That's pretty crazy. We never heard from the friend after he left, so I have no idea what his fate was. Presumably he relocated somewhere, but no idea where. I think it took about 24-36 hours before he found out his mom and little sister survived, and he took off right after he got that news. My wife's main job is going through all of the path reports, flagging cancer diagnoses and passing the information to the appropriate treatment team. I keep reminding my wife that all of the data she is collecting and entering into the national database will hopefully help our kids and grandkids face less of a cancer threat than we are facing, but its still very difficult. I definitely miss thunderstorms A LOT, and fire flies, and Waffle House. The rest of it can sod off! Especially the heat. In Athens I lived in a brick and cinder block duplex with a single old window unit AC mounted in the wall. It had full sun exposure and single pane windows, so it got really hot. I ran the AC at a bare minimum, and it still more than doubled my power bill for little benefit. Instead I would spend a good chunk of my day sitting in a bathtub filled with very lukewarm water to try and stay somewhat cool. Most of my books had water damage from falling asleep while reading LOL! When I did the tobacco farming, I lived in a house with a swimming pool, and the house had A/C and was kept cool, but being outside in July all day was brutal, and when we moved to the warehouse in August, the air ventilation sucked, and it would regularly get up to 125-130+ degrees (people brought in thermometers to confirm). We were given frequent water breaks and frequent opportunities to stand in front of the industrial sized floor fans. Still, you could wring our clothes out on sale days, which were the days we had to work the hardest. And we did it all for $4.25/hour (minimum wage was around 3.35 at the time). I've also helped out on a cattle drive in late November in Montana with the temps hovering in the negative teens and a very stiff wind. I would take that any day compared to working in that D**n warehouse in August.

Why are we talking about the first paragraph? It's been re-hashed to death over the years. It was a straw that broke the back situation. And Fred took over the forum back in 2014 I believe and we started over. But we did have access to like 9 years of past activity going back to 2005 in the new forum for quite awhile.

His last posts on his Jesse account seem completely innocent, did he say something insane and it got deleted later on? Very curious lol. Also strange that the Cascadia_Wx account has a few posts from 2015-2021, weird that he had 2 accounts during that time frame. And a couple questions unrelated to jezzie, how come there isn't a June 2021 thread? Who was the madman that deleted that ?! And is there any website or archive to view posts from prior to 2015, I assume someone hacked the forum or the database glitched in 2015 which is why there's no posts prior to then anymore, but Idk.

two additional thunderstorms and downpours thru the day today. then wind. pretty nice little storm for basically summer. was great. now breezy and chilly, might turn on the fireplace for a bit

80s with clear skies, onshore flow and no wildfire smoke!