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COFFEE BREAK B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD SATuRDAY, SEpTEmBER 4, 2021 Son insists couple has obligation for grandkids’ tuition and trying to stay solvent enough to assure we are able to meet any unforeseen expenses of senior living while enjoying local arts and educational opportunities in our retirement. What is cus- tomary in other blended fam- ilies? — Wondering in the South Dear Wondering: Your son is off base, and you have every right to refuse this demand. The cost of raising and educating children is something that should have been taken into consider- ation before those children were born. This responsibility rests with him and his spouse, not with you, and I hope you will resist the impulse to alter your Dear Abby: What financial responsibility do parents have to their adult children and grandchil- dren? We are a blended family of 35 years. It is the second marriage for my wife and me, with four children and eight grandchildren. One child insists it is our respon- sibility to assist with the cost of educating his two children. Over the last 15 years, we have gifted him and his family well over $50,000. We are middle income, lifestyle to placate him. If you do otherwise, you may wind up in financial trouble. Dear Abby: My husband and his sister had a huge falling out several months ago. It was a long time coming, and resulted in the two of them no longer speaking. This week, we received an invitation from my sister-in-law for a family celebration. It was followed by an email to my hus- band saying that if he wants to come to the event, he first needs to “make it right by her and her family” and apologize for his behavior. My husband doesn’t feel he did anything wrong and doesn’t particularly want to go. He is now feeling manipulated talking to her is hard. I would like to fix things between us, but she’s very stubborn. We talked every day and every minute of the day, and I lost my best friend and my partner whom I love so much. — Her Former Girl- friend in Kentucky Dear Former G.F.: You obvi- ously hurt your partner deeply when you broke her trust. If you haven’t already told her how sorry you are and that you love her, you should. Then ask what you can do to rebuild her trust. If she still refuses to communi- cate after that, you may have to accept that the damage done to your relationship is not reparable and start looking for another job. to acquiesce because refusing an invitation to a family event will upset his mother. What should he do? — Watching From The Sidelines Dear Watching: Your hus- band is right. His sister is attempting to manipulate him. He should call or visit his mother, explain the entire sit- uation to her, and warn her in advance that he won’t be going. Dear Abby: What advice can you give me to get my ex-girl- friend back after I hurt her and broke her trust? It has been four months, and I have given her space and tried to improve myself. We work together, so seeing her every day and not In Ida’s miserable wake, New Orleans to get power next week New Orleans, remain without power, down from the peak of around 1.1 million five days ago as the storm arrived with top winds of 150 mph, tying it for the fifth-strongest hurricane ever to strike the mainland U.S. Tens of thousands still have no water in the midst of a sultry stretch of summer. Efforts con- tinued to drain flooded com- munities, and lines for gas stretched for blocks in many places from New Orleans to Baton Rouge. Edwards said more than 220,000 people have already registered for FEMA assis- tance and 22,000 have applied for a federal program to place tarps on damaged roofs. About 72,000 “blue roofs” — tarps to protect protect homes with damaged roofs — may be needed across Louisiana, fed- eral officials said. “I know that people are anx- ious and tired,” Edwards said Sept. 2. “I know they’re hot. And the tempers can flare when they’re waiting in those long gas lines. I’m asking people to be patient.” Some of New Orleans’ hos- pitals have had their regular power supply restored, said Dr. Jennifer Avegno, director of the New Orleans Health Depart- ment. A senior center has been converted to a place for resi- dents to receive limited health care, she added at a Thursday briefing. Declining numbers of coro- navirus patients and restoration of power at additional sites helped the recovery at Louisi- ana’s largest hospital system. Ochsner Health CEO Warner Thomas said the system’s COVID-19 patient count fell to 663 from 990 about a week ago, Thomas said. That coin- cides with the state’s overall declining case numbers. By REBECCA SANTANA, MELINDA DESLATTE and JANET McCONNAUGHEY The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Power should be restored to almost all of New Orleans by Wednesday, Sept. 8, 10 days after Hurri- cane Ida destroyed the elec- tric gird, tearing down poles, transformers and even a mas- sive steel transmission tower and leaving more than 1 million customers in Louisiana without power. Not every customer will have power back in the city, utility Entergy said in a state- ment Friday. Customers with damage where power enters their home will need to fix it themselves, and there could be some smaller areas that take longer. And there still is no concrete promise of when the lights will come back on in the parishes east and south of New Orleans, which were battered for hours by winds of 100 mph or more, Entergy said. The company asked for patience, acknowledging the heat and misery in Ida’s aftermath. Entergy said more than 25,000 workers from 40 states are fixing the 14,000 dam- aged poles, 2,223 broken trans- formers and 155 destroyed transmission structures. “Please know that thou- sands of employees and con- tractors are currently in the field working day and night to restore power. We will continue working until every community is restored.” said Rod West, a group president for utility operations. Ida’s agonizing after- math took another grim turn Sept. 2 as Louisiana officials announced an investigation into Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate People wait to get gas at a Shell Station on Veterans Memorial Blvd. in Metairie, La., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021. Stations are slowly starting to open days after Hurricane Ida. the deaths of four nursing home residents who had been evac- uated to a warehouse ahead of the severe weather. The nursing home residents who died were among hundreds from seven nursing homes taken to the warehouse in Inde- pendence, where conditions became unhealthy and unsafe after the hurricane struck on Sunday, state health officials said. A coroner classified three of the deaths as storm-related. Health officials received reports of people lying on mat- tresses on the floor, not being fed or changed and not being socially distanced to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, weather | Go to AccuWeather.com Biden was scheduled to visit Louisiana on Friday to survey the damage after promising full federal support to Gulf Coast states and the Northeast, where Ida’s remnants dumped record- breaking rain and killed at least 50 people from Virginia to Connecticut. At least 13 deaths were blamed on the storm in Lou- isiana, Mississippi and Ala- bama, including the three nursing home residents. Sev- eral deaths came in the after- math of the storm from carbon monoxide poisoning, which can happen if generators are run improperly. About 850,000 people in Louisiana, including much of which is currently ravaging the state, Louisiana Department of Health spokesperson Aly Neel said. When a large team of state health inspectors showed up on Tuesday to investigate the warehouse, the owner of the nursing homes demanded that they leave immediately, Neel said. Neel identified the owner as Bob Dean. Dean did not imme- diately respond Thursday to a telephone message left by The Associated Press at a number listed for him. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards promised a full inves- tigation and “aggressive legal action” if warranted. Meanwhile, President Joe AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION Astoria Longview 57/68 Kennewick 59/77 St. Helens 59/82 TIllamook 59/84 62/91 63/84 56/84 Condon SUN MON TUE WED Clear Mostly sunny Plenty of sunshine Hot with clouds and sun Sunshine and not as hot 90 48 93 49 85 45 Eugene 6 4 10 58/89 88 51 94 57 82 49 7 3 10 Comfort Index™ La Grande 6 52 87 51 Comfort Index™ Enterprise 7 7 6 48 85 49 Comfort Index™ 6 94 57 82 51 6 3 10 ALMANAC THURSDAY EXTREMES TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin NATION (for the 48 contiguous states) High Thursday Low Thursday High: 97° Low: 26° Wettest: 3.66” 75° 33° 76° 39° 79° 35° PRECIPITATION (inches) Thursday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date 0.00 0.00 0.03 3.11 6.45 0.00 0.00 0.04 6.54 11.37 0.00 0.00 0.06 15.79 15.97 HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY 20% WNW at 4 to 8 mph 10.8 0.21 RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday) Phillips Reservoir Unity Reservoir Owyhee Reservoir McKay Reservoir Wallowa Lake Thief Valley Reservoir N.A. 21% of capacity 15% of capacity 41% of capacity 0% of capacity 0% 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: 87° Low: 27° Wettest: none Troutdale Meacham WEATHER HISTORY AGRICULTURAL INFO. Lowest relative humidity Afternoon wind Hours of sunshine Evapotranspiration Houston, Texas Stanley, Idaho Topeka, Kan. Rain from the remains of Tropical Storm Norma caused disastrous fl oods in Arizona on Sept. 4, 1970. Rain fell so heavily that some streams rose 5-10 feet per hour, washing away cars and buildings. SUN & MOON SAT. Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset 6:18 a.m. 7:24 p.m. 3:13 a.m. 6:48 p.m. SUN. 6:19 a.m. 7:22 p.m. 4:25 a.m. 7:17 p.m. MOON PHASES 455 cfs 0 cfs 86 cfs 41 cfs 56 cfs 3 cfs New Sep 6 First Sep 13 Full Sep 20 Last Sep 28 47/81 50/90 48/88 Beaver Marsh 57/84 57/90 Silver Lake Jordan Valley 50/89 Paisley 48/91 42/88 Frenchglen 49/93 Medford 41/90 46/94 46/92 Lakeview 40/90 McDermitt 48/93 RECREATION FORECAST SUNDAY REGIONAL CITIES MON. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Astoria 68/53/pc 72/52/s Bend 89/52/s 92/57/s Boise 93/59/s 93/63/s Brookings 69/53/s 69/52/s Burns 92/43/s 93/48/s Coos Bay 70/54/pc 71/53/pc Corvallis 86/56/s 88/58/s Council 91/49/s 93/53/s Elgin 86/49/s 85/52/s Eugene 89/58/s 90/57/s Hermiston 92/61/s 90/56/s Hood River 84/60/s 92/58/s Imnaha 90/55/s 90/58/s John Day 90/53/s 91/56/s Joseph 84/50/s 84/59/s Kennewick 92/59/s 89/54/s Klamath Falls 90/43/s 90/50/s Lakeview 90/44/s 90/48/s Grand View Arock 51/96 Klamath Falls Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs. SUN. Diamond 49/90 Fields 58/96 52/69 Boise 57/93 56/96 Brookings 49/94 45/90 Chiloquin Grants Pass Juntura 41/92 44/87 40/87 Roseburg Ontario 53/92 Burns Brothers 54/85 Coos Bay Huntington 45/87 50/89 Oakridge 51/91 59/91 Seneca Bend Elkton Council 41/90 John Day 45/91 Sisters Florence Powers 49/91 Baker City Redmond 53/63 57/67 Halfway Granite 57/86 Newport 55/70 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. 53/90 52/83 60/87 56/84 86 57 6 Corvallis Enterprise 48/85 52/87 Monument 56/89 Idanha Salem TONIGHT 41 90 45 Elgin 47/86 La Grande 55/83 Maupin Baker City 65/89 Pendleton The Dalles Portland Newberg 59/92 Hood River 59/86 60/72 Lewiston Walla Walla 61/92 Vancouver 58/79 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021 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 92/62/s 77/52/pc 86/50/s 96/60/s 63/50/pc 75/49/c 92/55/s 92/57/s 86/61/s 84/58/s 84/58/s 91/48/s 90/61/s 87/59/s 83/55/s 91/63/s 83/45/s 89/64/s Hi/Lo/W 91/59/s 79/54/pc 86/49/s 97/63/s 65/51/pc 78/52/s 93/59/s 90/52/s 86/60/s 86/60/s 86/58/pc 93/53/s 93/60/pc 89/60/s 83/55/s 93/61/s 83/49/s 88/61/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 Plenty of sun Sunny and warm 63 44 83 44 MT. EMILY REC. BROWNLEE RES. Mostly sunny Plenty of sunshine 71 52 91 57 EAGLE CAP WILD. EMIGRANT ST. PARK Sunny and warm Mostly sunny 71 41 78 43 WALLOWA LAKE MCKAY RESERVOIR Mostly sunny; warm Mostly sunny 84 50 87 59 THIEF VALLEY RES. RED BRIDGE ST. PARK Sunny and warm Mostly sunny 90 45 87 51