On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Carl D Cravens wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Michael Feldhusen wrote:
>
> > I just turned on the Weather Channel and noticed that some really big
> > storms were moving through the Wichita area. I hope everyone and
> > everything is OK there.
> Rained pretty heavily between 7 and 8, but not really that bad... none of
> the flash-flooding we'll get later this spring that threatens to wash my
> van off the road. ("Meridian needs a drainage system." "Meridian *is*
> the drainage system... it was designed that way." Bit o' lightning, but
> nothing to write home about.
It's hard to tell, given that it was just a short loop and then a bit
about there being a tornado watch in the area.
As for flooding, we had that here the last several weeks. Rivers are
still really high, though none are still at or above official flood
stage. And now their predicting *snow* on Wednesday. I like winter
and all that (I'm from the UP of Michigan, you either like winter or
go crazy up there), but that's supposed to happen up there and not in
the Boston area.
> Now Wednesday... *that* was something. 65 mph winds. I got to take down
> a door at Hollywood Video because the wind caught it *after* it closed and
> snapped it open, breaking its top hinge-pin, leaving it smacking around in
> the wind. I'm surprised the glass didn't break or something. The
> assistant manager didn't know what to do with it (no tools in the house,
> and she wasn't big enough to handle the door in the gusty wind), so I went
> back to the van, got a screwdriver, removed the closing arm and deposited
> the door on the floor. Got my video rental free, but mostly I felt good
> about being useful and not getting smacked around by the door.
Heh. Sounds like Allison. I've always said that she refuses to
travel in a vehicle without the tools to take apart if necessary.
This causes a problem on airplanes. . . .
> The good thing about the storm is that all the trash in my yard blew away.
> The bad thing about the storm is that I got trash in my yard from
> Oklahoma.
That sort of disposal scheme never seems to work.
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