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06-06-2010, 06:07 AM
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I hope everything goes your way monster and beest and family. I can't imagine what it's like to have to deal with that kind of threat, although we did have a couple of tornadoes last week pretty close to our place. It's been unknown in our area before.
I think the end is nigh!
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06-06-2010, 09:20 AM
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Are you knock-kneed?
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That system must have went north of us here. I almost didnt want to go to bed knowing it was coming. Im glad you guys survived it!
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06-06-2010, 09:28 AM
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Only looks like a disaster tourist
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We don't know that yet. Calling all monsters - report in to the Cellar.
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06-06-2010, 09:36 AM
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I hear them call the tide
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heehee we're here. We left the sprogs in the basement and went to bed. Either there wasn't another warning or we slept right through it. It's not scary so much as annoying. A large part of us wants to carry on and ignore them because the chances of there actually being a tornado are very small, but we have kids and they know they drill and it would be like trying to make them cross the road when the red man is showing. Besides, it was all one huge adventure for them.
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06-06-2010, 09:45 AM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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A tornado touched down in central Illinois yesterday.
I guess the storm mostly missed us too: I kept hearing the rumblings of thunder but mostly we just got rain. Also last night, I was hearing the "thump thump thump" of music and I think it was from a local catholic church festival's band (for some years that band would have been my ex's band) playing the typical saturday night drunken party...but I could hear it from clear across town. Glad the beestmonster's are OK. It would be an adventure for a kid! They probably woke up and said "Awwww, is that IT?"
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06-06-2010, 09:55 AM
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Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out
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06-06-2010, 04:15 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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Tornados touched down 20 miles south of us and damaged Cabela's and the Splash Universe water park in Dundee. Also a nearby Nuclear power plant took some bulding damage.
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06-06-2010, 07:15 PM
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Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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I was telling my mom this story and she asked me if I mentioned my older brother, having heard the tornado warning, was sitting in the basement with his football helmet on and a sheet over him. He was probably about 11 years old.
 Our basement wasn't "finished" but it was good in a pinch. It was where I met my first giant spider.
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06-06-2010, 07:17 PM
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Chews Food Coming In, And Going Out
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Now I can't sleep 'til I find it. 
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06-06-2010, 07:20 PM
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so, supposed to be sunny and ungodly hot all day today, right? I wake up from my nap at 5:30 and . . . it's dark! (okay, darkish, but def not sunny).
My first thought was --TORNADO! We've had only one tornado scare in the 25 years I've been here. Now I'm skeered. I blame da Cella! (apparently just a thunderstorm and "blowing dust" tho)
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06-06-2010, 07:24 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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06-06-2010, 07:30 PM
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I suppose I'd give it a try, but not a house spider. Those big, hairy, beastly spiders. They're supposedly very good for you, and rather tasty, too!
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06-06-2010, 07:31 PM
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still says videotape
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The front has passed us in PA now. We lost 30 plus degrees in the time it took to drive home from Jersey.
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06-07-2010, 05:41 AM
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Dawn breaking - looking good!
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06-07-2010, 11:23 AM
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Glad to hear you and your family is okay, Monster. I just read the article about the damages tornadoes did in Ohio. Sad.
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