rachels.haven's Journal

[Bruce]

That would be depressing. IDK if a building has dignity, but, you know.

Yep, I know. Some people spent a LOT of time and energy building those old barns. They have character. Not the same as a metal sided pole barn at all.

one went after a lady on the beach on the cape recently. But they're harmless, surely you know that?

OK, that is some scary. I wonder if the coyote was rabid. Doesn't make sense to go alone after "prey" that is substantially larger than you.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss @rachels.haven,

In 1999 my Beautiful Gal and I moved from Dallas, TX, to Oceanside, CA, northwest of San Diego, so that I could return to work for the company for whom I worked while living in Warren Robins, GA. Even though I am a native Texan, and except for that year at Oceanside, have resided in the South all of my life, I had wanted to escape the heat in Texas. So we moved there. The weather was so nice the time we were there. Being only 3 miles from the Pacific Ocean, we got the breeze coming off the ocean, which kept things cool there. I loved it (although my wife did not). But after a while there was something I missed about the weather in Texas and the South -- thunderstorms! There was not one thunderstorm while we were there!

I told the above story because I thought you might miss something from Iowa, residing as you have, first in Detroit and now Massachusetts, such as tornadoes! So here is a short video from the Melanie Metz Storm Chasing YouTube channel of a small tornado that occurred in Iowa and Minnesota.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Bruce]

Yes I am SURE she misses tornados!

 

[rachels.haven]

I actually do miss them, thanks STA. They're really cool. If you get to watch one in person you definitely get a feeling for your own smallness and mortality. Most of us stood on our front porch (with a hand on the door and a basement waiting) and do the country oggle when things like that go by.

And if I'm small, so is the next guy, and so are my problems in the grand scheme of things, right?

 

[rachels.haven]

Like, as in, the video doesn't give you a good feel for the scale of things, but that tornado and it's sisters are probably (usually) HUGE compared to you. Huge and fast.

I wouldn't want watching that in real life. Keep the basement handy.

Thank you for the reminder.

 

[Bruce]

OK, Rachel DOES miss tornadoes. I, for one, have NO desire to be anywhere near one!!

 

[farmerjan]

Me either..... watching it in a movie is enough....

 

[rachels.haven]

On a different note, my mosquito hat came today. It works! My husband wants one too.

 

[Baymule]

I hate gnats! Glad the hat works!

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

On a different note, my mosquito hat came today. It works! My husband wants one too.

When he gets his, I hope you two will model them for us!