3 posts tagged “weather”

The Changing Seasons

It is extremely difficult to decide what to wear when the weather changes so quickly.

That Umbrella Really Helps

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My goodness, I thought we were just going to have a little drizzle today.  That'll teach me to believe the weatherman's forecast!

Plumber of the Year

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Ummmm....do you really think he should be standing in all that......polluted water (to put it mildly)?  He's not even dressed properly for the biohazard. Oh sure, he put on some sort of fishing gear, but please....hands, face, nose???  He wouldn't be sleeping in my bed for quite some time.  Lol!!!!  If he's not already in a hospital bed.

Tornado Touches Down

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This photo has become another "all-purpose" weather photo:  Whenever a deadly tornado touches down somewhere in the US, this photograph gets trotted out and emailed around with text updated to match the new circumstances.  It circulated after a series of violent storms hit Missouri in March 2006, began making the rounds again in mid-February 2007 after several tornados killed 21 people in Central Florida earlier that month, and hit inboxes yet again in February 2008 after deadly tornados that claimed 55 lives swept across Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

The photo of the tornado funnel and lightening bolt were indeed taken in Florida, but it long antedates the tornados that hit the state in February 2007.  According to the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Melbourne, Florida, this photograph was snapped near Lake Okeechobee, Florida, on 15 June, 1991.  It has been available for purchase (in poster form) through the Tornado's Project on-line store since at least mid-2001.