/21/2018 2:26:59 AM

VT, after being around a certain accent for long enough rubs off on me to the point where I start to talk like they do. Being stationed in south Georgia and NW Florida has had a permanent affect on my verbiage. Y`all and fixin` are a few of the things I`ve never lost. I first started some of it when I lived in Texas. Being stationed in Germany forced me to start talking in broken English when trying to communicate with Germans.

It sounds stupid when you hear it but it`s just something that happens. I guess it`s better than talking louder to people who can`t understand you. I`ve heard lots of people do that and its bizzare. Oh, you don`t understand me. Let me say the same thing LOUDER! Maybe that will help. Idiots!! LOL

6/21/2018 2:19:00 AM

MoScooter, wearing my parker in the winter and idear (as you mentioned), are two that immediately come to mind and drive me crazy!

6/20/2018 9:28:08 PM

I need to go out to the Waccamaw river and check the height. We`ve had quite a bit of rain here in the Myrtle Beach area.

6/20/2018 12:35:17 PM

As most of you know , I worked at Dupont for 36 years. During that time I encountered all kinds of accents from all over the country and the world. I got where I did not pay a lot of attention to accents at all. But those from the northeast stood out most of all to me. Someone from Boston would stand out and those from the Bronx or Brooklyn definatley have distinct accents that you cannot ignore.

It is funny how people grow up hearing a certain accent and they talk just like it, I guess that came from when people from other countries settled certain areas of the country the accents were formed by them, and their decendants carried it on down through the years.

6/20/2018 6:58:14 AM

When discussing the weird accents and speech maladies coming out of many that grew up in the No east, there are a few exceptions.

Some that show no signs (speech wise) that they grew up in that area.

McG would be one of those. He pronounces most all words just like most from the mid west would do. No real hint at all that he grew up in New York.

6/20/2018 4:20:39 AM

The omission of the (R), drives me crazy too. However, there are an equal number of Noeasterners that ADD the (R) where it doesn`t belong at all.

An example would be "That`s a good idear" and some that would do that would also maybe pronounce bottle as bot el. Can`t think of others right now but there are plenty more where the r is left out or added where it shouldn`t be.

I recall a gorgeous gal in one of my IBM classes years ago. She was from New Jersey........foxy looking. But when she talked, you lost all interest. She would say instead of birds.............boids.