Surprisingly for a country so small, Israel has a wide range of temperatures -- depending both on on the altitude and the latitude.
Take a look at the highs for four different cities yesterday:
Jerusalem (center of country, mountains): 83 F
Tel Aviv (center of country, sea level): 88 F
Tiberias (north of country, below sea level): 92 F
Eilat (south of country, sea level): 105 F
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Humidity is the key player here and makes the big difference in the overall feel of the heat ("Feels like" temprature). Tel Aviv and the beach area is at around 65-75% at summertime. The rest of the country is at around 40-50% and down to about 30% in Eilat.
Oh no. That sounds like the shooting will last for a long time to come unfortunately!!?? Keep your heads down and your spirits up Dovster and BEYFlier?!! And stay safe in this madness!
I meant she does not want to leave before an agreement and does not want to come back for another round of talk. It's a good thing, not a bad one.
Just to show that all of this is far from over... Just read that the U.S. will soon provide Israel with 100 "bunker buster" bombs to kill Hizbollah's leader and destroy any infrastructure left. These bombs can penetrate up to 40 meters underground. I guess the IDF believes that Sayyed Nasrallah is still somewhere in the suburbs. Personally, I think Elvis has left the building (and the country). Additionally, the U.S. is rushing a delivery of satellite and "laser" (a la Dr. Evil) guided bombs in response to an Israeli request. Surely a cease fire can't be reached now. What do we do with all these extra bombs? Can't leave them just lying around... Storing them is going to take a lot of space, so might as well use them for something... I sorry, but when will both sides realize that enough is enough? Too many innocent civilians have been killed on both sides of the border... I just want to scream, "Enough already!!!!"
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Another quiet night in Beirut but the IAF kept flying these "false" raids over Beirut... Psychological... So no bombs but a few "false" raids... GREAT!!! I think there is nothing left in the suburbs to destroy so I am not sure what they will bomb next. As a fellow FTer pointed out, I guess the IDF is too busy bombing the South to worry much about Beirut... Those folks have nowhere to go... Even when they try, they are being shot at... God help them all...
BEYFlier, do the IAF fly through the sound-barrier to wake you up? Or do they drop flairs, and/or leaflets? or flyers? Sounds like they bomb very well down south?!
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BEYFlier, do the IAF fly through the sound-barrier to wake you up? Or do they drop flairs, and/or leaflets? or flyers? Sounds like they bomb very well down south?!
They simply fly down low, so you can hear the planes passing, and no they do not break the sound barrier. They have not dropped any fliers in my area but did over the suburbs before they bombed it. They called the house and had a pre-recorded message ready; does that count? They've also dropped fliers on the South many times. I have not personally seen them but I've seen them in reporters' hands on T.V. Indeed, right now they are concentrating on the South...
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They simply fly down low, so you can hear the planes passing, and no they do not break the sound barrier. They have not dropped any fliers in my area but did over the suburbs before they bombed it. They called the house and had a pre-recorded message ready; does that count? They've also dropped fliers on the South many times. I have not personally seen them but I've seen them in reporters' hands on T.V. Indeed, right now they are concentrating on the South...
BEYFlyer, with your excellent view of Beyrut and the sea they make sure to keep you (and your neighbors) awake! So you can only hear them at night? You do not see IAF planes fly by? The prerecorded message they called you with was it treatening in any way?
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I don't know what kind of missile it was but we just had a new experience -- it exploded in the air instead of impact.
Potentially, this is much more dangerous, especially if used in cities. Fortunately, nobody at the kibbutz was injured.
Dovster, Be sure to keep safe! Hopefully you now do not need to spend a lot more time in your bombshelter? This new missile, could be some anti personell warhead or something designed for much more destruction? This time was the missile aimed at your Kibbutz? or the general area?
Okay Dovster... Stay away from the windows, keep your head down and stay safe... Maybe it is time you moved into that "safe room" in your house... Please no hero stuff... None of this is worth your life... So take care...
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It began when, after reading the posts from yesterday and realizing that Safed was still getting mail, I went to the kibbutz office and asked for the packages containing the doves and hamsas back.
Who knows when we will get mail service here? I felt it was better to bring it to the post office in Safed and send it out today. As that is the post office which handles all our mail (it sends a truck to the kibbutz daily for pick up and delivery) the secretary asked if I would be willing to take the other outgoing mail as well.
It turned out to be a Santa Claus-sized sack of letters and packages, many of them registered, and not only needed a lot of lugging but also quite a bit of time at the Post Office for handling.
Just when I finished, one of the postal workers asked me where I was from, and when I told him, he said that he had "some mail" I could take back with me.
This turned out to be an equal, if not bigger, sack. Before carrying it back to my car, however, I spotted my name on one of the packages. It had no return address but it did have a British postmark so I knew who it was from and what was inside. It contained the DVDs of Taxi Driver, Doctor Zhivago , and Casablanca which Chartreuse had promised to send me!
The only problem was that my television died yesterday.
I asked where I might find an appliances shop that is open and was told there was only one in the city. They gave me exact instructions on how to get there. I drove to it and found it -- like most other stores -- was shut.
At that exact moment the air raid sirens started going off. I am not used to this -- on the kibbutz we use SMS and, for some reason, the sirens made it seem more real.
I ducked into the only open shop, a supermarket, and found that they were having a sale: on televisions!
I had three choices:
a. Tiny and unwatchable.
b. Big, heavy, but not expensive.
c. Super giant plasma which were lightweight but very heavy on the wallet.
I chose "B" -- a 29" Pilot that came complete with a built-in hernia when you lift it. One of the men at the store helped me get it into the trunk of the car. The trunk wouldn't close but he gave me some string to tie it and I headed home.
When I arrived, I got some help in bringing the TV into my house. It is still in the box and I have no idea of how I will get it out, much less lift it onto the TV table. Worse, although they swore to me that it has instructions in English inside, so far I can only see a Hebrew booklet. That should make figuring out how to work it a lot of fun.
I brought the mail to the office and then went upstairs, to the dining room, to get something to eat.
Boom!
The rocket I mentioned in the above post exploded in the air.
It was followed by an almost apologetic request from the guy who runs the dining room. Would I be willing to work there tomorrow? No, not cleaning dishes this time -- serving food and cleaning up afterwards. (We still have a problem in that our employees from different settlements in the area are not showing up for work because of the fighting.)
I agreed. Color me "sucker".
I got back to the house, cursed the television for being so heavy, and felt that the best way to tackle the problem was to ignore it for a while. Hence, I sat down and started typing instead.
That's when the shooting started again. In both directions. I guess I should be in the shelter but I know my own luck and figure there is no way I am going to get shot until after I get that television set up.
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(This deserves better than being in parenthesis but my thanks to Lili and LLM for the pictures as well as to Chartreuse for all three DVDs, but especially Casablanca!)
---Edit: I just realized that I very stupidly forgot to mention Shirl's participation in the pictures. For this, I apologize.
This new missile, could be some anti personell warhead or something designed for much more destruction? This time was the missile aimed at your Kibbutz? or the general area?
Nobody, right now, can give you an answer to that. One guess is that it was an anti-aircraft shell that was shot at us in the hope that the shrapnel would kill somebody.
You mentioned it being "cooler" there in Israel----it's hot as a firecracker here in Alabama right now. I'm interested in knowing what the temp over there is.
Ironically, I can attest to how pleasant it is in Jerusalem now - after sweltering in Vienna, it is just downright dry and warm with a nice breeze, and pleasant dry nights. Before all this violence in the north broke out, I was really looking forward to a few nice foggy/cool summer nights in the north, but have changed those plans to Eilat, which will still be more pleasant (hotter, but dry) than Alabama
Hope you all stay safe north of here.
And additional irony from here is the Cyprus vacation commercials that have been playing on TV (either CNN or Sky) saying something like it is the "land for all seasons". Flying just south of it, looking at Cyprus out the window, I couldn't help but think of all the displaced persons there. As for the rest of Israel, hotels seem FULL and in fact, the Eilat hotel emailed me yesterday to make sure we'd be arriving. I'd never had any Starwood hotel ever make such a request.
Well as much as I love a good fireworks and light show, I may have to pass on that meeting where you are!! Especially after what you just described!! I think I can wait! =)
I bet the sirens when you went into town did make it seem more real---when ours go off (for tornados) they make it seem more intense. I believe were I in your situation and a war was going on around me and I heard one go off, that I would indeed, PANIC!
Good luck on your television!! The new movies are great motivation to get it figured out and set up---enjoy!!
BEY----glad to see things are still going ok with you also!!
Good luck on your television!! The new movies are great motivation to get it figured out and set up---enjoy!!!
First off, the blasted thing weighs 49 kilos. That may not sound like too much but it translates to 108 pounds!
Not only 108 pounds, but 108 pounds jammed tightly into a carton. Of course, if it doesn't work you have to return it in the original packaging -- so you can't just rip the carton apart. Somehow, you have to lift the TV out.
That was loads of fun!
Next, no matter what the salesman said, there are absolutely no instructions included in any language except Hebrew. Arab Israelis, the great number of Russian immigrants, English-speakers, etc can just try guessing their way around it.
(This is particularly annoying because Pilot puts multi-language instruction booklets into the box. The importer simply removes them and puts in Hebrew ones. Why not leave the original as well?)
Okay. I got it out of the box. I even got the DVD to work. But I can only get analog TV, not digital, because my cable has the wrong kind of connection.
You know how difficult it is to get a cable company to come to you in the city, right? Guess what it is going to be like to get them to show up on a kibbutz in the middle of a war zone!
