Weather Porn
Sep. 19th, 2003 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotnik2004A butterfly flapping its wings in China may create a hurricane on the other side of the world. Stupid Chinese butterflies! Knock it off!
Everyone is posting heavy weather pictures today, both real and fake, so I thought I'd get in on the action. Now, this is obviously not Isabel, and it's a fuzzy black-and-white photo, and scanning it from a newspaper created that dotty pattern. But this picture is a big deal to me, and it may be interesting to some of you, for the following reason: That's Wolf Lake, where my family spends every summer. This picture is from about two weeks ago. And those of you who recognize Bluff Point on the right will realize that this picture was taken looking north from the Green Shingles and Dunollie side of the lake. Which means that our shore, and our cottage, and at the time this picture was taken, my Mom and Dad and Jamie and Miranda, are all directly on the other side of that twister. Crazy, no? The twister hit the lake right at the Jumping Rocks, on our property just a quarter-mile from the cottage. They watched it roar across the lake and around Bluff Point, where it tossed a bunch of trees and boats and trashed a couple of cottages, including my Dad's cousin's deck. There was even a mini-rain of fish. Nobody was hurt, happy to say, but I think it's pretty funny that my family just stood there on the rocks and watched the whole thing. Only afterwards did they think, "hey, that might have been kind of dangerous."
p.s.: Just to tie this into Unknown USA: the local newspaper quoted a woman saying, "There was stuff flying all over—furniture, boats... All I could think of was The Wizard of Oz."
Everyone is posting heavy weather pictures today, both real and fake, so I thought I'd get in on the action. Now, this is obviously not Isabel, and it's a fuzzy black-and-white photo, and scanning it from a newspaper created that dotty pattern. But this picture is a big deal to me, and it may be interesting to some of you, for the following reason: That's Wolf Lake, where my family spends every summer. This picture is from about two weeks ago. And those of you who recognize Bluff Point on the right will realize that this picture was taken looking north from the Green Shingles and Dunollie side of the lake. Which means that our shore, and our cottage, and at the time this picture was taken, my Mom and Dad and Jamie and Miranda, are all directly on the other side of that twister. Crazy, no? The twister hit the lake right at the Jumping Rocks, on our property just a quarter-mile from the cottage. They watched it roar across the lake and around Bluff Point, where it tossed a bunch of trees and boats and trashed a couple of cottages, including my Dad's cousin's deck. There was even a mini-rain of fish. Nobody was hurt, happy to say, but I think it's pretty funny that my family just stood there on the rocks and watched the whole thing. Only afterwards did they think, "hey, that might have been kind of dangerous."
p.s.: Just to tie this into Unknown USA: the local newspaper quoted a woman saying, "There was stuff flying all over—furniture, boats... All I could think of was The Wizard of Oz."
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Date: 2003-09-19 08:29 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-09-19 10:34 am (UTC)To make up for my feelings of lack-of-weirdness-inadequacy, I'd just like to taunt you with the fact that I'm going to go get Stephenson's Quicksilver now.
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Date: 2003-09-19 11:09 am (UTC)I'd try to ILL it but they're on the red headed stepchild library network, and only 1 other library in the system has it. Time to find a new town, I reckon.
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Date: 2003-09-19 11:22 am (UTC)"Lack of weirdness inadequacy" is something you should never have to feel, Jere. Trust me. :)
That said, I am of course jealous about Quicksilver. Bookstore or library? If the former, put me on the list to borrow it after you, Jess, and whoever else got in line ahead of me.
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Date: 2003-09-19 11:33 am (UTC)You say the sweetest things.
Pandemonium. I also got a copy for Bryant so I'm sure betwen the two of us everyone else can have a turn.
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Date: 2003-09-19 11:54 am (UTC)Jere, I got the proper address in your email, so no worries. See you guys tomorrow!
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