Hold on to your Hat

[dogg57]

2/24/12 WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 AM EST
SATURDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 5 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 4 AM
EST SATURDAY.

* WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH.

* TIMING...WEST WINDS WILL INCREASE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS
EVENING. THE STRONGEST WIND GUSTS ARE EXPECTED BETWEEN 600 PM
AND 100 AM...AND WINDS COULD START TO DIMINISH A BIT TOWARD 400
AM.

* IMPACTS...STRONG WIND GUSTS CAN KNOCK DOWN TREE LIMBS AND
POSSIBLY SOME WEAKER TREES, AND ISOLATED POWER OUTAGES MAY
OCCUR. THE WINDS WILL MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO DRIVE HIGH PROFILE
VEHICLES ESPECIALLY ON BRIDGES AND OTHER ELEVATED ROADWAYS.

 

[geezerfinneran]

Guess I'd better make sure my O2 generators are fully charged. Yeah. They pretty much are, and I have a couple of tanks on standby.

Just hope somebody remembers to take down the basketball hoop at the top of the driveway. Last storm out, it landed on a windshield. $$OUCH$$

 

[Pan]

"Hold on to your hat"

Old Mister Ong didn't.

 

[Boyd]

Was that a hat or a hut?

 

[Pan]

Hat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ong's_Hat,_New_Jersey

 

[Pan]

I used to go down there, and camp there, but I never read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Ongs-Hat-Begi...622X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330099663&sr=8-1

Has anyone here read it?

 

[geezerfinneran]

Back in the day, I offered a set of banjo strings under the "Ong's Hat" label. As I recall, I said something to the effect of ONG, falling asleep under a tree, when the Jersey Devil was up and about. All they found of poor Ong was his hat---and a devilishly good set of banjo strings.

(They didn't sell very well .)

 

[geezerfinneran]

Incidentally - (this is NOT a commercial) - I buy strings for my own instruments at a place called : Just Strings.

http://www.juststrings.com/

You can pretty much find strings for anything there - or adapt what they have for whatever you play.

 

[Boyd]

Hat.

Did you actually read that Wikipedia post you linked to?

In his 1944 book, Jersey Genesis, Beck himself says in reporting on Ong's Hat he fell for "elaborate traps" and that the story he had earlier repeated was a "fairy tale". He then subscribes to the explanation that the name is a corruption of Ong's Hut, a stopover point for a farmer from Little Egg Harbor

 

[geezerfinneran]

I would suspect the transition from "hut" to "hat" was a matter of Pinelands humor : a local wag with a following.

 

[Boyd]

No wind here yet, but man is it ever raining hard. Was out in the woods when it started around 4:00 PM. Came back in as it started coming down harder along with thunder and lightning. Really didn't think much about it until I look out the window just now and saw the water rising in my yard. Looking at my digital rain gauge, we've had .34 inches of rain in the last half hour - that's a lot! Forecast was only calling for .10 inch today. Still coming down, but radar looks like it will let up before too long.

 

[geezerfinneran]

Rainy here. Passed wind advisory along to son- hopefully he'll take down the basketball hoop.

 

[Pan]

Ong's Hat: John McPhee said that after a dance a girl got mad at a guy named Ong and squooshed his hat and tossed it up in a tree and it stayed there, and so they eventually started calling the settlement Ong's Hat.

 

[46er]

The winds never developed here overnight. Right now they are variable, all over the place, 5-10mph with gusts to 16-18. Looking like a very nice day.

 

[dogg57]

The winds never developed here overnight. Right now they are variable, all over the place, 5-10mph with gusts to 16-18. Looking like a very nice day.

You must live a sheltered area. Winds out of AC are around 27 mph on the avg with a top gust of 50mph Blowing from the West