Pics for those already winterized ....

[Weldor]

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Gringo, I've checked out some of your site and it makes me wanna sell the farm, and all that goes with it. Just so I can rent a place there for a few months.lol I guess after the rent money ran out I could just bum around aimlessly for a couple of decades or so. Awhh heck we can dream can't we?

 

[HighTrim]

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Beautiful pics boyz, my dear boat is buried under snow right now, with a tunnel towards it so that my dog sled team can stay warm in the cold Canadian nights

 

[hazwild]

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well southeastern NC it is going in the 70's this weekend looking to head out again

 

[Gringo]

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Gringo, I've checked out some of your site and it makes me wanna sell the farm, and all that goes with it. Just so I can rent a place there for a few months.lol I guess after the rent money ran out I could just bum around aimlessly for a couple of decades or so. Awhh heck we can dream can't we?

Well, it started as a dream for us, too.

And if you got a farm to sell, you could probably work it so you lived here free. Would take a little planning, but it can be done...

 

[rogerwa]

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Awesome photos Gringo.. Each ones a postcard.

 

[Gringo]

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Ok...if people don't want me to post the tropical photos....how bout just our boat and dog?


I hope that one is suitably somber. It WAS taken in November, while I was swimming back to the boat with some conch out near the reef...

and I won't post the photos of all the conch we got that day, or cleaning them, etc. too tropical. Shows clear water and palm trees and stuff....

 

[scrobo]

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Here I am looking at my frozen front yard hanging Christmas lights (can I say Christmas still?) and looking in the backyard at my boat all bundled up....

It's cruel of you to make us "men-o-the-North" suffer like this.

Of course... it's snowmobile season... where is your snowmobile????

Oh. That's right. You need SNOW for those...

(I'd still rather be out on the lake fishing...)

 

[Gringo]

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While I don't use them myself, the Caribbean equivalent of the snowmobile is alive and well here. SeaDoos are pretty popular.

Spent most of the day yesterday on boats. Ferrying people to another island in an 18 ft. Whaler all morning....and on our 22 ft. Andros from early afternoon until dark. Winter is here, too, you know. Our friend Herbert, on Pine Cay, actually had long pants on as the air temperature dropped into the high 70's late in the day:

(the shoes and pants are job required, he was catching bait on his afternoon break)

Hey, I kept the palm trees and tropical beach scenes out of it for you. Is that better?

 

[bigbenrusky]

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Last week the NM gov was campaigning for the feds to force the Great Lake states to ship water to the southwestern desert. Normally this would be totally abhorent -- he can enjoy Great Lakes region water all he wants -- just move here.

But I was thinking -- it might be a worthwhile trade for us to share a little water if he could forgo January - February warmth and sunshine and send it our way. Something like for every Jan - Feb day over 80 degrees and 12 hours of bright, cloudless sunshine, we'd be willing to send him x gallons of water. Of course, he'd have to document that it came from him, and that he got the -10 degrees and only 7 hours of daylight we normally get then.

AFTER we moved to Kalamazoo area 14 years ago, we found there is only one town in the US with less average sunshine (i.e. not cloudy days) -- and that's some little town in Alaska. Even Pacific NW gets more sunshine than here.

i really don't know about that. here in the Fort Wayne, IN area we rarely see the sun. we see more grey sky's than we see the sun. man this is depressing just thinking about it. We have an old saying that when the indians where here they called this place the land of grey ski.

 

[1976 Slickcraft]

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My wife and I were down there (Grand Turk) in mid august of this year. Daytime temp was low 90's. Most beautiful place in the world.

 

[Gringo]

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Sept. is the hottest month here, with temps getting up into the low 90's. It doesnt feel like it though, with the trade winds blowing. Shade changes everything.

Grand Turk is typically a couple degrees warmer than Provo for some reason. It's a little further south, but not by enough for that to make the difference. Salt Cay is the same.

We went over to GT early this year to look around. We liked it there, not as commercial as Provo is getting, although by US standards this is still pretty backwards. Just imagine the entire country has a population of around 35,000 people spread over 8 of the 40 islands. That's about the same as the population of the town of Falmouth, on Cape Cod, as I recall.

 

[Hashi]

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I vote we all go down, see Gringo and have him put us up until winter's over.

 

[OldMercsRule]

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Sept. is the hottest month here, with temps getting up into the low 90's. It doesnt feel like it though, with the trade winds blowing. Shade changes everything.

Grand Turk is typically a couple degrees warmer than Provo for some reason. It's a little further south, but not by enough for that to make the difference. Salt Cay is the same.

We went over to GT early this year to look around. We liked it there, not as commercial as Provo is getting, although by US standards this is still pretty backwards. Just imagine the entire country has a population of around 35,000 people spread over 8 of the 40 islands. That's about the same as the population of the town of Falmouth, on Cape Cod, as I recall.

Hey Gringo! I wonder if ya ever pondered what would happen if ol' "La Palma" cracked open n' slid a bit after an eruption n' sent a wave towards North America. I guess an asteroid could cause trouble too, (but we would all die if it was a big one).

The PNW is very active, (quakes n' volcanoes n' all), and I have pondered my own family's potential way outa harm's way if somethin' big happened here in God's Country.

Mrs. Jones thinks the wave could be a problem fer the East coast of the ol' USA.

Yer pics seem ta show yer home is high enough ta survive a hurracane without problem, but how 'bout that lil' potential problem on a real big wave?

Maybe gettin' in yer boat n' gettin offshore enough ta ride it prior ta pickin' up steam in the shallow places would be a strategy, as there should be some warnin' since it is a distance from ya, n' people are aware of the huge potential problem if she blows n' slides?

Not tryin' ta scare ya, (as Florida n' the Right coast would be purdy bad as well, [n' lots more people in the way] of the clear thinkers as you seem ta be) jus' curious if ya have a "plan". Respectfully, JR ps Maybe I should have started a new thread ta ask this question. ME = BAD

 

[cbavier]

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There always has to me somebody rubbing it in. It's 18 Dg here and we have 9 inches of snow on the ground. I'm jealous but oh well. It just makes May and June that much more special. They say Variety is the spice of life and our four seasons sure give us variety.

 

[Gringo]

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Now that you mention it, yes, I am aware of El Cumbre Vieja and what is probably going to happen at some point. I have sort of read up on all that rock that's going to come falling into the ocean due most likely to water hitting the rising magma all allong that seam and turning into steam and causing a big momma wave. I know we are closer to the next eruption than we are to the last one. I have seen a lot of speculation on the size of the wave after it crosses the Atlantic. The speed of it could be phenomenal, like hundreds of miles an hour. The only really safe eastern US coastal areas are on the Gulf of Mexico, and maybe New England. Our floor is about sixty feet ASL. If its higher than that...and we had advance warning, we could drive up to a hilltop over a hundred feet ASL if need be, and much further inland. Of course here thats a mile from the ocean. But we are on the shallow banks side of the island. Facing South. That wave will be coming from the east, and have to cross the reef, and several complete islands before getting to us. There's two big ridges between us and that side. The spine of the island. From the south, there are over 20 miles of water averaging maybe 12 ft deep, and then a steep drop off. So, I guess we are in as good a shape as most if the wave is less than 60 ft. around on this side.

If it's 200 feet we're probably doomed. Unless someone airlifted us, but that's not going to happen. The Bahamas are low and flat...the eastern US....Florida...Georgia...Washington..this place is going to be on its own for a long long time after that. Scary thought. But life will change for the entire world after this happens.

 

[SgtMaj]

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Low 90's?!? It get's more miserale here! IT'S NOT FAIR!!!

We put Turks and Caicos on our vacation schedule, but it'll be a few more years. Gotta make the family visit rounds before we get another "us" vacation. Hey keep those pics commin' til then, would ya?



The thing about that big wave is that pretty much everyone's going to get wiped out, unless you're WAY inland. I watched a show on it where they were showing the damage zones in the US... all of NYC would be wiped out, not to mention the entire state of Florida. But on the other side, if you live inland, you also have Yellowstone to contend with. If that blows, then most people inland are doomed. But the likelyhood of either one occurring in our lifetimes is very slim (though admittedly much less slim on the wave thing over the yellowstone thing). Probably the best place to be in either event would be offshore boating.

 

[PhatboyC]

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I like the pics Gringo! I don't mind as much as the others since me and my girlfriend are heading there for our winter vacation. From Jan 3rd to Jan. 10th. We will be at the Sands at Grace Bay. Nice to see what we have to look forward to (even if its only for a week)!

 

[Gringo]

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Okay, how about a random sunset from Pine Cay? THAT's not too tropical, is it?

 

[OldMercsRule]

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Now that you mention it, yes, I am aware of El Cumbre Vieja and what is probably going to happen at some point. I have sort of read up on all that rock that's going to come falling into the ocean due most likely to water hitting the rising magma all allong that seam and turning into steam and causing a big momma wave. I know we are closer to the next eruption than we are to the last one. I have seen a lot of speculation on the size of the wave after it crosses the Atlantic. The speed of it could be phenomenal, like hundreds of miles an hour. The only really safe eastern US coastal areas are on the Gulf of Mexico, and maybe New England. Our floor is about sixty feet ASL. If its higher than that...and we had advance warning, we could drive up to a hilltop over a hundred feet ASL if need be, and much further inland. Of course here thats a mile from the ocean. But we are on the shallow banks side of the island. Facing South. That wave will be coming from the east, and have to cross the reef, and several complete islands before getting to us. There's two big ridges between us and that side. The spine of the island. From the south, there are over 20 miles of water averaging maybe 12 ft deep, and then a steep drop off. So, I guess we are in as good a shape as most if the wave is less than 60 ft. around on this side.

If it's 200 feet we're probably doomed. Unless someone airlifted us, but that's not going to happen. The Bahamas are low and flat...the eastern US....Florida...Georgia...Washington..this place is going to be on its own for a long long time after that. Scary thought. But life will change for the entire world after this happens.

Hmmmmm, If you have 20 miles of 12 foot deep water off yer place that may not be so good, even if ya face South. I don't know much about it other then the fact that I like ta ponder big potential hard to predict natural events n' have a plan if a plan could even werk if there is any warning, (likely in this case).

Volcanoes and earthquakes are big deals in the PNW where I live. The lake where my island is located has a steep mountian to the South of the lake that does slip material into the lake every 50,000 years give or take 50,000 years and there are faults nearby, so the local County makes homeowners on the South shore sign off some sorta risk acknowledgement type doc. that they know their place could get burried in mud from time to time. My building is 45' above the surface of the Lake which is only 90' deep, so I would be one of the likely survivors if that type of deal came down.

Re: tsunamis, the type of wave from a huge land slide into deep water is the worst type of wave. There are steep sea floor volcanoes all over the world that could cause problems anywhere for someone as fortunate as you and yer wife livin' in such a great place. I think the wave is actually manageable, (may not be fun but ya may live ta tell about it if you were off shore in deep water) and I bet you would have enough warning to make a 20 mile run if she cracked off.

Me overprice $.02 about some real paradise that you have. JR

 

[Gringo]

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I know what you are talking about, a little. My father was a geophysicist, and I stumbled through the marine geology program at UT for a few years my own self, before moving into the seismic exploration and oceanographic fields.

But if we had warning enough, we could hop on the boat in Leeward and be in 5,000 feet of water in 10 minutes. Only about three miles if we go North instead of South.