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Rain, Rain Go AWAY!
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Rain, Rain Go AWAY! It started raining last night, occasionally the thunder would wake me. It was raining when I got up. We've had threats of tornadoes off and on all day. Several years ago I used to chat in a room called 30something, I had mIRC and pIRCH chat programs. It was fun and I spent several hours there everyday. Suddenly my computer went haywire and had to go to the shop. A few days later an F5 tornado blew through the greater Birmingham, AL area. Many lives were lost. There were many with survivor's remorse. "Why did God take her and not me?" kinda things. I was at work that night but we were only a level 3 category which meant we didn't get much in the way of trauma. However I did take care of a guy who had a broomstick through his calves. The tornado ripped away his home. He and his wife were in the basement. This tornado hit right at dusk and soon it was too dark for him to see. He pulled himself around his basement scattered with debris trying to find his wife, all the while with the broom handle through his calves. She was there, but she was, sadly, dead. I get my computer back about a week after all this happened. I log into my usual room. People were saying stuff like OMG we were so worried about you since that huge tornado hit where you live. I explained that my computer blew a gasket but I was perfectly fine. "Well we knew you can't have basements where you live, so we were worried that you were blown away." WHAT? I have a basement, why wouldn't I have a basement? "It's swampy down there in Alabama." (Actually, AL is the second most geographically diverse state in the nation, California holds the number one spot) I live in the tail end of the tail end of the Appalachian mountains. It rained so much here so quickly that some folks were parking their cars in shopping center parking lots where the ground was higher and the Emergency Management folks were taking them to their homes in CANOES! It flooded part of our ER. A few weeks ago Rocky and I tried to go fishing at my aunts house where I caught the super enormous crappie (17 in long and weighed 2.75 pounds). The lake is part of the Coosa river chain that's dammed up for hydroelectric purposes. Only when we got there the water was too low. They let it drop in the winter in anticipation of spring rains and the thaw way up stream. It WAS down by about 6 ft or so. I told my sweetie that AL Power was gonna fool around and mess up the spawn if they didn't start holding some of the water. I don't think I need to worry about that anymore. |
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You know, W/M, you ALWAYS put a smile on my face when I read your blog. OK, sometimes the smile is only a tiny grin, just to know that you are still ticking, but always a smile, and today it is a big dumb grin. So, the water will be up, and the crappie can spawn (hey, this IS a sex site, afterall) and the balance will be all even in the long run. Take care, my friend! Chas
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3/16/2010 9:20 pm |
Crikey!! Im not too sure about eating a fish called a Crappie :;? Recent post: [post 2369941]
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3/19/2010 5:30 pm |
How are you doing. Long time since I have read any blogs. JD
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It's what we call a panfish here in the US, meaning that they'd fit into a frying pan without too much difficulty. This old girl wouldn't even fit in the biggest pan I have... a wok!
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Mighty nice crappie, Got me a 47" northern through the ice this year.
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