Friday 6: 45 P. M.: I installed this driver

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 2:10 P.M.:  I woke up when I had a telephone call about a commodities seminar at the Hyatt Hotel here in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.  I chatted with the caller for a while.  My relative in Vero Beach, Florida has a bit of water coming through her doors.   CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 10:50 A.M.:  I will now put the computer on standby, and I will rest a while.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 10:50 A.M.:  The hurricane surge was 5 to 9 feet in the Florida Keys, and 35% of Key West is flooded with some water above the roofs of cars, and it will take several low tides to clear out the water.  I watched Governor Bush's press conference at 10 A.M., and he said that the most dangerous time of the hurricane is the period after the hurricane and the day afterwards, so people should exercise caution in their activities in the day after the hurricane.  He said particularly the use of gasoline generators can be very dangerous, and one should use them in an outside environments, and not to use them in any inside locations such as garages.  The eye of the hurricane is passing over Palm Beach and Martin counties, and the west side of the storm will be as strong or as intense as the east side of the storm.  He has 3,000 National Guard troops mobilized and 3,000 more on standby.  In Homestead and Tallahassee, he has 21 trucks of ice and 21 trucks of water with preplanned deployment locations in the effected areas along with some meals ready to eat.  The Governor of Florida strongly urges the residents of the effected areas to stay inside until after the storm, and the emergency workers have time to access the damage in the areas.  With large power outages, there will be problems of live power lines in outside areas which can be dangerous.  Power companies had time to deploys their emergency crews, so they will be ready to start repairs after the hurricane ends.  As a result of the hurricane winds, the New York City area is suppose to have 50 mile an hour winds tomorrow.  I ate three handfuls of almonds, and I ate three 1.5 inch by 1.5 inch by .25 inch pieces of mozzarella cheese with some iced tea.  Fox news said the area on the barrier island east of West Palm Beach called Palm Beach might have sustained more damage than West Palm Beach.   The newer buildings are better built than some of the older buildings.   Fort Myers, Florida (33901) Forecast : Weather Underground .  There is suppose to be heavy downpours of rain in Vero Beach, Florida in the next few minutes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:50 A.M.:  West Palm Beach getting maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hours with Palm Beach, Broward and Dade Counties getting the worst of it on the East Coast of Florida with the eye of the hurricane arriving shortly on the east coast of Florida, however the worst of the hurricane might be on the west side of the hurricane after the eye.  Florida City is flooded.  2,500 Florida National Guards waiting to come into the disaster areas.  Hurricane costs could bust the Federal budget.  Hurricane should have passed out to sea in a few hours.  It should be a sunny afternoon in south Florida.  During hurricane activity in a area like south Florida, one has to watch out for snakes.  Much of south Florida has been declared a disaster area.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:35 A.M.: Coral Gables, Florida (33114) Forecast : Weather Underground .  My 4 P.M. appointment cancelled today.  8 to 9 inches of water in Key West at Duval and Green Streets. Key West Fantasy Fest might have to be cancelled.  Sun-Sentinel: South Florida weather Florida and the Bahamas Satellite  .  Damage all over south Florida.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:15 A.M.:  Hurricane Wilma Short List .  Donald Trump Plaza being hit hard in West Palm Beach, Florida.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:15 A.M.:  Foxs news reports 800,000 homes without power in south Florida. Fort Lauderdale, Florida (33301) Forecast : Weather Underground is suppose to be getting the worst part of the hurricane now.   CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 9:05 A.M.:  Vero Beach, Florida (32960) Forecast : Weather Underground ,  West Palm Beach, Florida (33401) Forecast : Weather Underground , Miami Beach, Florida (33109) Forecast: Weather Underground , Key West, Florida (33040) Forecast : Weather Underground , Naples, Florida (34101) Forecast : Weather Underground .   half million of people in south Florida without electricity and no electricity in the Florida Keys.  Water Spout in Key West harbor.  Miami Beach over 100 miles per hour.  Emergency vehicles tanken off the streets in Miami.  Governor Bush of Florida to visit south Florida after the storm.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 8:40 A.M.:  Hotel and road map of Florida - World Sites Atlas .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 8:25 A.M.:  Broward Country 102 miles per hour and Dade Country 92 miles per hours.   Sun-Sentinel: South Florida weather Florida and the Bahamas Satellite  .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 8:20 A.M.:  30% of Key West is flooded.  U.S. 1 out of Key West is flooded out in Marathon, Florida.  800,000 people are without power in Broward County.  I chatted with a relative in Vero Beach, Florida, and the wind is about 35 miles per hour, and a tree is knocking on their house.  I went outside, and the weather here in Greenwich, Connecticut is 43 degrees Fahrenheit and partially cloudy with a chance of rain Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:35 A.M.:  WPEC NEWS 12 - The 1•2 Turn To Live Doppler .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:25 A.M.:    Wilma bears down on S. Florida with 120-mph winds; eyewall near Marco Island: South Florida Sun-Sentinel on the lower right side of the page has a live TV coverage from local News Channel NBC 5.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:20 A.M.:  South Florida Sun-Sentinel: Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade news, entertainment, sports, jobs, cars & homes. .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 7:10 A.M.:  CNN.com - Category 3 Wilma makes landfall in southwest Florida - Oct 24, 2005 says that the name of the Lee County Sheriff is Mike Scott.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 6:45 A.M.:  Hurricane Wilma officially made landfall at Cape Romano at 6:33 A.M..  That is is just south of Naples, Florida on the Collier and Monroe Counties border Florida Counties - Google Image Search .  Miami and Fort Lauderdale are suppose to get the worst side of the hurricane with a 2 to 3 foot storm surge.  I washed the breakfast dishes, and I made my bed.  Locally here in Greenwich, Connecticut, we also have a Weather Hazards for Southern Fairfield, CT Hazardous Weather Outlook .  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 6:05 A.M.:  I posted a short list of links Hurricane Wilma Short List .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/24/05 Monday 5:50 A.M.:  www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I was awake at 4 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee.  I have been watching Hurricane Wilma coverage on the Fox News Channel.  It does not look for the Florida Keys, since less than 10% of the people evacuated.   According to the Foxs news broadcast the Monroe Country Emergency director said there are lots of people in the Florida Keys that are calling in about flooding.  The eye of the hurricane is suppose to come ashore at Everglade City which is three feet below sea level.  The top hurricane winds are 125 miles per hour or category 3.  Around Everglade City they are expecting a 8 to 17 foot storm surge and in the Florida Keys they are expecting a 5 to 12 foot storm surge.  One local weather observer at the eye of hurricane in Naples, Florida has a web site Welcome to the StormStudy Project .  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 7:20 P.M.:  I went through my email.  I will now run Norton Win Doctor 2003 and Ad-awardSE.  I will then shut down the computer, and I will go to bed a little while after that.  I have a 4 P.M. appointment tomorrow, so I do not want to get up too early.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:55 P.M.:  Event Sectors Severe Storms and Special Events .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:50 P.M.:  NOAA GOES East DATA - EASTERN US IR .  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:45 P.M.:  National Weather Service Radar from Miami, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Melbourne, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Tampa Bay Area, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Key West, FL and National Weather Service Radar from Tallahassee, FL .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:35 P.M.:  I chatted with a relative.  I ate a couple of handfuls of almonds.  I posted this note about a month ago, and thus there might be a good side to hurricane down south. According to this SEAWEED CULTURE IN JAPAN the Japanese get $7 a pound for sea weed, so imported seaweed from the Florida Keys would be twice as much at least.  But processed they get closer to $50 a pound "Nori" Seaweed and Seaweed Salad from Japan.  Thus after a hurricane, they should have thousands of tons of sea weed around in south Florida, so if they use a little bit of local ingenuity, they might learn to make a little bit of money off what is lying around after the hurricane.  I recall, it was somebody like myself when they were throwing tons of orange peels away in the 1970s, I got them to start selling the orange peels to the Chinese to make orange sofa.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 5:30 P.M.:  See who is left behind in Key West, Florida http://www.liveduvalstreet.com/ and Casa Marina webcam link at the bottom of this page http://www.casamarinakeywest.com/intro.html and at the moment this one does not work http://www.laconchakeywest.com/webcam.htm .  Top story Most stay for Hurricane Wilma's arrival ,  Key West Radar National Weather Service Radar from Key West, FL and http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/gmex-vis-loop.html and http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/GMEX/VIS/20.jpg .  If I were in Key West, Florida, I would wear my west suit to bed tonight.  Of course they tend to not sleep much at night in Key West, so more than likely they are just waking up down there now, and they do not know what is going on.  Apparently the Fantasy Festival is this week.  It might turn out to be more like "Lord of the Flies".  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 4:55 P.M.:  I looked at a lot of satellite photographs at Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks and this one seems to explain the current situation with hurricane Wilma the best Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks .  Figure red is warmer and blue is colder.  From what I can tell, it does not look very promising for Key West, Florida.  Apparently 80% of the people in the Florida Keys have chosen not to evacuate yet.  Vero Beach news on hurricane Wilma TCPalm : Hurricane Wilma speeds up on path to Florida .  I suppose since it is once again towards the end of the month, a lot of people can not afford to evacuate.  I chatted with a relative.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 3:35 P.M.:  Polar Satellite Products for the Operational Forecaster: Analysis of Tropical Cyclones .  I will now install the Windows download version of this program to see what it does.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 3:30 P.M.:  Try this  Navy hurricanes, typhoons, satellite images, forecasts, tracks .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 7:25 A.M.:  I opened a 18 ounce can of Progresso New England clam chowder, and I put it in a plastic microwave pot with lid, and I heated it on the reheat cycle in the General Electric microwave oven.  I put the hot soup in a large cobalt blue soup bowl with a couple of handfuls of Arnold Caesar croutons, and I ate it all with a glass of iced tea.  I opened up a 36 ounce bag of Eight O'clock hazelnut coffee beans, and I filled the mason jars marked "regular" with them and the regular coffee bean Braun coffee grinder.  I need to reset the service light on my 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo station wagon.  All of the scheduled service has been done on the car to date, and it is running just fine.  I still have just over a quarter inch of tread left on the tires.  Maybe this tip will work to reset the service light Volvo: 850 turbo dash service light .  I will now shut down the computer, and I will clean up, and I will go out.  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 6:45 A.M.:  I put the tea in the refrigerator to become iced tea.  I took out my long underwear bottoms, and I hung them on the right hook at the bedroom entrance.  I took out my winter knit caps, scarves, and gloves, and I put them on the near end of the down sofa, and I put the orange bicycle helmet on the far end of the down sofa.  On the left side of the bedroom closet, I rotated my summer shirts to the far left of the closet, and I put my cold weather shirts on the left center of the closet.  It is not cold enough yet to rotate around my winter jackets with my moderate weather jackets in the right living room closet, but one has to remember during the first week of December last year, it was down to zero degrees Fahrenheit here, so it does not hurt to be prepared.  As L.L.Bean - Outdoor Specialties since 1912 Limited Time Free Shipping says, there is no such thing as cold weather, just people whom are not dressed for it.  For cold weather clothes, one can also try www.sierratradingpost.com and www.moutainhardware.com , and of course http://www.canada-goose.com/ is about the best I know of for extreme cold weather, but it usually does not get that cold around here for the http://www.canada-goose.com/ unless one happens to be from Brazil or Saudi Arabia or India or somewhere else where it tends to be really hot year round where one's blood might be thinned out.  CIO     

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 5:40 A.M.:  Sunrise is suppose to be at 7:15 A.M., and the rain is suppose to have quit by then, but it will be still a bit damp out Greenwich, Connecticut (06830) Forecast : Weather Underground .  CIO  

Note: <888> 10/23/05 Sunday 5:00 A.M.:  I woke up at 2 A.M..  I ate breakfast of oatmeal with cinnamon, milk, and a sliced banana, a toasted bagel with olive oil, vitamins, supplements, a 75% mixture of cold orange juice with a 25% mixture of cold filtered water, and a cup of coffee with a package of Splenda and a little bit of milk in the coffee. I started two loads of laundry, and I am almost done with the dry cycle.  I put clean linens on the bed.  I also took off the pink and green quilt, and I put it in its packaging  and placed it on the left side of the closet shelf.  I put the electric blanket on the bed, and I put the comforter on the bed.  I also put the light weight blue throw blanket at the end of the bed.  I threw out some garbage.  I put both afghan throws the orange and pumpkin one and the blue and grey one folded up on the back of the down sofa.  I am in the process of making a fresh batch of www.geocities.com/mikelscott/icetea.htm .  When I started the computer, I had to do a system restore to yesterday, because for some reasons, when I clicked on one icon, all of the icons to its left would high light.  I have had the problem before, but I am not sure what causes it.  Restoring it to an earlier time fixes it.  I will now run Ad-awareSE.  I will now go downstairs and get the laundry, and I will put it away.  CIO   

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 4:00 P.M.:  I ate a half of a cup of almonds with some iced tea.  I will now shut down the computer, and I will go to bed soon.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 3:20 P.M.:  I went outside briefly, and I picked up the mail.  I got another Greenwich Country Day alumni sticker in the mail.  I posted a picture of what the living room window wall looks like now http://www.geocities.com/mike2scott20061/mike-scott-living-room-window-wall-102205.JPG .  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 2:45 P.M.:  I rested on the long green Scott family sofa for an hour.  I then washed the General Electric Profile 15,500 BTU air conditioner filter and reinstalled it.  I then closed its exhaust louvers, and I shut its front louvers.  I unplugged it from its heavy duty power cord.  I then used 3M duct tape, and I resealed any air leaks around the double layer of Plexiglas to the left of the air conditioner.  I made sure the hand towels that I have stuck into the window gap between the sliding and fixed windows were inserted tightly.  I installed two sheets of one foot by four foot by one inch Styrofoam vertically to the left of the air conditioner in front of the Plexiglas, and I secured them with duct tape.  I put another two sheets side by side vertically in front of the air conditioner, and I secured them with duct tape.  I restuffed in some small hand towels around the corners where there might be air leaks.  I took out the bobby pins from the orange curtain that hangs in front of the air conditioner and above it, so the orange curtains hangs full length in front of the styrofoam and air conditioner.  I plugged in and put the Lasko box fan in front of the curtain in front of the air conditioner, so it can blow heat around the apartment on low speed during the heating season without all of the heat flowing into the false ceiling.  Right now it is turned off.  I moved the bric-a-brac back into position on the window shelf.  I put the small type Steuben vase on the brass and glass coffee table on the far end opposite the down sofa.  I put the General Electric air conditioner remote control in the remote control box on the left side of the window shelf.  The air conditioner is installed in the center of the three windows.  I will have to open the right window temporarily when I get the Oregon Scientific weather station to install the temperature humidity sensor outside on the window frame between the glass and the screen.  Thus I have the air conditioner secured for the winter season.  I have tried taking the earlier Sears air conditioner one winter before, and leaving it in the way I do with it insulated and taking it out make no difference in the overall  apartment temperature in the winter or electric heat costs.  Since it is a fixed unit on a frame and not a window unit, I leave it installed year round.  It would be very cumbersome to remove, and one would have to disassemble the frame outside the window, and although the housing authority would do it for me, I generally start using it about a month before they install them, and I use it later in the season due to my apartment's western exposure to the afternoon sun during the warmer months.  CIO

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 12:25 P.M.:  I made and ate my usual salad www.geocities.com/mikelscott/salad.htm .  For the cheddar cheese portion, I used 1/3 less fat mozzarella cheese.  I used 5 grape tomatoes and one sliced plum tomato along with all of the other regular ingredients.  I ate the salad with a glass of iced tea.  I checked the mail, but it was not here yet.  I threw out some garbage.  I ran Norton Speed Disk on the C: drive while making and eating my salad.   I will now take a nap.  CIO

End of Scott's Notes week of 10/22/05:

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 10:15 A.M.:   Remember to keep an eye on www.geocities.com/mikelscott/weather.htm .  I will now send out my weekly notes.  CIO 

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 10:00 A.M.:  The sun is just beginning to shine on Mount St. Helens Mount St. Helens (Johnston Ridge Observatory) Webcam Loop

Note: <888> 10/22/05 Saturday 9:55 A.M.:  In Vista beta 1, I went through the most recent newsgroups postings.  I organized the Favorites, so they are all in Folders.  I installed the most recent Nvidia XP drivers which worked with Vista beta 1.  I rebooted to XP.  Yesterday, I moved the blue and black backpack from the back of the sofa to on the floor behind the apartment entrance door behind the cart I use for hauling my groceries.  I filled up the Winter Protection Energy form, and I mailed it downstairs in the mail room.  I have the paperwork ready to fill out the Energy Assistance Program form.  It is raining steadily outside, so I probably will not be going out today.  We are beginning to get into that gloomy part of the year, but once it gets cold, we get a lot of clear and cold days, which can be enjoyable if one bundles up warm enough for them.  CIO