kay13 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Yup. Phone call from my mother. It takes time, lol! Anything exciting happened while I was away? The conversation's gone over quite a few topics, but judging from the trail of likes I'd say you've probably caught up to most of them. How's your mom doing? Also, we're under tornado watch with a thunderstorm moving through. If I disappear, don't panic. If I don't show up by tomorrow, panic may be acceptable. I am quite traceable! Mum & Dad are both fine (though with a crackling phone line). Ohhh tornados... I've seen pictures of those... they look scary. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Darsc Zacal Posted April 25, 2014 Moderator Share Posted April 25, 2014 Also, this thing about the nicknames? That's a thing you can ask for? I don't particularly need one, nor do I have any idea what I'd put there; I'm just asking out of curiosity. Titles, but yes. You're over 1000 posts, you can PM Kit and request to be "Painter of the Rising Sun" Or "Mad Painter In A Blue Box" (Provided they can actually be that long). I don't even know what that first one means...the other one's easy. Or maybe I should get "Hello, I'm the Doctor" put up there. How's about: "The Doctor is in... The TARDIS!" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 That's one good thing about living on this rock: few natural disasters. No tornadoes, hurricanes are mostly spent by the time they hit, it's geologically stable. Aside from the occassional ice storm, massive dumping of snow, or the risk of being cut off from the world by ice, it's not too bad. Also no venomous beasties. I can reach into my cereal cupboard any time I want without fear! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirithiliel Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 *looks sadly at her list of natural disasters that could happen anytime, namely tornadoes*And lets not forget the black widows, brown recluses, rattlesnakes and other assorted snakes, scorpions.... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay13 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 (edited) *looks sadly at her list of natural disasters that could happen anytime, namely tornadoes* And lets not forget the black widows, brown recluses, rattlesnakes and other assorted snakes, scorpions.... Ohhhh you should see my list.... I can get it together if you want (not so much natural disasters... more like creepies and crawlies) http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2013/03/30-of-australias-deadliest-animals/ Edited April 25, 2014 by kay13 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3r_n3rd Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Well everyone time for me to hit the road, get some dinner on the way home, and try to get some painting done on my exchange project. I'll probably lurk and/or comment tonight/this weekend a bit more, but if not have a great weekend! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pingo Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Yup. Phone call from my mother. It takes time, lol! Anything exciting happened while I was away? The conversation's gone over quite a few topics, but judging from the trail of likes I'd say you've probably caught up to most of them. How's your mom doing?Also, we're under tornado watch with a thunderstorm moving through. If I disappear, don't panic. If I don't show up by tomorrow, panic may be acceptable. I am quite traceable! Mum & Dad are both fine (though with a crackling phone line). Ohhh tornados... I've seen pictures of those... they look scary. Do you not get tornadoes there? Well, yes, they are scary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Tornados are terrifying. Waterspouts are even more so. They're slower than tornados (because they've sucked up all that water), but when you're seeing them from the deck of a ship there's really nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide. I've never seen a tornado in the flesh, and I'm quite glad of that. The one time I've seen waterspouts, there were four of them and they were damned near surrounding the ship. It was extraordinarily impressive and I'll be just as happy if I don't see it again. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 *looks sadly at her list of natural disasters that could happen anytime, namely tornadoes* And lets not forget the black widows, brown recluses, rattlesnakes and other assorted snakes, scorpions.... That's what you get for living in the strange, savage, untamed wilderness land of... Oklahoma. Might as well be Mordor, really. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buglips*the*goblin Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Tornados are terrifying. Waterspouts are even more so. They're slower than tornados (because they've sucked up all that water), but when you're seeing them from the deck of a ship there's really nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide. I've never seen a tornado in the flesh, and I'm quite glad of that. The one time I've seen waterspouts, there were four of them and they were damned near surrounding the ship. It was extraordinarily impressive and I'll be just as happy if I don't see it again. Out of anybody on board you should probably be the best-informed about how to deal with water elementals. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay13 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Yup. Phone call from my mother. It takes time, lol! Anything exciting happened while I was away? The conversation's gone over quite a few topics, but judging from the trail of likes I'd say you've probably caught up to most of them. How's your mom doing?Also, we're under tornado watch with a thunderstorm moving through. If I disappear, don't panic. If I don't show up by tomorrow, panic may be acceptable. I am quite traceable! Mum & Dad are both fine (though with a crackling phone line). Ohhh tornados... I've seen pictures of those... they look scary. Do you not get tornadoes there? Well, yes, they are scary. I think we might have had a few in Australia. Not often though... and not where I live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirithiliel Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 (edited) *looks sadly at her list of natural disasters that could happen anytime, namely tornadoes* And lets not forget the black widows, brown recluses, rattlesnakes and other assorted snakes, scorpions.... That's what you get for living in the strange, savage, untamed wilderness land of... Oklahoma. Might as well be Mordor, really. mmm you've got a point. I get to look forward to a fun weekend of high-risk tornado weather =.= *Edit* i've had a couple near misses, but never a direct hit. Once got one of those huge highway signs in my backyard Edited April 25, 2014 by Sirithiliel 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Last Knight Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Fascinating. I had no idea tornados were so rare Down Under. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/06/04/2918660.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Sundseth Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 From the sound of it, there might be some benefit to having the boards blocked at work. For once. Suffice it to say that the swag bag thread which is now locked with two pages at one time had around, if memory serves, 11-ish pages. That's sort of what I gathered. And I think I'll stop there. Yup. Phone call from my mother. It takes time, lol! Anything exciting happened while I was away? The conversation's gone over quite a few topics, but judging from the trail of likes I'd say you've probably caught up to most of them. How's your mom doing? Also, we're under tornado watch with a thunderstorm moving through. If I disappear, don't panic. If I don't show up by tomorrow, panic may be acceptable. I am quite traceable! Mum & Dad are both fine (though with a crackling phone line). Ohhh tornados... I've seen pictures of those... they look scary. They're way more scary in person. And a story that I may have told before: Some years ago (more than I would like to think, I'm sure), I was in the Colorado mountains staffing a large, outdoor, fantasy LARP game. On the afternoon of the second day, we saw a conga line of three funnel clouds moving toward us. (At this point, their bottoms were about 1000 feet above the ground). I called in the situation to the producer and started explaining field expedient safety in tornadoes (which mostly involves lying face down in a ditch and hoping/praying really hard. The funnel clouds became tornadoes when they touched down in Niwot, about 3 miles away, and killed four people. An interesting aside is that one of the teams was from Norman, OK, and included a scientist who worked at the National Severe Storms Laboratory. Apparently at that time there was some question as to whether tornadoes could form in the mountains. She took notes through the whole thing. Aside aside: The Norman, OK chapter of the IFGS also included a fairly serious player by the name of Jim Butcher – yes, that one. Nice guy and good with a fake sword. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kay13 Posted April 25, 2014 Share Posted April 25, 2014 Fascinating. I had no idea tornados were so rare Down Under. http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/06/04/2918660.htm Like I said a few... And I've been lucky enough never to live in the wrong spot! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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