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Tuesday, April 4, 2006
3:36:00 PM EDT
Hearing The Knack, My Sharona
Hi folks -- well, not that there was ever any doubt, but we made it through last night's thunderstorm/tornado watch unscathed. I was able to take a photo of the approaching clouds, which was pretty neat since it was still light out and hadn't started raining yet:
In a related story, there was a promo on the Welcome Screen earlier today for an Autos article on 10 Tips for Surviving a Disaster in Your Vehicle, which has some pretty good pointers on personal preparedness. It's car-focused, but it also has information that's usable elsewhere.
Personally speaking, I think that everyone should always, at the minimum, carry a pocketknife (subject to local laws and regulations, of course), a light (like a small LED keychain light) and something to make fire with -- they're very useful things, and not just in a crisis. But that's just me.
As the saying goes, "Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part," which is just a fancy way of saying when bad things happen, the only person you can ultimately rely on is yourself -- anything else is gravy.
Anyway, I will get off my "Be Prepared" soapbox.
(Did I mention that there was a power outage at my house on Saturday? Just for a few hours during the daytime, but it was still kind of inconvenient -- interior rooms get dark -- not to mention having to fix my clocks just before Daylight Savings time. What, I should have just gone and set them an hour ahead, instead of futzing with the clocks twice? Inconceivable!)
FYI, the title of this entry refers to a classified ad for time travel companions that's become something of a time travel super-cliche on the fairly inexplicable Web site YTMND.com (some content Not Safe For Work, though it's mostly labeled as such. Mostly.)
I've blogged about YTMND before, and blogger John also used it in a prior Weekend Assignment. If you're still confused, here's the Wikipedia entry, and if you still don't get it after that... well, I would probably just say it's not your cup of tea.
Thanks -- Joe
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3:36:00 PM EDT
Hearing The Knack, My Sharona
Safety Not Guaranteed
In a related story, there was a promo on the Welcome Screen earlier today for an Autos article on 10 Tips for Surviving a Disaster in Your Vehicle, which has some pretty good pointers on personal preparedness. It's car-focused, but it also has information that's usable elsewhere.
Personally speaking, I think that everyone should always, at the minimum, carry a pocketknife (subject to local laws and regulations, of course), a light (like a small LED keychain light) and something to make fire with -- they're very useful things, and not just in a crisis. But that's just me.
As the saying goes, "Failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part," which is just a fancy way of saying when bad things happen, the only person you can ultimately rely on is yourself -- anything else is gravy.
Anyway, I will get off my "Be Prepared" soapbox.
(Did I mention that there was a power outage at my house on Saturday? Just for a few hours during the daytime, but it was still kind of inconvenient -- interior rooms get dark -- not to mention having to fix my clocks just before Daylight Savings time. What, I should have just gone and set them an hour ahead, instead of futzing with the clocks twice? Inconceivable!)
FYI, the title of this entry refers to a classified ad for time travel companions that's become something of a time travel super-cliche on the fairly inexplicable Web site YTMND.com (some content Not Safe For Work, though it's mostly labeled as such. Mostly.)
I've blogged about YTMND before, and blogger John also used it in a prior Weekend Assignment. If you're still confused, here's the Wikipedia entry, and if you still don't get it after that... well, I would probably just say it's not your cup of tea.
Thanks -- Joe
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Naw, no way that you can EVER tell people TOO MANY TIMES, BE PREPARED!!! We made it through the same storm, just a couple hours earlier, and about a few hundred, maybe more, miles west of you! Fast movin' little sucker, wasn't it? Couple of people in the Caruthersville, and Kennett, MO area got off some great photos of an F-3 on the ground there! If they ain't on the web yet, they should be, 'cause the pic from Kennett was beautiful! (that is, to a spotter!) Anyway, the new breed of weather radios are vastly superior to the older, single-tone activated ones. They are like smoke detectors: LIFESAVERS!!!
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The next time there's a tornado warning, take the camera to the roof... unless the tornado is right there, of course.
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Wow Joe, that looks scary...glad to hear you all came through safe and sound. :-)
~ Susan
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Now that looks scary, it looks almost like one is forming right then. Glad you were safe. I do not keep the date and time to be displayed on my camera hee hee. Helen
4/5/06 8:56 PM
hugs,nat