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

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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 anew... #1- DENALANE.BLOGSPOT.COM

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As a follow-up to the Whazammo ashore series of blogs, as we moved off Sofea for "old memories" and getting our land legs back, I am now beginning a new blog... <denalane.blogspot.com >

Those eight Whazammo Aashore blogs can be viewed at 

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 motorcycle gangs, and cult leaders looking for a home base.  (Some secrets are meant 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 on 15 September... I have been doing a weekly (Personal) Monday morning moving-in blog about our experience at my old boat homepage, that move-in phase is now over, and the boat pages are gone, but I am continuing the weekly ritual "here" as a new "community" blog, for us Dena Lane dwellers, like the harbor, 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" and problem-solving as neighbors.

So, welcome aboard the blog (or not), if you have comments, or information to share, or 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, or, using the "comment" like at the bottom of this page... 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 hummingbirds 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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WEEK EIGHT, Two month move-in - Whazammo Ashore - 11 November, 2024

 Wellllllll, we are calling it... done.

 the USMC Anniversary and Veterans day !

Got the last poetry website combined, and up on the web  on Friday (songbirdsonline.com), tweaked an'yas tankaanya.com site a little, have communicated with the local bear, mama deer and her two kids, and the Paradise turkey (Mary) wandering around loose, finished all of my exterior winter prep, got through the election, (did I mention we got through the election?). 

So, let the hibernation begin...  we are still working on a few finishing interior touches, and grooming, storage being the most dynamic loss when moving off the boat... our last coach "the buffalo" (H8H), was "raised floor" and had as much underneath storage as the boat, "old memories" is a low floor, and has no (as in zero) underneath storage ! the buffalo was a two level passenger compartment just like old memories, both being 40 foot diesel 350 HP turbo pushers ends the similarity though, the buffalo was all aluminum and steel, old memories is aluminum and stainless steel... no ferritic steel.

                                                                                                                                         

Pressure is on to produce the  long promised "tour" (video or slide tour) of how "old memories" ended up, after the renovation...  rough to work on my tablet, 7 days of rain coming, good time for computer fixing... and then, back to rebuilding the main computer  (ugly !) so I can begin to do battle with the humongous  Whazammo.com website restructurings, both of which which will be a long winters work.  

peaking of... I also have a wifi reception, broadband width enhancement issue to fix, which is another earlier battle chapter adventure in Whazammo.com ... "Whazammo vs. the WiFi Gods",  whew !   

We did another attempt at trying to figure out how Scandinavians fit all of those sardines into a tiny can, or the post office fills our boxes, a brunch-birthday for the three Scorpios in my midsts (10th-12th-16th).... out of fear we fed them green cake.   .  but, at the price of candles, it may be our last...I think RV people are used to 5 people standing in a phone booth (remember those?) as long as they're skinny.  Outsiders marvel at those of us who live in these under 300 square foot spaces, it's Tardis living ! 

So, week 8 ends the new-kid-in-town feeling, we are letting the air out of the tires, and living in paradise.

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WEEK SEVEN... Whazammo Ashore - 4 November, 2024

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Hopefully, the very last of the pesky, "oops, I forgot that one", address and account changes got completed this past week... seems like in a 2025 world of AI, internet processors, and rapid communications that it would not take 2 full months to move, and redirect, much of what was changed did not stay changed, and the second time around had to be redone... pathetic efficiency level.   Anything postal-tied is beyond explaining, two letters sent, one took 8 days, the other 11 ... from here to Portland !!

If you walk @ a speed of 2 1/2 miles per hour, 8 leisurely hours a day, you can hand deliver a letter to Portland in 10 days.

The areas of real importance Medical, Pharmacy, Banking, controlling the transitions of auto-pay, delivery address changes, and auto-deposit were the big failures and frustrations though... make the change, have it work... once... then return back to the old, so, you must make the change twice, while apologizing, chasing down lost deposits, unpaid invoices, and lost packages.   all of it closeted in deep multi-form protections of passwords, permission/authorization, codes, secrecy, and a fear of your ever sharing info... shhh, this is top secret stuff.

But, its over !  Our friends from Bend sent us this... "Florence...Ran up there yesterday to  pick-up the grandson, So glad your outta there, we got there early & had some lunch, walked over and looked over the rail. Not wanting you to feel sad but the So Fea looked sad, her soul obviously left with you, rails looked rusty not shiny like when you were there. the time was right for change, and you guys saw it.".

In a world full of neglect, abandonment, and waste, most harbors have around an 80% unattended boat population, like unwanted cars, trucks, old RV-type things can be seen all around, as well as animals, cattle, and aviaries full of fowl, ducks, and geese.  

The people abandoned, injured, and lost simply add to the ever-expanding visual scene of disarray and squalor that makes us resemble an impoverished foreign third-world country.     Our American "use it/abandon it" mentality is catching up with us.

The annual November 1 opening of the sky faucet, and "here is what winter is like" sampler was right on schedule (same as in Florence), we had gotten our links set up for the radar and weather station, just yesterday.... we recorded four or five 53/54 mph gusts, @ 38-42 median.... the surging squalls of sheet rain pummeled us early morning, our air bags made it tamed down, but still very similar to being on the water again. 

Comment: the witch gales of November and the ides of March are unique in the winter menu of weather, on the Great Lakes, in the N'oreast, or up here in shipwreck alley these "Tempest" storms are special for their damaging  pounding/surging, zero to maximum hammering effects, and being mixed with ice, snow, and the noise. the supposed "violent" sea storms of winter are usually constant (not erratic), battening down for storms at sea or in Port is part of the winter regimen, but the November/March hammer effects are hard to predict, prepare for, or endure.  Being ashore I was amazed at the tree/structure protection and diffused wind, vs. being fully-openly exposed and on a heaving sea... I actually "slept" through the storm.

Did (our first) trial run with visitors... and a simple late lunch on Saturday, to test out functionality of the new configuration,  gave ourselves a "C"... but, this boat-to-coach transition and move (Florence-Port Orford) is officially being called "Completed".

Another month of swatting loose ends, and maybe we can then call the coach renovation from poetry classroom to RV as "Completed" on December first ! setting us up to go back to repairing the main computer (remember that crashed on 15 September), and returning to our internet, writing, poetry, and the neglected web site workings, including launching the new Waka website <songbirdsonline.com> this coming Wednesday (6 November), watch for it !

We are being pestered to do a video or slide tour of "old memories", and "will" try to execute that request in the month of November... promise.  night of stars last night, afraid of meeting Mrs. bear, we opened the skylights and put our elbows on the roof to watch... 55 degrees, no wind, no bears up there.

just for fun  https://www.roverpass.com/c/paradise-point-rv-village-port-orford-or/  from years ago

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