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zaax wrote:
Set the basement up so you can sleep in it during a Tornado watch If you're replying to me, I don't have a basement. The OP's basement is (I gather) only accessible from the outside or something like that. |
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Pat wrote: I hate it when I have to stay awake till the watch is over. This one's on until 1:00 AM. The sirens in this town are not loud enough to wake me. I need to get a NOAA weather radio that can be set to sound alarm when a tornado warning is issued. Also need to cut a trap door in the floor so I can get to the basement from inside the house, and move the cats down there as well. It's simply too damp to sleep down there. Tornado safety purrs once again are hereby solicited. Bad lightning storm in progress at the moment. Pat, how difficult would it be to fix up your basement so that it would be suitable to put a bed down there? When I was in my 20's, we lived in a small mobile home. I became practically phobic about storms for some reason, for a time. Anyway, we put a bed in the cellar and I used to just sleep down there if it was stormy. It was damp like all cellars here are, but very clean, bug-free and had electricity. It saved my sanity back then, and really wasn't any worse than "camping". I think with time, you'll feel more secure in your house. But I remember how scary it was. Sherry |
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Steve Touchstone wrote: We had lots of thunder and lightning yesterday about sunup. I learned that I now have two that are afraid of lightning. When the storm started I knew Sammy would be scared, so I went and got in bed where she was hiding under the covers. I've written about her fear before. I'm not so sure she's really afraid anymore, as soon I get in bed she starts to purr. After awhile I realised Spotty hadn't followed me to bed. Usually she hops up on the bed right after I get in bed and settles down and goes to sleep. So I went looking for her and found her hiding in the bathtub from the storm. When she realised I had found her hiding plce she came out and followed me to bed, but at the next thunderboom she went back to the tub - not a bad thing really, as they tell us that one of the safer places to take shelter. Little Bit, who panics if it starts to rain when she's in the OUT, doesn't mind storms in the least when she's safely inside watching through the window. She seems to enjoy watching the light show, though she will go into hiding if it starts to hail. -- Steve Touchstone That was the loudest thunder I have ever heard. Bosley jumped up on the bed and got so close he was practically on top of me. I didn't know he was scared of thunder! Sherry |
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Pat wrote:
I hate it when I have to stay awake till the watch is over. This one's on until 1:00 AM. The sirens in this town are not loud enough to wake me. I need to get a NOAA weather radio that can be set to sound alarm when a tornado warning is issued. Also need to cut a trap door in the floor so I can get to the basement from inside the house, and move the cats down there as well. It's simply too damp to sleep down there. Tornado safety purrs once again are hereby solicited. Bad lightning storm in progress at the moment. Pat, how difficult would it be to fix up your basement so that it would be suitable to put a bed down there? When I was in my 20's, we lived in a small mobile home. I became practically phobic about storms for some reason, for a time. Anyway, we put a bed in the cellar and I used to just sleep down there if it was stormy. It was damp like all cellars here are, but very clean, bug-free and had electricity. It saved my sanity back then, and really wasn't any worse than "camping". I think with time, you'll feel more secure in your house. But I remember how scary it was. Sherry Well, the cellars around here are NOT damp, and today the blessed, long-awaited rain is falling, bigtime, along w/a strong wind. It's all relative, I tell you. It hasn't rained here in so long a time that when I mentioned to my son that I didn't understand why the natives tear around driving @ top speed in terrible winter snowstorms, never slow down, and "life goes on"....*but* when it was sprinkling (not really heavy rain, like today) I was crawling along @ 20 mph on a major artery along w/aforementioned natives, his theory was that it's been so long since they've seen real rain, they forgot how to drive in it and were therefore creeping behind their wheels! Maybe there's merit to that thought......anyway, this oughta help w/the brushfires. |
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wrote Pat, how difficult would it be to fix up your basement so that it would be suitable to put a bed down there? I've already got a bedroll down there - foam pad, sleeping bag, pillow, laying on plastic sheet on concrete floor, but I don't wanna be safe down there without the cats being safe down there as well. To get them down there requires numerous trips with carriers and the risk of some slipping out as others are brought in. That hole in the floor's high on my to-do list and won't be a major expense, just a few pieces of lumber. |
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dnr wrote: Well, the cellars around here are NOT damp, and today the blessed, long-awaited rain is falling, bigtime, along w/a strong wind. It's all relative, I tell you. It hasn't rained here in so long a time that when I mentioned to my son that I didn't understand why the natives tear around driving @ top speed in terrible winter snowstorms, never slow down, and "life goes on"....*but* when it was sprinkling (not really heavy rain, like today) I was crawling along @ 20 mph on a major artery along w/aforementioned natives, his theory was that it's been so long since they've seen real rain, they forgot how to drive in it and were therefore creeping behind their wheels! Maybe there's merit to that thought......anyway, this oughta help w/the brushfires. Imagine what it would be like if Florida suddenly got a half-foot of snow. That's what it's like here when it snows -- we don't know how to drive in it, and the state doesn't own enough snowplows to get the stuff off the road. I know what you mean about driving in the rain though--when it *finally* started raining this spring, there were accidents all over the place. Like people forgot how to drive in it. (Also, they say the first rain after a drought makes the road slick--all the oils come to the top or something). They finally (partially) lifted the burn ban. We can barbecue now, as long as it's in an enclosed grill. Sherry |
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Imagine what it would be like if Florida suddenly got a half-foot of
snow. That's what it's like here when it snows -- we don't know how to drive in it, and the state doesn't own enough snowplows to get the stuff off the road. I know what you mean about driving in the rain though--when it *finally* started raining this spring, there were accidents all over the place. Like people forgot how to drive in it. (Also, they say the first rain after a drought makes the road slick--all the oils come to the top or something). They finally (partially) lifted the burn ban. We can barbecue now, as long as it's in an enclosed grill. Sherry My brother, who lives/drives/works in D.C. area, including adjacent norther VA, told me - when I related to him the early am (5:30) sighting out my window my first winter here of 54 snowplow trucks rumbling their way up to I-70 during the first snowstorm of winter (big thrill for me) - that road authorities in his area, as you say, are woefully short on equipment like that for heavy-duty weather happenings and they have more bad stuff there we usually don't - like "freezing rain" "sleet" and lotsa hail (it's hailed here a few times so far) but drivers just have to do the best they can, whatever. I don't understand that at all; that area is much more heavily populated than this one and yet here the roads are cleared quickly, pretty much except up in the mountains (where all the roadblocks/bottlenecks happen) and the DOT seems to have pretty much all they need to do so. |
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Yesterday tornados. Today there are blizzards in parts of the state. I do
think it means lots of rain this spring (i hope) |
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Weather Rant, Was: (OT) More Tornados....
Karen wrote: Yesterday tornados. Today there are blizzards in parts of the state. I do think it means lots of rain this spring (i hope) Arrgghh!! I left a beautiful, calm spring day this morning to go to the shelter and take some pictures for the newsletter. So I left the windows open. Before I got back, the wind was blowing westerly 30 mph, gusts up to 50. There are a lot of plowed fields and the sky turned pink. When I got home, there is a thick layer of red dirt on *everything*. Even the bed. I had a white towel in the bathroom floor and it is even pink now! What a mess. The big sucky monster is going to be running for a long time. The cats will hate that. Sherry |
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