8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2020
COFFEE BREAK
Awkward online photos put in-laws on the outs
DEAR ABBY: I have been with
my husband for 20 years, mar-
ried for eight of them. He thinks
his mother can do
no wrong. She takes
pictures of me when
I least expect it, and
then posts the worst
ones on Facebook.
She laughs and
thinks it’s funny, but I am really
hurt by it.
To make it worse, his sister
does the same to me now. They
constantly have their phones
pointed toward me, and when
confronted, they deny taking pic-
tures or insist all pictures have
been deleted.
I have always supported my
husband’s relationship with his
family, but I don’t feel like they
support us being together. I have
deleted his mother as a friend on
Facebook and no longer go to
family functions. My
husband agrees that
what she’s doing is
DEAR
wrong, but offers no
support. His family
ABBY
prides themselves
on class, but this is
anything but classy.
— CAUGHT OFF GUARD
DEAR CAUGHT: It isn’t
classy to willfully hurt others,
as your MIL and SIL have been
doing. Both appear to have a cruel
streak, and this is their way of
needling you.
What troubles me is that
you have allowed them to drive
you away from family func-
tions, which I assume your hus-
band is attending without you.
Have another talk with him. Go
to another family gathering, and
when you see the cameras aimed
at you, tell them to cut it out. Your
spineless husband should back
you up on it, tell them that it isn’t
funny, and if there are any shots
of you on their FB pages, HE
wants them deleted immediately.
DEAR ABBY: I’m in an eight-
year relationship, and we have a
3-year-old child together. We talk
about marriage, but I’m having
doubts. He has a wandering eye,
which is a total turn-off for me.
For instance, when we go to a
restaurant and the waitress walks
up to assist us, as soon as she
turns around, he glues his eyes on
her backside. I don’t say anything
about it, but it’s so annoying.
broken English. Some of the fish
he gives me I don’t use, so I offer
it to another neighbor or throw it
out.
I would like to tell him which
fish I prefer, but don’t want to
seem ungrateful or like it’s shop-
ping from home. Any suggestions
on how to handle this?
— GRATEFUL IN NEW YORK
DEAR GRATEFUL: You
might “innocently” mention
which fish you especially appre-
ciate when he brings it to you,
but other than that, I think you
should be grateful for your neigh-
bor’s generosity and forget about
“placing an order” for something
you’re not paying for. You should
also make an effort to reciprocate
in some way so the man and his
wife are not doing all the giving.
Should I say anything or just con-
tinue to pretend that I don’t see?
— BOTHERED IN
LOUISIANA
DEAR BOTHERED: Many
men ogle, but for most of them,
it’s only their eye that wanders.
Because it bothers you so much
you may not want to move the
relationship forward, by all means
speak up. Pretending not to notice
has changed nothing. After eight
years of silence, I think it’s time
to set the father of your child
straight, don’t you?
DEAR ABBY: I have wonderful
neighbors. They own a fish market
in Chinatown. Since they moved
in three years ago, he has given
me fish almost every other week.
My dilemma is, he speaks almost
no English, and she speaks only
News of the Weird
Official: Toilet
display mocking
mail-in voting is a
crime
By Joseph Wilson
Associated Press
MASON, Mich.—
A Michigan resident’s
apparent joke showing
disdain for voting by mail
is no laughing matter for
one election official.
The resident put a
toilet on their lawn with a
sign that says, “Place mail
in ballots here.”
Barb Byrum, the Dem-
ocratic clerk of Ingham
County, filed a complaint
with police over the dis-
play, saying it could mis-
lead people who aren’t
familiar with the voting
system.
“It is a felony to take
illegal possession of an
absentee ballot,” Byrum
said Sept. 18.
“Elections in this
country are to be taken
seriously and there are
many people who are
voting by mail for the first
time this election,” she
said.
Police told the AP
the complaint is being
investigated.
President Donald
Trump has repeatedly
warned that voting by
mail could lead to fraud
and spoil the election,
making distorted claims
that elections officials
fear could cause anx-
iety and confusion among
voters.
It’s the “safest way
to vote during the pan-
demic,” Byrum said.
She didn’t identify the
person who lives at the
address. The lawn also
Associated Press
Spain recently prohibited yachting along its northwest
coast due to orcas knocking into sailboats.
Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP
A political display is set up in the lawn of a home in Mason, Michigan, on Friday, Sept. 18,
2020. Barb Byrum, the Democratic clerk of Ingham County filed a complaint with police
over the display, saying it could mislead people who aren’t familiar with how mail-in
voting works.
Find more weird news online at
lagrandeobserver.com
Orcas knock into
sailboats, force
Spain to limit
yachting
has a sign that calls for
the recall of Democratic
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
No one answered the
door the night of Sept. 18,
the Lansing State Journal
reported.
More than 2 million
Michigan voters could
cast absentee ballots
after changes in election
law.
Separately, a judge
recently said absentee
ballots postmarked by
Nov. 2 can be counted if
received within 14 days
after the Nov. 3 election
said the area covered by
the ban meant to protect
both boats and maritime
mammals and could be
extended to “follow the
migration routes” of the
whales.
Boats could leave port
to go into the open sea
between the capes of the
Prioriño Grande and la
Punta de Estaca de Bares,
but they could not remain
near the coast off the
country’s northwestern tip.
The ministry said the
first reported incident
occurred Aug. 19. Since
BARCELONA, Spain
— Spain temporarily pro-
hibited yachting across 62
miles of its northwestern
coast after orca whales
apparently got carried
away while playing and
damaged several sailboats.
Spain’s transport min-
istry issued the week-
long prohibition for sail-
boats under 49 feet long
beginning Sept. 22. It
weather
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
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Kennewick
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St. Helens
55/83
55/86
52/88
57/82
55/84
Condon
Baker City
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MON
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warm
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81 40
80 38
Eugene
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78 40
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ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 109°
Low: 14°
Wettest: 2.92”
85°
33°
84°
33°
89°
35°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
0.00
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Trace
Normal month to date 0.53
Year to date
2.99
Normal year to date
7.62
0.00
0.33
0.64
13.39
11.55
0.00
0.73
0.79
26.04
15.90
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
20%
NNW at 6 to 12 mph
9.4
0.16
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
9% of capacity
21% of capacity
42% of capacity
46% of capacity
13% of capacity
6% of capacity
OREGON
High: 98°
Low: 30°
Wettest: none
Medford
Burns
On Oct. 1, 1752, the second hurricane in
two weeks hit coastal North Carolina. The
storm erased Beacon Island.
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THU.
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Moonset
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6:26 a.m.
751 cfs
17 cfs
48 cfs
46 cfs
78 cfs
30 cfs
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Last
Oct 9
New
Oct 16
Beaver Marsh
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6:30 p.m.
7:16 p.m.
7:28 a.m.
First
Oct 23
Burns
Jordan Valley
Paisley
Frenchglen
47/86
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
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84/52/pc
70/56/pc
86/35/s
67/55/pc
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86/42/s
Grand View
Arock
45/87
43/86
46/88
Klamath Falls
42/86
Lakeview
41/87
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
SAT.
Diamond
48/84
Fields
Medford
FRI.
Boise
45/82
43/86
44/85
57/91
59/70
45/90
52/84
56/92
Brookings
Juntura
36/86
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Ontario
46/86
40/86
44/86
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
MOON PHASES
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
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
Chino, Calif.
Walden, Colo.
Saluda, Va.
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
61/81
45/84
43/84
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
58/86
Coos Bay
Huntington
48/83
50/86
Oakridge
44/84
50/87
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
Council
39/84
53/87
48/87
Florence
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
44/79
John Day
45/88
Sisters
53/67
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.
46/84
Baker City
Redmond
53/64
54/64
Halfway
Granite
51/80
Newport
56/77
78 43
51/90
56/87
55/83
Corvallis
Enterprise
46/79
43/83
Monument
51/87
Idanha
Salem
Sunny and very
warm
8
43 83 44
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
SAT
39 84 42
Comfort Index™
La Grande
FRI
Elgin
44/83
La Grande
54/83
Maupin
Partly sunny and Sunny and very
warm
warm
56/82
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
53/83
Hood River
53/84
TIllamook
Mainly clear
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Walla Walla
48/86
Vancouver
54/81
52/69
TONIGHT
causing damage.”
Orcas are particularly
attracted by sail boats due
to their size, the waves
they make and the lack
of pollution they produce
compared to fishing boats,
Díaz said. This stretch of
water where the Iberian
Peninsula juts out into the
Atlantic Ocean is rife with
tuna for them to hunt and
on their migration route.
Spanish television has
shown footage taken by
sailors of groups of orcas
swimming extremely close
to their boats. No injuries
have been reported so far.
Even so, the close
encounters have put a
scare in some sailors and
hurt their pocketbooks
with repairs that were
needed.
British sailor Mark
Smith told Spanish state
broadcaster TVE that he
was “a little” frightened
“because they were very
big and we couldn’t stop
them” from banging into
his boat.
then, it said orcas damage
an unspecified number
of sailboats with some
needing assistance from
Spain’s maritime rescue
service after their rudders
were wrecked.
Biologist Bruno Díaz of
the local Bottlenose Dol-
phin Research Institute
said the orcas were most
likely just playing a bit too
rough.
He said orcas, like
other cetaceans such as
dolphins, like to swim
alongside boats. Running
into hulls is rare, but he
believed it was likely done
by “immature teenage”
orcas getting rowdy.
“We will never be in
the mind of that indi-
vidual animal, but based
on experience, we think
that there is absolutely
nothing (threatening
about their behavior). We
are not their natural prey,”
Díaz told The Associated
Press by phone. “They are
having fun. And maybe
these orcas have fun
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
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SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
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79/55/s
82/42/pc
91/53/s
64/53/c
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86/47/pc
85/49/s
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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
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
Partly sunny; mild
Partly sunny; warm
62
42
81
46
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Partly sunny; warm
Partly sunny; warm
72
45
85
44
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Partly sunny; mild
Partly sunny; warm
69
36
78
41
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly sunny; warm
Partly sunny
78
46
84
55
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Partly sunny; warm
Partly sunny; warm
84
42
83
44