COFFEE BREAK
8B — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, JunE 24, 2021
Water leak damages more than ceiling for neighbors
more times to let me know how
stressed she was, that she was
crying and afraid she would
get evicted from her apartment
because she has a dog she failed
to put on her lease. She ended
by saying “next time” I should
let her know in advance. Abby, I
did let her know. But I guess she
wants more notice next time she
causes an emergency, so she’ll
have more time to hide her dog.
So — I’m supposed to let
my apartment get more water
damage to give her time to hide
an animal she should’ve put on
her lease years ago and be paying
pet rent for? I feel like she was
trying to make me feel bad when
Dear Abby: I live in an apart-
ment and recently had a serious
leak come through my bathroom
ceiling. I called maintenance
and texted my upstairs neighbor,
who asked me when they were
coming. I responded that I didn’t
know and I wasn’t sure whether
they’d have to go up to her apart-
ment or not.
Well, they went to her apart-
ment first. She was very upset
and messaged me a dozen
She called and left a message that
she felt bad if she had given me
COVID, but she has shown no
concern since. I have had long-
term COVID chest pain for three
months, but she’s never sent a
card or called to see how I am. I
reached out to her several times
and even brought her a birthday
gift, but she doesn’t seem to care
that I’m not well. It’s awkward
because we’re neighbors and in
several groups together. How can
I save this friendship? — Recov-
ering in California
Dear Recovering: How can
you save this friendship? Lady,
you are the injured party. This
woman may be a neighbor, but
she’s the one who is wrong for
being irresponsible. Why do I
have to cater to her needs first?
Should I feel bad? — Leaky Mess
in the West
Dear Leaky Mess: You do not
have to accept the guilt trip your
neighbor laid on you or “cater”
to her. You handled the situation
appropriately and have nothing
to apologize for. When the “good
neighbor policy” was written, she
must have been out to lunch.
Dear Abby: I got COVID
from a friend who came to our
book club even though her hus-
band was ill. When she texted us
a few days later about his positive
test, I told her I was now sick.
she isn’t acting like a friend.
Call her and clear the air about
how the situation has made you
feel. When you see her, be civil
and keep your distance. If she
had been less self-centered, she
wouldn’t have exposed you and
the other book club members to
what her husband had — even if
it was “only” a common cold.
Dear Abby: What are the
three most important things par-
ents should instill in their chil-
dren in their formative years? —
Wondering in Arizona
Dear Wondering: In my
opinion, the three most important
things would be empathy, that
they are loved and curiosity.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Dirty laundry in space? NASA, Tide tackle cleaning challenge
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Florida — How do astro-
nauts do laundry in space?
They don’t.
They wear their under-
wear, gym clothes and
everything else until they
can’t take the filth and stink
anymore, then junk them.
NASA wants to change
that — if not at the Interna-
tional Space Station, then
the moon and Mars — and
stop throwing away tons
of dirty clothes every year,
stuffing them in the trash
to burn up in the atmo-
sphere aboard discarded
cargo ships. So it’s teamed
up with Procter & Gamble
Co. to figure out how best
to clean astronauts’ clothes
in space so they can be
reused for months or even
years, just like on Earth.
The Cincinnati company
announced Tuesday, June
22, that it will send a pair
of Tide detergent and stain
removal experiments to
the space station later this
year and next, all part of
nASA/Contributed Photo, File
Astronaut Leland Melvin, STS-129 mission specialist, exercises in the International Space Station while
the space shuttle Atlantis is docked with the station on Nov. 22, 2009. Space station astronauts exercise
two hours every day to counter the muscle- and bone-withering effects of weightlessness, quickly leav-
ing their workout clothes sweaty, smelly and stiff. Their T-shirts, shorts and socks end up so foul that they
run through a pair every week, according to Melvin, a former NASA astronaut and NFL player.
the galactic battle against
soiled and sweaty clothes.
It’s no small problem,
especially as the U.S.
and other countries look
to establish bases on the
moon and Mars.
Rocket cargo space
is tight and expensive,
according to NASA, so
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why waste it on new out-
fits if their clothes could be
kept looking and smelling
fresh? When you figure an
astronaut needs 150 pounds
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
56/75
Kennewick
56/90
St. Helens
62/95
67/100
69/104
63/96
59/95
Condon
FRI
SAT
SUN
MON
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
and hot
Sunshine and
very hot
Sunshine and
very hot
Sunny and hot
99 61 100 61
97 57
Eugene
3
56/92
La Grande
3
2
5
4
2
57 90 63
Comfort Index™
6
94 65
2
4
96 68 101 67
4
3
1
3
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 116°
Low: 30°
Wettest: 4.23”
85°
55°
83°
56°
88°
54°
0.01
0.13
0.93
2.36
5.46
Trace
Trace
1.23
5.90
9.03
0.00
0.77
1.38
14.98
13.30
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
25%
N at 7 to 14 mph
13.3
0.32
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
58/82
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
15% of capacity
74% of capacity
42% of capacity
81% of capacity
40% of capacity
76% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Tuesday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
2710 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder 130 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
89 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
60 cfs
Minam River at Minam
947 cfs
Powder River near Richland
13 cfs
Grants Pass
Brookings
SUN & MOON
THU.
FRI.
5:05 a.m. 5:06 a.m.
8:44 p.m. 8:44 p.m.
9:17 p.m. 10:16 p.m.
4:43 a.m. 5:45 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Full
Jun 24
Last
Jul 1
New
Jul 9
Paisley
54/90
First
Jul 17
Frenchglen
55/88
City
Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
75/60/pc
Bend
92/57/s
Boise
94/67/s
Brookings
66/52/s
Burns
91/55/s
Coos Bay
67/54/s
Corvallis
92/63/pc
Council
95/59/s
Elgin
93/62/s
Eugene
92/64/s
Hermiston
103/68/s
Hood River 100/69/pc
Imnaha
93/66/s
John Day
91/61/s
Joseph
88/62/s
Kennewick
103/72/s
Klamath Falls 91/56/s
Lakeview
88/57/s
Hi/Lo/W
77/60/pc
97/64/s
100/72/s
66/54/c
98/62/s
69/55/pc
96/63/s
101/63/s
100/64/s
97/63/s
108/70/s
106/76/s
100/66/s
99/64/s
95/69/s
107/74/s
98/61/s
95/62/s
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
54/85
66/97
59/90
58/91
Klamath Falls
51/91
Lakeview
51/88
McDermitt
56/87
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
A microburst was blamed for the crash of
a Boeing 727 on June 24, 1975, at New
York’s Kennedy International Airport. The
catastrophe took 112 lives. A microburst is
a burst of wind from a thunderstorm.
Jordan Valley
54/86
Fields
64/98
SAT.
Boise
65/94
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
FRI.
Juntura
58/94
Silver Lake
52/88
Medford
52/66
Ontario
Brookings
Lakeview
WEATHER HISTORY
Burns
56/91
63/98
OREGON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
60/94
Ontario
70/99
49/88
Chiloquin
Death Valley, Calif.
Cadillac, Mich.
Opelousas, La.
High: 102°
Low: 49°
Wettest: 0.11”
48/87
Roseburg
Powers
51/86
Beaver Marsh
54/67
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.
Brothers
56/91
Coos Bay
Huntington
52/87
58/92
Oakridge
61/95
72/99
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
56/87
91 55
57/91
57/94
Council
54/94
John Day
55/95
Sisters
Florence
55/67
58/97
Baker City
Redmond
53/63
61 93 63 100 65 102 66
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
4
Halfway
Granite
54/82
57/93
60/94
Corvallis
60/95
56/92
Newport
Enterprise
57/90
61/93
Monument
65/98
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
6
Elgin
58/93
La Grande
61/90
Maupin
Comfort Index™
68/98
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
67/100
Hood River
66/99
TIllamook
54 94 57
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by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
70/103
Vancouver
61/94
55/78
Baker City
In its initial experi-
ment, P&G will send up
detergent custom-made
for space in December so
scientists can see how the
enzymes and other ingredi-
ents react to six months of
weightlessness.
Then next May, stain-re-
moval pens and wipes will
be delivered for testing by
astronauts.
At the same time, P&G
is developing a wash-
er-dryer combo that could
operate on the moon or
even Mars, using min-
imal amounts of water and
detergent. Such a machine
could also prove useful in
arid regions here on Earth.
One of the challenges:
The laundry water would
need to be reclaimed for
drinking and cooking,
just like urine and sweat
are recycled on the space
station.
“The best solutions
come from the most
diverse teams,” Melvin
said, “and how more
diverse can you be than
Tide and NASA?”
of clothes in space per
year, that quickly adds up,
especially on a three-year
Mars mission, said Mark
Sivik, a chemist special-
izing in fabric and home
care technology for P&G.
There’s also the health
factor. Space station astro-
nauts exercise two hours
every day to counter the
effects of weightlessness,
leaving their workout
clothes sweaty, smelly and
stiff. Their T-shirts, shorts
and socks end up so foul
that they run through a pair
every week, according to
Leland Melvin, a former
NASA astronaut and NFL
player.
“After that, they’re
deemed toxic,” said
Melvin, who’s serving as a
spokesman for the project.
“They like have a life of
their own. They’re so stiff
from all that sweat.”
While NASA and the
other space station part-
ners have looked into spe-
cial antimicrobial clothes
to prolong wear, it’s not a
long-term solution.
By MARCIA DUNN
FRI.
SAT.
City
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Lewiston
100/68/s 106/70/s
Longview
90/64/pc 101/67/s
Meacham
93/60/s 101/64/s
Medford
98/67/s 104/70/s
Newport
63/55/pc 66/55/s
Olympia
90/62/pc 99/63/s
Ontario
99/68/s 104/71/s
Pasco
103/69/s 109/70/s
Pendleton
99/65/s 104/70/s
Portland
96/68/pc 104/70/s
Powers
82/59/s 89/63/pc
Redmond
95/59/s 102/63/s
Roseburg
94/65/s 99/66/pc
Salem
94/67/pc 101/67/s
Spokane
93/66/s 100/71/s
The Dalles 104/70/pc 110/76/s
Ukiah
87/58/s 94/61/s
Walla Walla
98/70/s 105/74/s
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ANTHONY LAKES
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MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Nice with sunshine
Sunlit and warm
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96
64
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; warm
Mostly sunny; warm
72
51
85
55
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Very warm
Mostly sunny; hot
88
62
96
66
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Hot
Mostly sunny; hot
94
57
93
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