Trev received his notice of assessment today, apparently not long after a 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit on the Ontario/Quebec border and shook all the way down to Ohio (though some people felt it differently; Nikkol and Christopher felt a smaller vibrating/shaking, Trevor felt nothing a few miles south of them, and Stephanie had things falling off ( Read more... )

I've never seen this many Virginia counties and cities under a severe storm watch before. O_O The severe weather is supposed to develop just west of us (naturally), so we're not included in the watch. BUT LOOK AT THIS LIST (and yeah, I've always loved how a lot of the eastern and coastal counties are so British, it rocks ( Read more... )

Holy crap, tornado warnings a bit too close to home. I'm really glad Trevor wasn't at work today simply because the tornado you see in that pic was tearing through Woodbridge, which is where his store is.

Thornhill didn't get a tornado touchdown, but I'm still glad that we have a basement apartment. Key word basement.

Not for those who are terrified of tornadoes to begin with.

I had a hard time watching this but at the same time I was like O_____O. There are just some things not meant for the eyes of the living, and this is one of them.

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Damn Reed & co...I'm amazed he didn't get his eyeballs torn up! The Storm Research Vehicle they use is very powerful, ( Read more... )

Dad is still in the ICU. Kidney function is slowly improving, the fluid is out of his lungs and his fever has disappeared, and the edema is going away. He's getting his appetite back bit by bit ( Read more... )

There was a tornado on the ground in Arthur, Ontario yesterday (or today, can't remember which), plus a tornado warned storm around Barrie (but local chasers said they saw no rotation, so it was probably those darn blue canaries again, haha). Freaky crap o_o ( Read more... )

A week from today, I'll be in Toronto with my Trev. :D ( Read more... )

I'm not sure, really. Excitement to be alive? Maybe. Maybe I shall become a morning person after all, after all this time! But maybe an overabundance of stomach acid production due to such excitement is what made me get out of bed and make a cup of tea to dissolve some of my heavy-duty Xantac in...LOL ( Read more... )

Holy crap...count just how many counties have the orange in them. I counted fifteen. I HAVE NEVER SEEN FIFTEEN COUNTIES UNDER A SIMULTANEOUS SEVERE STORM WARNING BEFORE!!!


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