COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATuRDAY, AuguST 6, 2022
Family’s dismissal of career no longer a joke
later, they seem to think it’s
funny. The first few times I could
laugh about it too, but this has
been going on for years. Their
one-sided running gag has grown
old. I don’t care that they’re not
interested in what I do, but I feel
humiliated and hurt when they
act so dismissive of it to other
people. It happened again a few
days ago, while I was out with
my family at an event. A family
member intentionally messed up
the name of my workplace mul-
tiple times (even after I had cor-
rected him) while talking to a
volunteer.
Although I managed to step
in, it’s still weighing on me. I
have tried explaining what I do
numerous times. It’s not con-
fusing. I have even suggested
DEAR ABBY: I graduated
from college with a degree in
a niche field. In my graduating
class of nearly 7,000, there were
only four of us with this specific
degree. I now have a career in the
field I majored in. I love what I do
and take pride in it. The problem
is my family. For whatever
reason, my parents and siblings
don’t seem to want to remember
what I do. When people back
home ask what I’m up to, they
come up with vague or dismissive
answers.
When they tell me about it
edge? She could have easily
switched from a speaker to a pri-
vate call, considering the nature
of the discussion. — MAD IN
MISSOURI
DEAR MAD: You’re not
wrong to be upset. I would be,
too. If your friend understood
that it was supposed to be a con-
fidential conversation, she should
have told you she wasn’t alone or
ended the call. Tell her this made
you feel invaded and, if you plan
to continue your relationship with
her, set some ground rules for
future phone conversations.
take as you did, but do it with
humor.
DEAR ABBY: Please share
some thoughts about answering
the phone on speaker. My lifelong
friend does this. Sometimes I’m
aware her husband is in the room.
Recently, though, we were on
speaker phone when she told me
she was going to the beauty salon.
When the call connected to
her vehicle, I assumed she was
by herself. We continued our
very personal conversation (I was
doing the talking) until she got to
her destination. That’s when she
told me they had arrived. I didn’t
realize anyone else was in the car.
Am I wrong to be upset that
she allowed me to do all the
talking while her husband lis-
tened in without my knowl-
they use broader alternatives (if
they would say I’m an ecologist,
I would be thrilled). Nothing has
changed. I’m left wondering if this
runs deeper than a joke and they
don’t actually take me seriously.
Do I need to be more blunt?
Should I tell them this has
crossed the line from funny to
hurtful? Or am I blowing this
out of proportion? — HURT IN
THE WEST
DEAR HURT: You may be
putting more energy into this
than it deserves. You know the
importance of the work you do.
Your relative(s) may be jealous of
your accomplishments or so intel-
lectually limited that they can’t
remember the word “ecologist.”
If you are present when this hap-
pens, feel free to correct the mis-
█
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com
or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Lightning kills 1 at remote Wyoming outdoors educator event
The Associated Press
JACKSON, Wyo. — A light-
ning strike at an outdoors edu-
cator course in the Bridger-Teton
National Forest in Wyoming
killed one student and injured
another, officials said Thursday,
Aug, 4.
The group with the National
Outdoor Leadership School was
just days into their trip and had
set up camp near Enos Lake,
south of Yellowstone National
Park, when a thunderstorm moved
into the area Tuesday evening.
John D. Murphy, 22, of Boston,
died of cardiac arrest because of
the lightning strike, Teton County
Coroner Brent Blue said. Blue
did not know if the lightning
struck Murphy directly or passed
through something else to him.
The injured student was flown
to an Idaho hospital for treatment
and released Aug. 3, Shana Tarter,
the school’s associate director
for wilderness medicine, told the
Jackson Hole News & Guide.
Nine other students, three
instructors and two search and
rescue members stayed the night
in the back country after the light-
ning strike, school officials said.
Two people at the course who
didn’t think they were capable of
doing the 12-mile (19-kilometer)
hike from the lake to the trail-
head were flown out by helicopter
Wednesday morning and the rest
of the group hiked out, said Matt
Hansen with Teton County Search
and Rescue.
National Outdoor Leadership
School President Terry Watson
in a statement called the light-
ning strike a “a very sad day” for
the school, its students and their
families.
“We extend our deepest condo-
lences to the family of our student
who passed away on this course
and are focused on supporting
Ryan Dorgan/Jackson Hole Daily, File
Lightning from a summer storm illuminates the sky over the Teton Range in August 2020 in Grand Teton National Park. A camper was killed by lightning Tuesday, Aug. 2,
2022, near Enos Lake in the Bridger-Teton National Forest.
their family through its difficult
process,” she said.
The nonprofit global wilder-
ness school based in Lander,
Wyoming, teaches students to
become outdoors educators. More
than 330,000 students have grad-
uated and there have been 13
deaths at school events during its
57-year history, the school said.
A 20-year-old man training
with the school in 2011 fell
down a 300-foot ravine into a
river while backpacking in India
during rainy conditions.
His mother filed a lawsuit
against the school, but a Wyo-
weather
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ming judge ruled that the con-
tract the man signed releasing the
school from liability prevented his
survivors from suing the school.
Troopers: Drunk woman
drove golf cart on highway
TITUSVILLE, Fla. — A
woman with an open bottle of
Jack Daniel’s whiskey in a bag
was arrested for driving a golf
cart on Florida’s busiest inter-
state while drunk, according to an
arrest report.
The 58-year-old woman was
arrested Saturday, July 30, on
the shoulder of Interstate 95.
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/80
Kennewick
59/95
St. Helens
61/100
Hood River
63/100
62/104
64/97
59/99
Condon
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
Clear and cool
Sunny and hot
Sunny and very
hot
Very hot with
some sun
A thunderstorm
around
97 54
98 57
92 51
Eugene
5
5
7
58/99
La Grande
45 95 48 102 58 101 64
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
7
8
5
2
46 93 51
Comfort Index™
9
95 57
2
4
99 61 100 62
5
2
2
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 111°
Rio Grande Village, Texas
Low: 35°
Yellowstone N.P., Wyo.
Wettest: 3.88”
Goshen, Ind.
90°
49°
89°
54°
88°
52°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
0.00
Month to date
Trace
Normal month to date 0.06
Year to date
4.47
Normal year to date
6.05
0.00
0.00
0.08
8.98
10.74
0.00
Trace
0.08
17.76
15.31
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
15%
NE at 4 to 8 mph
13.2
0.28
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
12% of capacity
61% of capacity
26% of capacity
83% of capacity
3% of capacity
52% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
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
OREGON
High: 101°
Low: 44°
Wettest: 0.15”
Rome
Meacham
Astoria
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Florence
A barrage of hail on Aug. 6, 1979, shelled
the Crane Ammunition Depot, 20 miles
southwest of Bloomington, Ind. The hail-
stones were 2 inches in diameter.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
SUN.
5:43 a.m. 5:44 a.m.
8:13 p.m. 8:12 p.m.
3:32 p.m. 4:50 p.m.
none 12:30 a.m.
MOON PHASES
727 cfs
81 cfs
141 cfs
53 cfs
180 cfs
27 cfs
Full
Aug 11
Last
Aug 18
New
Aug 27
Beaver Marsh
Powers
57/77
First
Sep 3
61/95
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
53/91
Paisley
52/94
55/93
Frenchglen
55/97
65/103
Klamath Falls
54/92
McDermitt
56/95
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
80/55/s 70/56/pc
99/57/s 98/64/pc
95/65/s 100/75/s
60/53/c 61/52/c
96/58/s 98/61/s
68/55/pc 67/55/c
95/56/s 88/57/s
91/55/s 99/62/s
95/52/s 102/60/s
99/58/s 89/57/s
100/59/s 105/64/s
100/70/s 102/71/pc
94/61/s 102/67/s
94/58/s 100/65/s
92/54/s 99/64/s
98/56/s 103/66/s
92/57/s 93/57/s
92/54/s 93/55/s
56/94
Lakeview
51/92
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Grand View
Arock
53/96
56/95
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
SUN.
Diamond
53/96
Fields
Medford
Brookings
Boise
60/95
65/101
53/60
55/96
47/94
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Juntura
49/96
49/97
53/91
Roseburg
Ontario
57/96
Burns
Brothers
62/97
Coos Bay
Huntington
48/91
54/99
Oakridge
52/91
59/96
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
THURSDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
50/94
53/98
Council
39/91
John Day
49/99
Sisters
53/68
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
48/96
Baker City
Redmond
52/66
53/66
Halfway
Granite
45/88
59/97
60/98
63/87
92 55
2
Corvallis
54/98
58/95
Newport
Enterprise
46/93
45/95
Monument
59/101
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
9
46/95
La Grande
58/96
Maupin
Comfort Index™
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
58/96
60/96
57/97
55/86
39 91 46
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022
Walla Walla
53/98
Vancouver
60/98
TIllamook
Baker City
shoulder of the interstate, troopers
said.
Once on the shoulder, the truck
driver grabbed the keys to the golf
cart as the woman tried to drive
away. Once troopers arrived at the
scene, the woman started arguing
with them and insisted she needed
her bag. Inside the bag, troopers
found an open bottle of Jack Dan-
iel’s Tennessee Fire Whiskey,
authorities said.
Interstate 95, which stretches
up and down the East Coast,
is Florida’s busiest interstate
highway, according to the Federal
Highway Administration.
She is now facing misdemeanor
charges of disorderly intoxication
in a public place and resisting an
officer without violence.
According to a Florida
Highway Patrol report, a
semitruck driver spotted the
woman driving in the golf cart
in the center lane of Interstate 95
in Brevard County, which is the
heart of Florida’s Space Coast.
The truck driver “advised she
observed the driver of the golf
cart passing out while driving,”
the report said.
The truck driver used her
semi to steer the golf cart to the
SUN.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
MON.
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
96/61/s 102/68/s
95/60/s 90/60/s
93/47/s 99/56/s
103/67/s 100/64/s
66/52/pc 61/53/c
93/55/s 92/56/s
96/58/s 101/67/s
98/57/s 103/65/s
97/63/s 105/69/s
97/65/s 94/64/s
77/55/s 74/57/pc
99/55/s 100/62/pc
95/62/s 90/62/s
98/61/s 94/60/s
92/60/s 96/64/s
104/67/s 105/71/s
90/48/s 97/56/s
96/67/s 103/73/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Sunny and nice
Sunny and warmer
73
48
89
50
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Plenty of sunshine
Plenty of sunshine
83
48
96
56
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Sunny and warmer
Sunny and warmer
79
46
88
39
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Sunny and hot
Sunny and warm
92
54
96
63
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Plenty of sun
Sunny and hot
91
46
95
48