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pshaw_raven) wrote2021-02-08 04:05 pm
pshaw_raven) wrote2021-02-08 04:05 pm
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It's been an interesting couple of days. We had some pretty strong storms go through on Saturday evening with a tornado watch. I'm surprised the weather radio didn't go off because there was an actual tornado a few miles from here. The main tower that serves our ISP went down, and a couple who live near there said that again at 2 a.m. they woke up and heard another storm moving through, and decided to go get in their bathtub. The tornado that passed then "just" ripped all the siding off their house. Everyone's okay, there was just a lot of damage. Fox said all the pine trees were topped, a lot of fences were down, and of course ... the tower.
This is a big tower and it's made from something like RON-60. Part of it was hanging straight down, but another section broke at an angle, and the very top was on the ground, but part of it was hanging by the guy wires, which had gotten caught on something else. So a lot of what Fox and ISP Guy were doing yesterday was, at first, just getting 200+ pounds of metal onto the ground safely. It took them most of the day but now the entire system is back up, just running off different towers for now. After all that was done, we were still out here, at home, for a while. One of the switches or something was pissed off and wouldn't connect but Fox finally got it working, too.
So here's what I did with my "offline day."
That expanse of blank wall bugged me, and I had the idea to buy postcard prints to hang. The frames were from Amazon, and the cards are prints of Japanese woodblocks out of the Victoria & Albert Museum collection. V&A sells a lot of different boxed sets of 100 cards each on various themes, it's worth checking out. I picked a dozen of my favorites to hang up along with an extra shelf we had sitting around. Nothing huge is going on the shelf - it's just a good place for smaller plushies so they don't become cat toys.
Happily here we only had a lot of lightning and torrential rain. After going to bed I didn't even think about tornadoes again. But I didn't sleep too well, either, since every BOOM of thunder sent all my cat bed buddies hurtling off to go hide.
This is a big tower and it's made from something like RON-60. Part of it was hanging straight down, but another section broke at an angle, and the very top was on the ground, but part of it was hanging by the guy wires, which had gotten caught on something else. So a lot of what Fox and ISP Guy were doing yesterday was, at first, just getting 200+ pounds of metal onto the ground safely. It took them most of the day but now the entire system is back up, just running off different towers for now. After all that was done, we were still out here, at home, for a while. One of the switches or something was pissed off and wouldn't connect but Fox finally got it working, too.
So here's what I did with my "offline day."
That expanse of blank wall bugged me, and I had the idea to buy postcard prints to hang. The frames were from Amazon, and the cards are prints of Japanese woodblocks out of the Victoria & Albert Museum collection. V&A sells a lot of different boxed sets of 100 cards each on various themes, it's worth checking out. I picked a dozen of my favorites to hang up along with an extra shelf we had sitting around. Nothing huge is going on the shelf - it's just a good place for smaller plushies so they don't become cat toys.
Happily here we only had a lot of lightning and torrential rain. After going to bed I didn't even think about tornadoes again. But I didn't sleep too well, either, since every BOOM of thunder sent all my cat bed buddies hurtling off to go hide.