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I see JBS and ryango on the board. You guys need to get a life!

Speaking of myself, I do have a life. A pathetic one, but a life. Everyone else is obsessively watching the Weather Channel.

By the way, Jon, are you evacuating ahead of Irene?

My favorite part of the weather channel is when the reporter stands on the beach with three raincoats on with 100 mph winds and rain as big as golf balls knocking the mike out of hand as he describes the 10 foot waves on top of the 8 foot tide telling everyone to evacuate.

It's as if we need to see that to know how serious the hurricane is.

Yeah I am evacuating to a nearby movie theater for two hours, then heading back home.

They are talking about "retiring" Irene's name for hurricanes. Geez, this isn't Katrina or Andrew.

Besides, with the naming system they have, how long before Irene would come up again anyway?

Hopefully all are safe on the East Coast - it is weird to be in the 70's with sunshine on the west coast and have you guys getting wet.

I am watching the Weather Channel and checking in here simultaneously!
In Isabel, I lost huge trees (luckily none hit the house); it was the scariest night I have ever had, with them crashing down all around. So, I am evacuating to a friend's house very shortly. It helps that her husband is a great chef, and is making dinner, so it should be pleasant rather than scary!
Everyone who is in the storm track, stay safe!

I think that is filmed in a Hollywood sound stage. Just like the moon landings.

Would you swing by and make sure Jon gets to the movies all right? He's definitely not taking this very seriously.

Donna,
Are you on the way over? Movie is at 6:40.

Obviously, you have never been attacked by a bat.

Jon,

Are you going to be watching:

"What Happened To CCHIT"

or

"Hardware Acceleration"

Just to be clear, I am not one of those guys who says "I am staying to protect my house, no matter who says to evacuate". This is a big storm, and certainly should be taken with some seriousness, depending on where you are. I think that Donna is right that in our area, downed trees (and perhaps some flooding) are likely to be the major issues. On the other hand, the media knows that disasters are what sells. Do you remember the headlines from just 2 days ago: "Hurricane Irene: Prepare for a Category 4 'major hurricane'". Right now it is 85 mph, category 1.

This man might have an acute haldol insufficiency.....

He must have been on something. To even think he could get away by running past at least four Alabama cops was pretty crazy in and of itself.

I've been attacked by a Bat, and yes a Mamamalian Bat not a Bronx Bomber Gang Fight Baseball Bat as some of you who know where I grew up might be thinking either...

My two friends and I while at hockey camp as young teenagers perhaps about 13 or 14 years old, had a bat get in our dorm room one night... It was scary at the time but it makes a great funny story later on... The thing nearly landed right on my face while my head was on my pillow looking up at it as we were just starting to realize in the dark what we were dealing with and barely seeing with almost no light in the room....

My bed was wedged inbetween my two friends so we could get all three of us in one room since we were all buds from home and went the same week to hang together... So my bed and headboard was up against the radiator cover and middle window part of the room.... And so the thing landed on the riser pipe for the radiator feeds and that pipe was right up against my pillow.... The poor thing had no Grip to hold on to a slippery pipe and for some reason it froze perhaps scared of us.... so instead of letting go and flying again, it decided to simply hold on for dear life and started sliding down the riser pipe right for my face!!! I freaked out and of course did the only sensible thing, I quickly hid my head and the rest of me under my sleeping bag.... I'll never forget that thing sliding right for me wondering why the hell won't it try to take off and fly around the room some more....

So one of my two friends covers himself with his sleeping bag and runs out into the hall to get the counselors... He's screaming "open up come quick there's an F'ing bat in our room!!!" The two guys stuck their heads out and the bat who had now exscaped our small room to full advantage of the situation and was doing laps up and down the long narrow hallway of this dorm set up..... So when the saw the bat wiz by their own faces they slammed the down in my friend Larry's face, leaving him and us feeling momentarially betrayed and abandoned....

So a few moments later these older teenage, perhaps college aged assistant coach counselors come flying out into the hallway both of them with jackets on, full helmets and facemasks, one armed with a Tennis Racket while the other had a Lacrosse Stick, and they proceeded to beat the snot out of this poor thing and had a nice volley going on there for quite some time...

And as this all errupted you've got to understand that it woke up even camper in ever room on that floor of the dorm, so you've got all these kids from about 8 or 9 years of age to about 17 all poking their heads out of cracked open doors with towels and blankets on their heads, some of them like layered two or three heads high in those cracked open doors taken this entire scene in.... It was the talk of the rest of our session, the three kids from the Bronx who had the F'ing Bat in their Room.... We were minor celeb's for a few days....

It was a great session of camp that summer with some awesome weird teen kid memories like that... Next time I'll have to tell you folks about my other Friend Neil and this "Great Balls of Fire!!!" Til next time.....

Paul

But....did you ask if it were a smoker? If not, the whole f... story is meaningless.

PS: I love the Weather Channel ad where their Best Storm Rider Jim Cantori shows up at some nice sunny beach to catch a day off and the moment everyone catches a glimps of him, looks of horror and panic come over their faces and the entire beach clears out.... Because where ever Jim Cantori is, then there must be some fierce storm coming for him to "Surf" and Ride Out....

"Can't a man get a break when he's taking a break???"

Great Ad.... They should be running it right now if they are not.

Paul

Danm It, NO!!! Now I don't get paid my Bribe for going to Hockey Camp that I have waited 36 years to arrive in my account.... Sounds more and more like CMS all the time, doesn't it???

You should have used your check list. There is plenty of time. You can do it during your patient visits.

Yes but those Huge Gloves make it mighty difficult to type or use a stylus for all those boxes and drop down menus, while actively on a shift on the ice no less while busting @$$ during serious drills at camp.... and I couldn't buy a freakin' Iphone or tablet back in the mid 70's either beause I didn't work at Area 51 where we first learned how to back engineer all of this wonderful modern technology....

You're a Ped, don't you know anything, haven't you learned anything after watching "Transformers"... "Nasty little bastards, like energizer bunnies from hell...."

Storm Story
Well yes, it is good that I left, a large tree fell accross our road from my neighbor's property onto mine, trapping 10 housholds who live beyond it. Many limbs and small debris down, but no house damage. Unfortunately, I did suffer an injury when my cat and my hosts' cat decided to have a battle, and in trying to separate them, claws were used on my face. I now know the true meaning of the expression "cat fight". They were both puffed up to about three times their size, and the yowling was unbelievable. I spent much of the night awake with my cat hissing at me.
Was the movie theater really open, Jon?

All Maryland theaters must be up to code to withstand earthquakes up to 6.0 and Category 3 and up hurricanes. Should be fine. Remember the last earthquake was 100 years ago, and if it shakes things up in Providence, it could be helpful.

By the way, as much as we hate when patients add the famous one degree after axillary temps, you are pretty safe to subtract about 15 to 20 mph off the predicted winds. Sensationalism at its finest.

Jon, you are always on here.

I am not. In fact, I am not here now.
Oh, and what is that expression about the pot calling the kettle black?

And, I am not here, which is why I know you are not here. How was the movie?

Got to the theater and it was closed.
But at least I didn't get scratched by any cats.

I was attacked by a bat again today. Or maybe it was a huge moth. Hit me in the left upper chest. No marks. Already had one rabies shot. I don't think bats fly around during the day. But, hurricanes may change that.

You are becoming the boy who cried bat.

But you are becoming the boy who cried cat.

And, to everyone, it is not true that Jon and I send silly, non-AC-related posts to pad our post count.

Post padders...

Hurricanes? never had to deal with one. Seems like you get a lot of notice and the damage is usually flood related. My sister had time to fly in from Manhattan and stay for a few days.

We deal with tornadoes. They suck. And when they hit at night, it's absolutely devastating. I wish I could casually see a tornado coming, pack up some stuff, put some plywood on my windows, and head inland to watch some movies. Oh well, I chose to live here I guess!

Travis,

You could watch The Wizard of Oz and kill two bats..uh..birds with one stone.

Everyone interviewed on TV after a tornado always says it sounds like a freight train coming. This could help, unless you live near RR tracks.

It seems like everyone who is interviewed makes about $10,000 a year.

Damn, that was funny John. I am still laughing.

They interviewed my mom one year when a tornado touched down in their pasture and tore down a barn. My family taped it. It's a classic we replay on her birthday or at Christmas because we always say they interview the person with one tooth who can't carry on a sensible conversation. My mother is very well educated and actually sounded like a human...but we still made fun of her because they chose her for the interview.

She says the people who say it sounds like a train don't have the vocabulary to be any more descriptive. She didn't think it sounded like a train

Oh yeah, if you hear the train, you're probably about to get hit by it

So what did she say it sounded like? If it's too much to write, you can just post it on YouTube.

She said it sounded like a storm. Obviously she can go into serious detail about the intricacies of the sounds...but still a storm. She's a writer with a ridiculous vocabulary.

You all are killing me!! While you spent the weekend watching the weather channel, battling cats and going to the movies I was home spreading manure.
And you are so right, Travis. I thought it was just in my neck of the woods that the women chosen to be interviewed after a tornado are usually toothless, wearing a tube top, with a huge Virginia Slim hanging out of their mouths. The men are usually dressed in a cut off "Get-Er-Done" T-shirt, wearing a Bass Pro Shop hat and talking about how the "ternader" took the Chevy right off the blocks in the front yard and landed it in the neighbor's frog pond. I always wondered why the media do this. Glad to hear they do the same in Arkansas