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Under The Weather With Little Talk From Me This Weekend

December 13, 2008 by Jeff Gammons  
Filed under Featured, Gammons Personal Blog

Under The Weather With Laryngitis -
Waking up to a chilly Saturday morning here in Southern Florida, and not feeling the best. The last few days I have been under the weather with a bout of Laryngitis and one heck raw sore throat. Yesterday, I completely lost my voice, and there is little coming out of mouth around the house the last 24 hours. I have been having to gesture everything to Kersten, which at times is funny when she’s like “what? You want this?”. Luckily for everyone in the house, I’m beginning to improve today, and I‘m just going to continue to just rest my voice and keep my throat moist with tea and Halls. I was able to sneak out last night after sunset to capture a few pictures of the Perigee Full Moon. Check it out!:

Storm Chasing With Sore Throats, Lots of Memories -

The sore throat I had on Thursday and yesterday was severe indeed. It reminded me of a chase trip back in 2002 I believe, when we were in New Mexico chasing upslope LP Supercell storms. It was just the three of us, Chris Collura, David Cornwell, and myself. David came down with a severe sinus/cold infection, and somehow Chris came down a few days later with a extremely severe sore throat. I remember him saying when we were staying outside of Carlsbad in a motel 6, “I had bad dreams last night of monsters trying to rip my head and throat off”. I’m sure Chris remembers this vividly. LOL That’s how I felt the last few days. This last cold front to blast into the region also has made it like New Mexico here if we were west of the dryline. It’s once again super dry, and all that beautiful moisture has been scoured out once again. Doesn’t help with my sore throat and trying to keep it moist.

Kersten and JJ In Tonight’s Holiday Parade -

So, this morning I’m just taking it easy, having some warm coffee and talking little. Kersten is at work helping to decorate her jobs float in this year Christmas parade which is tonight, and Kersten and JJ both will be apart of riding the float this evening. If I feel up to it, I’ll walk some of the parade route to shoot video and pictures of them on the float and other scenes of the Holiday season. At least I don’t need to use my voice for anything.

A Longer Period of Warmer Weather On The Way? -

There is good news on the horizon though, at least for me. The extended forecast computer models (GFS), show a warming trend that will last possibly over a week or so once things begin to modify from this last cold front. Actually, winds are already veering out of the northeast, so modification is slowly underway now. All of November, and here in December we have been well below normal for temperatures, with even some record low temps recorded in late November. I wouldn’t mind the cold weather so much if it didn’t get so dry. I’m a creature of moisture, and I need my high dew points and humidity.

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2 Responses to “Under The Weather With Little Talk From Me This Weekend”

  1. Jason Foster on December 14th, 2008 8:54 am

    Jeff, close, but that was 2001 the year before I joined you and Chris. I remember because when I did join you in 2002…..the first cough I had, everyone says “OH, NO”. Luckily it wasn’t anything….maybe just some left over germs from the plane flight and dry air in New Mexico, where we went shortly after joining the crew that season.

  2. Jeff Gammons on December 14th, 2008 9:43 am

    LOL LOL! Ok yeah I remember now. Thats too funny! How’s it going J-man? Chasing the winter scenes yet?

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