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View Poll Results: How should I spend my time during the tornado | |||
Have a good, strong Captain and Coke | 12 | 38.71% | |
Smoke a cigar | 4 | 12.90% | |
Nap | 3 | 9.68% | |
Read a book | 4 | 12.90% | |
Find a trout and kiss it good-bye | 5 | 16.13% | |
Other, explain... | 3 | 9.68% | |
Voters: 31. You may not vote on this poll |
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08-04-2008, 07:22 PM | #1 | ||
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: DeKalb, IL
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Tornado sirens are going off...
So, the sky is green, the rain is sideways, and the dogs are going crazy. According to the TV, we're under the tornado warning for another twenty minutes. What should I do with my time?
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08-04-2008, 07:23 PM | #2 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Whittier
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Grab Toto
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08-04-2008, 07:24 PM | #3 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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Warn me, apparently. Thanks for the heads up.
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08-04-2008, 07:43 PM | #4 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Buffalo, NY
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Rub one out.
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08-04-2008, 07:51 PM | #5 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Chicago
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I would be out checking out this storm if I wasn't home alone with a baby upstairs sleeping. Seeing as how we don't have a basement here, I'm mildly concerned.
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08-04-2008, 07:56 PM | #6 |
College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: South Florida
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Hurricanes suck....but tornadoes are worse IMO.
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08-04-2008, 07:56 PM | #7 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Chicago
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The lightning is pretty much constant outside - looking out the window, it is like the scene in Collateral where Cruise is blowing people away.
And weather.com is reporting winds out of the SW at 8 mph. Hmm - not quite. But at least the satellite has picked up a signal again. Enough to tell me to seek shelter in a basement |
08-04-2008, 07:58 PM | #8 |
Favored Bitch #1
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: homeless in NJ
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I'm surprosed it's that bad that far north
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08-04-2008, 08:03 PM | #9 |
College Starter
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: South Florida
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Head for a central bathroom, preferably one without windows...or a central closet.
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08-04-2008, 08:06 PM | #10 |
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: DeKalb, IL
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We got through the first run fine...a touchdown about twenty-thirty minutes from here but it looks like we've got two more big ones coming on the back end over the next hour.
Pass and Hoops, I'll keep sending you our bad weather! |
08-04-2008, 08:11 PM | #11 |
General Manager
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Location: Chicago
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08-04-2008, 08:11 PM | #12 |
Death Herald
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Le stelle la notte sono grandi e luminose nel cuore profondo del Texas
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Head into your front yard and re-enact "My Fair Lady". If God likes your performance, he won't smite you with a tornado.
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08-04-2008, 08:12 PM | #13 |
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Edge of the Great Dismal Swamp
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Two years of living in Alabama taught me one thing:
Do not screw around with tornadoes.
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08-04-2008, 08:18 PM | #14 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Pacific
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I have lived in one house in my life without a basement. I will never do that again.
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08-04-2008, 08:39 PM | #15 |
Grizzled Veteran
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Location: DeKalb, IL
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08-04-2008, 08:40 PM | #16 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
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08-04-2008, 08:48 PM | #17 |
FOFC's Elected Representative
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The stars at night; are big and bright
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Move to Texas, we never have stuff like that.
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08-04-2008, 08:51 PM | #18 |
General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Chicago
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Worst of the weather appears to be gone. Hmm, put the stuff back in the closet or leave it for the wife when she gets home from her business trip?
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08-04-2008, 08:56 PM | #19 |
Pro Rookie
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Location: Illinois
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08-04-2008, 09:20 PM | #20 |
College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana
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Well, where I live just under tornado warning.
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08-04-2008, 09:33 PM | #21 |
Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Where Hip Hop lives
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Have sex.
What you do with the last 18 minutes is up to you.
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08-04-2008, 09:40 PM | #22 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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Everything cool here. In the middle of it, our landlord showed up with some prospective renters, just as I was saying, "No *way* they're coming in this weather."
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08-04-2008, 11:30 PM | #23 | |
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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Twenty to thirty minutes from you? That's probably not even in your county, you pansy Tornado Night Drinking Game (Hm... that's a bit old, tho. We've added some rules since that) SI
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08-05-2008, 12:21 AM | #24 |
College Starter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Houston, or there about
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Speak for yourself. So far in the north Houston area, I've stared down a cat 3 and cat 1 hurricane, and several tornado warnings right near my house. And my brother in law has a pretty picture of a tornado that hit the north Ft. Worth area a couple of months ago, plus the one that hit the big bank building downtown Ft. Worth a few years ago.
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08-05-2008, 12:27 AM | #25 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Sounds like a good time to fly a kite to me.
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08-05-2008, 12:31 AM | #26 | |
FOFC's Elected Representative
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The stars at night; are big and bright
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So, it should be odd I wrote that then, considering I live in Fort Worth. Hmmmm.
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"i have seen chris simms play 4-5 times in the pros and he's very clearly got it. he won't make a pro bowl this year, but it'll come. if you don't like me saying that, so be it, but its true. we'll just have to wait until then" imettrentgreen "looking at only ten games, and oddly using a median only, leaves me unmoved generally" - Quiksand |
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08-05-2008, 12:41 AM | #27 | |
College Starter
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Houston, or there about
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Hey, I wasn't sure where you were, just seemed a little odd, didn't see any hints of sarcasm either. Never mind then ;- )
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08-05-2008, 12:47 AM | #28 |
FOFC's Elected Representative
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The stars at night; are big and bright
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I wasn't too clear with my sarcasm. Is there a safe place anywhere in Texas from these things, I am not sure?
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"i have seen chris simms play 4-5 times in the pros and he's very clearly got it. he won't make a pro bowl this year, but it'll come. if you don't like me saying that, so be it, but its true. we'll just have to wait until then" imettrentgreen "looking at only ten games, and oddly using a median only, leaves me unmoved generally" - Quiksand |
08-05-2008, 06:39 AM | #29 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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Hrm. We don't have local channels and we don't have a radio to warn us. Thanks for the reminder.
We do, however, have a storm shelter that's outside. It's pretty much a concrete block that's 10x10' in the ground. |
08-05-2008, 06:40 AM | #30 |
Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Black Hole
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dola, and after we moved to Oklahoma we learned that by law you have to give people shelter from tornados. We didn't know that, but it's a pretty good law.
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08-05-2008, 08:50 AM | #31 |
Head Coach
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Colorado Springs
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Didn't get nearly as much wrath of god as I'd hoped.
Went from grey to pitch black in about 30 seconds flat, hellacious wind, and then some quite nice lightning. Unfortunately, no tornado sirens, and the storm blew through rapidly. Lightning WAS pretty impressive, though. |
08-05-2008, 09:22 AM | #32 | |
Pro Starter
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Do they wear white sheets? As far as the tornado, by all means go directly to your computer and post in a thread on a forum where you are likely to get some sage advice. Don't leave the computer until all possibilities are exhausted, as you want to make the proper decision on what to do. |
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