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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.
The staff members brought them to the safest space they could reach, covered them with blankets, and sang "You Are My Sunshine" to them while the storm ripped off the roof of the building. They all survived.
Damn.
Wow. Just burst out crying at my desk. For some reason that song is a crypoint for me anyway.
What Theo said. In addition, cuts to National Weather Service would have given the people 3 minutes to shelter instead of the ~17 they got.
Sorry, Sophia!
Good points, Theo and le nubian.
That's OK Kate. I have my own office. I really find You Are My Sunshine to be one of the saddest songs ever-- like up there with Danny Boy on Bagpipes.
ETA: I was also just hanging on by a thread after watching the video where the little old lady gets reunited with her dog.
I also have to share a picture of this mutant bird: [link] I can't stop looking! (It is not gross).
One tornado story with a happy ending - this is the only news I'm letting myself watch right now:
(My boss is taking on the bulk of the tornado news-watching for our department, since I did the Boston marathon bombings.)
Hubby wanted to know why there aren't storm shelters in schools, especially in a place so prone to tornados. I couldn't think of a good reason that didn't come down to cheap building design. Is there something about shelter construction we're not getting?
For some reason that song is a crypoint for me anyway.
Because the guy who wrote it was singing about his wife who'd just died?
(Also he was the Gov. of Lousiana.)
Because the guy who wrote it was singing about his wife who'd just died?
But I didn't know that when I was little, and the song still made me super sad! Of course, so did Grover's "I'm So Blue".
(Also he was the Gov. of Lousiana.)
Holla!
So, I haven't been bombarding folks with this in thread (if you're my FB friend, you get enough of that) but I've picked up two beer writing gigs - one starts in August and is every other month, and the other is weekly, and is on the local weekly's blog. It will be every month and called Brewsday Tuesday. [link]