Digital Technology SUCKS!

[thisnewday]

My idiot phone went off just before 1 AM with what purported to be a tornado warning for this service area.

Then the notice disappeared before I was able to read any details.

After checking local weather, I determined that there was NO such warning for this area.

Now who knows how long it'll be up before I can get back to sleep.

Digital technology SUCKS!

LPK
Dreamwidth
6.14.2021

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

There was a tornado warning for where I am—about 250 miles south of you. Also a massive, unexpected thunder storm.

[thisnewday]

Yeah, we were in the middle of a fairly powerful rainstorm when this came in sometime between 12:30 and 1 AM. At the time there was nothing about it on local news or weather, but this morning they reported that the NWS in Binghamton had radar of a rotating cloud formation in the Liverpool area--which is actually a fair distance from where I live. Given the day that I now have ahead of me, I'd prefer that they let me die in my sleep...

[mallorys_camera]

Yah, we got the storm around 5 this morning. It was pretty dramatic! But no rotating cells. 😊

[thisnewday]

LOL, I'm OK with a bit of drama as long as it doesn't leave me sleep-deprived the next day. I'm about to rotate my Verizon cell into the waste basket...

[halfmoon_mollie1]

You are wrong, sir, there WAS a Tornado warning early this morning. National Weather service has no way of knowing you are on the other side of the city - lots of folks who didn't need the warning got it. I apparently didn't hear it, but the thunder woke me and I watched the water cascading out of the sky.

[thisnewday]

Yup, saw it on the local news sites when I (finally) got up this morning. (My original post was at 1:16 AM.)

The rotating cell which occasioned the warning was in the Liverpool area, but I haven't checked back to see if they'd determined whether it had touched down or not.

Glad you're safe. After breakfast and a bike ride, I was glad we were ALL safe, lol...

[earthmother45]

Oh, my eyes are flowing, my heart aches and hurts after reading The Valentine. I didn't expect what came at the end.

I'm trying to go back through your posts, piece things together, remembering why I loved reading you so much on LJ, and wondering why or how or what happened when I stopped. No immediate answer comes to mind for the break, but no matter.

So much time has passed, and it's the present now, so no matter.

In case you didn't get this comment, almost four years past, I'm copying it to a more current time.

I finally found myself here from when I joined so long ago, but never wrote anything, and I found you, too! All hope is not lost in my old, forgetful mind.

[thisnewday]

Aww, thanks. Yeah, "The Valentine" was a tough one, easy to write, in some ways, because it was absolutely real, but emotionally very draining as I went back through it, wanting so badly to get every word, every part of the experience, exactly right for myself and for the reader.

It took me a long time to process that part of my life, that experience, and, as difficult as it was, in some ways, the writing of it helped me to do that. All of us who write, or do any kind of art, know that and I really appreciate that you took the time to read it and comment.

The thing I'm just beginning to realize is that, just as you haven't read my journal in a while, I haven't written it in a while in just that way. I'm not totally sure why that is except that I seem to be less resilient emotionally, can't handle as much, can't process it in the same way that I used to.

I think that was brought into focus for me, recently, when my second daughter--who always wanted to think of her dad as a writer--asked me, just "out of the blue," if I was still writing in my journal. And I had to answer her that, no, I wasn't, at least not in the same way that I used to.

And she just sort of agreed with me, as if she was expecting that answer, and it made me pause because I wasn't quite sure why she asked or why she might've been expecting that answer. But there it was, for both of us to contemplate.

Maybe I'm waiting until I get to some new place or until I get used to the place where I currently am. I think the latter is why I feel such a reluctance to travel, because I need to feel grounded and established in this physical location and place in life which, even after four years, still feels new to me.

But maybe it's also time, or will be soon, for me to start making something of it, to get back to some of the things that I once felt gave my life meaning or revealed it to me. In any case thank you again for your comments and for the movement they've caused in my own "old, forgetful mind..."