Flooding and tornados

How is everybody doing?

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

:P Yum!

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.

David Caruso...*sigh*

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

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!

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.

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

Still raining this morning.

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