rock & roll n brew, rock & roll n brew: Southern Thread IV

A BAND OF MODERATE SNOW AND SLEET IS FORECAST TO MOVE NORTH OVER THE INTERSTATE 85 CORRIDOR FROM NORTHEAST GEORGIA ACROSS THE UPSTATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA BY MIDNIGHT. THIS BAND OF SNOW AND SLEET IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE A QUICK 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW. A RAPID TRANSITION TO SLEET AND FREEZING RAIN WILL THEN FOLLOW DURING THE EARLY MORNING HOURS THURSDAY. ICE MAY ACCUMULATE TO AROUND A TENTH OF AN INCH UNTIL TEMPERATURES RISE ABOVE FREEZING AROUND NOON. A COLD RAIN AND PERIODS OF SLEET WILL PERSIST INTO EARLY AFTERNOON.

A WINTER STORM WARNING MEANS SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW... SLEET... AND ICE ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. STRONG WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL VERY HAZARDOUS OR IMPOSSIBLE.

c'mon snow -- i need a day off work

Y'all got all your bread and milk?

I'm glad I drove 100 miles in my sleep last night instead of having to do it tonight.

It all missed us. Just cold and wet. Just in time for Oaklawn's start of live racing.

You can see your breath in Austin!

Storm-path peeps report!

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/ECI8.JPG

I drove to Kentucky on a whim the night I started this thread

uuuuuuugh so cold and rainy here

Hit 70 degrees today! Outrageous!

It got up to 80 here -- it's still 75 right now.

oh hay! TORNADOES!

Hickory Ridge Mall Sears is torn apart, and 18-wheelers have been blown into warehouses on Shelby Drive....blown through the walls and sitting inside warehouses

ugh, I hate this shit. Hope the Plains-Successors are okay.

Would Kentucky be a good place to live? I have romantic ideas about the place.

Tennesseeans okay??

Kentucky may or may not be a good place to live. It was 4 AM and snowing when I was there. Between here and there is a whole lot of nothing.

everybody I've spoken to is ok, if skurred. In the Mem area three are confirmed dead, there are folks trapped in the Hickory Ridge Mall and there were some serious injuries down the road in Jackson, TN when a dorm collapsed at Union University. I'm actually in Little Rock tonight and it was pretty fierce here, too.

ugh, I hate this shit. Hope the Plains-Successors are okay.

Arkansas got hit pretty hard, but here in Pulaski County, the scary storm took about fifteen minutes on us and moved on.

But there are whole towns that are just simply gone.

(Very tiny little towns, but still.)

hilary clinton will stop tornados

(srsly, hope everyone is safe and well. reports would be welcome.)

Tornado watch just announced for the next two hours here. This thing is moving really fast -- a couple of hours ago I would have said it would hit us around 2 a.m.

Best wishes, man.

dudes, there is some serious shit going down here.

mr. pike and i saw the wall cloud from the tornado right out our front door. mind, it was about a mile away, but still. we have a fun filled night of more tornado warnings lasting until the early am.

natural gas plants are blowing up after being hit by lightning, and apparently the skies are an eerie orange!

this is what what we have to look forward to in the next hour or so:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2229/2246039628_3267c99a39.jpg?v=0

The Tennessee Emergency Management Agency confirmed late Tuesday night that a fire was reported at the Columbia Gulf Natural Gas Pumping Station in Hartsville. One witness called the Channel 4 newsroom and said he could see the glow of the flames 20 miles away from the station

also! dorms collapsing at union university in jackson! apparently, everyone is okay and accounted for.

man, as a native buffalonian, i can safely say i will take 6 ft of snow over this shit any day.

The tornado that skipped over the city apparently caused a huge natural gas pumping station explosion in the northeast suburbs of Nashville! Apparently it is visible not only from downtown Nashville, but from the Cumberland Plateau, some 85 miles away.

http://www.wsmv.com/2008/0206/15229456.jpg

Hickory Ridge Mall was one of my main haunts as an adolescent. RIP.

Something very twisty passed a few miles to the south of us about 1:30, but it might not have been a full scale tornado. Anyway, we came through fine.

I don't know, Abbott, do you think it would be interesting to live in Tornado Alley? 47 dead so far in a series of storms that weren't supposed to happen this time of year.

ugh. the tennesseean is reporting 24 dead from our state alone. good christ.

http://cmsimg.tennessean.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Avis=DN&Dato=20080206&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=802060802&Ref=PH&Item=11&Maxw=560&Maxh=500

also, so tired today.

also, this photo is kind of awesome. this is a condo tower they're building in downtown nashville:

http://cmsimg.tennessean.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?NewTbl=1&Avis=DN&Dato=20080206&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=802060802&Ref=PH&Item=40&Maxw=580&Maxh=500

oh noes. links are not static.

Aw good luck guys. I hope all are okay. This is the kind of thing I would have prayed "please bless them" every day, several times a day, in fourth grade. But I don't pray anymore so this is the best I can say: hope sincerely all is safe and well.

Close call for Nashville.

On the time lapse, you will see this supercell start in Hardin County (it actually began in Mississippi) and move northeast through parts of Wayne, Perry, Lewis, Hickman, northwest Williamson (Fairview), Davidson, Sumner, Trousdale, and Macon before moving into Kentucky. The miracle is that the tornado apparently lifted up over Nashville and Davidson County before setting down again in Sumner County. If that had not happened, hundreds more could have died or been injured.

A coworker's EMT son spent last night retrieving bodies up in Sumner County.

much destruction at union university, jackson, tenn. i stayed in those same dorms at Centrifuge '89! (long-running southern baptist teen "retreat" camp type thing)

I did a week at the 'fuge as well. Summer '89, I think! Cuet girls (some), lame & creepy youth ministers.

if anybody feels like skipping this, i totally get it, but here's a heartwrending excerpt from an nyt piece if you're up for it:

Next door, Pat Veverka, a truck driver, picked through the remains of his demolished one story, tan wooden house.

“I don’t know where to start,” said Mr. Veverka, his eyes filling. “I know it sounds like a cliché but you just never think,” he paused, biting his lip. “It took me 10 years to have something.”

“We’re looking for little miracles,” said Kim Veverka, Pat’s wife, as she marveled over a fragile glass Christmas ornament that had survived the storm intact. “We keep finding them.”

Ms. Veverka was at home with her six dogs and black cat, Bonsai, when tornado sirens sounded. She made the decision to leave the pets in the house and fled to a neighbor’s house to take shelter in the basement. Moments later, her house was gone.

She was able to find the dogs, which were traumatized, but unharmed, but Bonsai was missing.

“I didn’t think there was any chance,” Ms. Veverka said. “They kept searching for him last night, searching and searching, and we didn’t think the cat had made it at all.”

Then, Wednesday afternoon, friends helping them salvage ruined personal items heard a faint meowing sound coming from under a collapsed wall. It was Bonsai, and he was unharmed. Ms. Veverka hugged the cat tightly to her chest and cried.

Hope y'all stay safe down there guys :|

awwh! bonsai! that story is making me tear up a bit! but we can blame that on my extreme fatigue and the lady bidness. ;_;

we put our kitties in the bathroom (safest room in the house) when the tornado was en route. we didn't want to have to worry about rounding them up.

thanks, trayce.

i think it's calmed down for now.

i hope we don't have to go through this shit again when spring actually arrives.

But we will. I'm not being defeatist Eeyore here, it's just the way it is living here.

yeah. i'm still getting used to this. death tolls aren't usually so high, nor do natural gas compressor plants blow up during a blizzard.

ach well.

srsly, yeah, i'm a bit freaked out. since i've been here, we've had tornadoes, torrential rains from katrina, etc. but i haven't seen it this bad.

i am to tornadoes as most southerners are to snow.

The thunder here last night/this morning was the loudest I've ever heard. I kept having war dreams and then waking up thinking terrorists had suicide bombed the hedonist JIF factory.

Not any tornadoes here but the wind itself is destructive enough. Saw two trees completely uprooted today, one of which had partially caved in a roof where it fell. When I moved into this neighborhood one of the things I loved most was the gigantic, ancient trees...trees which are now death traps full of falling sharp gigantic limbs.

xxpost:

All you can do is have an interior room to go to, turn into a weather nerd like us long-timers, go ahead and live your life, and hope God doesn't flop that fourth ace on the river. It takes a little fatalism to live anywhere where there's a "tornado season." Hang in there, you'll get used to it.

Sorry, mixed up my poker terms. Nobody flops anything on the river.

I 'm so ashamed of myself as a survivalist! Idon't have any supplies in the basement! Unless you count a drum kit, a half dozen synthesizers, a shitty PA, and 10 beers in a minifridge as "supplies".

Thats a survival kit in MY book Nicka!

I thought about unplugging my work computer last night when I shut down and putting it in our hiding-out closet, but said "ah fuck it" instead. I did put a couple of important pieces of paperwork on my bedside table with my glasses.

I will only survive for 2 nights but I will record the greatest The Cure tribute album ever recorded in a basement during a tornado.

Yesterday it almost looked like it would just blow past us here (Lex, KY...Louisville however is hit HARD, in the 8"-10" already), but last night boy did it fucking roll in. Also SNOW THUNDER! I've never, ever once heard snowstorm thunder.

Yeah it was in the 60s here on Thursday.

snowing today and supposed to be 60s on Monday. LOL.

NC is considered the south but might as well be the South Pole to my Texican ass.

We've had a really wet winter here, after two or three very dry ones, and that made me think about the Georgia drought. How's the rainfall been there the last 4-5 months?

it rained this weekend when the tornadoes hit!

who can hear tornado sirens right now?

ummm..city of panic?

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5917/tornadoesdz0.jpg

It's sleeting right now, on April 14th. Low of 30 tonight. Guh!

woah!

Good thing I have lots of extra empty pots and buckets to cover stuff that's already in the ground. Tomatoes are safe at parents' greenhouse, some herbs bought Saturday won't get planted until Thur. or Fri.

madness. If I have to turn my heat on one more time before mid-December...

cloudy where i'm at

MemFAP '08 in May sometime?

ILXor barbecue hoedown.

I was gonna say! Weather's been pretty ace (when it's not raining it's ass off). a weekend with a Redbirds game might be a good idea.

I love this idea - - May will be a very busy month for us, but if there were more solid dates/times, I would try to make it!

Are allergies kicking your ass today?

so who all is within reasonable driving distance?

I'm about 2 hrs. away, south of Tupelo.

A Redbirds game would be cool.

alright dudes, Redbird schedule

other than this weekend, i don't really have any conflicts this month. that I know of. There's always the possibility I could get shipped off to Corpus Christie at the last minute for work.

The weekend of the 23rd looks good for us, SO FAR. My younger cousin from Ft. Smith may be with us. Get this, he once asked me what the "deal" was with Memphis. !!! !!!!!! !! Maybe we can learn him?

I will discuss the possibility with Andrew this eve.

Exciting!

Oh, and BBQ!

if you guys all survive the great southern fap on august 2nd i'll be in memphis again?

we'll see, kevin.

(i wanted to sound mom there)

i'll definitely be down there sept. 25-29 if i don't make it in august.

gonerfest!

otm.

Weekend of 17th is best for me as far as Redbird homestands.

The tornadoes blew up some of our ISP's equipment, so we've been mostly without internet for about 30 hours. Everybody in Arkansas okay?

Yeah. Our town got our tornadoes last month, so we're good the rest of the way.

http://j-walkblog.com/images2/rbion.gif

Yeah, but Oklahoma just barely.

Preview of Oxford American DVD coming out.

"Are you an entertainer, Mr. Cash?"

oh damn, will purchase for Big Star footage alone.

okay is it ice out there or not little rockers. ive got no window and reports are varying from above freezing to below freezing the melting ice to sticking ice. just snow or be sunny pls sky ITS NOT HARD! kthxbye

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♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ Summer's gonna SUCK this year, SUCK this year… ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬

75 here in ATL too. At least that's what my car's temp reading said

http://i39.tinypic.com/33wy175.jpg

oh yeah

82 in Dallas.

I don't know what's about to happen, but it can't be good.

http://www.arktimes.com/imager/b/blog/3134111/8762/kark.jpg

Its 75 here in Atlanta. Im sure there will be a reckoning at some point soon.

I don't know what's about to happen, but it can't be good.

http://i.imgur.com/h2czyvB.jpg

Damn, Louisiana...

http://i.imgur.com/pGQXFL3.gif

It's rained the last three days straight. It was clearing up earlier. Went outside and thought, "isn't it supposed to get cooler after a storm moves through?"

It usually does --- unless...

https://i.imgur.com/k4KntRP.jpg

Two or three times a week, during the months between March and November, I go outside and do some yardwork.

Might be mowing the lawn, cutting some branches, building a drainage trench, raking leaves, finding rocks for the drainage ditch, etc.

Been here for 11 years, so 308 weeks, something like 750 days...

... and for some reason last week, the bugs got me. I'm not even sure how or when it happened. Mosquito bites, sure, but also a blend that includes tiny round scrapy bites that don't look like chigger bites, but itch something ten times worse. A few areas that itch even though I don't see any bites, sores or redness.

All I know is that this was the third morning in a row that i've slathered cortisone all over my legs and then covered up with boxers, longjohns in the middle of June and one or two pairs of socks. This is the first day I've had since the weekend where I didn't want to douse my legs in gasoline and set them on fire.

A few weeks ago, I silently stood proud once again for being able to grab a bouquet of poison ivy and stuff it inside a garbage bag without the slightest welt appearing. I feel immortal since I know the rest of yous can't do that.

But boy did my yard turn on me. Might have to get the napalm out.

Wellness check requested for Hardy, R.

Safe and sound, thank you for checking on me, PP. Just got broadband back 90 minutes ago after 141 hours without. Power came back on after 35 hours and we didn't lose anything, thank goodness for tight seals on the fridge and freezer. The boil water notice was lifted yesterday afternoon. I could read ILX on Zing and update bookmarked threads but couldn't post for whatever reason or I would have checked in Saturday.

Three co-workers lost their houses, the north and west parts of town got demolished. We were almost untouched -- just lost one maple limb. Our daughter only lost her porch swing. Feeling a lot of survivor's guilt this week.

Survivor's guilt: it's an odd feeling to have a bad storm pass through and think, "Glad I don't live east of here."

Feared another possibility before realizing, Well, hell. Whole power grid probably got shut down over there.

Glad you're back. You didn't miss much.

Looks like today's crap is in your area, good luck.

Amory's Piggly Wiggly had its roof ripped off. The owner, one of our aldermen, told my boss "if insurance calls it totaled I don't think I'm going to rebuild. I'm moving to the coast -- I'd rather deal with hurricanes than tornadoes."

We've got to stop reviving like this.

All's well on our parcel. It hit everywhere else around us.

Can relate.

After dodging covid for 3 years, our daughter caught her first case yesterday, diagnosed today, after being around a steady stream of relief workers, contractors and city hall personnel. I haven't seen many masked people this week so I'm expecting the recovery effort to be a big superspreader event to mushroom in 3... 2... 1...