So this has been the story of my internet connection since sometime last night.

[corknut]

Me: *connect to internet?*
Internet: *connects!*
Me: Whoo!
Internet: *disconnects itself <3*
Me: D:< *connect to internet*
Internet: lol no
Me: D:

Rinse and repeat about once every five hours. I really need an air card from a better company than Verizon.

Also, this: WHY WOULD YOU EVER.

Comments

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Wow... that's a lot worse than what happened here.  Sorry to hear that, but I'm relieved you were okay and didn't lose anything.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

I was just Googling pictures out of curiosity, and some of them are (http://community.weatherbug.com/deskwx/guts/community/photos/Approved/2007/4/19/F_301713.jpg) pretty (http://blog.al.com/weather/2008/08/large_fay-mont.jpg) crazy (http://community.weatherbug.com/deskwx/guts/community/photos/Approved/2007/4/19/F_301710.jpg). That last one? It looks pretty level, but that's usually a little waterfall with about a ten-foot drop. Yeah. DX It was actually pretty exciting at the time, but then again, we didn't really suffer any ill effects apart from having to bail out the basement. :\

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Crazy, indeed!  Would you happen to know how many inches of rain fell to cause that?  We got about four inches in four or five hours.  Louisville was worse.  The shed at the bottom of the hill was inundated with mud-water from the creek that flows just behind the property.  The hill was the only thing saving our actual house from being engulfed by rushing water.

That must've been some flood, to almost crest a ten-foot waterfall!  You can't help but be excited when nature does something like that.  But it's not without guilt.  In a place where nothing ever happens, I couldn't help but watch with guilty anxiety as the creek overflowed into our yard.  :\  Shame about your basement.  Basements always seem to have hairline cracks that water finds its way into.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

We have had some of the most bizarre weather here in the past few years-- nothing really recent, but when I was in high school, we had flooding like that two years in a row, and also some mini-tornados/microburst stormclouds (http://www.phpbb88.com/reelostudios/viewtopic.php?t=861&mforum=reelostudios) (there two pictures in that forum thread I liked to, and I also have a third that someone else sent me buuuuut I can't find it).

I don't really know exactly how many inches fell overall, but both times we were flooded, it rained for weeks on end with no rest.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Sure sounds like it!  The weather was reigning its wrath upon New England for a while.  D:

As beautiful as those clouds are -- I have an appreciation for thunderstorms -- they look pretty daunting, and I'm glad nothing serious came of them besides rain.  ( If you ever find it, show me, even if it's completely out of nowhere -- like I said, I appreciate looking at things like this. )

...Well, you can safely say that's more than enough rain.  Must've been horrible.  D:

[banerry.livejournal.com]

That whole day with the tornado clouds (there were actual tornado touchdowns in some areas around here, but nowhere really near us) was pretty crazy. I have a whole writeup about it in my paper journal; I've actually been considering transferring it to LJ because it's a pretty wild story. :P

For months afterward (both times) my mom would start to get worried anytime it rained at all. DX I'd say for us the most horrible part was getting flooded in for a few days, but.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Please write it up if you get the chance!  Sounds like a real adventure, especially with the tornadoes.  When I lived in Ohio, an F2 tornado struck the north part of the city I was in.  I was on the very southern part, so I was missed, but the sky looked really ominous that evening.  That was the only time we had a tornado incident in our area in ten years -- and it was in November.

I don't mess around with tornadoes; they honestly scare me, but I enjoy looking at and reading about them without a problem.

Can't blame your mom!  Who knew when the next flood would be?  Heck, I'm paranoid about power outages now.  :\  Since the tornadoes missed you, I'd say the flooding was the worst part, too, because it actually happened.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

I probably will type it up later today, then! 8D

I don't blame you; tornadoes are freaky. We've always had to worry more about hurricanes in the places I've lived.

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

Hooray!  I look forward to it!  8D

They are freaky.  Freaky and violent and terrifying.  And as nice as it would be to live near the ocean, the threat of hurricanes keeps me away.

[banerry.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd ever want to live right at the shore because I'd be worried about tsunamis. XD Which is irrational because they're much, much more rare, but still. DX

[fire-lord-azula.livejournal.com]

I don't fault you at all!  Tsunamis, hurricanes... as rare as they may be, the fact that they can happen is enough of a deterrent for me.  I don't think it's irrational.  Living right at the shore means eventual erosion, tsunamis and hurricanes or not.