We just got word that Dorothy is trying to find shelter.
I.E., there is a tornado warning, the show at the pavilion got canceled and you need to be really careful tonight. Let us know what you’ve seen.
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As a youth in Illinois, a tornado took our front porch and dropped it our garden in the backyard.
oh hey thor, we’re already talking about it in the free for all. get with the program buddy.
holy shit that lightning/thunder made me scream.
TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND CLIMB INTO THE REFRIGERATOR TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND CLIMB INTO THE REFRIGERATOR TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND CLIMB INTO THE REFRIGERATOR TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND CLIMB INTO THE REFRIGERATOR TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND CLIMB INTO THE REFRIGERATOR TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND CLIMB INTO THE REFRIGERATOR
I am going to dream in red yellow and green blobs, like some sort of rastafarian acid trip.
/tornadic!
i’ve got 6 sheets of the tornadic blotter left man. nobody’s buying it.
@4 thor, you’re scaring me more than the thunder.
Thor gets very excited in this sort of weather. His caps lock key gets all erect.
/size isn’t everything.
i just got gunshots with my tornado. that is added value if i’ve ever seen it.
speaking of, what i said don’t work apparently heard, & they’re totally getting me back for talking trash about them. they’re driving me crazy!
/you don’t remember anyways
This is what happens around 3pm every day in Florida. Meh.
/Hid in a bathroom during Hurricane Andrew. Weather’s less scary now.
@11 i was in my living room, windows safely covered by shutters. had much more fun during the 8 ‘04 & ‘05 hurricanes when we sat on our screened-in porch & played cards & drank & watched trees fall down.
“If you dont need to be out, then please stay inside” says the reporter who is needlessly standing right outside the offices of the news center.
/do as I say…
does that say tornado ringtone?
@14 i wonder what that sounds like
This is the dumbest news cast I have ever seen in my life. Its like a train wreck. I cant look away.
Where can I get a 29 storm team umbrella like the down syndrome kid on the TV?
“if there is any storm damage, public works crews are on stand-by” sayeth ‘ole melon head. They got a head start, I drove past a spot where they were pouring a little concrete to fix a curb earlier today and one guy was working, six were on stand-by.
Is there really a town called “Cuckoo” near Palmyra? I may need to move. Or at least get a PO box.
/the stupid. it burns.
thank god for you guys relaying the tv info. maybe i won’t die after all.
You will die, no doubt from window proximity, and failure to get low.
there is indeed a “town” called Cuckoo, its in Louisa near Trevillians/Mineral.
Jack Jouett, our local Paul Revere road from Cuckoo to warn Jefferson to split town way back when…
Ooops, hold everything! reports of “sparks from a power line, [not weather related] in Waynesboro! Get the shelters ready!
Whoah! Melon boy has taken off his elfin tie. Shit is no doubt getting serious.
/water! from the sky!
@20 you are scaring me; i will cry.
@21 thank YOu for your continued helpfulness.
DEATH IS NEAR FOR US ALL!!! Glarrrr!11!!eleventy.
/will stop soon.
You guys suck for not posting a million times. What do you have? Lives?
feh.
29 has a crew on the way to the scene of some puddling. will keep you all updated.
@25 - I just forgot to bring the computer with me while I hid in the tub fearing for my existence.
I like pudding. Tuesday is pudding day.
/kmart sucks.
@25 obviously i do not.
/but working hard, i swear.
thank god my palm tree didn’t fall over. other times i’ve been worried about it, but this was a very unwindy tornado.
@24 & 25…
matters of life and death, eh?
i don’t have tv- is this posting a million times a new suggestion for preservation in a tornado?
should we all be taking off our elfin ties?
/report on the reporter, already.
God I hate local news so much. So much that I cant stop watching the inanity. Im like an abused wife.
/”we’re not out of the woodshed yet”.
I have one hour before I am killed by tornados, and I am going for the world record in thread domination. Remember me fondly.
@31 stop complaining. you should feel lucky 1) you have a tv & 2) you are not yet devastated.
aah it’s starting again!
it’s cold in the fridge damnit..
“we are reporting that there are NO reports of any…” Well that make one now, doesn’t it? Girl reporter in Waynesboro’s body language screams “why the fuck am I out here?”
reports of mudslide greatly exagerated
melon-head is clearly slipping over to Boheme for shots in between broadcast segments
Well, now they say the Tornado Warning is over. OK, no longer a prisoner in my tub! OH, and CSI will be shown at 2:37 am on Friday the 9th. OK, I’m NOT gonna stay up for that one, so I programmed my VCR
@ 33
1) TV is not as good as opiates or benzos, but whatever, it will do in a pinch. Especially when the news crew is so sexually excited by the possibility of something actually happening.
2) I crave devastation, all the better if it is meted out by mother nature. When she slacks, I do for myself.
/gotta run, they are interviewing evacuated concert goers, which is so full of fail that it warms my cold black heart.
I like that you guys are allowing me to not even bother turning on my tv. I mean, it’s all the way across the room, and since I’m so busy hiding from epic disaster…
@34 you stop whining too, thor! at least you have power!
& if you don’t then stop opening the door. if you keep it closed it’ll stay cold for 24 hours.
Omni Cam sees you all masturbate.
We have a flash-flood warning in effect now, do we start a new thread? its not nearly as sexy as toronados
Oof. Thread killer, eh? Guilty bastards.
/prostate health!
Weather is sohot right now.
/my triple doppler, let me show you it.
that tornado was a bunch of shit.
next we should have a volcano warning.
“AT 29 NEWS, YOUR FIRST SOURCE FOR VOLCANO-RELATED MOUTH-FART, WE’RE RECOMMENDING THAT CITIZENS CONSTRUCT AND BOARD A RAFT OF ABANDONED JERSEY WALLS AND DON THEIR BICYCLE HELMETS, AS WE EXPECT HEAVY FLOWS OF LIQUID HOT MAGMA AS WELL AS AIRBORNE LAVA BOMBS. OH MY FUCKING GOD, YOU GUYS. OH MY FUCKING GOD.”
A flash-flood’s no fun unless I can get an inflatable raft and paddle down the street.
Its a pity, the devastation was a wash. It was a good night to die.
i predict the tv cameras will show people kayaking down the street in the flood, then they’ll show the newscasters standing in ankle-deep water.
/i’ll never know
I predict that if you are in tv, and you are outside, you have to wear red, even if it is clearly not your color.
/melon boy is a spring palette, won’t someone think of the fashion?
I would sacrifice my kayak if someone was willing to pull me down the road with their car past Henry Graff on Market Street
@49- let us know if that happens, so those of us without tvs can watch Live.
OK, so that was sort of exciting. Or not. So the tornados didn’t hit, but now I am going through Office/30 Rock withdrawal!!
I thought a flash-flood was when I walked around the neighborhood with pants simultaneously hanging too low off my waist and too high above my shoes.
Am I doing it wrong?
I hate these flood pants. Hey, they’re working! My feet are soaked, but my cuffs are bone dry!
Everything’s comin’ up Milhouse!
i know this is way late, but i was hiding in my sister’s living room:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TRAnly5viA
/can’t wait for may 22
i didn’t know when dorothy got to oz everything turned color until i was in college because we only had a black & white tv when i was a kid. somehow in retrospect i feel like color on a b&w tv should look different than b&w on a b&w tv.
/if there’s not going to be any more excitement tonight i’m going to bed. & i’ll be really really productive tomorrow until market street time…
! My feet are soaked, but my cuffs are bone dry!
In biblical times, the apostles would often be out on long trips when a torrential downpour would ensue. As Jesus strode atop the ensuing deluge, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John would sludge through the mud puddles and were often heard to chime in: ” You know, son of God, whatever. He’s kind of a dick sometimes.”
Apparently, Jesus kills threads just like politics. My bad.
Wow, I completely slept through all of this. I must have been EXHAUSTED! Geez, normally I am such a baby about thunder and lightning!
I heard, from someone who was at Fellini’s last night, that whatever the band was at the clamshell, the one that they cancelled because of the weather? that band showed up at Fellini’s and joined the Thursday night live karaoke gig in progress. how fun would that be for the Fellini’s crowd?
this thread was one of the funniest in a whlie..volcanoes, melon head and everything byo said lols
careful, everyone. Flesh Flood warning today.
Is it just me, or are tornado warnings way more popular these days? I don’t remember having so many in past years. Did the criteria lessen due to the pussification of America? Or is it possible that Al Gore is causing all these “supposed” tornadoes.
I’ve never been afraid of tomatoes.
Belmont Yo, take back the “down syndrome kid” comment. We all know you’re not ignorant or cruel, right?
I take it back, and formally apologize. If only I had editing capabilities I would remove it completely, as I thought better about two seconds after clicking post. I am stuck with my shame. Sincerely.
That said, however, I am fairly ignorant, and often unintentionally cruel. So it goes.
I guess Yo stands convicted of insensitivity and political incorrectitude… but honestly, don’t you think putting a chubby, overly serious 14 year old kid on TV is kind of like an open invitation to child abuse?
Henry reporting on a rain shower rather sadly sums up Charlottesville’s permanent relegation to the category of “Perennial Backwater Town taking itself way too seriously”.
What’s up with the psychotic fear of weather around here? All the local TV channels were carrying on about the rain for like 3 hours! And god forbid it should ever snow in CHO. I can hardly believe the way everyone here totally panics when they see a snow flurry. Oh My God! A snowflake was sighted! Close all the schools! Cancel everything! Declare a Disaster! Rush right out and drive like a freakin’ idiot. Wreck your car! As I recall it never really snowed here this past winter, but AT LEAST 5 vehicles managed to ROLL UPSIDE DOWN just on my little stretch of 22. I guess I just don’t understand the local mentality.
Maybe it’s because I’ve managed to totally avoid drinking a drop from the local water supply. Which (as I gather from reading endless breathlessly dramatic expose-style articles in Hook and C-Ville) is heavily contaminated by the spillage from dozens of tanker trucks that run off 29, careen across a mile of wooded fields and pitch into the inky depths of the local reservoir where their toxic payloads slowly leak into the Charlottesville water supply. Which is the reason given for not building a 29 bypass–it would increase the danger by putting those hazmat trucks a little closer to the reservoir and dozens of toxic spills would become hundreds or even thousands. Henry should be all over that story! He would have to wear a gas mask.
I guess Yo stands convicted of insensitivity and political incorrectitude
I am a recidivist, actually. Thats why they threw me out of California.
@49
I wish I had seen this last night. I would’ve been all over it.
I’m just pissed I had to miss Lost so ABC could feature some adolescent newscaster counting every fucking raindrop. Next up, Jesus himself must be coming as the sun has returned. Whatever.
/Lost probably wasn’t even supposed to be on last night, but I’m still gonna bitch and moan
Thanks, Belmont Yo. Truly.
My wife took her laptop and bundled it up and put it in the most secure spot in the house which is in the basement closet and I asked her what the hell she was doing and she said that she had no backed up her computer ever before and she did not want to lose all our photos…
Heaven forbid we ever have an actual emergency here…… crying wolf and the chicken little syndrome prevail in our local media……….I did enjoy the time line for where the “circular patterns” were…..knowing to duck and cover to the exact minute would have been extremely helpful with turning off the TV and such. The weather dude on channel 19 had his eyebrows working overtime with all his excitement.
@66 Jay if you hate it so much in Charlottesville GTFO! I’m tired of all the newbies moving here and constantly complaining about our town. Are you tied to your chair? Are you locked up in a house? MOVE AWAY if it’s so awful here.
/true townie
@69 Lys. Maybe things were different with ABC over the air, but we saw Lost perfectly on cable. 10:00 PM
@69 how those of us without tvs watch lost:
http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing?lid=ABCCOMGlobalMenu&lpos=FEP
if only i’d been able to watch the local news, maybe i could have known there would be less devastation in my apartment if i closed my windows before the tornado, rather than at 4am. you tv-to-internets interpreters were slacking.
@69 how people without tvs watch lost:
http://dynamic.abc.go.com/streaming/landing?lid=ABCCOMGlobalMenu&lpos=FEP
if only i had a tv then maybe the local news reporter could have told me there’d be less devastation in my apartment if i shut my windows before the tornado, rather than at 4am. you tv-to-internets translator guys were slacking!