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Oldtex
Member
03-06-2006
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 8:50 pm
RN - actually this morning I woke up @ 4:00 am to strong, very strong, winds, lightening and just a bit of rain. Turned on TV and saw the local station's radar, a huge line of red and yellow (on radar) heading straight toward me. This line was actually from about 100 miles north and probably about the same south of me. Storm was moving west to east. DH had already left for work. (he did get there before the storms). The local weather guy was saying it should be in my area in about 20 minutes! I grabbed pillows and comforter and headed to my most interior closet (like the weather survice was advising). Of course this is the closet that needs cleaning out...but I just threw in pillows and had covering ready because there were tornadoes in the area. Even though I've lived in this area all my life and through many tornado warnings and strong storms, I seem to get more scared the older I get. I could still peek out the closet and see and hear the TV (although power went out a few times). It was really loud (winds) but passed through very quickly. Then about 30 minutes later, we got an electrial storm with blowing rain. All of this blew out and we had the most beautiful blue skys and the rest of the week looks like it will be very nice. Thanks for those that thought of me. I'm just a bit of a chicken when it comes to severe weather. Had a few limbs down and "stuff" outside blown over, but we were lucky.
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Biscottiii
Member
05-29-2004
| Thursday, April 10, 2008 - 11:43 pm
RN Glad to see you're safe OT. I saw an article in the newpaper this morning and was wondering how you fared. Whew, that HAD to be scary! IMO, the older we get the more news stories we've heard/seen of people getting hurt in those types of situations, plus have more to property-wise to lose perhaps. While when we were younger, there seemed more of a sense of feeling more immortal in the excitement of it all. I would have felt exactly as you did!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 12:40 am
RN Glad your safe and sound ((OT)). Me... It's about 4 AM and I can't sleep, rotator cuff pain is keeping me awake. Just finished reading a book. But I'm going to head back to bed and TRY to get some sleep. It it ain't one thing. It's a 'nuther. Sigh.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7:34 am
RN anybody here having any trouble signing in to Yahoo?
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Oldtex
Member
03-06-2006
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7:35 am
Bisc, I think you are so right about "when we get older"...HEY, I'm not really old, just mature! No, I'm old! I remember, when I was just a kid, my grandmother being just the way I am now. And my brothers recently looked at some old pictures of my grandmother, they laughed, and said "who does that look like?". They were looking right at me. I told them to go ahead and laugh, I considered it a compliment! My brothers and I do kid around like that. Mame, I hope you were able to get some sleep and relief. My dh has rotator cuff pain and I have the knee pain. We are such a pair!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7:38 am
RN Oldtex, glad you're okay!
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Oldtex
Member
03-06-2006
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 7:40 am
RN, I'm glad I'm OK too! Grace, I thought you were going to "remind" me that I had forgotten to RN on my above post! But I know you are just too nice to do that. Right?
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 8:05 am
RN, Oldtex, what a scary story! Glad you and your home are safe xoxoxo
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 8:05 am
RN got about 4 hours sleep. Groggy and cranky. Meeting a galpal for lunch and a film. She's treating to lunch and I'm treating to the film. Should cheer me up. Hope I don't snore through the movie. LOL. Sorry I'm such a crabby-ass today. Hugs everybudddy!
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Landileigh
Member
07-29-2002
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 8:15 am
right now, urgrace i've had a pain in the ass time with it and my Outlook. it's very sporadic.
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, April 11, 2008 - 9:33 am
RN it's been sporadic a lot lately, landileigh, and with groups it's been ridiculous. I just wish it would let me do my thing without wasting an hour on it, because I was beginning to think it was my computer! Thanks for the answer to my question.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 2:04 pm
RN Hubby and I are getting dressed to meet another couple for dinner downtown. An Italian restaurant none of us have been to before. Here's hoping its good.
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Irishtxgrl
Member
12-07-2005
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 7:01 pm
RN watching game show network
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Saturday, April 12, 2008 - 7:22 pm
RN We had a wonderful dinner! I had french roasted chicken with grilled shrimp and scallops on a bed of risotto and I kept thinking Gordon Ramsey wouldn't throw this risotto in the trash. LOL
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 5:05 am
RN it's snowing in Windsor. I'm tired of the snow....flurries or storms....IT'S TIME FOR SPRING !!!! I'm going camping...(summer vacation) in about 6 weeks....hope I don't have to pack my parka LOL
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 5:17 am
RN, snowing in Western New York, too! It is supposed to get up to nearly 70 by Thursday. We dress in layers so we can peel them off as necessary. 
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 8:29 am
RN it's a beautiful day in the Neighbourhood... a beautiful day in the Neighbourhood... would you be my friend? LOL. Toronto is gorgeous and sunny today and all the snow has melted away. Hope that's the last of it... (dh being a pessimist, thinks it ain't over yet by a longshot.)
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 8:32 am
RN I have to make a fashion line sheet in Photoshop for a small company I've been freelancing for, for their spring collection. I used to think working at home was a great idea, but, well, it's not. Lazy bones! 
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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 10:21 am
Right now .. well yesterday, we actually put our air conditioner on for a bit. It was in the high 80's and we'd been doing yard work. It's beautiful weather right now!! 
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 11:02 am
RN Huk, you got snow??? Wow! Its bright and sunny here!
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 11:24 am
RN it's in the 90s here. Just got in from a morning soccer game and I have sunburn and am miserably hot and sweaty. Hard to imagine snow right now...
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 11:31 am
RN, yes Twinkie...are you callin me a liar, lol? Them's fightin words sister! Note that my post was at 8:30 a.m. our time. Were you even out of bed at that hour? It's all gone now though. Flakes were the size of dimes or so, it was really pretty to look up at the sky and watch them floating down ('cept when one or two landed smack in the middle of my eyeball).
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 12:09 pm
RN I'm taking deep breaths and trying to calm myself down. I was out in the backyard with my dogs, cleaning up after them. Our house was built on a hill, so the floor is much higher than the backyard. There's a panel that comes off to give access to the crawlspace, and the latch is broken, so it keeps falling off and leaving a gaping hole. About a year or so ago, we had a mouse, so one of my sons went under the house and set some mousetraps for me. While I was outside today, Aussie went under the house and came back with a mousetrap in his mouth - with a dead mouse in it! I am so terrified of mice! I kept telling myself that I could just use the long-handled pooper-scooper to scoop up the mouse and toss it in the garbage, but I just can't do it! I started shaking and had to come inside. I'll have to wait until one of my sons is available to go get rid of it for me. Apart from the fact that there is a dead mouse out there, it appears to be freshly dead; that means there was at least one live mouse under (and possibly in) my house! Eeeeeeeeek!
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Nyheat
Member
08-09-2006
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 12:13 pm
RN--Oh boy, you'd love my apartment then, Merry. I went in the kitchen the other night and I saw a big mouse butt parked on the stove behind the pot my roommate had just used to cook pasta. The exterminators put poison peanut butter traps in there and they still romp around at night and cause havoc. They run this place--I am just visiting!
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Sunday, April 13, 2008 - 12:21 pm
RN, no, thank you, NY! I would be a basket case!
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