We Had Some Weather
The NWF Daily News reports: one struck by lightning, one tornado [probably came ashore on Hurlburt Field], all of the recent road repairs undone, and the rivers are raising again.
They have video of a street two blocks from where I am sitting with the water up above cars’ axles and the idiots driving through it. Even if you were in good shape when you entered, the wake from the 4WD coming the other way will probably flood you out, and the waves were obviously washing into the Gas Company office. They don’t actually show that happening, but the office is at that location and it is on a ground level slab as it was formerly a service station. [Storm drains? We don’t need no stinkin’ storm drains! You just want to raise taxes!]
For something completely different, if you can deal with video, go see these amazing birds found by Mary at Pacific Views.
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Now THAT’s weather!
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I would really love to ship some of this to you or Kryten, Jill, because I’m really sick of it. There are things I need to do, and more that I want to do outside, but I have to keep postponing them.
…it’s been snowing here all day, but that’s not my Big Story. The Big Story is that the small liberal arts college my first-born attends in Savannah has somehow hooked in with the National Weather Service and is a party to robo-calls of severe weather warnings. That would be a good thing, were it not for the fact that in many cases, such as mine, today’s tornado warning for the Greater Savannah Metro area went not to my daughter (who might be interested in such information) but to my home phone four three earlier time zones away…
Imagine my hair-raising surprise at coming home from work to find a tornado warning recorded on my answering machine, and my subsequent confusion to hear the area of concern being described as southeastern GA. According to my daughter, the same thing happened a couple of weeks ago (my wife misunderstood the names of the county on that call so we didn’t realize what was going then), a number of students were bombarded by calls from panicked parents who got these severe weather calls all over the country and freaked out…
Another computer system is a miserable failure. One line to check for area code, and it wasn’t inserted. Georgia emergency management probably has a tie-in to schools, and since the Virginia Tech shootings a lot of colleges in the South have installed automatic notification systems [AKA Reverse 911].
They are using student records for the phone numbers, which only the school can access without a warrant or subpoena, and coming up with “home phone” which was probably their parents’ phone for a lot of students without local cell phones. This is the sort of thing that is guaranteed to upset parents.
It is part of the same system which should be gone in a couple of days.
You are still getting snow? I realize you live at altitude, Jack, but when does it stop?
I hope you’re wearing your water wings. Moither Nature doesn’t care whether you’re a good swimmer or not.
From observing folks around here, I could have sworn 4WD’s were magic machines that could cope with anything, from treacherous black ice to rising waters. Best handled while talking on a cell phone and bragging to someone about how well you’re doing. Ain’t the usual end of the story, though.
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Why is it that when it rains, drivers suddenly become complete morons? I see so many more accidents in the wet, and the Police go out in force when it rains. They know the accident rate will shoot up when it rains. People are so stupid, and ignorant.
Same here with the 4WD’s adante. It’s a universal moron constant. 😉
Yeah! We could sure use it Bryan! Thanks for the thought. Still… They predict we might get up to 10mm rain tomorrow! Wahoo! That’s practically a flood for us! *sigh*
Hope you are the kitties are staying dry! 🙂
I avoid the roads whenever it rains because these fools don’t adjust speed to conditions and don’t understand the concept of hydroplaning. It doesn’t penetrate that all 4WD does is allow you to spin 4 wheels instead of 2 when it’s too slippery for any traction.
Andante, even when they have a headset, they still manage to find some way of ensuring they don’t have both hands on the wheel.
Glad you are finally getting some wet down there. If they ever figure out how to distribute the wealth, I give you my permission to take my share of this soggy mess. The plants I like are for the semi-arid climate we are supposed to have, which is why we have sand instead of soil.
Send the rain. Please.
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They need it in South Florida, Texas, California, South Australia… just about any place but here.
Well… we got our rain. Still raining on and off… and they did say there might be high winds, but they should have had a gale force warning! Around 7:30AM the sky went rapidly black as dawn was breaking and the wind speed zoomed up! And part of somebody’s shed roof damaged my housemates car. A big tree in the street took out the power lines and the road. We just had power restored.
What fun. *sigh*
Bitch, bitch, bitch… you asked for rain and complain when it is served with a side order of destructive winds. There’s no pleasing some people. 😉
It’s the afternoon storms that are the problem around here. If the ground gets all morning to heat up, things get really exciting. You have the mountains to add to your turbulence while I’m on a coastal plain.