B6 THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD • SATuRDAY, NOVEmBER 5, 2022
COFFEE BREAK
Couple in friends group are constant complainers
the host’s son in the face because he
was rude to the host on his way out for
the evening. This guest’s spouse also
nitpicks relentlessly. It makes every-
body uncomfortable.
It has reached the point that the
group doesn’t want to get together any-
more because of the damper this couple
puts on the evening. My spouse and I
haven’t seen the group for several weeks
now, but we miss them. Is there a polite
way to tell this couple their negativity
is a drag on the rest of the group, and
maybe they should seek professional
help or learn to keep their mouths shut?
— DOWN WITH THE DOWNER
DEAR DOWN: No, there isn’t. But
you could stop inviting this particu-
lar couple. If you are asked about it, all
DEAR ABBY: We have a group of
friends who get together most Fri-
day nights. We go out to eat, meet for
drinks or gather at one of the group
member’s homes for dinner and
drinks. One person in particular con-
stantly complains about everything ev-
ery single week.
They don’t like the restaurant that
was chosen, or the food the host pre-
pared or the place the pizza was or-
dered from. Once, they kept repeatedly
telling the host they wanted to punch
you have to say is that you grew tired
of their constant criticism, which put a
damper on the events.
DEAR ABBY: My daughter is mar-
ried with two children and, so far, she’s
happy with a wonderful husband and
a beautiful home. My concern — or
curiosity — is that they have hung pro-
fessionally done photos of themselves,
their kids, their friends and candid im-
ages from their wedding in many of
the rooms on the first floor, but there
are none of my husband and me or
the other grandparents. Every Christ-
mas we receive another framed family
photo of them. What would you think
if we gifted them a lovely portrait of us?
— UNSEEN IN MINNESOTA
DEAR UNSEEN: I think it’s worth a
try, but don’t be offended if they don’t
display it. They appear to be so cen-
tered on their nuclear family that there
isn’t room for anyone else in their pic-
ture-perfect house.
DEAR ABBY: Recently, my wife told
me her brothers have been mad at her
for more than a decade and don’t talk
to her because of something I said at a
family get-together 12 years ago. I asked
what they were mad about and what the
discussion was about that upset them,
but they didn’t say — they just quit con-
tacting her. To me, it’s childish and rude
to treat their sister that way. Do you
have any thoughts or suggestions? —
DID NOT KNOW IN THE SOUTH
DEAR DID NOT: Yes, I do. The term
for what your wife’s brothers have been
doing is “passive aggression.” Because
your wife’s brothers aren’t willing to
address the issue, nothing can be done
to resolve it. This is why I suggest the
two of you — and whatever other rel-
atives you do get along with — go on
with your lives and waste no more time
looking back.
DEAR READERS: Daylight saving time
ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. Don’t forget to turn
your clocks back one hour at bedtime to-
night. And while you’re at it, be sure to
put fresh batteries in your fire alarms and
smoke detectors. — LOVE, ABBY
█
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren,
also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded
by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box
69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Swiss claim record for world’s longest passenger train
The Associated Press
GENEVA — A Swiss railway
company claimed the record for
the world’s longest passenger
train Saturday, Oct. 29, with a
trip on one of the most spectac-
ular tracks through the Alps.
The Rhaetian Railway com-
pany ran the 1.2-mile-long train
composed of 100 coaches along
the Albula/Bernina route from
Preda to Berguen.
The route was designated
a UNESCO World Heritage
in 2008 and leads through 22
tunnels, some of which spiral
through mountains, and across
48 bridges, including the curved
Landwasser Viaduct.
The entire journey took over
an hour. Rail enthusiasts lined
the valley to watch the train’s 25
sections wind their way about
15.5 miles through the Alps.
Rhaetian Railway director
Renato Fasciati said the record
attempt was intended to high-
light some of Switzerland’s en-
gineering achievements and
to celebrate 175 years of Swiss
railways.
SpaceX nails booster
landings after foggy military
launch
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
— SpaceX launched its mega
Falcon Heavy rocket for the
first time in more than three
years Tuesday, Nov. 1, hoist-
ing satellites for the military
and then nailing side-by-side
booster landings back near the
pad.
Thick fog shrouded NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center as the
rocket blasted off at midmorn-
ing. The crowd at the launch
site couldn’t even see the pad 3
miles away, but heard the roar
of the 27 first-stage engines.
Both side boosters peeled
away two minutes after liftoff,
flew back to Cape Canaveral,
Yanik Buerkli/Keystone
A train of the Rhaetian Railway is on its way to set a world record for longest passenger train, on Saturday, October 29, 2022, in Berguen, Switzerland. The 1.2 mile long train is on a
journey on the UNESCO world heritage track from Preda to Alvaneu. The train consists of 100 waggons. The old world record of 1732,9 meters dates back to 1991.
‘Bluey,’ ‘Funny Girl’ set for
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade
NEW YORK — The debut
of a giant “Bluey” balloon, Lea
Michele and the Broadway cast
of “Funny Girl” and the legend-
ary Dionne Warwick are some
of the highlights slated for this
year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day
Parade.
This year’s parade — the 96th
annual — will feature 16 giant
character balloons, 28 floats, 40
novelty and heritage inflatables,
and landed alongside one an-
other, just a few seconds apart.
The core stage was discarded at
sea, its entire energy needed to
get the Space Force’s satellites
to their intended extra-high
orbit.
This was SpaceX’s fourth
flight of a Falcon Heavy, cur-
rently the most powerful
rocket in use. The first, in 2018,
launched SpaceX chief Elon
Musk’s red Tesla convertible; the
next two Heavy launches fol-
lowed in 2019, lifting satellites.
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AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
41/46
Kennewick
42/46
St. Helens
44/48
38/45
39/48
44/46
42/44
Condon
Snow
Baker City
La Grande
0
0
34 13
1
0
0
41 21
35 19
29 12
0
0
0
0
28 42 29
Comfort Index™
39 22
0
30 42 29
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
0
Partly sunny;
quite cold
31
0
0
1
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Thursday
Low Thursday
High: 92°
Low: 4°
Wettest: 1.02”
40°
16°
41°
28°
41°
32°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Thursday
Trace
Month to date
0.10
Normal month to date 0.07
Year to date
5.81
Normal year to date
7.55
0.01
0.30
0.18
11.23
13.76
0.14
0.67
0.23
21.06
19.26
HAY INFORMATION SUNDAY
50%
SSE at 10 to 20 mph
1.1
0.06
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Friday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
1% of capacity
25% of capacity
9% of capacity
30% of capacity
6% of capacity
2% of capacity
OREGON
High: 51°
Low: 6°
Wettest: 0.14”
Astoria
Burns
Astoria
Cooperstown, N.Y., home of baseball’s
Hall of Fame, entered the “weather hall of
fame” on Nov. 5, 1971, with its third-latest
fi rst frost on record. The cold made only a
short stop.
SUN & MOON
SAT.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
7:37 a.m.
5:34 p.m.
4:34 p.m.
4:22 a.m.
SUN.
6:38 a.m.
4:33 p.m.
3:54 p.m.
4:34 a.m.
MOON PHASES
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
Zapata, Texas
Stanley, Idaho
Punta Gorda, Fla.
WEATHER HISTORY
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
Florence
788 cfs
2 cfs
13 cfs
66 cfs
72 cfs
15 cfs
Full
Nov 8
Last
Nov 16
New
Nov 23
First
Nov 30
25/45
45/50
23/43
Beaver Marsh
21/39
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
40/46
Coos Bay
43/49
Jordan Valley
26/49
Paisley
24/43
Frenchglen
25/48
Klamath Falls
22/44
Hi/Lo/W
46/39/r
47/22/sn
51/37/pc
48/40/r
47/21/c
50/39/r
46/36/r
39/30/c
45/32/c
45/36/r
52/32/sh
45/32/r
47/32/c
45/22/sh
41/29/c
52/34/c
44/23/sh
43/24/c
Hi/Lo/W
47/33/sh
39/17/c
46/30/c
48/38/sh
40/17/pc
51/39/sh
48/30/sh
39/21/sf
40/19/c
45/32/sh
43/25/sh
42/30/r
40/23/c
40/18/pc
38/19/c
41/24/sh
38/21/c
34/13/c
Grand View
Arock
27/52
26/52
Lakeview
24/43
McDermitt
25/50
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
23/48
26/50
Shown is Sunday’s weather. Temperatures are Saturday night’s lows and Sunday’s highs.
MON.
Boise
31/51
Fields
38/49
SUN.
24/49
Silver Lake
23/43
Medford
Brookings
Juntura
19/47
40/47
44/48
Ontario
28/52
Burns
25/43
Chiloquin
Grants Pass
Huntington
20/42
29/47
Oakridge
24/39
27/47
Seneca
Bend
Elkton
THURSDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
28/47
Sisters
Council
22/40
John Day
29/47
46/50
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.
ALMANAC
Eugene
45/47
26 11
26/42
Baker City
Redmond
43/47
46/48
Halfway
Granite
21/37
39/44
43/45
43/45
32 16
33/48
42/46
Newport
7
39 19
0
Corvallis
Enterprise
28/42
30/42
Monument
35/48
Idanha
Salem
WED
A shower in the Mostly cloudy, a Cloudy and cold
afternoon
shower
22 40 22
Comfort Index™
TUE
Elgin
31/45
La Grande
33/45
Maupin
MON
39/48
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
Lewiston
36/48
Hood River
37/49
TIllamook
SUN
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Walla Walla
39/52
Vancouver
41/45
42/46
TONIGHT
ebrating Central Park.
“This November, as we once
again set the stage for the start
of the holiday season, we are
thrilled to showcase another
spectacle full of magic and won-
der that will help create everlast-
ing memories with loved ones
during this special time of year,”
Will Coss, the parade’s executive
producer, said in a statement.
Viewers nationwide can see
the parade live on NBC and
streaming on Peacock on
Nov. 24.
Rush; “Blue’s Clues & You!” host
Josh Dela Cruz; Gloria Estefan
along with her daughter, Em-
ily, and grandson, Sasha; Kirk
Franklin; Mario Lopez; Ziggy
Marley; and Miss America 2022
Emma Broyles.
The singers Joss Stone, Jor-
din Sparks and Betty Who will
all be part of the festivities as
will the stars of Peacock’s “Pitch
Perfect: Bumper in Berlin” —
Adam Devine, Sarah Hyland
and Flula Borg. Jimmy Fallon &
The Roots will be on a float cel-
12 marching bands, 700 clowns,
10 performance groups and, of
course, Santa Claus.
New balloon giants joining
the line-up on Nov. 24 include
Stuart the one-eyed Minion
from “Despicable Me 2,” a new
green dinosaur, an Apatosaurus,
the debut of the animated sen-
sation “Bluey,” and a new “Diary
of a Wimpy Kid” balloon.
Other celebrities slated to be
on hand include Paula Abdul,
making her parade debut; Fitz
and the Tantrums; Big Time
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
48/35/c
46/38/r
42/28/sh
49/35/sh
47/39/r
44/33/r
52/35/c
50/34/c
49/32/sh
46/38/r
50/38/r
47/22/sn
49/39/r
45/36/r
39/22/c
48/34/r
42/27/pc
48/34/c
Hi/Lo/W
39/23/pc
44/30/c
35/15/c
47/33/sh
48/36/sh
43/27/sh
48/28/pc
41/23/sh
39/21/pc
45/33/sh
49/37/sh
41/18/c
49/33/sh
46/31/sh
29/11/c
43/30/r
36/16/pc
39/21/pc
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
Snow at times
Cloudy, a shower
28
13
39
21
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
A p.m. shower
Cloudy and chilly
36
26
44
30
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Snow showers
A p.m. shower
30
17
40
25
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Cloudy and chilly
Afternoon showers
41
29
48
31
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
A shower
A shower
40
22
42
29