Rante Macabre

[TBoneTX 43,081]

Disappear-weekending Asia!  Disappear-weekending, DISAPPEAR-WEEKENDING Asia!

[cdneh 3,112]

Just waiting on the weather. Meant to be a stormy night. We are expecting what one weather man has called the "Dorothy meets Elsa" trifecta  with tornadoes, ice and snow in the forecast.

I dislike stormy weather overnight. I have to wrangle Himself, who is hard to wake up, and Herself who wants no part of this middle of the night journey, out to the shelter.

[TBoneTX 43,081]

Sheltered Eh ma'am et al.!  Sheltered, SHELTERED Eh ma'am et al.!

[Scottish Mernymph 512]

Ice storm also headed this way apparently....my first ice storm & my protector has to look on from heaven. I've been to the store earlier & fought the crowds for the panic buy frenzy, I've spent the last 2 hours attempting to move what I can in the basement so that if it floods there will be as minimal damage to important things stored down there but I've no idea about any of it & he's not here to talk sense into me!

I'm off back to the shop now having decided I'm going to buy a wee propane heater so me & the cats wont freeze if the power goes down because I don't know if my furnace will still operate if it does....oh & beer because I need a bloody drink now!!!

[cdneh 3,112]

We've been in and out of the shelter twice so far, and it's only 21:00. It is going to be a long night.

 

If the power goes down, it will most likely take the furnace with it.  The fan that drives the heat through the vents won't work. If you are running a  propane heater, you need to have some venting going on. Don't leave it on while you are asleep.

[Scottish Mernymph 512]

Thanks Sid👍 hope you can stay safe & cozy too!
I'm just back from the store, I bought a propane heater that has a sensor/shut off when oxygen isn't at high levels & also if anything is against it, & I have CO detectors in the house HOWEVER I still wouldn't use it whilst sleeping. My husband was HVAC & extremely safety conscious plus I'm a feardy-cat when it comes to such things as propane(& propane accessories)[/Hank]

Here's my ice storm readiness kit right here lol

[Scottish Mernymph 512]

In non-storm related happenings this week....

I'm prep'ing for college commencement on Monday....turning the spare room into my office/study, which Darling Husband & I had discussed to do at some point-I guess that point is now & there is something really comforting about carrying through something he & I had planned. I know he'd be super-stoked about me going to college too.

My attention was brought to an unexpected $350 charge on my bank account during the week, GoDaddy....my Ryan was a keen webguy(that was something he'd studied at college in one of his 3 degrees, he really loved learning).....he had the domains on auto renew so I had to call & explain to GoDaddy-they were AMAZING & super understanding about it & refunded the cash immediately....in the meantime I discovered a wee online forum he'd ran, somewhere I'd never been & would probably never have found my way to were it not listed in the GoDaddy account(before he died Ryan gave me all his accounts access but I didn't look at this until the charge came in)....of course I went & read all his posts, how could I not.....oh my goodness, he had said some wonderful things about me, about us & how much he loved me not thinking I would ever be reading it-blew my mind & so good to discover/uncover ❤️

 

[Lil bear 3,833]

We have severe thunderstorm warning , tornado warning , flood warning and winter weather alert all at the same time 🤪. Solid heavy rain now with some thunder..  temperature dripping .. so by morning we’ll have a lovely layer of ice all over everything 😳. Tell me again why we moved ? 🤪

[Scottish Mernymph 512]

Stay safe & cozy Lil bear

[TBoneTX 43,081]

Weather here, too, si ma'ams.

But probably not as severe* as yours, no ma'ams.

Texas weather Many, elsewhere weather not-Many, conclusion man.

Still going to cause us to keep an ear open till about Many a.m., uneasy zzz we man.

 

*if severe enough, might knock down tree at rental casa that we're paying $Many to have removed on Sat., serendipity man

[Prizm123 1,084]

finally a storm to clear out all the mountain cedar pollen..... i can breathe easy again

 

and today is the first day since Mrs Prizm came here that I am home alone, while she is at work for a change. I dont know what to do.......

[Lil bear 3,833]

9 hours ago, Scottish Mernymph said:

Stay safe & cozy Lil bear

Thanks. We all good this side of the night. Snows rather than ice expected around 11am.. but the ground is so warm it is unlikely to hang around for long.  How are you doing ? 

 

@TBoneTX  you can only hope !! 
Dud you look at the larger map of the storm cell from  last night. It stretched from TX all the way through to WI.. and it was so warm that WI was getting rain in January. 😳

 

[cdneh 3,112]

That was a long night! Still crashing and very bad lightning until I gave up and went to bed at 0200. Seemed to really hang around even though the main line had moved though to the center of the state.

Cold today, and waiting on the snow. Mother nature has lost her blinking mind.

[Scottish Mernymph 512]

*whispers quietly* all good thus far here

[Ontarkie 13,918]

It's been a busy week+ here. I decided to sell all my ducks. We loved them dearly but they were more work than I should have taken on. I was stretched to thin and had to call it. I didn't want to have them suffer if I ended up completely breaking apart. The last 4 ducks went Friday and to very good ppl. They all found good homes, in part would be my rehoming fee I charged. PPL who want them for food won't pay that price, but ppl who want eggs and breeding stock will. Plus I stocked their FB to see how thye kept their animals

 

Storm was crazy here too. We didn't lose power, tornado went through Little Rock I haven't seen what or how much damage they got. 

 

I spent the entire day cleaning kids bedrooms and tossing broken toys. Boy they are spoiled. 

 

Merny, I'm happy that godaddy charged your account just in order for you to find the posts your husband wrote. Also happy they fixed it Stay safe and warm. 

 

Oh Tbone check out Lowes they brought back their Build and Grow https://diy.lowes.com/

 

Now I need to feed my kids I just don't know what yet lol