HOME & LIVING
B6 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2021
Rape victim has kept it a secret for decades
leaves this Earth. I want him to
understand and hopefully for-
give me for the events that drove
us apart. The need to tell him is
so strong, I cry about it. Please
advise me on this. — Still Not
Over It In Maryland
Dear Still Not Over: If it
will bring you comfort, reveal
the secret you hid from your
ex-husband. However, before
you do, I urge you to fi rst dis-
close it to someone trained to
help victims of rape. If there’s a
rape treatment center near you,
please make an appointment. If
there isn’t one, a referral from
your doctor to a licensed mental
health professional would also be
benefi cial. Trust me on that.
Dear Abby: Thirty-fi ve years
ago I was raped by a stranger.
He told me he would kill me if
I ever told anyone. I never told
my husband (now ex), mostly
because I was afraid if I did he
would never touch me again. So
I lived with the secret. It eventu-
ally tore our marriage apart and
we divorced.
Although we have both
moved on and remarried, we
have remained in touch. I am 60
now and he is 64. I yearn to tell
him the story before one of us
Dear Abby: My husband and
I have been married a year and a
half, although we’ve been together
off and on for more than 13 years.
I sometimes get the feeling that
he married me only because he
was tired of being alone. He often
compares me to his late wife,
and he always commemorates
both her birthday and the day she
passed away.
What I have a problem with
is, every year he posts happy
birthday, and her name, on Face-
book, but he never mentions my
name on Facebook. Should I bring
this up to him or just let him con-
tinue? — Current Wife In Texas
Dear Current Wife: The
basis of a solid marriage is com-
munication. By all means bring
it up — all of it — and tell him
how it makes you feel. He may
be trying to keep his late wife’s
memory alive by wishing her
happy birthday on Facebook, but
as far as Facebook’s reach may be,
I’m pretty sure the messages don’t
reach the great beyond. That he
would mention her birthday and
not yours is insensitive. And com-
paring you to her, unless the com-
parison is favorable, is more of the
same.
Dear Abby: We invited friends
over to enjoy our bounty from
a successful fi shing trip. They
live about an hour away. They
accepted our invitation, then fol-
lowed up with, “Can you put us
and our two dogs up overnight
if we drink too much?” I replied
that we meant the invitation for
humans only this time. They
replied, “We’re sorry you don’t
want our well-behaved ‘girls’ in
your newly remodeled home.”
And, Abby, they didn’t come! Was
I wrong? Should I have handled
this better? I’m kind of feeling
like they were wrong. — Animal
Lover, But ...
Dear Lover: I’m also kind of
feeling they overreacted. If you
preferred they not bring uninvited
guests, whether of the two-footed
or four-footed variety, you were
within your rights to refuse to
have them. Please stop
second-guessing yourself.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
More than 90 snakes found under Northern California home
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Al
Wolf is used to clearing one or
two snakes from under houses but
recently was called by a woman
who said she had seen rattle-
snakes scurry under her house
and was surprised to fi nd more
than 90 rattlesnakes getting ready
to hibernate.
Wolf, director of Sonoma
County Reptile Rescue, said he
crawled under the mountainside
home in Santa Rosa and found
a rattlesnake right away, then
another and another. He got out
from under the house, grabbed
Sonoma County Reptile Rescue via The
Associated Press
This Oct. 2, 2021, photo shows a group
of rattlesnakes which were found under
a home in Santa Rosa, California.
buckets, put on safety gloves, and
went back in. He crawled on his
hands, knees and stomach, tipping
over more than 200 small rocks.
“I kept fi nding snakes for the
next almost four hours,” Wolf said
Friday. “I thought ‘oh, good, it
was a worthwhile call’ but I was
happy to get out because it’s not
nice, you run into spider webs and
dirt and it smells crappy and it’s
musty and you’re on your belly
and you’re dirty.”
But the work paid off . He used
a 24-inch snake pole to remove 22
adult rattlesnakes and 59 babies
when he fi rst visited the home in
the Mayacamas Mountains on
Oct. 2. He returned twice since
and collected 11 more snakes.
All the snakes were Northern
already because of the babies, and
the amount of females I found,”
he said.
Rattlesnakes usually hibernate
from October to April and look
for rocks to hide under and warm
places and will return to the same
place year after year. The home-
owners didn’t remove any rocks
when they built the house, making
it an attractive place for the rep-
tiles, Wolf said.
“The snakes found the house to
be a great place for them because
the rocks give them protection but
the house, too, gives them pro-
tection from being wet during the
winter so, it’s double insulation
for them,” he said.
Pacifi c rattlesnakes, the only ven-
omous snake found in Northern
California, he said.
Wolf, who has been rescuing
snakes for 32 years and has been
bitten 13 times, said he responds
to calls about snakes under homes
in 17 counties and has seen
dozens of them in one place in the
wild but never under a home.
He said he releases the rat-
tlesnakes in the wild away from
people and sometimes in private
land when ranchers request them
for pest control.
Wolf said there are plans to
return to the house again to see if
any more snakes arrived.
“We know it’s a den site
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
51/59
Kennewick
51/60
St. Helens
52/60
TIllamook
47/61
48/65
52/63
49/60
Condon
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
A shower in
places late
Showers
around; cooler
Mostly cloudy
and warmer
Cooler; morning
showers
Cloudy
44 58 36
64 45
59 39
55 41
Eugene
10
5
3
50/64
66 50
57 42
56 41
10
1
8
La Grande
9
52 60 39
Comfort Index™ 10
Enterprise
1
1
48 57 40
Comfort Index™ 10
54 41
10
6
5
1
ALMANAC
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 93°
Low: 11°
Wettest: 1.62”
68°
39°
72°
47°
73°
41°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.04
0.30
3.62
7.16
0.00
0.07
0.69
7.45
12.69
0.00
0.19
0.92
16.60
17.79
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
45%
SW at 10 to 20 mph
8.7
0.12
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
Powers
52/62
N.A.
10% of capacity
10% of capacity
20% of capacity
3% of capacity
0% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
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
TUE.
WED.
7:14 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
5:59 p.m.
6:04 a.m.
7:15 a.m.
5:58 p.m.
6:18 p.m.
7:10 a.m.
MOON PHASES
591 cfs
0 cfs
20 cfs
44 cfs
54 cfs
3 cfs
Full
Oct 20
Last
Oct 28
New
Nov 4
First
Nov 11
52/64
Grants Pass
Brookings
Juntura
36/59
42/61
Boise
52/66
Silver Lake
Jordan Valley
45/56
Paisley
37/54
Frenchglen
46/56
Diamond
Grand View
Arock
44/54
46/66
44/57
Fields
47/64
41/55
Klamath Falls
38/53
Lakeview
37/51
McDermitt
39/52
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
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
Ontario
47/66
36/56
37/52
Medford
51/59
Huntington
47/63
Burns
48/60
Ontario
Burns
Astoria
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Beaver Marsh
Chiloquin
OREGON
On Oct. 19, 1961, heavy, wet snow fell on
trees still in leaf in southern West Virginia.
The snow snapped millions of branches,
causing the worst forest disaster since the
fi res of 1952 and 1953.
Brothers
41/53
33/51
Roseburg
42/57
43/56
47/57
Oakridge
51/62
WEATHER HISTORY
50/59
Seneca
50/57
Coos Bay
Tamiami, Fla.
Angel Fire, N.M.
Fulton, N.Y.
High: 75°
Low: 25°
Wettest: 0.74”
48/61
Council
44/58
John Day
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
Sisters
Florence
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.
45/52
44/59
53/63
61 42
45/56
Baker City
Redmond
51/58
Halfway
Granite
47/61
Newport
50/56
65 48
52/63
48/55
50/63
Corvallis
Enterprise
48/57
52/60
Monument
46/62
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
Comfort Index™
Elgin
44/59
La Grande
49/61
Maupin
Baker City
53/65
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
49/63
Hood River
51/65
51/59
Lewiston
Walla Walla
44/70
Vancouver
50/58
Forecasts and graphics provided
by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
59/51/r
57/40/c
66/45/c
59/51/sh
59/30/c
62/47/sh
61/45/sh
57/38/r
59/39/sh
64/48/sh
69/42/c
61/45/c
62/42/r
59/39/c
56/41/sh
70/39/c
53/38/c
51/33/sh
Hi/Lo/W
62/51/sh
71/47/c
69/49/s
62/50/sh
66/40/sh
68/51/sh
65/48/sh
66/46/c
67/44/c
68/51/sh
72/50/c
67/50/sh
69/53/c
69/51/c
62/48/c
71/48/c
59/41/sh
62/40/sh
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
63/45/c
60/48/r
58/39/sh
64/46/c
56/51/r
59/45/r
66/39/pc
69/42/c
65/43/c
63/51/r
62/48/sh
61/38/c
64/49/sh
63/47/sh
56/40/sh
65/44/c
58/38/c
65/45/sh
Hi/Lo/W
68/50/c
67/54/sh
67/51/c
68/49/c
61/50/sh
65/49/sh
71/48/c
69/48/c
74/53/c
65/52/sh
67/49/sh
70/48/c
68/53/c
66/52/sh
64/45/c
67/50/c
71/52/c
71/53/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
A shower; colder
Showers around
35
30
53
37
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A few showers
A few showers
48
38
58
40
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Colder; a.m. snow
A few showers
40
32
54
34
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Showers around
Showers around
56
41
63
44
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Showers around
A few showers
58
36
60
39
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