Well, this was real ! - #2 DENALANE.BLOGSPOT.COM

Just for fun, the 3 minute Paradise Point RV Park December 2020 video :

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=YikQKIquBUo

and,     https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=42

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Well, this was real ... a Tuesday evening wind storm, a Wednesday evening rain, a Thursday and even a Friday repeat threat   .......

It was a "dry" windstorm... no rain, certainly not the sea storm we were expecting.   .  with peculiar "no hammer" wind gusts, they simply stayed at 15-20 mph above the wind speed, and peaked @ around 60-65 mph,  the few "big" gusts we had were very long-sustained winds (not hammers) at 78, 81, and two at 85 mph)... but, 60-70 mph were the typical.  

Not a big storm for dry land (other than the tree threat), our air bag suspension lets us rock and roll sort of like being back on the boat, but, here we have no loose gear to fly around, no boats to break loose and become battering rams, no surging heaving seas beneath your feet, no dock to continuously slam up against, and only wind noises, no growling moorage lines, hull slapping water, or howling deck wires, lanyards, masts, and rails whistling and screaming from 50 other boats.

We had a one hour long power outage, but never fired the generator, all-in-all other than the tree threat, it was easy-peezy. Now, for Wednesday, they talked of a Thursday night second "Bomb Cyclone" headed our way bringing the rain we did not get...and more 70 mph wind... a monsoon/deluge rain is no problem for us, trees and wind "are"... Wind OK, Trees bad !

In town, at 0900 Wednesday AM over 1,000 were still out of power in downtown ! with a 1600 estimated time of having power again....  Thursday night Phase 2 was predicted -same storm, again- ...that was a fizzle, and Friday nights stars said there would be no "Phase 2".

The big November issue (for us) has been broadband (wifi) access, how is yours ?

Since we moved in here on 15 September, we honestly have been too busy settling in, unpacking, learning the ropes, and transferring everything to Curry, migrating blog and web sites over, plus doing the usual ongoing maintenance issues we all endure.... to concentrate on, or evaluate the broadband internet (wifi) connection.

Now that we are past all of that, past the election, and approaching the year-end holiday season, we are November-aware that this system is off-on-off-on-off  24/7 and barely useable, (mostly) unuseable, for our basic needs.  Being an optic cable install by Ziply Fiber, with a Nokia ONT, and all TP-link DECO mesh routers and AP's, it is almost top-of-the-line equipment, so, for it not to be functioning is technologically insulting.  Like potable water, garbage service, grey and black water disposal, and reliable electric power, wifi television, the internet and VOLP cell service has become an American "basic" need (especially with the advent of fiber-optic broadband wifi).

To discuss this, and other issues, we are thinking of a years-end Sunday afternoon "Meeting of the 12", or a Potluck?  if we can get access to the empty-unused office facility, we could all get together and vent (out of the rain) ... as a small community we need to communicate, and solve our own problems.

With our roadbed not loving the rains, and our horticulturalist (Nancy) now being gone, there are landscape issues coming for spring, the locked shower and laundry facilities are unknowns, and cleaning, plus some discussions on potentially "really"... cold weather water protection, and maybe other issues that need to be on the table.  

Everyone have a good safe holiday, and please think about doing a get-together.

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And now it begins ... #1- DENALANE.BLOGSPOT.COM

Other than the drone of the ocean, it is a silent place, cut off from the already cut off town of Port Orford, in the cut off SW corner of the state, and best not advertised or bragged about lest it attract zombies and Orks from the big city, week-enders, or motor cycle gangs, and cult leaders looking for a home base.  (some secrets are ment to be hidden).

No street lights, pavement, or need for speed bumps, it is a simple stand-alone place (on the grid with utilities), with a gazillion stars, great sunrises, and only one address, 42365 for all 12 sites... it's Paradise... it is "home".              

Since moving in here two months ago, I have been doing a weekly (Personal) Monday morning moving-in blog about our experience, that move-in phase is now over, but I am continuing the weekly ritual as a new "community" blog, for us Dena Lane dwellers, we are our own remote neighborhood watch, self help, and share colony, and since we are all intending to be "long term" here, perhaps we should be at least armed with each others contact information for emergencies, and do some "communicating" as neighbors.

So, welcome aboard the blog (or not), if you have comments, or information to share, something that needs saying, for the Monday postings you can contact us over at space 3 by texting 541-366-8001 or emailing to whazammo@gmail.com, we are Peter & an'ya. (sorry, we don't do phones).      

or, just visit   denalane.blogspot.com  anytime.

For this first edition ,winter start-up post, there is little ado ... other than recouping (in your own individual fashion) from the election, watching the Madeira plants dry up and the hungry  humming birds still visiting six times a day, plus, losing our long-time Park host Nancy from space 5 into a brick and mortar cabin without wheels somewhere further inland... rumor is a motor home is taking over her space in a few days... and it may rain.

All-in-all a pretty quiet week, the king tides are back ! Thanksgiving is coming (again), and it might even rain.<s> .. let's see what the "next" week conjures up, stop back & read about it here !

Just for fill, some winter thoughts.......Cape Blanco, the 48th parallel, the Davidson Current = ship wreck seas, Northern Tuna, and blustery (winter) weather.

Living "on" the Pacific Ocean coast between the Aleutians to Baja means you experience and are aware of... weather.  That clockwise ocean gyre that sweeps past Japan to Alaska then to Vancouver BC/Seattle forms what is called the California current, here in Oregon that cold water heads straight down our coast line to Baja California.

There is a reason Marine weather/sea reports are always referenced as "North of" or "South of " Cape Blanco ... if you live North of Cape Blanco you are very aware that the summer wind comes out of the North, then reverses in Winter to come out of the south, and all of it being "straight line winds".   If you live South of Cape Blanco, the wind seems to have no direction, it does its own erratic swirly thing, here's why.

Beginning in November, down in central California, the Davidson Current, a surface ocean counter current of reverse flow begins to run upwards (Northward), closely hugging  our coast, ocean currents (and the winds) want to travel in straight lines, but Cape Blanco and Cape Mendocino/Punta Gorda  both stick out from shore and divert the flow (and following winds) away from land dissolving it, creating a turbulance, at the coastal inland depression centered at around Klamath California ... causing the area between the two points to have different weather/sea conditions, and create a banana belt. 

There is a lot more to the Davidson, and what it does to us, but Point Blanco is the real dynamic impacting our Paradise Point area weather and sea conditions (all year around).

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