I know someone in Huntsville AL, and they had a tornado yesterday (they had 6 total) that followed the track of the EF5 tornado they had in April 2011!

At a certain point, I would consider moving. I said at work yesterday, "I hate tornadoes" and all the students laughed at me ("nobody *likes* tornadoes!") but seriously. They're horrible because there's almost nothing you can do to be prepared.

I saw a report that a house that had just been rebuilt from the April tornadoes was hit again.

Six companies have dropped out from sponsoring Limbaugh. Six!

Awesome.

92 tornados today, across 10 states. Dang.

So incredibly not awesome.

They're horrible because there's almost nothing you can do to be prepared.

This. Just hunker down and hope it passes you by. I don't even know what I'd do in this house - hop in the bathtub with the dog and my comforter. Not that I don't love my cats, but I'd bleed out trying to hold onto them.

I saw a report that a house that had just been rebuilt from the April tornadoes was hit again.

Oh, god, how awful. All that stress and expense and effort, and it's gone again.

For reals! He could have a child he doesn't even know about!

Surgeon General's warning: eating while catching up in Natter may be hazardous to your health. Use caution when consuming food or beverage while reading.

JZ, that was a lovely homage to the records of the past. Thank you.

I will not mourn Fred Phelps when he passes. That is all.

Wishing you a extra-full complement of spoons, msbelle, and a less demanding day.

Timelies all!

Nova is in my lap. At least she's not trying to pull things down from my desk.

I saw a report that a house that had just been rebuilt from the April tornadoes was hit again.

At that point, I'd move. Maybe someplace with blizzards. You can prepare for a blizzard.

JZ, that was a lovely homage to the records of the past.

It really was.

I just took the dog out for a walk, and saw a TURKEY. On my street!

Astonishing!

My next-door neighbor told me yesterday that they had seen a six-point buck wandering around their backyard. I was agog. Where has the huge creature been hiding?

You can prepare for a blizzard.

Yeah, but the thing is you *have* to prepare for the winter, every fucking year. The thought makes me want to cry.

Fuck Phelps.

I can't understand what turns someone so unreservedly towards evil. But I truly do see that church as sowing nothing but hate and evil in the world.

Last night I came home so tired and cranky and headachey that I just crashed after tucking the kids into bed. And then my sleep was interrupted repeatedly: Isaac came into the bed around midnight, I woke up to pee around 3, Franny climbed into our bed around 4, I gave up and left for hers around 5, and 6:30 she appeared back in the room rummaging around the bed I was in trying to find all her puffles!

But I had a great dream when I woke around 3. There was this old house with a huge yard, more like the grounds of a mansion. I don't quite recall the set up for the house now, but I can still see the house. And there was a pond in the middle of the grounds with an old gazebo, and there was a couple there, unrelated to the owners, who were getting married in the gazebo. But it looked more spooky and gothy than anything else, and then suddenly the couple was gone and it was just the maid of the Lady of the manse, tending to the Lady. It seems her mistress was a witch who practiced rather dark arts, and who was now sleeping in the pond, her body mostly underwater except for her face. And the maid was lamenting that her mistress was now, "to be counted among the recurrently living." I took that to mean she was a zombie.

Burrell, that's an excellently gothy dream.

What is a puffle, though?