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Was coming home from softball last night, and a storm erupted out of literally nowhere -- one minute it was hot, and then it was apparent that something serious was going to happen. As the sky got darker literally by the second, I pulled into my garage, ran into my house, threw open the blinds and curtains, and told my wife we were in for a whale of a storm
Little did I know how right I was. I'm normally a big fan of storms, but this one fucking sucked. First, the power went out -- I went up to my second floor balcony to see if there were any limbs on the power lines, which there were. I also looked up and saw three different layers of clouds, all quickly blowing in different directions -- ffs, they don't ever write about that sort of weather in the Bible! By now, it's starting to pour, so I head in to take a shower (in the dark, but had to do it), have an impromptu candlelight dinner, etc.
The rain finally stops and everyone on the street heads outside to survey the damage. The neighborhood looks like a bomb went off -- downed trees and debris everywhere. My neighbor offers to help me with my tree.
"What tree?" I say. "I don't have any trees." Well, I do now. The top of a neighbor's tree broke off, bounced off of my garage, and landed in my backyard, straddling all of the power lines to my house. The thing fills up the whole fucking yard and reaches up to the second floor. I don't know what the fuck I'm going to down with this thing -- it's massive. More importantly, though, all of the power lines run right through it and the moment they turn the juice back on, it's going to get fried. Who knows what sorts of new problems I'll have then. Do I sit around in my oven of a house for the next 5 days to make sure it doesn't catch fire when they restore power to the lines, or just seek shelter and hope for the best?
Approximately 500,000 homes in St. Louis are without power -- mine included -- and we're looking at 3-5 days before we get it back. 100+ degrees here for the next few days with no a/c. What a fucking mess. And the crazy thing is that rain wasn't even in the forecast, as far as I'm aware. One minute I'm playing softball in the sun, the next I'm sweating my tail off in my dark-ass living room.
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Was coming home from softball last night, and a storm erupted out of literally nowhere -- one minute it was hot, and then it was apparent that something serious was going to happen. As the sky got darker literally by the second, I pulled into my garage, ran into my house, threw open the blinds and curtains, and told my wife we were in for a whale of a storm
Little did I know how right I was. I'm normally a big fan of storms, but this one fucking sucked. First, the power went out -- I went up to my second floor balcony to see if there were any limbs on the power lines, which there were. I also looked up and saw three different layers of clouds, all quickly blowing in different directions -- ffs, they don't ever write about that sort of weather in the Bible! By now, it's starting to pour, so I head in to take a shower (in the dark, but had to do it), have an impromptu candlelight dinner, etc.
The rain finally stops and everyone on the street heads outside to survey the damage. The neighborhood looks like a bomb went off -- downed trees and debris everywhere. My neighbor offers to help me with my tree.
"What tree?" I say. "I don't have any trees." Well, I do now. The top of a neighbor's tree broke off, bounced off of my garage, and landed in my backyard, straddling all of the power lines to my house. The thing fills up the whole fucking yard and reaches up to the second floor. I don't know what the fuck I'm going to down with this thing -- it's massive. More importantly, though, all of the power lines run right through it and the moment they turn the juice back on, it's going to get fried. Who knows what sorts of new problems I'll have then. Do I sit around in my oven of a house for the next 5 days to make sure it doesn't catch fire when they restore power to the lines, or just seek shelter and hope for the best?
Approximately 500,000 homes in St. Louis are without power -- mine included -- and we're looking at 3-5 days before we get it back. 100+ degrees here for the next few days with no a/c. What a fucking mess. And the crazy thing is that rain wasn't even in the forecast, as far as I'm aware. One minute I'm playing softball in the sun, the next I'm sweating my tail off in my dark-ass living room.
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which is some pretty crazy shit...
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