Monday, November 16, 2015

Re: [californiadisasters] Re: Admin Read: MIA Mea Culpa



Just saw the thread. I'm still here lurking. I have counted on this site for fire information in Ventura county since moving to my ranch out here in Somis. Don't know what I'd do without you!  I'll look at Twitter too.  Thanks, Kim. Good for you going back to school. I start something new every 10 years or so lol.
Cindy in Somis

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On Nov 16, 2015, at 2:52 AM, Kim Noyes kimnoyes@gmail.com [californiadisasters] <californiadisasters@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Thanks, everybody for what you said and for hanging in here with us. You are bucking the trend towards abandoning Yahoo Groups! Even this thread and all its traffic caused a small surge in folks unsubbing from this group! Thirty-three of you responded including our two regular mods. It's not quite time to abandon this platform for California Disasters yet I can see. We'll take it one year at a time!Below is an interesting overview of posting activity on this group!
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2015 129 105 203 240 102 205 234 175 116 115 136   2014 360 167 198 174 219 120 518 294 505 207 134 133 2013 91 212 158 227 478 408 420 443 313 277 173 163 2012 149 113 121 149 138 165 165 420 270 261 162 140 2011 200 194 433 149 352 275 371 353 418 222 173 184 2010 415 263 147 208 222 132 516 353 356 352 235 398 2009 368 269 213 335 667 228 354 834 576 436 135 157 2008 93 89 57 197 271 857 1044 249 390 383 779 247 2007         62 58 29 104 327 1351 399 159

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Kim Noyes <kimnoyes@gmail.com> wrote:
Achtung Gruppe!

Those of you still here have undoubtedly noticed my relatively conspicuous absence and that many of the sorts of things that I faithfully posted here for years from On This Date In California Weather History to the News & Notes Updates to hazardous weather bulletins to topical articles have been largely absent from this online community the past several months aside from Lin Kerns and a few others to a lesser extent. First off: a shout-out goes to Linsis and the others who have continued to contribute here, especially Linsis.

The reason for this has been my being so very busy with full-time status at Cal Poly SLO, including a summer class. I have also been busy with work as a security guard when not in class on Fridays & weekends. Aside from that, by getting behind I then feel overwhelmed and not motivated to get caught up when I do have spare time to at least chip away on what I want to post here.

That being said, I have not held back on Twitter which as a social networking platform is much more user-friendly from both the posting and browsing user ends. California Disasters is now up to 598 followers on Twitter. I initially chaffed at the idea of ever using Twitter and ignored it for a time. Former member/moderator Gene Salvetti was the first to push for my using it. Eventually I caved in a couple of years ago and now that is my favorite platform for California Disasters and the only one I have maintained full-throttle. If any of you still here on Yahoo Groups (which is in rapid decline as is Yahoo generally) faithfully following this group I implore you to join Twitter and follow California Disasters there if you have not done so already. If you are uncomfortable with change and feel resistant, then I lovingly challenge you to get out of your comfort zone and try something new as I did. You will not be disappointed.

We are on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/CalDisasters

Aside from that, I promise to start posting here more often. I shall do this until I can no longer or it appears everybody here has left or Yahoo Groups shuts down this group or all its groups which is probably coming at some point. Technology and trends change over time! Remember the days a decade ago when SoCalFire was the bees knees and even NorCalFire was busy in summer? Now it seems only this group and SoCalScan and BayScan (a.k.a. Flamescan and its menagerie of curious characters) endure albeit with the warp drive mains offline and now under impulse power only.

Out of morbid curiosity, how many of you are still here? This is official roll-call time!

Der Gruppe Oberfuhrer

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