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Raining Heavilee

Tropical Storm Lee has brought us almost 6 inches (15cm) of rain in the past 24 hours, and more to come. Not much wind so far although that's picking up some now. This is probably going to keep on for the next 24 hours or more. A few minutes ago I heard a sort of explosive sound and the power went off. There's very little lightning around so I guess maybe something fell on something. I have a feeling the power may be off for a while. I have internet access until my laptop battery and/or the battery backup for the router give out, which won't be much longer. I think I'll take a nap. 

Update: Turned out that the noise was a pine tree falling over–just falling over, roots yanked out of the ground or broken. I guess the sound of the roots popping was the explosive sound. The tree was in the yard of the next house up the street, but it's around a curve so we can't see it. The pine took a nice magnolia with it, unfortunately. Fortunately, they missed the house and the truck sitting in the driveway.

Maclin Horton

13 responses to “Raining Heavilee”

  1. Janet

    Hijacking. 😉
    I was looking for art to use in my PRE class and found another Fra Angelico Annunciation that I’ve never seen before. I don’t like it as well as the other two that we’ve looked at before.
    http://cgfa.acropolisinc.com/angelico/p-angeli19.htm
    AMDG

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  2. Mac

    Hmm, I think there is a print of that around the house somewhere, one I got in my pre-Christian days. I don’t like it as well, either, though.
    This is not really hijacking, since it’s a pretty nondescript post, and besides you have no choice since I mislaid the Undead Threads (which I will, um, dig up before too long).

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  3. Janet

    Ever since I read this the first time I’ve been hearing, “Ill amputate his reveille and step upon it heavilee.”
    AMDG

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  4. Mac

    Did that just spring out of your imagination?!? Or is it a quote from something?

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  5. antiaphrodite

    Praying for your safety!!!

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  6. Mac

    Thank you. There’s no danger, though. Just an unusually heavy rain, probably not even that unusual for you in the rainy season. I don’t know why that tree chose this time to fall over–we’ve had more rain and of course WAY more wind from other storms.

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  7. Janet

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71smG5d29to
    AMDG

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  8. Janet

    My mother used to sing this frequently when I was young.
    AMDG

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  9. Mac

    Great song, but I hope she didn’t use it to wake you up.
    It made me think of yet another interesting album cover encountered on eMusic. I used to long to do this and said that if I ever retired I would buy a clock specifically for this purpose. I guess I’ve mellowed or been defeated or something.

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  10. Janet

    Once I had a dream that I was doing something very like this. After a while, I had smashed the clock radio into teeny pieces, but one of the teeny pieces was still making that awful noise. It was such a relief to wake up and just be able to turn the alarm off.
    AMDG

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  11. Janet

    Which reminds me, when I was college I used to set the radio alarm as loud as the radio would play and also set two alarm clocks. Our house backed up to the church parking lot and one Sunday when my father was leaving Mass, he could hear my radio as soon as he walked out the church door. He came home, and ran up the stairs, and found me sound asleep. He threw all three of the alarms on the floor and yelled at me. This woke me up.
    I’m not sure if my mother sang that song to wake me up or not. This was when I was in grade school and she may have.
    AMDG

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  12. Mac

    I think a dream in which the alarm can’t be stopped qualifies as a nightmare.
    I don’t understand that deep deep sleep that can go on through noise like that, but it seems to be associated with youth. One of my wife’s brothers used to have an alarm that was, seriously, almost as loud as a smoke alarm, and he still slept through it. (He was still living at a home when we visited as a married couple, which is how I know.) Yet he, like you, is now a productive citizen.

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  13. antiaphrodite

    Thank you. There’s no danger, though.
    Well, I’m glad. And y’all are very welcome 🙂

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