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Tornados and voodoo engineering. Whee!
Aug. 26th, 2007 08:24 pmSo, while waiting for The 4400 (Go Kyle/Isabelle!) I thought I'd update.
YOWZA! I got a little too up close and personal with a tornado yesterday. I had a few hours to make up so I went to work yesterday afternoon. I was about halfway through my planned time when an alarm sounded. YIKES! The tornado alarm!
A tornado has been spotted in Franklin County. Seek shelter, stay away from all windows. Do not leave the building.
Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!! Yeeks! I'm in a window office on the top floor! I grabbed my stuff and high-tailed it down to the ground floor of the building.
Man, nothing freaks me out like the threat of a tornado. At least with fire I'm assuming you could make a mad dash for safety. Where the hell are you going to go with a tornado bearing down on your ass!?
Spent the next 45 minutes or so occasionally yukking it up with two other trapped employees. Watched the sky get dark. Watched, quite freaked out, when wind, rain and debris flying at about 400 miles an hour began to pummel the windows and outside doors.
My building has a ton of glass, yo.
The husband and I exchanged a few quick phone calls to make sure we were each okay. Once the storm passed, I went back upstairs and finished out my day with clear blue skies outside my window. Ohio has mad freaky weather sometimes. ::whimper::
Oh yeah, I found out later that the twister had touched down about a mile from my building. ::cries::
My computer hates me. I have wireless mouse and keyboard, and my keyboard gave up the ghost this afternoon. *Highly* frustrating, especially when I uninstalled the driver, hoping it would automatically reinstall after a reboot (the support pages lied!) and found that neither the mouse NOR the keyboard would respond.
Yay for me! I plugged in a regular keyboard and mouse and hoped for the best. Obviously it worked. ::buffs nails:: My rig is completely voodoo now, with a six year old Compaq keyboard, a mouse I bought at Odd Lots, a KDS USA flat panel screen (no idea) and a custom-built tower that the husband bought for me a couple of Christmases ago. And this is me, smiling because it all works. :-D
YOWZA! I got a little too up close and personal with a tornado yesterday. I had a few hours to make up so I went to work yesterday afternoon. I was about halfway through my planned time when an alarm sounded. YIKES! The tornado alarm!
A tornado has been spotted in Franklin County. Seek shelter, stay away from all windows. Do not leave the building.
Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!! Yeeks! I'm in a window office on the top floor! I grabbed my stuff and high-tailed it down to the ground floor of the building.
Man, nothing freaks me out like the threat of a tornado. At least with fire I'm assuming you could make a mad dash for safety. Where the hell are you going to go with a tornado bearing down on your ass!?
Spent the next 45 minutes or so occasionally yukking it up with two other trapped employees. Watched the sky get dark. Watched, quite freaked out, when wind, rain and debris flying at about 400 miles an hour began to pummel the windows and outside doors.
My building has a ton of glass, yo.
The husband and I exchanged a few quick phone calls to make sure we were each okay. Once the storm passed, I went back upstairs and finished out my day with clear blue skies outside my window. Ohio has mad freaky weather sometimes. ::whimper::
Oh yeah, I found out later that the twister had touched down about a mile from my building. ::cries::
My computer hates me. I have wireless mouse and keyboard, and my keyboard gave up the ghost this afternoon. *Highly* frustrating, especially when I uninstalled the driver, hoping it would automatically reinstall after a reboot (the support pages lied!) and found that neither the mouse NOR the keyboard would respond.
Yay for me! I plugged in a regular keyboard and mouse and hoped for the best. Obviously it worked. ::buffs nails:: My rig is completely voodoo now, with a six year old Compaq keyboard, a mouse I bought at Odd Lots, a KDS USA flat panel screen (no idea) and a custom-built tower that the husband bought for me a couple of Christmases ago. And this is me, smiling because it all works. :-D
