6B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 2021
Dog-walker
gives neighbor
the creeps
PILGRIMAGE
The fence doesn’t mark the boundary
of the measuring area. In fact the read-
ings are taken in a much smaller spot.
The key instrument is a “pillow” made
of stainless steel or rubber (the latter
material being more appropriate, in my
sleeping experience, as a place to rest
your head) and fi lled with an antifreeze
solution. The weight of snow atop this
pillow, which is a square with sides about
four feet long, squeezes the liquid into a
tube where a sensor calculates the water
content.
Although we usually refer to snow
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It’s obvious that the trees cast a patch
of shade across the spot where the snow
is measured. It could be that the shade,
by retarding the rate of snow melt, in
effect infl ated the measurement in 2017
compared with the current, shade-free
situation.
A bit of explanation is in order regard-
ing how these snow-measuring stations
— known as “Snotels,” a reference to
“Snowpack Telemetry” — work.
DEAR ABBY: I
am a 34-year-old
woman. I live in a
DEAR ABBY
ground fl oor unit in
an apartment com-
plex with my terrier-
collie mix, who is a very good judge of character.
An elderly neighbor has a habit of walking his Ger-
man shepherd by my unit. My dog does not like the man
and barks ferociously every time he hears them. What
unsettles me is that something seems off about him, and
his behavior is becoming intrusive.
The couple of times he has seen me outside, he has
asked me if I live “all alone” or comments that he “hasn’t
seen my boyfriend around in a long time.” He peers
into my window when he walks and lingers, despite my
growling and snarling dog. I tried closing the blinds, but
now he comes to my door and knocks. I haven’t answered
because he makes me feel unsafe.
I want to confront him, but I’m not sure what to say.
It’s also happening right in front of the building I live in,
which makes me nervous. What should I do?
PELLETS
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aren’t as accurate as the
axis deer and hog hunting
saying as the gospel.
Diabolo-shaped pellets. So
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what if they penetrate better last year. I dug the bullet out
MORAL TO THE STORY
Now we were cooking.
of the axis deer and it had
if they don’t hit in the kill
Good gun + good pellets =
Shoot good pellets or you’re
zone? Again, accuracy trumps mushroomed and performed
hitting the mark.
going to get frustrated with
great. I’m going to have to
all.
Why does accuracy vary so
the inaccuracy of your air
test the hollow point wan-
Another downfall of the
wildly between manufactur- polymer-tipped pellets is that nabees in the smaller calibers gun.
ers? Here’s my theory. One air they won’t work in air guns
gun company in particular
that use a magazine. They
makes super lightweight
protrude too far and jam up.
alloy pellets. That way they
Used to this applied only to
can boast speeds of up to
the CO 2 and PCP airguns.
They’d work fi ne in break
1,450 feet per second. They
may travel along fast, but you barrel air guns but now more
and more manufacturers are
just don’t quite know where
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and tablets
polymer tips just aren’t fi tting
speed.
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DESIGNS
What about the semi hol-
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I don’t know why but
low point pellets? I haven’t
the Diabolo (Actually the
done extensive testing on
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shoots best for me. One last
comment on this point. I’ve
found that whatever pellets
shoots the most accurately for
me in one gun does so as well
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1, 2 and 3 rate the same in all
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DEAR WARY: The person you describe may be more
lonely — or nosy — than dangerous. You can’t stop
someone from walking his dog past your front door
if that is where the exit is located. Talk to your other
neighbors and ask if he has a history of doing this with
them.
If he knocks on your door again, tell him you are busy
and don’t like being disturbed and to stop doing it. If he
asks any more personal questions or comments again
about your boyfriend’s absence, tell him your social life
is none of his business. If it will make you feel more
secure, install security cameras in your apartment, and
if you catch him peering into your windows again, tell
him you have him on camera and you will report him
not only to building management but also the police.
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DEAR ABBY: I’m a middle-aged woman needing to
know what to do. I have family members who say if I
weren’t around, things would be a lot better. I was told
from the beginning that I was a “mistake.” I am wonder-
ing, should I stay hurt with them for saying these things,
or should I let it go?
They are always saying I will never amount to any-
thing. When I say something to them about the way they
make me feel, they tell me to be quiet and mind my own
business. Should I tell them how I feel or what?
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DEAR DEVALUED: A family member (!) who would
say something so cruel as what you have described is
someone you should avoid contact with, if possible. It’s
very important that you spend time with people —
other family members or friends — who help you to feel
BETTER about yourself rather than worse.
Should you tell these family members how you feel?
Ordinarily, I would say yes. However, because you have
already done that, I don’t think it would enlighten them.
Believe me, you have my sympathy because these rela-
tives are toxic.
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
43/55
Kennewick
43/60
St. Helens
42/60
41/61
43/64
44/59
41/59
Condon
SUN
MON
TUE
WED
Cloudy, a
shower or two
Cloudy and cool
Still cloudy
Partly sunny and
milder
Chance of a
shower
54 25
61 31
66 37
Eugene
2
10
10
40/57
56 31
63 34
66 44
3
10
10
La Grande
38 53 33
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
1
1
3
35 47 27
Comfort Index™
2
59 33
64 44
3
10
10
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 97°
Low: -7°
Wettest: 0.41”
66°
26°
66°
32°
67°
30°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
0.00
Month to date
Trace
Normal month to date 0.58
Year to date
1.09
Normal year to date
2.78
Trace
0.02
1.12
5.71
5.35
0.00
0.15
1.47
13.32
9.17
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
50%
WNW at 6 to 12 mph
0.4
0.08
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Elkton
44/55
23% of capacity
99% of capacity
59% of capacity
94% of capacity
65% of capacity
99% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Thursday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
6460 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
38 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
205 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
730 cfs
Minam River at Minam
680 cfs
Powder River near Richland
131 cfs
Death Valley, Calif.
Climax, Colo.
Caribou, Maine
OREGON
High: 75°
Low: 20°
Wettest: Trace
Medford
Lakeview
Brookings
WEATHER HISTORY
On April 24, 1908, a series of tornadoes
moving from Louisiana to Alabama took
more than 300 lives and leveled many
communities.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
5:52 a.m.
7:50 p.m.
4:57 p.m.
5:02 a.m.
SUN.
5:50 a.m.
7:51 p.m.
6:17 p.m.
5:26 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Full
Apr 26
Last
May 3
New
First
May 11 May 19
Brothers
29/48
Beaver Marsh
27/42
Roseburg
41/57
Burns
Jordan Valley
36/46
Paisley
29/45
Frenchglen
35/46
Klamath Falls
30/43
Hi/Lo/W
55/43/c
52/30/c
53/38/c
50/43/r
51/27/c
51/40/r
55/40/r
48/32/sh
53/32/c
57/41/r
67/42/c
61/43/c
53/31/sh
52/34/sh
45/25/sh
66/38/c
43/22/sh
44/23/c
Hi/Lo/W
56/42/pc
53/29/c
56/35/pc
53/42/sh
52/24/c
54/36/sh
60/37/sh
53/30/c
55/30/c
59/37/sh
68/39/c
59/38/sh
56/30/c
52/27/c
49/28/c
70/38/c
48/23/sh
47/21/c
Grand View
Arock
46/59
37/52
Lakeview
29/44
McDermitt
36/48
RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY
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
Diamond
34/46
37/48
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
MON.
Boise
43/53
Fields
42/55
SUN.
39/54
Silver Lake
28/43
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
29/51
44/57
43/50
Ontario
44/57
30/45
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
31/48
36/52
Coos Bay
38/48
43/55
Seneca
33/52
Oakridge
Council
34/52
35/52
32/54
Bend
THURSDAY EXTREMES
ALMANAC
30/44
John Day
32/54
Sisters
Florence
Powers
37/51
Baker City
Redmond
42/51
45/53
Halfway
Granite
40/55
Newport
42/51
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.
36/59
35/50
41/58
42/57
51 28
1
Corvallis
Enterprise
35/47
38/53
Monument
38/60
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
2
Elgin
37/53
La Grande
36/56
Maupin
Comfort Index™
42/59
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
43/60
Hood River
41/60
TIllamook
34 52 28
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Walla Walla
43/66
Vancouver
42/60
43/53
Baker City
by its depth, water content is the more
meaningful measurement with snow-
pack because it accounts for the signifi -
cant differences between comparatively
“dry” powder snow and the sodden,
grainy snow of spring.
Snotels also estimate the snow depth.
The horizontal bar that extends from the
tower, visible in the photos on Page 1B,
contains a sensor that produces a beam
of light straight down, where it refl ects
off the snow. The sensor calculates the
snow depth based on how long it takes
the refl ected beam to hit the sensor.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
SUN.
MON.
Hi/Lo/W
60/41/sh
60/40/c
53/33/c
55/38/r
51/41/r
58/41/c
57/37/c
67/39/c
60/40/c
59/42/r
55/40/r
54/30/c
57/40/r
58/40/r
55/38/c
64/43/c
50/30/c
59/42/c
Hi/Lo/W
64/38/c
61/37/sh
56/29/c
59/37/sh
52/39/sh
59/37/pc
61/34/c
69/37/c
64/36/c
59/41/sh
56/38/sh
55/26/pc
62/36/c
59/37/sh
58/36/pc
63/39/sh
53/25/c
61/41/c
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
Cloudy and cold
Cloudy, a shower
28
16
47
27
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Cloudy and cold
Spotty showers
39
28
53
34
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
A shower
Cloudy and chilly
34
16
48
26
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Spotty showers
Cloudy
45
25
60
39
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Cloudy, a shower
Cloudy and cool
52
28
53
33