Things I've learned in the past week (or so)...

[celestialbeing1]

1. Tornadoes can and will hit New York. And one did, not far from me either. Needless to say after the fact I'm freaked out but thankful that no one was hurt. Although I'm sure the person that had their car picked up and dropped on another car has hurt feelings, same for the person that found their entire roof in another neighbor's yard a few

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[lemonade8]

I can't imagine what that was like to have that in a city that isn't accustomed to this sort of thing. There will always be insane idiot truck drivers who don't even slow down to avoid that path of a twister and the rubberneckers who don't take into account that they can change direction or the people who are too busy texting to notice that someone's roof is flying through the air and going to decapitate them in a second. But adding to that mix people who just aren't sure of what to do or don't have a basement that is secure... so scary! I'm grateful that no one was hurt- also amazed.

I live in eastern Kansas and we have had absolutely no tornadoes this summer. (which is nice because I'm north of Joplin, and that was no fun at all).

[celestialbeing1]

Oh, you're on cow town as my friend that is also in Kansas calls it! *chuckles*

I mean literally, I'm in the damned tri-state area! There aren't that many HUGE open areas by me, it's house and buildings and commercial places and literally it touched down here and in NJ and I was like fffffffffff watching the tv!

I am so happy to find that no one was hurt. We had a hurricane that messed people up, one guy got hit by this HUGE flying wooden board, I mean the damn thing was humongous.

I'm happy that things were calm on your end! I'm always worried for my friend there.

New Yorkers are stupid. There, I've said it. They are too busy on their damned phones and iphones and ipods and everything else to even so much as LOOK UP when they cross the street.

[lemonade8]

Yes, actually. Everything's up to date in Kansas City. ;D Best steaks I've ever had.

Frankly I'd rather dodge thunderstorms than have a drought. Yikes!

[celestialbeing1]

I want a steak *cries*

This is true, we had a drought here a few years ago and that was not fun. Restrictions on everything, was tempted to boil rainwater if we ever got any.

[snapefan520]

I'm trying to get used to tornados myself. We get them more often then NY, but still nothing like the midwest. TN has seen more and more of them the past ten years, and last year one got close enough to rip the shingles off our roof and send us into a closet (try packing 5 people, one an infant, into a 6ftx6ft closet

[celestialbeing1]

Oh no!! You just made me nearly cry thinking of you trying to gather up the babies in the midst of a storm

[raettawy]

Yeah, this uptick in tornadoes over the past couple of years is a little worrisome. We here in on the East Coast, have no way to warn people aside from radio and tv and internet. We don't have tornado sirens like they do out in the midwest. I went to undegrad in Wisconsin and every Saturday evening at a certain time, the tornado siren was sounded for testing. Everyone knew -even those *not* from the town- what it was and what to look out for, except for me the first time I heard it. They all looked at me like I had horns and a spiky tail when I asked why that siren always went off at 6pm on Saturdays my freshman year. The problem with the uptick in tornadoes is that we live in a much more crowded space than the midwest and the Plains area. A tornado, combined with no one knowing that it is coming, is going to do some very bad damage to people on day. :^(

[celestialbeing1]

See I always thought that the needed flat areas to move about it, but there goes my ignorance. At first the thing touched down in Jersey and it was right over the bridge and near a crowded area! No open space.

I wonder if it's all the global warming that some people are pretending that doesn't exist lol. They can say what they want but I know better. This summer in NY I barely saw lightening bugs and that is rare. When do you NOT see lightening bugs come July? I noticed that from the off.

[remarkable1]

Girl, I would KILL for curly hair! Mine is stick straight and even when I get a professional perm, it straightens out in less than a week. I. Shit. You. Not

[celestialbeing1]

Wow you must have coarse, resistant hair!! Hehe I have coarse patches of hair that the curls are more like waves and hang lower than any other bits of my hair. But they also never frizz either

[crmediagal]

I heard about those tornadoes. Yikes! Glad you're okay!! How on earth could you be thinking of pizza??? Crazy girl.

Uh oh.. What's going on in the fanfic world? My Muse has been hating me lately, so I'm been a bit MIA the past few days.