cornerofmadness

You need a punching bag, or something. I swear. Paste the names of all the irritants on there and punch and punch and punch.

Well, it's an idea.

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i could definitely use that. that's what i used to have a dart board for

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If I hadn't left my dartboard in FL...

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my brother had one, electronic so I couldn't hurt things

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That's what I had, too, remember?

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i remember us going out to play. i don't remember you actually having one though i remember us both having our own darts

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Yup, I had a dartboard on the back porch. Next to the door.

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oh yeah, i remember it now next to the shelving full of crap

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Yes, the games and stuff.

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seatbeltdrivein.livejournal.com

It's your journal, so whine as much as you need to <3

You just can't catch a break, can you? ): Definite boo to all the bullshit you're having to go through. Are you meant to be leaving tomorrow for the conference?

All of your plants are so pretty! And I like the little dog statue.

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thanks.

no i can't.i never catch a break ever.

going to the parents tomorrow, then to the con from there

thanks. i got the foo dog from hobby lobby a few years back

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Hey just remember this:

1) YOU can drive faster than a Tornado, and when one is chasing you there is not a speed limit.

2) Always know where your towel is.

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*LMAO* I like your number 1 point! I am still being ribbed by a friend of Uncle Mack's for how fast I had the PT Cruiser up to last year when outrunning a twister. He had his truck going flat out, had the speedometer sunk...and I PASSED him. Even passed a couple of cops who had lights and sirens going. (cue music from Flash Gordon) The local cops were so amazed at the speed they even said something to Uncle Mack about it. But yeah...during a twister situation...you can go as fast as you can handle the vehicle and no one is going to argue with you about it.

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Number one is VERY important. Partly because so far the fasted recorded tornado was the Tri-State Tornado of 1925 which was said to have been traveling around 62 mph, and occasionally got up to 72 at it's top speed. Most move along at about 35-40. Still, I doubt any cop is going to give you a ticket if they clock you over the limit with a twister on your tail!

Now we have another big storm here. I think I will have to shut my window here. I'm getting a little wet.

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Well...except for that EF5 down in Joplin on Sunday. If they're moving at that clip...it won't really matter!

Yup...that's what the local cops told Uncle Mack. "We saw it, which was why we had the lights and sirens going..but we sure didn't expect to see a red full size truck flash up over the hill then have it passed by a little silver car! Then WOOSH...Vendla went past us! She seemed to know what she was doing." By the way...that big white buffalo statue Uncle Mack has by his driveway..or had...he moved it and painted brown with red eyes so it could be seen by anyone coming in the driveway. I guess having his niece come within an inch of smashing into it kinda shook him up. Trust me I was braking too!

ayup...y'all back there should start shutting windows...it's heading right at you.

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The Joplin tornado was not going 72 mph at any point, nor 60 anything. And even if it was, as long as you drove faster than it was going, and continued to drive away from it, you'd be fine. Even an EF5 has a fairly narrow path of destruction. Well, I mean stuff will still be blowing around it, but I believe the Joplin Tornado had a path width of 3/4 of a mile. Pretty big wedge tornado.

The Xenia Tornado was a wedge about half a mile wide. The similarities between these two twisters many and the differences few. Xenia was more destructive it was at the very top end of the destructive scale, but unfortunately Joplin was more deadly. Fujita himself came out to view the path of the Xenia and said it was as close to an F6 as he'd ever seen. On the other hand Joplin was unoffically rated an EF4 with the likelihood of that being raised to an EF5 which happened today as expected.

Uh... sorry I'm rambling in my fascination and sleepiness. The point is neither of these was moving exceptionally fast. You could have outrun either pretty easily.

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But Ishte! And EF5 is moving at 200+! I highly doubt most cars on the road could get out of the way in time.

Most people look at those things twisting along and say "Oh that's not moving fast at all." Uh huh...they can be deceptive just like lava flowing can be deceptive in appearance.

I'm not saying the twisters I've outran were horribly fast...but they were going just fast enough to cause all of us on the road to be just a wee bit concerned.

Sorry...I'm just upset over the Westboro whackos showing up in Joplin to picket the whole town! Plus very worried about a friend in Indiana...he was talking to me on the phone when their sirens went off, he said "the sky is turning yellow" started to reply to my remark about him getting to cover when his phone went dead. Haven't heard back from him. *fret fret*

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Nononono! Wind speed and ground speet are not the same thing at all. They aren't MOVING at 200+ miles per hour. An EF5 has WINDS of 200+ MPH, but the funnel itself is only moving along the ground on it's pathway at about 30-40 most of the time, and the maximum recorded speed of was 72mph burst of speed along the ground for the Tri-State Tornado of 1925 which was moving along the ground unusually fast because the STORM it came out of also was moving particularly fast somehow. You can always drive faster than a tornado travels along the ground.

Those Westboro assholes need to be seriously dispensed with. I often wonder that nobody has ever burned them out.

There were 5 tornadoes in IN last night. Greensburg, Bedford, Bloomington, Haysville and Huntingburg. the Bedford was the worst at EF2 and that one only had a were a few minor injuries, one hospitalization and no fatalities if that sets your mind at ease any.

We had tornadoes here last night too. I was in Yellow Springs with a client when the sirens went off. It was n't very far from us but it didn't do much damage. There was one in Centerville too but it was only an EF0. Hail caused more damage.

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That *does* ease my mind...thank you! So this just means his phone was knocked out and I'll have to wait til SunCat contacts me.

Okay this weather can calm down now! As my mother used to say, in a very firm tone, "That.Will.Be. ENOUGH." (whereupon you could hear a pin drop, no one dared say a word!)

Woot! Good to know the ground speed is far less than air speed!!!

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I just hope it doesn't hail on me

i know where the towel is

and i got the foo dog at the hobby lobby a few years back

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Yah, hail sucks. I got stuck in a bad storm a few years ago with hail the size of nickels. I was parked, but it was still a little harrowing. For a while I was kind of terrified my windshield would shatter... then I realised that while it was big, it was also pretty much mushy nickel sized snowballs, so it made a lot of noise but wasn't hard enough to do any damage.

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yeah I've been in some doozies. None that beats the one in Madison that one year. the entire complex yard was covered iwth ice balls, they hurt. Iktomi wanted to be out there to catch them (this is why one email is 'crazycat'

car lots lost their entire inventories as damaged

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and i love your little foo dog

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sillymagpie.livejournal.com

Brains love to cause extra stress. Thanks, brains. :/

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oh i know and then my whole body freaked the hell out last night.

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0-mother-0.livejournal.com

{{{hugs}}}

(and clicks)

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I sure hope so. thanks

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caffeinified.livejournal.com

Your garden looks awesome. Really pretty.

So do you have an estimate of when they're planning on doing the surgery if there are no complications?

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