Comedy of errors

There were storms yesterday in the Ozarks. I guess they
thought some of them were going to be severe, as many
tornado warnings were issued all over. After dinner etc.
I started to follow radar (online) with the Weather Channel
and whatnot, to see if anything was coming this way. Around
11pm I was waiting for the ABC local news to come on, and
there were tornado warnings to the west of us. Many storms
travel west to east. No it wasn't an anxiety attack or huge
concern, just wanted a heads up before going to bed and
what not.

I have an old tv in here with a converter box - hehe. Getting
up to do something, then returning, somehow the channel
changed itself (honest) to another channel. I changed it
back. Getting up to do something else then coming back
there was no tv at all. I tried flipping channels and no tv.
So I assumed I did something. Clickety click. Oops.
Somehow the language was now all in Spanish. Trying to
change it back (I don't know enough Spanish to interpret
'Push this button to change languages') didn't work. So
I looked up the converter box online to see what to do.
Then I figured out how to do a channel search in English
(yay). What I DIDN'T know was that several stations
had just been knocked off the air (stupid digital signals
anyhow, why did we have to switch?). So I ended up
with about 4 channels on my tv. (This afternoon had to
do another channel search to get them back, and they're
in English - yay).

While trying to do all of that last night, I wanted an update
on the storms too. I mean, last I left off there were two
or three tornado warnings west of us. Did I need to get
ready to hide soon? Nobody updated anything on their
news websites in the way of watches and warnings. All I
had to go on was radar, and I need a crash course in how
to read that thing! I did end up with one local channel
on the tv (10) that pretty much said the nasty stuff was
over. I could go to bed! Still this morning as a storm
went through (that knocked over my beans and corn)
I laid there listening for sirens (thankfully non existent
sirens).

Today was busy propping plants back to their upright
position :) Someone stopped by today that is going to
be doing some work for us, and when I asked him when
he would start he replied, "Well, waiting on five days
of good weather. These meteorologists do nothing but
lie." OMG I started laughing! (Maybe I need more sleep,
he).

Storm shelters

We have a storm shelter here.
We don't use it to hide from storms.
The people that put it in put it waaaaaay
too far away from the house. I'm not
about to run out there in the pouring rain
and hail 20 times a year to sit in a dank
and dark place. But it's built right - it's
in the ground, faces the right way, has
a steel door, has a ventilation pipe and
also a drain that runs water through a
pipe downhill. When the remodel is
done here and the bedroom addition
finished, the storm shelter will be moved
so it's right on the other side of a door
off of the bedroom. It will be more like
a safe room, only it will still be underground,
have the ventilation and drainage, and
the steel door. The building is concrete.

I am reminded tonite of the time at the
radio stations when FEMA decided to
finance a storm shelter broadcast room.
I had nothing to do with it - the money
came from FEMA, tens of thousands of
dollars. The broadcasting room was
finished, the equipment in place and
hooked up. The idea was in the event
of an emergency, the radio station could
still broadcast from the safe room. BUT.
Two things happened. #1 is it had a
wooden door - oh yeah EXCELLENT idea
in the event of an emergency!! #2 was
they delivered a generator WAY TOO
BIG to ever go in the room designated for
it. This generator was close to a hundred
grand in cost! Taxpayer money at it's
best! I have no idea what happened, but
I was not going to waste anymore of
taxpayer money. I knew the shelter would
not withstand any sort of bomb or catastrophe,
I knew it was not up to par. So by
the time the generator was delivered I
refused it - told them to take it back.
No one believed that I was serious. And
I have no idea what FEMA did with it after
that time. I did know that it was time to
stop the insanity of wasting taxpayer money
on something that served no purpose
whatsoever! Who the genius was that put
all that together and sent me that stuff
I have no idea. Before the semi came back
to pick it up I had many ranchers stop and
say if I didn't want it they would take it
off my hands - LOL!

Snowbirds

More ice storm

This one will be remembered.

ICE STORM

Wow is it scary. Northern Arkansas calls it their worst ice

storm ever. Going out to the mailbox you think you hear

everyone shooting off guns - in reality it is tree limbs crashing

down - yikes!