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[katallison]

In the middle of watching the updates on Rita, with fear and trepidation, I noticed it had gotten awfully dark out, and then all of a sudden the sirens went off, and yowza, tornadoes bearing down on the Twin Cities, along with the 75 mph straight-line winds and the big-ass hail.

Insert here obligatory philosophical reflection on how there is really no safe place anywhere. Me, I'm shutting down and going to watch the sky.

Comments

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

You know, if I were from New Orleans and evacuated to Houston, I would be starting to take this whole thing kind of personally.

This really sucks.

[kickair8p.livejournal.com]

I once got chased up the Florida coast by a hurricane while attempting evac. Seriously, no matter where I was, that's where the thing was heading!

Don't remember which one -- about a decade back, turned out to be relatively minor.





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[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

I've heard that some people walk around with a cloud over their heads. Those people need to stop having conventions.

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Please let us know when your storm is over! I'd like to know all is well!

(Flashing back to our straight-line wind storm of July '03)

[rhi]

::blink:: Bone? Were you in Memphis for Hurricane Elvis?

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Were you?

[rhi]

::laughing:: No, I had moved out of Memphis about 8 months before. I heard about it from my friends and my mother-in-law.

I don't know why I always think of you as being from farther south! Condolences on being there for it, and congrats on making it through!

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

I don't know why I always think of you as being from farther south! Condolences on being there for it, and congrats on making it through!

We used to live in Orlando, that's probably why. :)

We were VERY LUCKY with Hurricane Elvis. Our street never lost power (unlike the neighborhoods all around us, which were out for anywhere from four to ten days), and we had no structural damage.

[rhi]

::nodding:: That is lucky! My mother-in-law was just down from the zoo (and the pandas) so her grid was a priority. One of my best friends, however, was two miles south of her and spent two weeks without power. Glad to hear you got through so well. ::curious:: You still there? (And if you'd rather not answer, well, ignore that.)

[thisisbone.livejournal.com]

You still there? (And if you'd rather not answer, well, ignore that.)

I sent an e-mail to you! :)

IIRC, the pandas had just arrived, so keeping them happy (and cool, since it's 9000 fucking degrees here in July) was a big priority.

[rhi]

::laughing:: I grew up in Memphis. I know *exactly* what you mean about the summers. Yeah, the pandas had just arrived. I still say they look like they need a barcalounger and TV remote. Anyway. ::g:: Going to read the email and quit spamming poor Kat's LJ.

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Be careful out there.

[lapillus]

I just scuttled back from Kowalski's where they announced the sirens (which you couldn't hear inside) and said that if folks wanted to leave they'd put up the groceries.

[firesprite1105.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I remember the tornados well from living in WI.

As for Rita, though, I take some comfort in the fact that, last I looked, the Stormtrack prediction dot for 1 PM on Saturday was positioned right smack-dab on Bush's Crawford ranch.

[wickdzoot.livejournal.com]

And wouldn't that just be cosmic justice. Sort of. Since he's not poor or black, I'm not sure it would really balance the scales.

[firesprite1105.livejournal.com]

No, but I could point and laugh. It'd be a refreshing change from pointing and rending my garments in despair.

[wickdzoot.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the pointing and laughing, but I think it might rev all the WASP Puritan ancestral memories and I'd end up thundering out Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God or something while pointing. :g:

[wickdzoot.livejournal.com]

:hugs: I am watching Rita with this sort of stunned horror that it's happening again. But you know, global warming doesn't really exist. Jesus.

[shrift.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Those straight-line winds are evil. May all of your people and your stuff remain safe!

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Be careful out there. (Even though I'll bet it's fun to watch)

[debchan.livejournal.com]

My folks live up in Andover. I called just as it was getting nasty in Minneapolis and my dad said he'd just watched his boat get picked up and slammed into the shed, totalling both. However, he added that since he hated both, he was rubbing his hands over the soon to be issued insurance money. *snerk* Meanwhile, I lost cable and can't seem to get a real person at TW.

[jackiekjono.livejournal.com]

Do you need anything Tivoed & burned to DVD?

[edallia.livejournal.com]

Hi, Kat- I see you've just friended me, probably as a result of my ranting on customers_suck and I just popped over to say hello and return the friending favor. Do be careful out amongst the weather. We got zapped by tornadoes a few weeks ago, thanks to Katrina, and it was not exactly a highlight of my life. Hope everything turns out alright.

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Hi there! You're right, your entry on c_s (one of the best and most hilarious workplace rants I've ever had the pleasure of reading) was what drew me to your LJ, but your marvelous Dragon*con entries were what moved me to friend you. (I would *love* to print out your Simple Rules for Running a Panel and staple them to the foreheads of various mods at several slash cons I've attended...) Anyway, I tend to leap joyously upon smart funny people from quadrants of fandom unfamiliar to me, and snuggle them to my reading list, which I hope is OK with you (it would've been polite to, like, drop you a comment first, but I'm mentally disorganzed and full of cold germs just now).

The storms turned out not too bad, though some co-workers lost trees. Tornadoes in late September are pretty bizarre, but bizarre, flamboyant, melodramatic, and (usually) non-lethal weather is one compensation of living out here on God's own windswept tundra.