You make me dizzy Miss Lizzy

[viedma]

Kat's journal page is very nifty. I think it's a monster-ass torrrrNado, but i've been known to see and hear something and think it's one thing and really it's nothing of the sort. ('xcuse me while i kiss this guy...) So i'm going on the assumption that it's a tornado. It feels bad to think that tornadoes look beautiful considering how much damage they do and how many people they've killed, but i still think they're beautiful and very scary at the same time. I like them the way i like really violent thunderstorms. I love to sit and watch them, and my heart will race like mad.

Okay, i've never seen a tornado, not that i can remember. When i was a year old and still lived in Minnesota, Mom was running with me in her arms across the yard trying to get inside (very Wizard of Oz sounding i'll admit) and she turned the corner of the house and there it was big as life. I wish i could remember seeing it. I'd love to watch tornadoes up close as long as i knew they wouldn't kill me, but you can't have it both ways i realize.

So anyway there was actually a point to this. Tonight we had tornado watches and warnings till 8 tonight, and i kept looking out the window even if i couldn't see anything. The wind and rain felt lovely though, so long as i was inside and forced to drive in crappy weather, that is. Big scary things potentially right outside and i can't even see them. Would i even hear it if it touched down? Would it just come tearing through the building while i sit here like a dumbass on the computer and that would be it?

Okay, i might've had a little warning in the form of the guys perpetually perched outside swilling beer going "Whooooooohey!" until the funnel carried them away and their "whoo"s got fainter and fainter, but that's about it.

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[tsamm.livejournal.com]

('xcuse me while i kiss this guy...)

Oh, LOL! 'Member that great AC/DC song "Thirty thieves and the thunder chief"?

[viedma.livejournal.com]

LOL! You nut. ;-)

I saw AC/DC on Behind the Music on Sunday. Wow, what a nostalgia trip. Remember when listening to them was like, *the worst*? They were shocking in middle school! You played them and you were bad ass. Rad, even. ;)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Our Evil Bands were Kiss (seriously!) and Led Zepplin. And then the Sex Pistols came along, and even the hardcore kids who did dope out behind the language wing wouldn't touch 'em. 'Cause they were too scary. Heh.

[viedma.livejournal.com]

Oh no, i hear ya on the Kiss thing. I remember a kid on the schoolbus in elem. school going off on them and how they worship the devil and all that. To be honest, i thought he wasn't too far off the mark-- i saw that HBO special where Gene Simmons was dripping "blood" out of his mouth and thought it was icky to my 8 year old self. So i decided to groove on new wave instead. Little did i know was that that was real the real satanists lie. ;-D

Ric Ocasek - Threat Or Menace?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

So i decided to groove on new wave instead. Little did i know was that that was real the real satanists lie.

I'm sure we all remember the rumor that "Blondie" was an acronym for "Beelzebub Lives On ... um ... um ... OH LOOK AT THAT VERY INTERESTING THING OVER THERE!

:: runs away ::

[katallison.livejournal.com]

Hey, glad you like the picture, Mary! Actually, I believe this is a supercell thunderstorm, the kind that produces tornades, but unfortunately I can no longer find the source from which I filched it. (Thought it was NOAA's photo library (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/), but no soap.)

I too would love to get close to a tornado sometime without getting killed, if it could be managed. And yeah, ditto what you say about the paradox of beauty/destructiveness--realizing that was one of the first things that shattered my nascent faith in Nature's Fundamental Wise Beneficence (well, that and the Rube Goldberg-like grotesquerie of the female reproductive system).

Glad you didn't get swept away in the storm, in any event. You might have more fun in Oz, but we need you here--your mission amongst the earth beings is not yet complete.

--Kat

Swirly!

[viedma.livejournal.com]

http://www.alumni.engin.umich.edu/~dkyser/weather/pics.htm>Here (), here (http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/headlines/dszpics.html), and here (http://weatherlegacy.8k.com/pictures/tornadoes.html) are some really neat pictures of tornadoes too.

Sometimes i feel like i'm in Oz. No, not that Oz! the other one, in my head! :-D

I'm going to join my sister up in the funnel...