Re: OT: Humor - If Dr. Seuss were a technical writer.

Sycho wrote:
This just in to the alt.2600 news room. On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:08:19
GMT it was announced to all in a public briefing, Rev Turd Frederıcks
<turdfred2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the following declaration and shocked
the world when the following was announced:

Sycho <imalittleteapot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This just in to the alt.2600 news room. On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:15:52
-0400 it was announced to all in a public briefing, Rev Turd
Frederıcks <turdfred2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the following declaration
and shocked the world when the following was announced:

Sycho wrote:
This just in to the alt.2600 news room. On Sat, 27 Jun 2009
00:31:23
-0400 it was announced to all in a public briefing, Rev Turd
Frederıcks <turdfred2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> made the following
declaration
and shocked the world when the following was announced:

Sycho wrote:

SNIP>>

Not commenting on that post, but I haven't seen you around much
lately, you been chasing storms? If so, South Eastern Kentucky has been
the place to be lately. Not a lot of tornadoes, but the potential is definitely there. That weather radio you advised me to get has
gone off with warnings a couple of times. It went off yesterday with flood warnings. Where I am, I'm not in any flood danger, but the rain
REALLY came down last night, if I was in a low lying area, it could have
saved my life. I have never seen so many thunderstorms as I have seen in

Kentucky, we seem to have them daily.
I've been quite busy lately in the new module that I'm in right
now.
This class is very homework intense. Not only are we studying
network
security, but we have had a lot of assignments on customer server
and
the help desk (call center). To me the CS is too simple and rather
boring at the same time.

As I tell people in my class "If you don't know how to deal with
customers then CST (Computer Support Technician) isn't for you."
Since
I've been doing computer repair over the past 9 years I have
developed
a knack when it comes to talking with customers. I do my best to
reassure them in every aspect of their computer/data and treat each
one as a friend by the conversations. I don't talk "techy" with
them
and help them to better understand their computers. Every customer
that I've ever dealt with, both young and old, seem very
comfortable
when talking to me about their computer issues.

The thing that I hate most though about this mod is that I have no
intentions now or in the future to work as a help desk tech or in a
call center. That's not for me. I would be much happier working as
a
technician. Either in a mom & pop computer store to Best Buy or
Microcenter. I've always enjoyed doing computer repairs ever since
I
first started.

As for chasing, I wish.. *sigh* It's been the same for the past 5
years now. All the storms moving in after dark when spotting is
more
difficult as well as dangerous. Just once I would like to see a
strong
cold front move through by early afternoon during the heating of
the
day. I just can't seem to get that lucky. I wish I knew the
reasoning
behind why this has been the case year after year. I have my
theories
but I have no way to prove or disprove them.. At least not yet.
Life has a habit of interfering with stuff. Way back when (late 80's)
I worked 2 jobs and went to school. It was tough, but I'm glad I did
it. Managed to save a decent house down payment and advanced my knowledge

both at the same time. I missed out on some popular TV shows of the
time like "Full House" and shit like that, but I think I was better off in

the long run:-)

We get plenty of the cold fronts comeing in during early afternoon,
but they mostly affect the southeastern part of the state which seems to
be under a perpetual severe weather watch.

I'm glad to hear about your weather radio though. I'll bet it's
been
interesting to say the least when a severe thunderstorm or tornado
warning is issued. I can't remember if I had asked you about this
previously, but does your weather radio display the alert message
on
the screen? I don't live in a flood plane or a flood prone area. So
I
have everything flood related blocked on my portable weather radio.
I
still get the text messages for them, the alarm won't go off for
that
product.
My radio displays alert messages with a blinking light and an audible

alarm. It's very loud and can be heard throughout most of the living areas of the house. Of course normally you can see severe weather approaching and that's when bring the radio into my office or
wherever I am at the time. My radio only receives warnings and forecasts, I
can't pick and choose. That's fine by me, it works when it's supposed to.
The old weather radio I have is pretty loud too. You can also adjust
the volume on it as well. There have been a number of times, after
bringing in the weather radio to the bedroom with me late at night the
alarm would sound and I would sleep right through it. Even with the
alarm volume full blast. My wife wasn't too happy that it interrupted
her sleep. lol oops? :)
My wife would hear it for sure, but would probably be happy for the
warning. We had a he'll of a storm the other night, it's very unusual
for a storm to wake me up and keep me up, but that one started about
3:30 am and kept on going for at least an hour. The alarm didn't go off
though.

That may be because the storm was in it's weakening stage and/or was
just below severe limits. Weird thing is that I've seen many a radar
image where storms that should be severe never had warnings for them
and storms that didn't look severe did.

It didn't quite have the high winds that the "flagged" storms have, but the thunder and lightening should have been enough. They usually run the tickertape thing on the local stations telling people to stay away from windows and seek shelter etc. when there will be a lot of lightening, but I guess the storm was maybe too localized for an overall radio warning. There were also very heavy rains.


I've been told by many people that I should get a job at the National
Weather Service but I would much rather work at the Storm Prediction
Center in Norman, Oklahoma. The only problem with that is that you
need to know calculus to work even at the NWS office. Screw that! lol

Calculus was never my forte. Even some who did well in it still scratched their heads wondering whatever they would use it for later in life. But I guess they use calculus in weather modeling because if you think about it weather projection is similar to one of those "a train leaves Chicago at 6pm..." questions only much more complicated.
My apologies for not being around as much as I'd like to be.
Hopefully
once I graduate in October of this year I'll be able to actually
spend
more time at the comp than I have lately. It's great to know that
you
and yours are ok though. I have been concerned about you guys when
I
see severe weather moving through.
We have had a good bit of it pass by us, and only a few bad storms,
but nothing tornadic. It's good to know a severe storm is on the way if
I'm about to go out and cut the grass. I swear we get more thunder and lightening here than I've ever seen. It's almost a daily occurrence
(at least for the last 3 weeks).
Typically the most tornado active times of the year for you and I are
between April and June then from September to November. I doubt very
seriously I'll get to chase anything unless I go to Oklahoma for a
week or two. *sigh*
Oklahoma must be a nasty place to live, all the charm of east Texas, but
with nasty weather.

Oh yes. Remember the F5 that tore through Moore, Bridge Creek and
Chickashey (sp?) Oklahoma on May 3, 1999? I would loved to have been
chasing that one. That monster was at least a mile wide. I've heard of
some exceeding that. I think it was in the Dakotas where there was one
that was barely over two miles wide. I don't have a date on that one.
I'd have to look it up.

I'll leave the storm chasing to you, as long as I have my shelter to go to, I'm happy :-)
.

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