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Remote Possibilities

By Jimmy Johnson

I warned you there might be a weekend post! This is an old classic from January, 1997. Note both players still have their original hairstyles. A baby born when this strip first appeared in newspapers can legally buy the cartoonist a beer today. I’m free this afternoon. By the way, note also the email address in the fourth panel. In 1996, Arlo & Janis became one of the first strips anywhere to include an email address, and the above address was the original. Don’t bother trying it. It hasn’t been active for years.

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36 responses to “Remote Possibilities”

  1. Galliglo of Ohio Avatar
    Galliglo of Ohio

    Don’t be a stranger, Jerry!

  2. Jackie Avatar
    Jackie

    How are the kitties Jerry? I miss hearing about them.

    How are you doing?

  3. Judy in Conroe Avatar
    Judy in Conroe

    For those who are interested in Barry news: My kids (are 40 yr olds still kids?) live in the New Orleans area – Mandeville north of the lake and Harahan in a bend of the river. There was a lot of concern about the possible 20 inches of rain that would come with the storm, not only because New Orleans easily floods, but also because there has been a LOT of rain during the last year and the Mississippi River is running high, even with the spillway being open for months now (usually the spillway is opened only for a short time and not even every year). There was street flooding near the downtown area (Magazine Street) in advance of the arrival of the storm, which heightened concern.

    Luckily the storm moved farther west than originally anticipated and dry cool north winds weakened it and kept the bulk of the rain offshore much longer than predicted. My kids got less than 2 inches of rain in their areas. Here just north of Houston we got just over 2 inches of rain from a couple of rain bands that passed over our area. It looks to me as if Lafayette and Alexandria in LA got pounded the worst. Perhaps someone else can report on that.

    I always take nightmare predictions of storm activity with a grain of salt. The news will take the worst case scenario in order to get more viewers. That said, it is prudent to prepare for the worst case scenario because sometimes it does come to pass. So I try to be prepared without getting in a panic.

    I am still worried about the Mississippi River. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the river was at 2 feet. Right now it is at 16 feet and it was at 17 feet during Barry. It was predicted to rise (worst case scenario) to 20 ft with Barry, which is the height of the levees. Thank goodness it did not. My son and his family in Harahan live about 1/2 mile from the levee. In the winter months when the tree branches are bare, a person can sit at a stop sign facing the levee about 1/4 mile from Jefferson Highway and look up to see barges and ships passing on the river, apparently through the tree branches. Spooky.

  4. Jerry in Florida Avatar
    Jerry in Florida

    Re being a stranger I’m afraid that being strange is too engrained {isn’t that the way you spell it?) in my nature to do anything about it now. Best that I can do is try to be interesting. Reminds me of “May you live in interesting times.” Aren’t we ?!