World, Writing, Wealth discussion

Scary or not so much? -:)

I don't care to say how many Friday the 13ths I've experienced on this planet, I'll just say that it's a lot - and absolutely nothing bad has ever happened to me on any of those days. I hope I'm not tempting fate by saying that, as there are still six and a half hours left!

If some rockets fly or anything else happens, it's probably because of this ominous coincidence -:)
Do you believe in any 'special' dates, numerology in general maybe?

Friday 13 went by here with no special event. The weather was a little less miserable than the day before.

As for numerology, no I definitely do not believe in it. I am a little wary of what people say on April 1, but that is because I know they will try things.

I'm a little superstitious, but not about Friday the 13th. My thing is never to say how well things are going - it's tempting the fates.

Have you sealed off the house, oiled your machine gun, switched the radars on and prepared your space jet for immediate take off? :)

No. Your reminder was not timely - it was essentially over when I got your email, thanks to the dateline, so I missed the warning :-( Fortunately the worst that happened is once again it started raining when I was unprepared.

The guns are always squared away. Unfortunately, it's still bow season here, so I'll only be practicing this weekend.

As for this ominous date, I'll just sip some Gentleman Jack, and howl at the Harvest Moon.

Ian wrote: "No. Your reminder was not timely - it was essentially over when I got your email, thanks to the dateline, so I missed the warning :-( Fortunately the worst that happened is once again it started ra..."

Would you mind sending some of that rain across the ditch? We're in desperate drought...

Leonie, I most certainly would if I could. We could use little Australian sunshine right now, but our longer range forecast is for at last four days of rain :-(

J. wrote: "As for this ominous date, I'll just sip some Gentleman Jack, and howl at the Harvest Moon...."

Sounds like good time to me :)

Ian wrote: "Leonie, I most certainly would if I could. We could use little Australian sunshine right now, but our longer range forecast is for at last four days of rain :-("

We'd love that right now. Some of our towns will be out of water by the end of the year.

Maybe it will rain soon, Leonie. I can recall the last day when I left my little rented house up in New England the Peel/Namoi river systems were connected with a 100 mile wide wall of water. The wretched landlord criticised me later for the movers having had muddy boots - any excuse to keep the bond.

We have some forecast tomorrow! Hopefully it's a decent amount.

Good luck for it. Tonight on TV I saw a clip from Moree, which is not that far from Armidale where I spent some time so I had an interest in it. The drought there was terrible, there were sheep that were barely hanging on and the ground was essentially dried clay. I never saw anything like that, although there were periods where there wasn't much rain. The problem is the ground is so hard and dry that if it does rain there, the chances are a lot will just run off.

That's exactly how it is. It's incredibly dry, and it's so widespread that it's becoming quite desperate. Some of my farmer patients are contemplating selling their breeding stock.

Undoubtedly, fri the 13-th is the best scientific explanation for the climate change

Leonie wrote: "That's exactly how it is. It's incredibly dry, and it's so widespread that it's becoming quite desperate. Some of my farmer patients are contemplating selling their breeding stock."

I really hope you get some rainy periods like we are experiencing. A couple of weeks precipitation would certainly help.

Nik wrote: "Undoubtedly, fri the 13-th is the best scientific explanation for the climate change"

Yeah - I am sure the farmers around Moree are concerned it does not rain on any Fri 13. :-)-: How many such Fri 13s are there?

PS Could not resist a chance to put in the Schrödinger smiley - when you are smiling - or not.

Ian wrote: "....Schrödinger smiley ..."

Learnt something new today -:)
BTW, if you are distributing precipitation here anyway, we'd like some too, as it's never raining during the summer here, frequently for over 5 months. It's high time for rains to revisit

Again, would if I could :-) We have a surplus!

Some people really believe in Friday the 13th and they dread it when it comes around. Personally I have never had anything bad happen to me on that day (I hope I am not tempting fate by saying that - lol) and if I could bottle up rain for all of you that need it I would as we have received too much where I live here in Florida! :)

And we actually have had a tiny bit of rain here today. Hoping it might continue overnight. Mind you, we need a lot more still. Like every day for about the next six months....

Leonie wrote: "And we actually have had a tiny bit of rain here today. Hoping it might continue overnight. Mind you, we need a lot more still. Like every day for about the next six months...."

Every little bit helps, but I wish the rain we receive here in the U.S. could be sent over there. Florida was in a drought years ago to the point where people's wells were drying up. At that time it had been near five or six months without rain.

It was so bad that in certain local governments across the state there was a fire ban on burning anything outside. If people were caught it was hefty fines! Also the local governments were sending small planes around parts of the counties monitoring people to make sure they were not burning.

Companies that were even in the process of clearing land for development were also banned from burning. It went on like that for months. I remember driving to different areas to go shopping and there would be property that was being cleared for development with brush/tree piles all over the land stacked high waiting to be burned.

I also think at that time there were some fires going on in Florida and some areas were burning which made the fire bans go into high alert for a very long time.

Good luck, Leonie. The good news here is we have had one day when it did not rain, and the forecast is for four days of sunshine!

Like with the weather - we have an acute excess of something in one place and acute deficiency in another, it is with food, resources and other stuff. The problem is in distribution-:)

Tourists coming here should bring buckets :-)

We've had 30mm total over two days. Not enough to make the creeks flow, but enough to wet the ground a bit. Hopefully it might penetrate.

Unfortunately most of Western NSW missed out.

This year our fire season has started early. (Courtesy of the drought and unseasonably warm spring weather.) I'm sincerely hoping we don't have any days where the fire danger is marked 'Catastrophic' like we have had over the last few years.

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/plan-and-p...

That sounds as if Moree will not be happy.

Leonie wrote: "We've had 30mm total over two days. ..."

Oh, the Great Shaman, Ian! (Bowing in reverence) Thanks for saving Australia.
Now, pls aim your high precision rain to the ME theater -:)

Ian wrote: "That sounds as if Moree will not be happy."

I think not...

So dry here in southern U.S. Not sure how to do a rain dance, but will be looking it up online and inviting neighbors to join.

Here in Raleigh, we've had above average rainfall for about three years now. We've had no rain since Dorian brushed by, and now the weather service wants to put us in drought conditions. Personally, I'll take the dryness because it's only a matter of time before the above average rainfall picks up again.

Besides, I don't see the ponds and rivers drying up. When Matthew hit a few years ago, the bridge about a hundred feet from my driveway went underwater for the first time. Early this summer, a regular old rainstorm washed out the road where it meets the bridge! The locals who have been living here since forever all said they'd never seen it like this. We don't need the rain as much as the weather service things we do...

Corona, hurricane outside, political crisis & Friday 13-th - what if not a perfect storm?
Or maybe just a regular rainy Friday :)

What do you think? How's yours?

Well....let's see...corona is everywhere...but life goes on as best it can. No hurricanes yet....but hurricane season starts soon. Political crisis - what else is new...sounds typical to me for here...but no rain. Sunshine here in Florida. Right now it is beach weather! lol :)

Marie wrote: "Well....let's see...corona is everywhere...but life goes on as best it can. No hurricanes yet....but hurricane season starts soon. Political crisis - what else is new...sounds typical to me for her..."

Envy a Florida beach although we have some sunshine for a change this winter. The rest not Friday 13th expect 13 months of disruption - I'm naturally pessimistic

Well, to add to all that, being up in the Puget Sound area and being in the news for disease control (or not control I suppose), it is snowing up in my particular area! I can't recall it snowing in March around here, like ever.

UK had very little snow this winter and only a few flakes in my part.Lots and lots and lots of rain...

Uk .... raine too ended up with abnormally warm winter with temperatures rarely going below zero, scarce snow and rivers that never froze

Anything scary so far (not incl. everything) ? :)

Happy Friday the 13th everyone!

Thnx, Justin, 2 u 2

Just seen scariest thing on the planet DT news (or no news conference) - that's a joke by the way in case anyone did not get it...

Nik wrote: "Anything scary so far (not incl. everything) ? :)"

It came, went, and nothing happened 🤷‍♀️

The devil must’ve been hungover :)
The entire year is one big Friday 13-th

You got that right :-)

Leonie wrote: "Nik wrote: "Anything scary so far (not incl. everything) ? :)"

It came, went, and nothing happened 🤷‍♀️"

Nothing seems to have happened here either. This year that's scary; what is going on that we don't know?

I would not even know it was Friday the 13th if not for social media. Being on disability, I lost track of days and dates years ago. But, never worried about it either. Not superstitious.

Like others, AZ did not get its usual rain and we are drier than usual. Of course, California could have used a lot of rain it didn't get this year either. My sister had to evacuate twice.

Solar eclipse maybe or any other expectations from this remarkable date? :)

Issue with any date sis that it's not the same date everywhere at the same time - so how can a day be lucky unlucky when the date is arbitrarily named based on Pagan to Roman to Christian adoptions for month and day of the week and the time/date is driven by orbital mechanics but set arbitrarily as it passes through the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° line of longitude. Roughly makes it a political decision

So which day is the 13th of any month when is Friday?