Oh, yeah, Austin, ITA.
I've lived in MO always, and the only time I ever even get halfway bothered if is a tornado is sighted under 5 miles away. And then I just think "Do I know where the cat carrier is? Eh, there's the pillowcase."
Mal: Hell, this job I would pull for free. Zoe: Can I have your share? Mal: No. Zoe: If you die, can I have your share? Mal: Yes.
'The Train Job'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strix - Jul 29, 2008 11:02:20 am PDT #316 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Theresa - Jul 29, 2008 11:05:01 am PDT #317 of 10003
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Exactly. Sometimes I locate my purse so I'll have my id with me...thats about it.
Strix - Jul 29, 2008 11:11:27 am PDT #318 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I am far more fearful and survival-modey about ice storms. HATE bad ice storms.
Theresa - Jul 29, 2008 11:19:56 am PDT #319 of 10003
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
Ice storms are bad too. Especially for the trees and power lines. Yikes.
I've joined the buffistas group on facebook. Now I'm going through with invites so if you get one from a strange name in Kansas, that's me.
Nilly rules the facebook pages! Your profile page has so many fun games. I could play there for hours.
Gudanov - Jul 29, 2008 11:21:43 am PDT #320 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Whereabouts in Kansas?
Sean K - Jul 29, 2008 11:22:29 am PDT #321 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Ha! We had tornadoes in Michigan (not as bad as some places, but still...). I'll take earthquakes, thanks.
NoiseDesign - Jul 29, 2008 11:23:48 am PDT #322 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
Yep. We have seasons, there's fire season, and earthquake season, and then mudslide season. I don't know why people think we don't have seasons.
tommyrot - Jul 29, 2008 11:25:47 am PDT #323 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yep. We have seasons, there's fire season, and earthquake season, and then mudslide season.
Yeah. Mudslide season is how you know you're in the middle of the rainy season.
Kathy A - Jul 29, 2008 11:25:57 am PDT #324 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Good to hear that everyone's okay in LA!!
I get a bit worried if there's a tornado warning in my area (one has been sighted nearby--go to cover immediately!), especially now that I live on the top floor of an apartment building with no basement, so I have no idea where I'm supposed to go to if one does get close.
When I was in first grade, my parents were out at the movies and a cousin was babysitting us when the town alarms went off about the same time the power went. We headed into the basement with our flashlights and were all a bit scared. Turns out, a tornado hit my just-built-that-summer school a mile away and peeled off the roof.
Between that and the Plainfield tornado of 1990 in which a few acquaintances of ours barely escaped with their lives (one friend's mom was working at the high school that was leveled--she dove into the only hallway to remain intact just as the tornado hit the building and ended up with just some scraps on her back), tornadoes definitely do scare me if they get close enough.
§ ita § - Jul 29, 2008 11:26:42 am PDT #325 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, so cube-neighbour is back and I swear she's talking more about not having felt the quake than anyone had talked about having felt it.
Certainly more noisily.