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Dec. 5th, 2001 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msfledermaus*Burp*
Heh, s'cuse me...
The Sirens are going on right now. (It's a test...every first Wednesday of the month.)
They're continuing the sirens all winter now, something we didn't do before September. (We used them as tornado or storm warnings. Now...well, they're for whatever we need them for.)
Anyway...
*Unpacks paper bag and sets out one hot fudge sundae with banana slices, one small pistacio sundae, and a bottle of Reed's extra-strong ginger-beer*
I already had mine...Peanut-Buster parfait. And was it ever. *wipes fudge off mouth with napkin*
Heh, s'cuse me...
The Sirens are going on right now. (It's a test...every first Wednesday of the month.)
They're continuing the sirens all winter now, something we didn't do before September. (We used them as tornado or storm warnings. Now...well, they're for whatever we need them for.)
Anyway...
*Unpacks paper bag and sets out one hot fudge sundae with banana slices, one small pistacio sundae, and a bottle of Reed's extra-strong ginger-beer*
I already had mine...Peanut-Buster parfait. And was it ever. *wipes fudge off mouth with napkin*
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Date: 2001-12-05 11:09 am (UTC)*sticky smile*
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Date: 2001-12-05 11:13 am (UTC)*presents moistened towelettes*
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Date: 2001-12-05 11:16 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-12-05 11:22 am (UTC)Definitely...and I spilled some on my shirt, of course...lucky for me it's a black one:)
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Date: 2001-12-05 11:35 am (UTC):: takes the pistaccio one ::
Oh, good - a little flat spoon thing. 8~)
So if the siren goes off when it's not storm season, how do you know what it means?
"WoooOOOOOoooooOOO! BaaaaAAAAaaaaddddd thiiiiiinnnnnnnggggsssss!"
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Date: 2001-12-05 11:58 am (UTC)1:See the tornado warning flashing at the bottom of the tv while you're watching "The Simpsons".
2: Wait for the commercial break to check out the window. Listen to the sirens kick in down the street.
3: Watch the swirly clouds outside. Look at the dark rushing in. Listen to the siren blaring from down the street. Run to the basement when you see the green-gray color that means you're in big trouble if you're outside.
4: Grab your flashlight, candles, and battery-operated radio. Huddle in the basement, stairwell, or closet. Count thunderclaps. Hope the tree next to your apartment doesn't land on your car/house/garage/neighbors.
5: don't come out until the nice radio people say it's okay. Count fallen tree limbs. Check for flooding. Hear the next county got hit and
be grateful it wasn't you...
(In a different emergency, these days we just all go for the radios now and stay put. If we're at work, we either stay put or go home early, depending on whether it's safe.)
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Date: 2001-12-05 12:02 pm (UTC)"WoooooOOOOOoooooOOOOO! LiiiiiIIIISSSSssssteeEEEEEnnnn ttooOOOOOooo theeee raaaAAAAAdiiiiiIIIIIIOOOooooo!"
Sorry, I'm making myself laugh.
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Date: 2001-12-05 12:10 pm (UTC)There are plenty of people that ignore them..some sirens go off when the storms are far away, or don't go off in time and people end up hurt or killed. They're better than they used to be.
Once some jokers pulled a prank when I loved in Montana and set off the sirens there.
2:00 in the morning, the little bastards. I woke up thinking, "Tornado!!! Wait, wait, uhhh...it's Montana, what would they use them for? Attack? Fire? Cows?"
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Date: 2001-12-05 12:25 pm (UTC)freudian?
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Date: 2001-12-05 12:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-12-05 12:52 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-12-05 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-12-05 12:56 pm (UTC)MmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeOWWW!
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Date: 2001-12-05 12:59 pm (UTC)You know, rdsc said once you guys don't have much in the way of nasty weather..is that true?
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Date: 2001-12-05 01:29 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-12-05 02:16 pm (UTC)Apparently the American Midwest has some of the biggest and most frequent thunderstorms in the world. Usually they start up in late spring and all through the summer, and there's usually a handful of really dangerous storms a year. Down south of Minnesota and Wisconsin are the *real* parts of Tornado Alley, and they get pounded on every year it seems.
(We also flood...a lot. A couple of years ago large parts of North Dakota was under water...they're still rebuilding.)
I have a coworker who's a storm-chaser, and whenever there's bad weather he piles into a van with some buddies and his equipment and they go looking for tornadoes. I like him; he's nuts.)
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Date: 2001-12-06 06:47 am (UTC)You might think I'm making up a name like Michael Fish, but here he is:
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Date: 2001-12-06 07:01 am (UTC)what an unfortunate name...
Sounds like you guys had what we call a derecho--extremely strong straight winds that cause immense amounts of damage. They're rare here, but they happen. Last time we had a real strong one it toppled most of the big trees in the metro area, toppled tombstones, flooded everything, dropped branches all over the houses...and my then-boyfriend and I were driving in it, trying desperately to get out of the flood plain before we got trapped. (We were okay, but lucky the car we were driving was this huge old monster of a car or we'd have ended up in the Mississippi.)
Weather is fun, so long as it's still not going on;)
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Date: 2001-12-05 12:03 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-12-05 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-12-05 01:06 pm (UTC)When I was about 13 years old (a very embarassable age, you'll note) my mom and I were driving down to the local DQ to get a treat... we were talking about what we were going to have and my mom said that she wanted to get a Peanut Buster Parfait... I went to say something like "I really don't like Peanut Buster Parfaits much..." but it came out "Penis Buster Parfait"... needless to say, I was mortified and my mom was laughing her ass off at me... Then my mom, still laughing so hard, said "Does that come with nuts???"... I think I cried a little cause I was so mortified at what I'd said to my mom... of course now I laugh at it... but at the time... lol :)
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Date: 2001-12-05 02:20 pm (UTC)Oh wow...THAT was FUNNY!! Cool!
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Date: 2001-12-05 01:19 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-12-05 02:17 pm (UTC)I'm kinda partial to the one up top...it's like a sea anemone or a flower under water..it's so pretty!!!
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Date: 2001-12-05 02:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-12-05 02:46 pm (UTC)But yes please...it's still saying, "Hi, I'm pretty!" to me:)
try this one
Date: 2001-12-05 03:10 pm (UTC)Re: try this one
Date: 2001-12-06 07:06 am (UTC)sign me up!!!!:)
Re: try this one
Date: 2001-12-06 07:11 am (UTC)Re: try this one
Date: 2001-12-06 07:48 am (UTC)*Jumps up and down in glee*