COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
New wife’s wardrobe doesn’t
measure up to cousins’ taste Storm cleanup resumes
BAHAMAS
DEAR ABBY: My cousin recently married
a lovely girl, someone he’d been dating for a
couple of years. Our whole family loves her,
and she’s always been very sweet to us.
She’s very intelligent and kind, but the is-
sue is her wardrobe. She’s pretty but refuses
to wear nice clothes. Instead she wears baggy,
boring clothes. Our family is fashion-con-
scious, and I know my cousin has suggested
to her several times that she
buy new clothing — to no
avail. He thinks she’s self-
conscious about her body.
Her birthday is coming up,
and my sister and I would
like to take her shopping as a birthday gift to
buy her some nicer clothes. My cousin thinks
she might not appreciate it, but he agrees
that she needs new clothes. He also sug-
gested buying her a gift card to somewhere,
although that wouldn’t solve the problem of
which clothes she buys with it. Do you think
that taking her clothes shopping for her
birthday would be appropriate?
— FASHIONISTA IN CONNECTICUT
DEAR FASHIONISTA: I think it is a nice
idea, as long as you do NOT frame it the
way you have to me. A better way to make
the offer might be to invite her for a lovely
birthday lunch and some “retail therapy.”
If you then decide to peek into a couple of
clothing stores, she might be willing. And if
you fi nd something appropriate and offer
to treat her as a birthday gift, she might
accept.
DEAR ABBY: My family is surrounded by
neighbors who are all friendly. We have cook-
outs together regularly. Everyone contributes
to the budget and food preparation except
one neighbor. He’s a single dad of 12-year-
old twins, and they show up to every BBQ
without bringing a dish or their own drinks,
yet they all eat heartily. We have run out of
food for the intended participants (who paid
for the food) because of them. What’s the best
way to handle this situation without making
an enemy of a neighbor?
— FED UP WITH FREELOADING
DEAR FED UP: Your neighbor may not
be clear about the rules. It shouldn’t earn
you an enemy for life if you point out to this
single dad of twins (with growing appetites)
as Humberto swirls
that these get-togethers are potluck, which
means everyone is expected to contribute
to the cost of the food as well as bring a
side dish so the food won’t run out. Tell him
what to bring. They should also help with
the setup and cleanup. If he’s uncooperative
after that, he’s a moocher and you all will be
well rid of him if he takes offense.
By Danica Coto
The Associated Press
MCLEAN’S TOWN,
Bahamas — Jeffrey Roberts
lifted a mustard-yellow
curtain from the ground to
hunt for passports and other
documents at the place
where his family’s home
stood before Hurricane
Dorian blasted into Grand
Bahama Island.
What was underneath
was sodden and unrecogniz-
able. He shuffl ed across a
white tile fl oor, the only clear
sign this had once been a
house, and found a pair of
rusty old pliers, only to toss
them in frustration. They
clattered across the tiles,
breaking the silence that
had enveloped the fi shing
community of McLean’s
Town.
Roberts was one of thou-
sands of people beginning to
return to salvage what few
scraps they can from the
devastation of Dorian, even
as the dark storm clouds of
Tropical Storm Humberto
hovered above to remind
that that the storm season
has not yet passed.
“We got to take what God
gives us,” Roberts said.
In this case, at least, that
was a break: Humberto
narrowly missed the island
over the weekend and was
projected to curve north
and then northeast, staying
well off of Florida’s east
coast.
By late Sunday morning,
the U.S. National Hurricane
Center said the storm was
located about 180 miles
north-northwest of Great
DEAR ABBY: My hus-
band of 12 years and I have
DEAR
an ongoing disagreement
ABBY
about the language he uses
when he texts women friends.
He opens his text with “Hi,
Beautiful” or, “Good Morning, Gorgeous.” I
consider this to be fl irting, but he regards it
as harmless even though he knows it hurts
my feelings because he doesn’t text that way
to me.
I trust him and don’t feel there’s anything
going on with any of these women, but I
think he’s playing with fi re. The wrong
woman may interpret it differently, and
that’s how affairs start. Do you think I am
overreacting?
— MISUNDERSTOOD
IN THE MIDWEST
DEAR MISUNDERSTOOD: Yes. Your
problem with your husband isn’t that he’s
calling other women beautiful and gorgeous.
It’s that he isn’t complimenting you, and I
think you should point that out to him.
DEAR ABBY: I was divorced three years
ago after being married for 28 years. My
ex-wife and I had spent the previous 10 years
in counseling. I currently go to post-divorce
counseling, and my counselor agrees that I
was mistreated by my ex and our adult chil-
dren, who treated me more like an employee.
I have begun seeing a much younger
woman, and two of my kids say any rela-
tionship with them is predicated on my
dating someone “my own age.” I feel this is
wrong, and that it’s a continuation of them
treating me as a servant/dad, versus as
a person. My counselor suggests walking
away for a bit, to establish new boundaries.
Your thoughts?
— BUTLER DAD IN TEXAS
DEAR DAD: I think you should listen to
your therapist.
weather
Ramon Espinosa/The Associated Press
Jeffrey Roberts, 49, eats a plate of food while search-
ing through the rubble of his relatives’ home which
was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in Pelican Point,
Grand Bahama, Bahamas, on Saturday.
Abaco Island and was
moving at 7 mph north-
northwest with maximum
sustained winds of 65 mph.
It was still rousing gusty
winds across the northwest-
ern Bahamas
The U.S. National Hur-
ricane Center said it would
likely become a hurricane
by Sunday night, but
would remain far from the
Bahamas and the U.S. coast
by the time it reaches that
strength.
The storm briefl y shut-
tered a couple of small
airports, sent people in dam-
aged homes to seek shelter
and threatened to interrupt
the distribution of sorely
needed supplies, including
food and water.
As the storm passed,
however, Roberts and others
were already returning to
the task at hand: resuming
their cleanup and recovery
efforts in communities such
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Longview
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Kennewick
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Condon
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THU
FRI
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p.m. rain
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showers
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ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Saturday
Low Saturday
High: 112°
Low: 23°
Wettest: 1.82”
88°
42°
85°
44°
88°
45°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Saturday
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Normal month to date
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0.28
6.52
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0.93
0.30
12.22
11.17
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1.04
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21.85
15.39
Coos Bay
HAY INFORMATION TUESDAY
45%
SSW at 6 to 12 mph
1.7
0.09
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Sunday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Powers
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23% of capacity
29% of capacity
68% of capacity
46% of capacity
29% of capacity
7% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Saturday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
Burnt River near Unity
Umatilla River near Gibbon
Minam River at Minam
Powder River near Richland
Brookings
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MON.
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7:02 p.m.
8:32 p.m.
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Jordan Valley
Paisley
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City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
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Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
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Klamath Falls
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Lakeview
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Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
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Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
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Ukiah
Walla Walla
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Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
McDermitt
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PHILLIPS LAKE
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EMIGRANT ST. PARK
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WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
A shower
Cloudy, p.m. rain
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THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Rain and drizzle
Afternoon rain
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Granite
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Enterprise
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Monument
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Idanha
Salem
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Elgin
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La Grande
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Maupin
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Baker City
as McLean’s Town devas-
tated by Hurricane Dorian
two weeks ago.
U.N. Secretary-General
Antonio Guterres visited
the nearby island of Great
Abaco on Saturday to sup-
port humanitarian efforts
in the wake of the storm,
which left thousands in
need of food, water and
shelter.
“Hurricane Dorian has
been classifi ed as Category
5. I think it’s Category Hell,”
the secretary-general said,
adding he was horrifi ed
by the “level of systematic
devastation.”
The islands’ offi cial
death toll from the hur-
ricane remained at 50 and
the number of missing at
an alarming 1,300 people,
although offi cials cautioned
the list is preliminary and
many people could just be
unable to connect with loved
ones.
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