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Tornado's are really scary. I have not been in one since I was a child - they have always skirted our areas since then - wish they could come up with a way of breaking them up before they can do damage...
Tornado's are really scary. I have not been in one since I was a child - they have always skirted our areas since then - wish they could come up with a way of breaking them up before they can do damage...
I get into a couple of those every year. Scary is right. You know if you slow down too slow or stop somebody is going to hit you from behind and if you don't you may hit somebody who has. Talk about between a rock and a hard place..... I found out several years ago using Rain-X on the windows helps a lot. The faster you go the better you can see. At Interstate speeds it's like driving in a normal rain. First time I used it I wondered why everyone else was pulling off the road before realizing how effective it is.
I agree Retriever. I've done the 510/Mod path and was happy to be back in the mini world until the x2 came out. And what made it such a win for me was the automatic option for a mod. I use clearos and cartos on my x2's. I get the same results you do with my x2/clearo combo. I am mostly using juices from my favorite nicquid supplier that are 70/30 and the vapor is insane; flavor is too. The flavors taste different when I load the same juice in a carto and a clearo and I like both on the x2.
Honestly, I couldn't be happier with my setup!
There has always been a genetic fascination with tornadoes in my family. Sounds odd, I know - But I have five siblings, and several years ago we discovered that we all have the same recurring tornado dream. There are dark, ominous storm clouds on a brilliantly bright horizon with several tornados churning up a field. Sounds like a bad SyFy channel movie. Our dream is the same for all of us. None of us are afraid - just observing with awe.
Forgive me if I repeat myself - I do that sometimes. I'll blame the brain lesions, but it could be age. When I was thirteen I went camping with one of my brothers and a sister and my pet raccoon on Kelley's Island in Lake Erie. We were in a pole tent surrounded by churning white-capped waves. A tornado hit the island, flattening the tent. My raccoon Brandy pooped on my pillow. There was no place to go - No place to hide. We couldn't get off of the island because the ferry wasn't running, so we all had to seek shelter in my sister's Pontiac. She was 8 or 9 months pregnant at the time. It was GREAT! Except for the .... and my pillow.
Forgive me if I repeat myself - I do that sometimes. I'll blame the brain lesions, but it could be age. When I was thirteen I went camping with one of my brothers and a sister and my pet raccoon on Kelley's Island in Lake Erie. We were in a pole tent surrounded by churning white-capped waves. A tornado hit the island, flattening the tent. My raccoon Brandy pooped on my pillow. There was no place to go - No place to hide. We couldn't get off of the island because the ferry wasn't running, so we all had to seek shelter in my sister's Pontiac. She was 8 or 9 months pregnant at the time. It was GREAT! Except for the .... and my pillow.
That's good to know about Rain-X. I'll have to try that. We don't get squalls here but can get some very heavy downpours. It's scary to keep driving in rain that completely cuts off your vision, but it's more dangerous to stop or try to change lanes.
The ironic thing is I was driving home after evacuating for a hurricane and the squalls were produced by the hurricane that had gone through. After that I decided the safest thing was to just close the storm shutters and stay home.
Okay i didnt explain this right, I meant to only have one flav. per line but it would have been really long lol so I put a few per line.
I meant to say, You can pick 3 of any of these flavours.
Now you tell us - I just mixed up some Butter Rum Melon Chocolate Almond Orange Cream Soda Cranberry Key Lime juice to try - since you made it sound so good (LOL - NOT)...
Just hiked down to the creek with Dave and Lexi. She loves it down there. The feeling is mutual.
Ever see a mastiff walk without hind legs?
Very odd photo!
Ever see a mastiff walk without hind legs?
Very odd photo!
No, no. No. No. No. Um.... No.
On the eve of my 49th birthday at 10:30 at night in 2009, I hadn't gone to bed yet, though I was getting ready, because I took my birthday off and was planning on sleeping in. Well, the rain came first, raining really hard, and then the hail started. The lights were flickering off and on so decided to shut down the computer (I have battery backup, but didn't want to worry for it). Then the hail came down really hard and almost sideways and it sounded like 10,000 people banging big metal spoons on the carport cover, and then the "freight train" sound... only... it was much, much louder, so much so I don't have another sound to compare it to, and it made everything shake including the ground, and it kept getting louder. I ran for the bathroom and stood in the bathtub while the "tiny" EF-1 tornado tracked over my building. I was so damn scared, but all I could think of was "they're going to find me dead under three floors of rubble naked in the bathtub." Yeah...
Then, it was quiet. Fast. Dead silence. I got out of the bathtub and went to the bedroom and opened the door. The windows were gone, shards of glass had embedded themselves in the opposite wall, the bed was shredded, what was left of the slatted blinds were swaying back and forth and there was the moon, bright as day. There was three feet of hail piled up against the far wall from the window, there was three inches of water deep on the floor. There was absolutely nothing in the room that wasn't twisted, soaking wet, destroyed by water/hail/flying glass. There were even shards of glass inside closed dresser drawers! I was lucky I was not in bed. The second bedroom - same thing. The other folks in my building, well if they had their bedroom doors open instead of closed, the tornado blew through the entire unit and destroyed a whole lot more. My next door neighbor was taken to the hospital for treatment after being hit by flying glass while she was asleep. Half my home was gone, though the structure was still there. Our building is an old brick and concrete construction (condos). The roofs were gone. 100-year-old trees were uprooted. Cars destroyed, etc. And, the sirens didn't go off until 30 minutes after the tornados went through.
At first some people said, oh no, it was micro bursts. But they changed that after they saw the damage and debris trails from the air and realized we'd actually had twin EF-1 tornados track through that made quite a mess for a couple of miles or so though my neighborhood. I spent approximately 12 weeks "homeless" while getting a disaster crew in to clean up and finding contractors to rebuild who weren't already rebuilding for someone else. And, I spent my entire savings. Insurance company didn't even pay 1/4 the costs and what they did pay, they depreciated by 20% up front.
Don't believe them when they say a tornado sounds like a freight train. The sound is at least 100 times louder (I know freight trains), and is indescribable to anyone not having been through one. And mine was an itty bitty one by EF standards! And time wise, it all happened within about 3 minutes. Seriously. It felt like eternity because I was so scared, but it was only about 3 minutes start to finish that turned my world upside down.
I used to think tornados were fascinating. Not now. No, no. No. No. No.
I have a very healthy respect for Mother Nature. IF the sirens go off, IF I know it's coming, believe me, I will be the first one heading to get out of the way as fast as I can.
Kia, that was the best description of what a tornado is that I've ever heard. I felt like I was actually there. You not only got the physical aspect of it but also the emotional impact tornadoes have on anyone who is in one. You have a talent for writing, a really good talent.
Thanks, Marlou.
Yes, Kia. I was impressed by your tornado story, too. One thing I wondered, though. Where did you find clothes to wear after the tornado? You said there was broken glass in your dresser drawers. I don't know why my mind works like this, but I sometimes get stuck on details.
This account just proves to me that tornados are very, very scary. There have been some very small ones hereabouts, though not real close -- maybe 50 miles away, maybe a bit less. I wonder if the geography of my immediate area makes us immune or if it's just luck.
This account just proves to me that tornados are very, very scary. There have been some very small ones hereabouts, though not real close -- maybe 50 miles away, maybe a bit less. I wonder if the geography of my immediate area makes us immune or if it's just luck.
Heh, yeah. Not a strange question at all.
I dragged my big red terry bathrobe out of the water and wrung it out, and wore it to survey damage. This was in late July. I had one load of laundry - two pair of jeans and about 4 t-shirts that were in the washer hooked up to the kitchen sink. Drying them was the task. My tax return the following March paid for building my wardrobe up again. Up until that point, people had to put up with my wearing the same things over and over again. They were pretty worn out by the time I had replacements.
I should note that I probably looked really strange running around the building outside in a heavy wet bathrobe, but I wasn't the only one. One of my neighbors (she eventually become one of my best friends) brought out a bottle of Crown Royal with instructions to "drink up."
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Hi everyone!!! I've been MIA lately, but I have been lurking around here and there. Hope all is well.
I second that... I already have respect for nature - you just helped strengthen it Kia...
When I was nine years old we spent 3 days in an underground shelter while they dug us out... so I know what respect for nature is... A funny note to this - the house that we abandoned to seek shelter did not get touched...
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