Comments on: Beautiful Day, Take 3 http://joel.fouse.net/2004/09/21/beautiful-day-take-3/ random musings of a bleeding-heart conservative geek Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jean http://joel.fouse.net/2004/09/21/beautiful-day-take-3/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Jean Sat, 25 Sep 2004 07:36:51 +0000 http://joel.fouse.net/wp/2004/09/21/beautiful-day-take-3/#comment-115 You're certainly smarter than my family. We had one in Greene county - about 2 minutes from central grounds at UVA, where I was working on the 3rd floor of one of our buildings. Man, I work with some smart undergrads, grad students, and professors, but we were content checking the storm's progress...by wandering to the window every few minutes. The professor heading the lab finally came in on his way out to inform us that *he* was going to the basement, and a grad student who'd just arrived ushered the rest of us down as well. Without even saving data! Poor woman was driving in in the deathly calm, and hearing on the news about how to get out of your cars, get out of the car and seek shelter - and she couldn't find a parking space. Was on IM with my mom a few hours later, when they were hitting NOVA; told her that my friend's parents could see one, and they live in the next development over, under a mile away. What do my parents do? They go outside to look for it. After a few minutes without her return to the computer, I called to request that they maybe come inside, and, oh, possibly shut the door while there's a tornado within visual range. (They didn't even see it, Dad was a bit let down.) At least I didn't have to worry about the cats while I was at work; my studio apt is kind of below ground level, so while I have windows all you see are the bricks keeping the hill from the wall and the ground isn't until you go a few feet up; not too much to worry about with wind there. Glad ya'll are smarter than our family! We're too busy wanting to see the darn things. ("Oh look at that, the rain got completely horizontal in the last three minutes. I wonder if that's bad.") Love, Jeannie You’re certainly smarter than my family. We had one in Greene county – about 2 minutes from central grounds at UVA, where I was working on the 3rd floor of one of our buildings. Man, I work with some smart undergrads, grad students, and professors, but we were content checking the storm’s progress…by wandering to the window every few minutes. The professor heading the lab finally came in on his way out to inform us that *he* was going to the basement, and a grad student who’d just arrived ushered the rest of us down as well. Without even saving data! Poor woman was driving in in the deathly calm, and hearing on the news about how to get out of your cars, get out of the car and seek shelter – and she couldn’t find a parking space.

Was on IM with my mom a few hours later, when they were hitting NOVA; told her that my friend’s parents could see one, and they live in the next development over, under a mile away. What do my parents do? They go outside to look for it. After a few minutes without her return to the computer, I called to request that they maybe come inside, and, oh, possibly shut the door while there’s a tornado within visual range. (They didn’t even see it, Dad was a bit let down.)

At least I didn’t have to worry about the cats while I was at work; my studio apt is kind of below ground level, so while I have windows all you see are the bricks keeping the hill from the wall and the ground isn’t until you go a few feet up; not too much to worry about with wind there.

Glad ya’ll are smarter than our family! We’re too busy wanting to see the darn things. (“Oh look at that, the rain got completely horizontal in the last three minutes. I wonder if that’s bad.”)

Love,
Jeannie

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