My vote is Jimmy, 1974. from the A1A album. Not a C&W fan but there's no one else like Jimmy. This is before Margaritavilla for those who don't know Jimmy.
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Yah George my family in NC mountains called and said they had to head to higher ground for a couple days, no damage to them but many low lying areas were underwater.
Glad you came out unscathed……it’s funny we took a direct hit from Fred (the center (eye) went right over us and y’all halfway up country took the beatin!
It’s not uncommon for TS/hurricanes that come in from the gulf to ride along the Appalachian ridge and cause serious flooding up there.
Glad you came out unscathed……it’s funny we took a direct hit from Fred (the center (eye) went right over us and y’all halfway up country took the beatin!
It’s not uncommon for TS/hurricanes that come in from the gulf to ride along the Appalachian ridge and cause serious flooding up there.
I never met Jimmy except for being at a show on the Coconut Telegraph tour in the early 80's. I have however dropped some serious cash at several Margaritaville restaurants in Florida in exchange for some "Cheesburgers in Paradise" (the actual name on the menu). I probably crossed paths with him several times and never knew it.
For those who don't know, A1A is the road that runs along the beach from the Florida Georgia Line to just south of Miami where it drops you on to US1 which dead ends in Key West. "Improvements" and city growth have re-routed some of the original road off the beach. I remember driving the length from the Cape Canaveral to the southern end in Miami back in 1970. I don't think that's still possible.
I spent nearly every weekday morning with decent sailing weather on a two man catamaran (Hobie 14, or a Venture 15) off the shores of Ft. Lauderdale from the mid 70's to the mid 80's. The boat was towed to the beach by my shagged out Chevy Van, and parked on A1A.
The phrase "Cheeseburger in Paradise" is claimed to have been first spoken by Jimmy in one of two restaurants on Captiva island off the west coast of Florida. I visit that island nearly every year.
Last year I was there in September when we shared the island with hurricane Sally. Still a tropical storm when it parked itself over Captiva dropping 18 inches of rain in 8 hours, flooding the island, and closing the Sanibel bridge, the only vehicular escape route. It was terrible, our 6 day vacation was extended to 9 days at no cost to us, and I got to play in a minimal hurricane, something I had not done since my teenage years.
For those who don't know, A1A is the road that runs along the beach from the Florida Georgia Line to just south of Miami where it drops you on to US1 which dead ends in Key West. "Improvements" and city growth have re-routed some of the original road off the beach. I remember driving the length from the Cape Canaveral to the southern end in Miami back in 1970. I don't think that's still possible.
I spent nearly every weekday morning with decent sailing weather on a two man catamaran (Hobie 14, or a Venture 15) off the shores of Ft. Lauderdale from the mid 70's to the mid 80's. The boat was towed to the beach by my shagged out Chevy Van, and parked on A1A.
The phrase "Cheeseburger in Paradise" is claimed to have been first spoken by Jimmy in one of two restaurants on Captiva island off the west coast of Florida. I visit that island nearly every year.
Last year I was there in September when we shared the island with hurricane Sally. Still a tropical storm when it parked itself over Captiva dropping 18 inches of rain in 8 hours, flooding the island, and closing the Sanibel bridge, the only vehicular escape route. It was terrible, our 6 day vacation was extended to 9 days at no cost to us, and I got to play in a minimal hurricane, something I had not done since my teenage years.
As I learned from 62 years in Florida, those storms are highly unpredictable. Sometimes minor storms make a big mess, and big ones do less damage.
One of my brothers managed to take ownership of the family vacation home in the NC mountains before the other two of us knew he did it. Its up in the mountains at an old golf resort near Johnson City Tennessee. Not sure how it fared though.
If it was near any creeks, rivers (or even little branches off a mountain can turn into a crazy torrent) he got wet!
Actually, that's not off-topic at all. It is an important aspect of maintaining a lower freezing point.
So it seems clear that your move is the cause of all those climate changes we see! Tsk, tsk ...
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South Florida is becoming so crowded that the alligators are thinking of moving to Tennessee.
Thanks for the Jimmy memories George, nice to hear. I have been a fan since a boy. Jimmy isn't so much a musician as a lifestyle.
The thumb drive in my car has 1694 songs of which 251 are Jimmy.
Weather? Hell ya, it's always sunny when a Jimmy song comes on.
George, he's not as large as me and not as muscular as you but he's 'bigger than the both of us'.
The thumb drive in my car has 1694 songs of which 251 are Jimmy.
Weather? Hell ya, it's always sunny when a Jimmy song comes on.
George, he's not as large as me and not as muscular as you but he's 'bigger than the both of us'.
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I continue to be amused by people here who have no idea, prattling on about climate change. Remember, unless you have studied the concept (as I have at Duke U), you really don't have a clue. It's like those who know nothing about COVID rattling on about masks, vaccinations and the like. When will people learn to stick to what they were taught? I'd never argue with someone about electronics, no matter how many amps and speakers I've built. As much as I know beyond what my friends know, I'm not an EE.
I hear ya PRR. Whatever those folks south of us think about climate change, there sure are a lot who are aching to move here. Friends a block from me just sold their house for $52k over asking price in a town that has struggled to jump over $300k house prices. We're well beyond that now.
I'm sure you are familiar with the term "armchair quarterback". That is compounded by the anonymity of internet posting and the result is what you've been seeing. That's what internet forum is.
But when someone claims about his experience of night & day difference from swapping out with expensive speaker cables, you don't need EE to counter that.
Unfortunately, sound engineering, test plots, and even basic physics are no match for superstition, slick marketing that's carefully lubricated with pure extra virgin snake oil.
Think HiFi audio is bad, have a look at the health care and sports supplements industry.
I’ve ran into him three times in social settings (not performing) two of which were direct interaction………to know him is to hate him.
This year's panic is not fear of climate but fear of germs plus better e-connectivity making the country look better than the city. Why commute crowded highways to a crowded office?
Also it is a "rich filter": the poor (can we say undesirables?) won't be doing half-million-buck houses far from their redlined neighborhoods. (It's not that simple, but....)
Here, moreso inland, and maybe down to you, the first full winter will be a wakeup. A ski weekend is fun, 4 months non-stop ice is not. Many of the places selling well may be bottomless next Mud Season.
And you might be surprised to know how many “EE’s” have trouble with basic electronics. And with everything being dumbed down at even the university level it’s only going to get worse.
You are right, I just remembered my exchange about 10 years ago with a member of different audio forum who has a degree in EE. When I posted skin-effect is irrelevant in audio cable design, he responded "What?!? How can you say that. You are wrong."
My cable company emailed me "Spectrum Alert: Tropical Storm Henri Preparation", a totally useless link. They've never told me in advance that they are going to drop the ball. I always assume that they might.
The New York City Emergency Management Department urges New Yorkers to prepare for potential impacts of Tropical Storm Henri.
On Sunday, the New York to Boston and beyond area will get WET and blown-away. Long Island predicted 4 inches of rain in 12 hours; a LOT for that place. Revised forecast shows wind gusts to 45MPH which sure can fell branches on lines.
Hurricane Bob came through here just 30 years ago this week. Time passes, lessons forgot. The NYC/Boston area is NOT prepared for a hurricane, hit or near-miss.
Here's Long Island prediction graph; the 45MPH peaks are new (had been 35). (en Metric)
National Hurricane Center
So expect some folks to be off-line, even into next week.
I'm expecting to see an inch of rain and a quick breeze Tuesday; the storm may degrade through central Mass and NH. But this is different from the plot this morning; they just don't know.
The New York City Emergency Management Department urges New Yorkers to prepare for potential impacts of Tropical Storm Henri.
On Sunday, the New York to Boston and beyond area will get WET and blown-away. Long Island predicted 4 inches of rain in 12 hours; a LOT for that place. Revised forecast shows wind gusts to 45MPH which sure can fell branches on lines.
Hurricane Bob came through here just 30 years ago this week. Time passes, lessons forgot. The NYC/Boston area is NOT prepared for a hurricane, hit or near-miss.
Here's Long Island prediction graph; the 45MPH peaks are new (had been 35). (en Metric)
National Hurricane Center
So expect some folks to be off-line, even into next week.
I'm expecting to see an inch of rain and a quick breeze Tuesday; the storm may degrade through central Mass and NH. But this is different from the plot this morning; they just don't know.
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