COFFEE BREAK
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
THuRSDAY, SEpTEmBER 9, 2021
Parents hesitate to allow addict son to move back in
Dear Abby: My 24-year-old
son is in rehab for the second
time. We paid for the first, but
we are not financing this one.
He has moved in and out of our
home since he was 18. We have
tried written agreements, but he
doesn’t follow them. We let him
move back in after his first stay in
rehab, despite the fact that he had
stolen from us and had failed to
get a job, etc. He not only didn’t
get a job, he also didn’t help
around the house or do any of the
other things he had promised. One
month later, he began using again.
He claims to be taking rehab
seriously this time, and wants to
move back in with us when he
gets out. He says he now real-
izes he can’t stay clean without
following the 12 steps, including
acknowledging a higher power,
and without the support of his
family. Over the past year, we
spent several thousand dol-
lars helping him solve his prob-
lems. Our question is, will we
be enabling him by letting him
return home, or would it be
best to help him transition to a
halfway house? — Supportive
Parents
Dear Supportive Parents:
You are caring parents, and I
know this has been painful for
you. Do not allow your son to
move back in without first dis-
cussing it with the people at his
rehabilitation center whose busi-
ness it is to work with addicts.
From my perspective, it would
be better for your son — and for
you — to have him pursue his
sobriety at a halfway house.
Dear Abby: My son is getting
married in a few months. I always
believed that if my child loved
his partner, I would like him or
her and be happy for them. Race,
religion, sexual orientation, etc.,
would never have mattered to me.
I found out this week that my
future daughter-in-law totally
rejects modern medicine. My son
is a cystic fibrosis carrier. She
refuses to be tested because “no
one in her family has ever had
CF.” Our family can say the same
thing, but both of my sons and I
are CF carriers.
She plans home-births with
her mother as her midwife and
believes vaccinations are harmful.
My son supports none of this, but
plans to marry her anyway. They
want to get pregnant right away
and eventually have five children.
She’s only 21, and intelligent, but
she has been home-schooled, and
her father does not allow internet
in their home. I feel her position
on medicine is due to not being
informed. Her religion does not
forbid it. I am heartbroken. Is
there anything I can do?
— Heartbroken in Michigan
Dear Heartbroken: Not a
lot, I’m sorry to say. You could
point out to your son that he
should insist he and his fiancee
have genetic testing done before
starting a family, which could
avert a tragic and preventable
problem. You could print out
material from respected sources
— the Cystic Fibrosis Founda-
tion would be among them —
but you cannot force the fiancee
to accept it. Other than that, all
you can do is cross your fingers
and pray the young couple will
catch a lucky break in a game of
genetic roulette.
Biden surveys NY and NJ storm damage, talks climate change
By AAMER MADHANI and
DARLENE SUPERVILLE
The Associated Press
MANVILLE, N.J. —
Pointing accusingly at cli-
mate change, President Joe
Biden toured deadly North-
east flood damage Tuesday,
Sept. 7, and said he was
thinking about the families
who suffered “profound”
losses from the powerful
remnants of Hurricane Ida.
Biden traveled to New
Jersey and New York
City to survey the after-
math and call for federal
spending to fortify infra-
structure to better defend
people and property from
future storms in the region
and beyond. He spoke with
distressed residents whose
homes were badly dam-
aged or destroyed amid the
flood.
“Every part of the
country, every part of the
country is getting hit by
extreme weather,” Biden
said in a briefing at the
Somerset County emer-
gency management training
center attended by federal,
state and local officials,
including New Jersey Gov.
Phil Murphy.
Biden said the threat
from wildfires, hurricanes,
tornadoes, flooding and
other extreme weather must
be dealt with in ways that
will lessen the devastating
effects of climate change.
“We can’t turn it back
very much, but we can
prevent it from getting
worse,” he said. Biden
added that scientists have
been warning for decades
that this day would come
and that urgent action was
needed.
“We don’t have any
more time,” he said.
Biden’s plan to spend
$1 trillion on infrastruc-
ture nationwide is pending
in Congress, and the White
House asked Congress on
Sept. 7 for an additional $24
billion to cover the costs
of Hurricane Ida and other
natural disasters.
In New Jersey, he also
walked along a street in the
Lost Valley neighborhood
of Manville, where cleanup
continues after the Raritan
River overflowed its banks.
Many front lawns were
covered with water-logged
couches, pianos, crumbled
plaster and other debris.
One home displayed a
hand-painted sign that said,
“Manville will be back
better.”
Biden, wearing a mask,
spoke to adults and chil-
dren, including Meagan
Dommar, a new mother
whose home was destroyed
by fire as the flood
occurred. She told the pres-
ident that she and her hus-
band, Caesar, had left
because of the baby, then
returned to find destruction.
“Thank God you’re
safe,” Biden replied. As
he walked the route, the
Democrat was taunted by
supporters of Republican
former President Donald
Trump, who yelled that
Biden was a “tyrant” and
worse. Biden did not look in
their direction.
At the briefing, Biden
focused on the personal
calamities, saying, “The
losses that we witnessed
today are profound. My
thoughts are with all those
families affected by the
storm and all those fami-
lies who lost someone they
love.”
Before he arrived, Cristel
Alvarez said she expected
Evan Vucci/The Associated Press
President Joe Biden hugs a person as he tours a neighborhood im-
pacted by Hurricane Ida, Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021, in Manville, N.J. Sen.
Cory Booker, D-N.J., second from left, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Mur-
phy, second from right, look on.
losses at her home to climb
as high as $45,000. She
has lived in Manville for
a decade and the flood
was her family’s second.
Alvarez said she planned to
apply for federal assistance
but also intended to move
away.
“Let him see every-
thing that we’re going
through and hopefully we
can get the help that we
need because there’s a lot of
loss,” she said.
Lou DeFazio, a con-
tractor and three-decade
resident of Manville, sat
on his porch with a small
Trump flag waving beside
him and Kaycee, his dog
barking through an open
window. DeFazio said the
town needs better plan-
ning instead of presidential
visits.
“I think their efforts
could be better spent in
other areas. I don’t know
what they’re gonna do for
us,” he said.
At least 50 people were
killed in six Eastern states
weather
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as record rainfall last
week overwhelmed rivers
and sewer systems. Some
people were trapped in
fast-filling basement apart-
ments and cars, or were
swept away as they tried
to escape. The storm also
spawned several tornadoes.
More than half of the
deaths, 27, were recorded in
New Jersey. In New York
Astoria
Longview
52/64
Kennewick
52/71
St. Helens
56/74
Baker City
6
61/75
7
Condon
64/77
60/74
MON
6
Partly sunny
10
10
10
56/77
73 45
74 43
69 40
10
10
10
10
10
10
5
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Tuesday
Low Tuesday
High: 122°
Low: 26°
Wettest: 2.29”
94°
43°
90°
48°
95°
45°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Tuesday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.00
0.11
3.11
6.53
0.00
0.00
0.15
6.54
11.48
0.00
0.00
0.22
15.79
16.13
HAY INFORMATION FRIDAY
60%
SSW at 6 to 12 mph
6.3
0.09
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Wednesday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
N.A.
18% of capacity
14% of capacity
38% of capacity
0% of capacity
0% of capacity
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
OREGON
High: 99°
Low: 37°
Wettest: none
Rome
Klamath Falls
The thermometer at Washington, D.C.’s
National Airport reached 90 degrees or
higher for a record 60th time in 1980
by Sept. 9. Some people questioned the
accuracy of the readings, but the record
stands.
SUN & MOON
THU.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
FRI.
6:24 a.m. 6:25 a.m.
7:15 p.m. 7:13 p.m.
9:25 a.m. 10:42 a.m.
8:51 p.m. 9:16 p.m.
MOON PHASES
455 cfs
0 cfs
82 cfs
41 cfs
49 cfs
3 cfs
First
Sep 13
Full
Sep 20
Last
Sep 28
58/77
New
Oct 6
Jordan Valley
Paisley
Frenchglen
55/78
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Hi/Lo/W
64/51/pc
71/41/t
75/56/t
62/53/s
73/38/t
66/50/pc
74/47/pc
75/48/t
67/44/t
77/49/pc
75/57/t
75/53/s
75/53/t
71/51/t
69/47/t
78/55/t
74/39/s
75/37/s
Hi/Lo/W
65/52/c
74/46/s
78/55/s
71/52/s
78/39/s
71/52/pc
78/51/s
77/47/pc
72/43/pc
79/51/s
80/52/pc
79/54/pc
76/48/pc
75/46/s
71/45/pc
80/54/pc
79/42/s
79/38/s
Grand View
Arock
63/80
61/73
58/81
Klamath Falls
48/74
Lakeview
46/75
McDermitt
Shown is Friday’s weather. Temperatures are Thursday night’s lows and Friday’s highs.
SAT.
Diamond
56/75
Fields
61/79
FRI.
Boise
59/70
48/74
45/68
Medford
Brookings
59/78
66/75
56/80
51/62
Juntura
50/73
Silver Lake
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Ontario
65/79
Burns
50/71
56/75
RECREATION FORECAST FRIDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Death Valley, Calif.
Walden, Colo.
Orlando, Fla.
48/68
Roseburg
54/68
52/68
Beaver Marsh
52/66
Powers
Brothers
55/70
Coos Bay
Huntington
52/68
54/71
Oakridge
Council
59/75
67/74
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
TUESDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
57/71
52/70
55/73
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.
56/72
53/68
John Day
53/73
Sisters
Florence
52/61
Halfway
Granite
47/65
Baker City
Eugene
73 40
Monument
58/73
Redmond
76 38
75 46
55/68
56/70
59/75
Corvallis
Enterprise
52/68
55/74
Newport
49/61
71 44
52/67
La Grande
58/70
61/78
Idanha
Salem
77 39
4
52 68 45
Comfort Index™
SUN
Elgin
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
75 39
8
55 68 45
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
SAT
53 68 43
Comfort Index™
La Grande
FRI
63/72
61/72
56/76
Lewiston
64/74
Hood River
Maupin
Showers, heavy Partly sunny and Partly sunny and
t-storms
pleasant
pleasant
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
Walla Walla
60/78
Vancouver
54/72
51/63
Smoky with
patchy clouds
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
TIllamook
TONIGHT
Biden also used his
appearance in Louisiana to
argue for his infrastructure
plan.
Past presidents have
been defined in part by how
they handle such crises,
and Biden has seen several
weather-induced emergen-
cies in his short presidency,
starting with a February ice
storm that caused the power
grid in Texas to fail. He has
also been monitoring wild-
fires in the West.
As president, Trump
casually lobbed paper
towels to people in Puerto
Rico after Hurricane
Maria’s devastation in 2017,
generating scorn from
critics but little damage
to his political standing.
Barack Obama hugged New
Jersey Republican Gov.
Chris Christie after Super-
storm Sandy in 2012, a
brief respite from partisan
tensions that had threat-
ened the economy. George
W. Bush fell out of public
favor due to a poor response
after Hurricane Katrina
swamped New Orleans
in 2005.
City, 13 people were killed,
including 11 in Queens.
Biden’s visit follows a
Sept. 3 trip to Louisiana,
where Hurricane Ida first
made landfall, killing at
least 13 people in the state
and plunging New Orleans
into darkness. Power is
being slowly restored.
Manville, situated along
New Jersey’s Raritan River,
is almost always hard-hit
by major storms. It was
the scene of catastrophic
flooding in 1998 as the rem-
nants of Tropical Storm
Floyd swept over New
Jersey. It also sustained
serious flooding during
the aftermath of Hurricane
Irene in 2011 and Super-
storm Sandy in 2012.
Biden has approved
major disaster declarations,
making federal aid available
for people in six New Jersey
counties and five New York
counties affected by the
devastating floods. He is
open to applying the decla-
ration to other storm-rav-
aged New Jersey counties,
White House spokesperson
Jen Psaki said.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
FRI.
SAT.
Hi/Lo/W
74/60/t
71/47/pc
65/44/t
79/54/s
61/45/pc
73/48/pc
79/53/t
77/53/t
72/52/t
74/52/pc
68/49/pc
73/40/t
77/50/s
75/51/pc
75/52/t
77/56/s
64/36/t
72/55/t
Hi/Lo/W
79/56/s
73/54/pc
72/41/pc
85/53/s
62/47/s
74/50/pc
81/51/s
81/52/pc
75/53/pc
75/57/pc
75/51/pc
77/43/s
82/54/pc
77/53/s
73/52/s
81/56/pc
69/39/s
77/57/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
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
51
34
66
42
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
57
38
76
50
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
58
33
62
33
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
69
47
69
48
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms
68
43
68
45