....Remember my near stay in the Culver's cooler?? Well stupid me...I went out for dinner again last night. Must be the Friday night curse. Go out to eat, get caught in a storm. This time I headed home BEFORE it began, and I only had a ten minute drive at best, but as soon as I got in my car, the rain began and I drove all the way home in the storm. And of COURSE - I got every red light possible. Until they quit working.
This storm wasn't advertised (probably not the right word, but you know what I mean) to be as bad as last week's, but it sure did create a lot more damage in my part of the world! Halfway home the stoplights stopped working. I was on the phone with my Mom, who was keeping me updated from TV reports, and she reminded me (because I've only been driving for 14 years) that non-working stoplights become four-way stops. I hollered to her (I'd put her on speakerphone to be able to drive ten and two) that I knew that, but apparently the rest of the county was unaware, so I had to wait through all their turns before taking mine. Because face it. It really doesn't matter what the rule is...if no one observes said rule.
I drove around lots of tree portions down in the road - glad that I wasn't in those spots when they tumbled - and made it home safe and sound. I was a little unnerved that I had so much trouble keeping control of my car on a residential street. I'm used to that sort of wind turbulence on an open road. Not in the middle of a neighborhood.
Much of my part of town ended up losing power, but mine stayed on. Later last night, my former roomie came over because she was in the no-power part of town. We went for a drive to survey the tree damage. (What else do you do on a Friday night in a storm laden town?) On the way home, I noticed a strange (and huge) white cloud not far away. It scared me...so we stared at it for a while to see if it seemed to have strange movements. Then we saw flames. Oh...not a cloud. TONS of smoke. A business was quite on fire.
And of course, in true Marion fashion, all the people were gathered to gawk. And there I sat in the middle of them all, cell phone out, snapping a picture.
I wasn't sure if the power outage would affect work today - we have almost 150 freshmen and families on campus for registration. The last of four days of it. I wondered last night how that was going if the campus was without power, but evidently enough of the world was running today to let a slightly abbreviated form of registration continue.
So all of that to say...I'm just tired of storms. Especially on the weekend. But LET THE RECORD SHOW. I did get the yard mowed in record time between work and mayhem last night. thankyouverymuch.
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Do you know how to get your pictures off the phone? If you do, I'm incredibly impressed!
Having features on a cell phone isn't all it's cracked up to be when you don't know how to use them.
Well my phone doesn't take very good pictures. It might be user error, because one of my friends used to have the very same phone and her pictures were always just fine. i know how to go back and look at them, but that's it.
i'm pretty technologically stupid.
The part that made me mad was that as we left the house, I ALMOST took my camera. In fact, I'm rarely without my camera. but I didn't take it. THAT i know how to work.
OK. I don't feel so incompetent, since I'm not the only one.
A device should have one purpose. If you want to take pictures, you use a camera. If you want to call someone, you use a phone. Invariably, in my experience, a device's primary use is easy to figure out, but the extra "features" (aka "tortures") area a major pain.
It's good to know the storms haven't blown you away...
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