Post when the coast is clear, so everyone knows your alright!

Pambo and I have both made it to our respective homes. It's all good.

Just started pouring rain hard again, but it's vertical not horizontal so probably not a biggie. No hail at this time either. Didn't see any cow-copters while I was driving either.

-- Edited by Mad Mema at 18:39, 2008-09-12

at the mental picture of a flying squirrel getting to the "mad cow" level of agitation!

Just after I got into Pambo's office building, I got a text from my other best friend... "U taken cover?" That is Doug-ese for "For the love of God, Michele, please tell me you are not standing in your driveway geekin' at a funnel cloud!" Normally I have a Pavlov's Dog style reaction to tornado sirens... I go right outside to look to see where the swirrely thing is! Just didn't seem like the thing to do this time. For once, I actually stayed in the designated safe area.

Yeah... that will probably be me someday. "Well, St Peter, I knew better... just hadda go geek at the sky. It was SUPER COOL LOOKIN'. Getting creamed by the cow kinda sucked, but hey... you know how I love a tender steak!"

You know how it is, Ghost. If you have lived in Tornado Alley long enough, you just get that way. It's kind of like how CP yawns at most earthquakes. The sirens just make me curious. I don't get worried until the sky has turned from green to black, the rain is horizontal as is the hail, and I hear the distinct sound of a freight train coming at me.

I've never seen one on the ground other than on TV. I have seen funnels come down out of the clouds then go back up. It's really interesting to watch that happen.

I did one time unknowingly drive through a tornado producing storm once. I was driving through West Virginia on the way home from D.C. I just figured it was a bad mountain rain storm until I stopped at a fast food restaurant to get a drink and use the restroom. The lady at the counter freaked out on me when I walked in. I guess they had just heard the all clear over the radio.

That is the problem... but there are certain cues that the OH SCHIZZLE moment is rapidly approaching.

I'm the first to admit that my fear circuit is wired a little funny. Bad weather doesn't generally scare me. I'm rarely ever frightened by other people even when I really should be. I'll ride a street bike without a helmet, and have been known to drive a car at speeds well beyond reason... yet you would pretty much have to put a gun to my head and convince me you would pull the trigger to get me on a roller coaster or to skydive. Heights bother me.

I've been invited to go skydiving several times and have always declined. I'm quite sure that gravity works as does inertia. I don't believe I need to quality test them. Probably the only way to talk me into it would be to ply me with enough tequila that I believe myself to be Wonder Woman.

Fabulous! I have a fifth of Gran Centenario Anjeo in the liquor cabinet. Now all I need is a flashy swimsuit and enough liposuction to be able to wear it!

You are right... a tummy tuck would be a much better use of the benjamins!

hehehe.. subliminal message... Dylan NEEDS a purple guitar for Christmas!

My favorite color just for color sake is red. Oddly though, I don't wear a lot of red. Most of my clothes are pink, black, darker shades of green, or blue. I'm working on the purples now because that is one of the "in" colors.

My truck is white and my motorcycle is black... doesn't make a lot of sense, does it?

embrace the disatster, our days are numbered. Time on Earth is numbered. When the stuff hits the fan, I'm in the middle of the street.

I'm right there with ya, Squonk... in the street, geekin' at the mayhem.

My opinion: However much time we have on this Earth, life is just too frigging long to spend it being unhappy.