Flooding and tornados

[Debi]

How is everybody doing?

[Cairycat]

1. Hope those out Dubuque way can stay safe

You never know with storms like this ....

The eldest Cairykitten is having to figure out keeping customers safe during a tornado warning at the store where she works, all the managers are gone.

When my kids were little, even now too, we grab all the photo boxes we can, and pass the time in the basement during the warning looking through the pictures. Stuff can be replaced, but the pictures are irreplaceable.

[Debi]

2. That siren scared me Cairycat....now we just have buckets of rain on us

with lots of thunder. Hope you and yours are safe!

[Kindigger]

3. That's odd

You're in the basement while I'm grabbing my camera and jumping in the car. :)

Several years ago I was in a Wal-Mart (yeah, I know) and we had a tornado warning. They actually refused to let anyone out of the store, even when we could see the cart holders flying up in the air, and carts slamming into cars out in the lot.

After much insistence that they couldn't hold me against my will they let me out. If they hadn't, I would have missed the most awesome touch down.

[Debi]

4. We aren't fans of tornados in our house

since we were hit by one last year. We'd prefer to stay as far away as possible from them.

But you enjoy....I'll stay in my nice (hopefully) safe basement!

[47of74]

14. I worked at a Wally world for a couple years

Back in the 90s. One day we had a tornado warning at the store and I was up front working at the registers. We had just got the warning and were shutting down to move to the back when a woman ran up and wanted me to hurry up and check her stuff out. I refused to do so, I frankly didn't care if she got cut to pieces by flying glass but I'd be damned if I was going to be hanging around by those big-ass windows we had in the store at the time with that kind of weather. So she had to wait along with the rest of us the 45 minutes or so it took for the storm to pass over.

I got home and the yard was a mess, the storm had tore up all the trees in the yard and dropped them everywhere.

[Bluzmann57]

5. No tornados here

Some rain. The Mississippi is still flowing. A bit high, but not disruptive. The Wapsi, now that's another story. But it's April and this stuff happens here in April. Great fishing. I caught 10 catfish yesterday. Threw 'em back though. I just wasn't in the mood to clean and cook the fish.

[Debi]

8. Next time put em on ice and mail em to me

:P Yum!

[Hardrada]

6. There are no problems here in Jackson County.

Thanx for concern. I intend to watch some episodes of CSI later on. I wish all the legislators who smothered the pro-union bills, however, would be whisked away by the winds to some far away land where they can huff and puff to uncomprehending tribes of nomads.

[Debi]

9. Mmmmm CSI- Miami is my favorite

David Caruso...*sigh*

[Hardrada]

11. The women on that show arouse my libido but ,you must admit,

that although the CSI science is fascinating nonetheless many of the plots are simply preposterous!

[Debi]

12. What I like is that I can start watching one episode and go do laundry or cook dinner

or even fall asleep, and when I come back (even if the show is in the middle of a different episode) I know what's going on and what's going to happen next. And, of course, there's David Carusoe...did I already say that??? B-) <---- Horatio Caine's sunglasses!

[Hardrada]

13. There are entire operas like that. You can fall asleep during

Parsifal or Rosenkavalier and wake up an hour later and basically the same stuff is still going on. My wife z'd out during a movement of a Mahler symphony and woke up about half an hour later and it was still the same movement only a chorus had started singing with the orchestra.

[Debi]

15. Why I like Hardrada: He can have a conversation that includes

opera and garbage television w/out it seeming odd! :7

[Blue Gardener]

7. Johnson County got off easy

Still raining this morning.

[Debi]

10. Still raining here too

Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and then Wed/Thurs/Fri rain again.