Jon Freis's Lucky Dog

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Virginia's Hurricane Lucky Lady Freis - AKA Lucky

Conceived June 30, 2011 in Mechanicsville, Virginia. Her mother Shiloh survived record drought and heat from June 10 to August 27, a 5.8 magnitude Earthquake on August 23, the 100 mph Hurricane Irene on August 27 with record rainfall August 28. Widespread power outage August 28, 2011. Born September 2, 2011. She was Lucky to make it. Lucky moved to Wisconsin November 4, 2011 - where turkeys always get a brake.

Traditional old
style Appalachian turkey dog from Virginia's Randy
Carter

Did the super charged geomagnetic field have anything to do with Lucky's high energy? More likely that's normal for this Old Style Appalachian Turkey Dog, carefully bred for centuries by dedicated hunters in Virginia.

Wisconsin turkeys have never seen anything like her...

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Photos © 2012 AWTHDA

Magnitude 5.8 - VIRGINIA 2011 August 23 17:51:04 UTC
Earthquake Details - Magnitude    5.8
Date-Time Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at 01:51:04 PM at epicenter
Location    37.936°N, 77.933°W
Depth    6 km (3.7 miles)
Region    VIRGINIA
Distances - 8 km (5 miles) SSW (195°) from Mineral, VA

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK - NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 1024 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2011
Hurricane IRENE Advisory #31 Valid at: 11:00 PM EDT Sat August 27, 2011 Location: 37.3 N, 75.4 W Maximum Wind: 70 knots (80 mph) Wind Gusts: 85 knots (100 mph) Moving: N-NE at 14 knots (15 mph) Minimum Pressure: 954 mb

RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 335 AM EDT SUN AUG 28 2011 (on 8/27/11 before Lucky was born) 5.36” of rain. ...RECORD DAILY MAXIMUM RAINFALL SET AT RICHMOND VA... A RECORD RAINFALL OF 5.36 INCHES WAS SET AT RICHMOND VA YESTERDAY.
THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 2.04 SET IN 1899. Winds have gusted over 70 mph in both Richmond, Va. and Williamsburg, Va.

Power Outages: The Virginia Department of Emergency Management reports 701,650 people without power as of 6:30 pm. 8/27/11
State Level Emergency Responders: FEMA says it has sent incident management assistance teams to staging areas in Virginia, in anticipation of further deployment to potential hurricane impact areas along the coast. Before moving into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, Hurricane
Irene made landfall near Ca

pe Lookout, North C

first snow for
appalachian virginia turkey dog pup

arolina on Saturday morning. This ended the near three-year gap of a hurricane making landfall along the United States coastline.
The threat level from the eastern N.C. to New England is extreme. The potential for widespread damaging winds, flooding rain, and, in some locations, coastal flooding and storm surge is very real through Sunday.

Dominion VA & NC Electric Outage Summary

8/28/11 10:28AM EDST
OF 2,442,740 CUSTOMERS
935,726 ARE WITHOUT POWER.

RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD, VA 0349 AM EDT THU SEP 08 2011 Tropical Storm Lee, 3.76” on 9/7/11 when Lucky was 5 days old. ...A RECORD RAINFALL OF 3.76 INCH(ES) WAS SET AT RICHMOND VA YESTERDAY. THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 2.15 SET IN 1934.

How rare are Northeast hurricanes?
Going back to 1851, there have been only 5 hurricanes whose centers of circulation have passed within 75 miles of New York City. The last hurricane within that distance from New York City was Hurricane Gloria 26 years ago.
The last hurricane to cross the New Jersey coast was in 1903! The last destructive hurricane in the Garden State was the Great Hurricane of 1944. Note the impacts of the 1944 storm! It has been 67 years since a truly destructive hurricane affected New Jersey. Similarly, only 10 hurricanes since 1851 have passed within 75 miles of Boston. The most recent was almost exactly 20 years ago: Hurricane Bob. Again, note the impacts below from Bob. It has been 20 years since an impactful New England hurricane.

IF STAYING IN A HOME...TURN THE REFRIGERATOR TO MAXIMUM COLD AND KEEP IT CLOSED. TURN OFF PROPANE TANKS AND UNPLUG SMALL APPLIANCES. FILL THE BATHTUB WITH WATER IN CASE THE TAP WATER BECOMES UNAVAILABLE AFTER THE STORM. THIS IS FOR CLEANING AND FLUSHING PURPOSES. DO NOT DRINK IT. AVOID DRIVING AFTER DARK WITH WIDESPREAD REPORTS OF FALLEN TREES AND FLOODING.

FLOOD WARNING - NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA 357 PM EDT SAT AUG 27 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE IRENE HAS ALREADY PRODUCED 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES OF RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING WHEN THE CENTER OF HURRICANE IRENE PASSES. THESE AMOUNTS WILL PRODUCE FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...ALONG SMALL STREAMS...AND IN OTHER FLOOD PRONE LOW LYING AREAS.

The weather Lucky endured so young probably had nothing to do with her drive, but she is wired! I expect she'll hunt full bore all the time just like her parents. I hunted with her daddy Buster when he was 13 and he had the energy of a 3 year old. When the tailgate drops, these dogs are gone a 1/4 mile in a minute. They always check back, unless they find turkeys, then they bark like mad. The picture to the right is Lucky at 3 months old December 2, 2011. Besides turkey, she likes to eat bananas, radishes, apples and carrots.

Pointer Setter Plott turkey
dog from Wisconsin

Champion Appalachian turkey
dog in Wisconsin

Lucky enjoying the snow in January 2012 at four and a half months old.