Plans and storms
So. How's it going?
I am hanging in there. The fact that vacation is less than two weeks away is keeping me going through all the normal BS that is life. Work is okay. Half of our management team will be on vacation next week, so we're getting an extra guy from another store. Then the next week the other half of the team (which includes me, yay!) get to go on vacation. I chose to split my vacation between two weeks. Normally I have to work five 10-hour days a week, so out of the two weeks I have to work 5 days and get 9 off. The first week I have 5 days off, the second 4, but they're both over the weekend (Wed-Sun & Thurs-Sun). This also means that I get 4th of July Weekend off. I haven't had a 4th of July off in forever. Steve & his gf Steph & her friend Amanda are coming to town that weekend for a visit which will most likely include drinking too much and a cookout, somebody blowing something up (fireworks).
That 5 day break is when I am going on vacation to North Carolina. Plans are looking pretty freakin' sweet. I decided to break up the drive on the way down. I've sacrificed Monday to a 13 hour day so that I can leave at 2pm on Tuesday, drive to Hocking Hills and get a hotel. I'll hit up my favorite trails and then get up early-early the next day to tackle the other 10 hours of the drive. Right now trying to make up some playlists.
I picked up some books for vacation and some crochet books to get some ideas. Once I get a few projects finished I'll post pictures of my handiwork.
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What else? I've been fighting off a cold for the last couple days. I made the (apparently stupid) mistake of sleeping with the windows open on a nice night a few days back and have been sniffling every since. The nice weather followed the more usual hot-and-humid-as-fuck weather that generally occupies the Ohio summer.
Of course, the transition from suck to not-suck in weather is never smooth in the summer and we had some seriously bad storms. The EF4 tornado (winds abt 175 mph) that hit millbury and destroyed Lake high school was about 15 miles from where I live. The EF2 tornado that hit Dundee passed about 500 feet from my dad's house! The NWS says that this tornado was 800 yds (almost a half mile) wide, one of the largest in years. Luckily they were not home when it happened, they had already went for shelter as my dad's home is one of those modular/mobile homes. They did have some damage (siding pulled off, skirting pulled off, the wooden stairs rolled and broken) and my dad said their was a some debris piled up against the side of the house too. I'm guessing they got some sideswiping winds from twister. He's got most everything put back together, but will have to build some new stairs as the other ones are kind of busted up. Unfortunately there were many people who were not as fortunate. The pictures of damage are horrific, especially when you consider that this all happened at night. Night tornadoes are scary as fuck.
I am hanging in there. The fact that vacation is less than two weeks away is keeping me going through all the normal BS that is life. Work is okay. Half of our management team will be on vacation next week, so we're getting an extra guy from another store. Then the next week the other half of the team (which includes me, yay!) get to go on vacation. I chose to split my vacation between two weeks. Normally I have to work five 10-hour days a week, so out of the two weeks I have to work 5 days and get 9 off. The first week I have 5 days off, the second 4, but they're both over the weekend (Wed-Sun & Thurs-Sun). This also means that I get 4th of July Weekend off. I haven't had a 4th of July off in forever. Steve & his gf Steph & her friend Amanda are coming to town that weekend for a visit which will most likely include drinking too much and a cookout, somebody blowing something up (fireworks).
That 5 day break is when I am going on vacation to North Carolina. Plans are looking pretty freakin' sweet. I decided to break up the drive on the way down. I've sacrificed Monday to a 13 hour day so that I can leave at 2pm on Tuesday, drive to Hocking Hills and get a hotel. I'll hit up my favorite trails and then get up early-early the next day to tackle the other 10 hours of the drive. Right now trying to make up some playlists.
I picked up some books for vacation and some crochet books to get some ideas. Once I get a few projects finished I'll post pictures of my handiwork.
....
What else? I've been fighting off a cold for the last couple days. I made the (apparently stupid) mistake of sleeping with the windows open on a nice night a few days back and have been sniffling every since. The nice weather followed the more usual hot-and-humid-as-fuck weather that generally occupies the Ohio summer.
Of course, the transition from suck to not-suck in weather is never smooth in the summer and we had some seriously bad storms. The EF4 tornado (winds abt 175 mph) that hit millbury and destroyed Lake high school was about 15 miles from where I live. The EF2 tornado that hit Dundee passed about 500 feet from my dad's house! The NWS says that this tornado was 800 yds (almost a half mile) wide, one of the largest in years. Luckily they were not home when it happened, they had already went for shelter as my dad's home is one of those modular/mobile homes. They did have some damage (siding pulled off, skirting pulled off, the wooden stairs rolled and broken) and my dad said their was a some debris piled up against the side of the house too. I'm guessing they got some sideswiping winds from twister. He's got most everything put back together, but will have to build some new stairs as the other ones are kind of busted up. Unfortunately there were many people who were not as fortunate. The pictures of damage are horrific, especially when you consider that this all happened at night. Night tornadoes are scary as fuck.
posted by Winter @ 1:48 PM
2 Comments:
At 9:58 PM ,
Mark said...
I remember that day I was in Ohio and we were checking the tornado warnings on the internets. I thought it was a lot of fun, actually. But I can see how it would get annoying, if you had tornadoes year after year ;)
Have fun on your holiday!
At 12:57 AM ,
Winter said...
Yeah, I remember that too. :) For weather nerds, like moi, it can be exciting, but if there is one I always hope it just goes through a field or something, not somebody's house. And you never like to see people get hurt.
And thanks! I will take plenty of pictures!
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