Ugh, there is something in the damn air tonight. Let’s make this an all-night happy party thread. Frig this, I’m getting the Summer Jukebox ready. Only Bobby Rydell can save us now.
DC, the very first thing I thought of when it started shaking was that you had just mentioned that we’re due for one (if I recall correctly)! We didn’t get anything but shaken up over here, and I’m usually pretty chill about quakes but that lasted just a few seconds longer than I can approve of. Glad to know that you’re okay, you too Hoverboard!
I miss earthquakes. Here in AZ we only get Haboobs (dust storms) and Microbursts. Nothing major. It is times like this that I really miss living in California.
Ghosted by Cricket @ 07/29/2008 5:11 PM EDT
Bobby Rydell’s version isn’t as good as Bobby Curtola’s~
Ghosted by Neg @ 07/29/2008 5:39 PM EDT
Glad to see you guys survived the earthquake. My
hometown was recently lucky to escape Hurricane
Dolly. She didn’t hit us. We get bad thunderstorms here in Texas. If anyone’s got a
bad weather story, I’d love to hear it. Matt,
that would make a great topic for your next
blog.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 07/29/2008 6:16 PM EDT
Bad weather stories would be a pretty good topic.
Ghosted by ULTRAMAN @ 07/29/2008 6:53 PM EDT
Hmm, I don’t know if it’s a bad weather story exactly but one time when I was a little kid, I took some poison berries off our trees and squished them together and then spent five minutes spinning around in circles outside. Then the clouds got dark and my mom came out and took us to the basement because a tornado was spotted near by. It was in my opinion, my creation as the result of a spell I unwittingly cast.
Well, there is a tornado in it, yes it is a bad weather story. You really should be careful
when it comes to eating berries. You could die.
During one rain storm here, a part of a tree
we had, snapped off and downed some telephone
and electric lines. Funny thing is, I didn’t
hear it fall.
Ghosted by LoneStar76 @ 07/29/2008 7:38 PM EDT
Growing up in Cape May at the Jersey Shore, I’ve been in more hurricanes than you can shake a watter-logged stick at. The worst was probably Hurricane Gloria in 1985. Thank goodness we never had to evacuate, but I remember seeing my mom get ready in case we had to. We had the day off from school, and my parents actually thought it would be fun to drag a 6-year-old, a 5-year-old, and a barely 1-year-old to Cape May’s concrete promenade (”boardwalks” don’t withstand the hurricanes on the Cape) and check out the damage. It was ugly. Hotels and the Beach Theater were underwater. Sand blew everywhere. Half the roof of Laura’s Fudge was missing. Parts of the wooden section of the promenade in front of the Skee Ball Arcade had fallen in. I think Mom and Dad still have pictures of that day. There’s one of Dad in front of the Stockholm Hotel on Beach Drive. The water is up to his waist, and he’s 5′11.
As scary as that was, Laura’s Fudge was the only place mentioned above that never recovered. It was October, and most of the hotels and boardwalk shops were closed anyway. The Beach Theater was open for business less than a week after the storm. The Laura’s Fudge building hadn’t been in great shape and was finally demolished and replaced by a boutique a few years later. (It wasn’t like there weren’t 3 or 4 other candy stores on Beach Drive, two of them on the promenade.) We lost almost everything in our basement, but sustained no other damage.
I have mixed feelings about summer. I’m no big fan of the heat either, but I’ll pretty much ride my bike in anything short of a killer 100-in-the-shade-with-humidity heat wave. It’s hot here, but the humidity’s not unbearable, so at least I can get around. And I’m not going on vacation until early September myself this year – I still have a month to go.
On the other hand, it’s nice to have the extra daylight hours – it’s a lot easier (and less scary) to ride home from work when it’s light out at 8PM.
I have a lot of tornado stories living in central Oklahoma. The most recent was me accidentally driving TOWARDS a funnel cloud instead of away from it.
Sadly my family was never one to go to the beach during the summer…. ever. The hospital I work for is organizing an employee bus trip to Cape May in a few weeks for real cheap… perhaps I should go.
The worst weather iv’e ever experianced was when I was a kid. It was an EXTREMELY powerful storm that knocked out power for my whole neighborhood. The winds knocked over trees and telephone poles effortlessly they were so powerful. My family and I eventually had to seek shelter in our basement. It also caused a big flood too. To top it all off, the thunder was REALLY loud and the lighting almost BLINDED you if you looked directly at it when it striked.
Ghosted by ULTRAMAN @ 07/29/2008 9:04 PM EDT
I know what you mean; I feel like someone sucked the air out of blogging world in the last couple days, and whatever it was it has now seeped into my veins, and I think I’ll prolly just find myself “out to lunch” for the remainder of the week…maybe eat some cold pop tarts and and watch some Growing Pains…that might be nice (and I love how I mull over the option of “going dark” for a bit like it’s a big deal, ’cause you know, the world would crumble without a fresh offering of posts (I am saying that sarcastically in reference to ME…in your case, it is a legitimate danger! )
Anyhoo, I hope you keep it up, ’cause even if I pull out the lazy card in my own ‘hood, I still demand to be entertained
I know this is way off subject, but to all the Wii users, did anyone check the new WiiWare titles today? There is one called Pong Toss, but upon closer inspection, it’s a Wii version of BEER PONG!
And it’s rated E! This is the first video game I’ve ever seen that REALLY prepares kids for college!
Fall afternoons are my favorite, when it kind of smells like wet leaves drying in the sun, and the wind is blowing. thats why im getting married in october. im actually finally starting to get excited.
Ghosted by Leigha @ 07/29/2008 11:06 PM EDT
Bad weather story? Hoo boy…
It was about 9 years ago, and my parents and I went on a hike up Mt. Baldy east of LA. I kinda thought it looked like rain because it was kinda hazy, but didn’t look certain. Anyway, we were about halfway up the mountain when we see these big thunderheads coming towards us. Then we hear thunder, then it’s raining buckets all around us and we’re caught in a thunderstorm…on an exposed mountain ridge…with lightning flashing everywhere. I was scared shitless obviously, both of the lightning, and of the slippery rocks and possibility of mudslides. When we eventually came down (on the way down we saw a smoking tree), we saw that the road down had basically turned into a river, and there were pretty large rocks strewn everywhere, plus my dad drove this low-clearance Camaro. Eventually we came to a place where there had been a full-scale landslide, and the highway patrol had actually cleared a small path around it…right by this dropoff to a rushing creek.
We later learned that a few people had died in those same mountains that day in a freak thunderstorm. Since then I haven’t been hiking as often as I used to.
Ghosted by The Real Andrew @ 07/29/2008 11:15 PM EDT
None of the old players work anymore.
Ghosted by Devin @ 07/30/2008 10:46 AM EDT
It’s only about 92 degrees here, but the humidity makes it feel somewhere in the area of molten lava….
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DC, the very first thing I thought of when it started shaking was that you had just mentioned that we’re due for one (if I recall correctly)! We didn’t get anything but shaken up over here, and I’m usually pretty chill about quakes but that lasted just a few seconds longer than I can approve of. Glad to know that you’re okay, you too Hoverboard!