good song too

[fflo]

That's what I was thinking when Shuffle brought it up while I was awaiting the downloading of other songs from today [yesterday] (good song day), and Manny got his first lesson in slow dancing:

.mp3  -->   "The Nearness of You" -- Ella & Louis (1956)

There are five or eight of those songs those two did that I dig quite a bit. This one's pretty relaxed. I like it.

Among other things today [yesterday] was a little kickball in the sub-beer-tunnel tunnel. Fallout shelter. Arena. That's cuz there was a tornado warning.

And I ask: what's with you people who ignore a tornado warning? Okay Norman's not reading (pretty safe bet, anyway) but I know there's at least one of you among you whose eyes'll slide across these here words in the next day or two. Cuz there are a lot of you. What's the big hesitation about going to the basement already? Other than wanting to see the storm? Especially when the alternative is sitting at your computer for yet another hour in a row?

I'm not talking general precaution taking. I mean, dang, the sirens don't go off any more at the drop of a hat. They got equipment now, ladies and germs. If the sirens go off and weather.com has a big red box around your local weather box saying TORNADO WARNING SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY, what more do ya'll need? That plus eyewitness reports of black swirling clouds just to the north...

Oh never mind. Ya'll just ---well, I hope ya'll are right, and ya'll don't get blowed away one of these days. Even though every time that doesn't happen ya'll seem to think that's more evidence that there's no reason to take shelter.

Literal shelter, from a literal storm. Not metaphor.

Comments

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

I'm only about one level of crazy removed from those that would chase the storm...I personally wait until I hear the train-a-comin'...It was really freaky when I first moved into my house down here last year, as there's a literal train about 2-300 yards away from my house, and hearing that during a dark-during-the-day, wind-whipping storm would be enough to send me cowering into the basement...

I've always been very blessed to be either on the edge of a valley or next to a major water feature that the funnels really don't like, cause I've always lived in Tornado alley...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

tornadoes tended to miss the area surrounding my home town, which was in a bit of a valley. there was one stretch on the way to topeka, though, that was like a highway for 'em.

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

Oh, man...I forgot you were a Kansas girl. My friend ddbrown used to live just about a mile north of the southern exposure of the water bearing limestone layer that lays under most of north central illinois, and he could watch the funnels from his back porch just walk along that line. Mostly they didn't come into his town, until a few years back.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

hunh. has he been caught in one himself?

i know limestone. i like limestone.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmmm...who's reading who didn't take shelter?

I suggest it's an awkwardness/embarrassment thing. That it's not cool to take shelter. To take it seriously. To be caught taking it seriously. Etc.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

i was just thinking people who don't, in general, do the boring shelter taking, when in such circumstances.

i can dig your theory. and there are ways of taking it very oh-so seriously that can be, even deserve to be, regarded with a scoff. i say.

these do not, however, include getting on the intercom and issuing an alert to one's fellows. even if one likes the intercom.

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Sirens went off when I was staying at a hotel in Tulsa with this woman who didn't want to go down to the lobby from our rooms on the something-teenth floor. Her excuse was that she'd grown up in an area whe there were plenty of tornadoes. Somehow I don't see the tornado stopping to ask for credentials--"Oh, you're used to tornadoes, so I won't hurt you." She was kind of odd, this woman. She stripped in front of me later while we were watching a movie in her room, but that's another tale for another time.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I gather she appeared to be stripping FOR you?

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. After she kept dropping names of "out" dykes at work who were her friends. I was too scared to make a move, but in retrospect, I wish I had.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

so having out dykes at work who are your friends can be used in communication that way. hunh.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

maybe she should have been more direct , huh!

Shelter

[dreampower.livejournal.com]

I was in the basement. That siren goes off so often and it had been so sunny moments before that I had to ask ibe if it was the real deal. I agree. I mean, when something happens to break your normal work routine, I so enjoy it. It can really help.

Ann arbor is in some weird valley and MOST(knock on wood) tornados go around us. We are very low compared to places around us. I hope it continues. It was a bit of excitement and fun Thursday. There were some strong winds.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Cincinnati, and that is near a tornado alley of sorts. I remember homes a few miles from ours being damaged. I remember gathering my Barbies together and taking them to the basement. I have a friend who lives northwest of cincinnati who just goes to bed and doesn't worry--that wouldn't be me! Hell, a few people were killed by a tornado in college park md a few years ago. even if it's not statistically likely it'll get you, why take the chance?