Posted on 01/03/2008 6:35:58 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
It’s not fair for my head to feel this way when I wasn’t drinking last night...
It’s dark and wet and making large booming sounds here. Why should the first sign of spring be a thunderstorm?
Good morning! Pretty quiet weekend for us... except last night when we almost got hit by a train.... most surprising because there isn’t a train track within miles of this house! ;~)
~sip~
A train? Do tell.
I think my office got hit by lightning about 5 minutes ago, the place shook and a light reflector fell down.
We were in the living room, and we suddenly heard a warning horn from a train, coming from over by Rosie’s...
I see that you said you heard the warning signal from a train. That’s better than actually hearing a train.
Had it been the latter, I would suggest:
1) cut back on the Chivas, or
2) find a tornado shelter.
I’m just sayin’
Hmmm.
It was *really* close from here.
I’m thinkin’ one of the big rigs that has trouble stopping at that corner has a train horn.
But yeah, it startled me - eek!
Yeah - that's what we figure too. ;~)
But it startled us, and we said "was that a train?"
Back in high school I heard about a kid (I forget where) that put an old air foghorn from a state ferry in his car.
Fun could be had.
Say, can you guys get to: http://www.wunderground.com/ ?
Yes - seems up and running here!
So far so good here...looks like it’s all moving to the north of us. Heading your way?
That’s odd. Can you tell if the home site is updating?
Is... a puzzlement. Browser times out. But I can resolve DNS and ping it. Can’t trace route.
Flushed the DNS cache. Nada. Rebooted the routers and the computer. Nada. Turned off the firewall. Nada.
I can get anywhere but there, it seems. It’s happened before, and Dona was here using the wifi, and she could get there but I could not. Comes and goes.
Bizarre.
No - the home site does not appear to be updating.
It defaulted to giving me Vaughn. But on the wider view, I can see a few other GH area PWS, but not yours.
OK... this is really strange. I purged browsing history and cookies... and it came right up.
That makes no sense. It’s like having a car that doesn’t start unless you use the windshield wipers first.
I just forced an update to the home site and it should show up again soon.
Especially since they were approaching as they laid on the horn for a loonnnnng blast. Really sounded like an approaching train.
I was wonderin’ if I should get up and run...
Looks like I’ve got a little cell that might get close. It’s been windy so far this morning with the skies mostly gray. No heavy rain yet.
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