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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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Well, here we go again... Hurricane Nate

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Supposed to get messy around here by the weekend if the forecast track is accurate...
 

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Just saw it this morning, definitely looks like it's coming your way. What I saw was category 1, hope it stays that way.
 
The forecast tracks I see on VentuSky are showing it moving further to the west between Texas and Louisiana.

Unfortunately, when a hurricane moves into the Gulf of Mexico, it makes landfall somewhere either in the USA or Mexico. I don't think I have ever seen one just dissipate over water, or turn around and head south and then out into the Atlantic.

Hopefully for everyone impacted the most it will strengthen to will be a category 1 storm.
 
Latest forecast track...
 

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Was planning a field herping trip with my daughter and her friend's but all we are going to do now is watch the weather.
 
Yes, given the last few weeks I wouldn't take even a category 1 lightly. I'd imagine most of the issues would be storm surge on the coast, but you just never know.
 
WebSlave said:
I don't think I have ever seen one just dissipate over water, or turn around and head south and then out into the Atlantic.
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Be careful what you wish for.... Cyclone Winston in Feb 2016 went past us (as a Cat 3) in Fiji, hit Samoa, picked up speed , turned completely around and came back at us from totally the wrong direction, and as a Cat 5. No one had ever seen anything like it.

(Note that Cyclones are just southern hemisphere Hurricanes, but as such they rotate in the opposite direction, so their normal path of travel is from the north west to the south east - no one expected a cyclone to come FROM the east)
 

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Well, the latest forecast track is being consistent with the last few I looked at in that the forecast track is gradually moving further and further west of the Tallahassee area. Not that this is what the people in coastal Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas want to see, though.
 

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Drat. My son and his wife had planned to go camping. With jobs and a baby a weekend camping trip has to be planned in advance, looks like their weekend may be ruined.
 
Yeah, the track is looking more and more like what the Ventusky models were showing a few days ago. Forecast track has moved even further west.

Sorry Lucille, looks like this might be moving closer to you.
 

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Sorry Lucille, looks like this might be moving closer to you.
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I moved north of Houston a few weeks ago :D While that certainly doesn't give me a pass from the very worst hurricanes/tropical storms, it beats where I was, which was very much closer to the coast.

It does look like my son who lives in Houston may not get to go on his camping trip though. :(
 
Well, Nate is now officially a hurricane. Looks like the forecast track inched a bit eastward in the latest update.
 

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Looks like Nate is strengthening now and forecast to make landfall in Mississippi tonight with winds around 105mph.
 

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Getting the eye wall power is flickering and it is blowing pretty bad. Lot's of flooding here in grandbay.
 
Melvin be careful and stay inside, sending thoughts and prayers that you stay safe.
 
Thanks lucille and yes we are staying inside and waiting this storm out. I have been thought quite a few
but I take them serious there is no stronger force than mother nature.
 
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