Thursdays, Hurricanes and Vegas

Calypso1977

Its Thursday!  Yay!  Almost the weekend.

Sandy is looking to cause trouble up this way.  Hurricanes are not supposed to trouble new england.

booked a trip to Vegas with a friend for january over the long weekend.  so excited!  i hope i win big and can quit my job! lol

itzMS

My friends arrived for their honeymoon in Negril, Jamaica this past Monday 10/22. I'm sure they're safe, but quite the honeymoon hurricane tale to tell upon their return!

DH & I are stopping in Vegas over Presidents Day (February). Save some winnings for us!

professorscience

Yeah, Calypso, y'all have had what seems like an inordinate number of hurricanes lately!

A cold front is moving through here.  It was 69 this morning, but it's supposed to drop down to the 40s after the front moves in (it might already be here -- who knows).

Have fun in Vegas!  I've never been.  I had my first casino experience last month when SIL and her boyfriend drove up to the Winstar Casino in South Oklahoma and I went to meet them.  It was pretty neat, but I get the feeling the Vegas casinos are a little more impressive.  

Today is my Friday -- my cousin's rehearsal is pretty early in the afternoon tomorrow, so I took the day off so I can make it.  My kids are just taking a test, so it should be a smoooooth day.  

Resa77

There's a hurricane?  I had no idea.  I was wondering why it looked so ominous outside.

As I kid, I was unusually afraid of natural disasters. I always said I never wanted to live somewhere with earthquakes, tornados, or hurricanes.  Then all the sudden we started getting all three in northern VA!  Luckily ours rarely cause serious danger, but it seriously freaks me out beyond belief. 

Anyways...Calypso, I want to go to Vegas!  I played slots a few weeks ago, and I just want to go back!  H is teasing me that I have a gambling problem, but it was really fun! 

erin5286

Boo on the hurricanes, but hooray for Vegas!  We purposely planned our honeymoon for later in the  year so we could avoid hurricane season, since we knew we wanted to go somewhere tropical.

I've never been to Vegas, but H and I would definitely like to go.  He's been there once for a conference w/ coworkers, but they really didn't get a chance to do much "fun" stuff, just went to seminars and out to eat.  Good luck Calypso and itzMS, hope you both win big!

I'm getting a slow start at work today, my sister emailed me a bunch of pictues she took from our rehearsal dinner and wedding.  She's a photo nut and always manages to get good pictures at our family events.  I'm so glad she took some, because I know it will be awhile before we get our pictures from the photographer, and it's been so fun getting to see the pictures she took!  Maybe I'll get around to posting one or two on here one of these days.

professorscience

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_catholic-weddings_thursdays-hurricanes-and-vegas?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:615Discussion:edd5a1b6-8dfa-4d36-beff-4fe29a1df141Post:d08ff485-6702-4d03-89c1-6bd4afd54167">Re: Thursdays, Hurricanes and Vegas</a>:
[QUOTE]There's a hurricane?  I had no idea.  I was wondering why it looked so ominous outside. <strong>As I kid, I was unusually afraid of natural disasters. I always said I never wanted to live somewhere with earthquakes, tornados, or hurricanes. </strong> Then all the sudden we started getting all three in northern VA!  Luckily ours rarely cause serious danger, but it seriously freaks me out beyond belief.  Anyways...Calypso, I want to go to Vegas!  I played slots a few weeks ago, and I just want to go back!  H is teasing me that I have a gambling problem, but it was really fun! 
Posted by Resa77[/QUOTE]

<div>Growing up in Oklahoma and Arkansas, I've been conditioned to go outside and look for a funnel whenever I hear the tornado sirens.  In college I was driving around with a friend from Texas when a big tornado hit pretty near our school, and the two of us who'd grown up with storms like that decided to go look for it, while the friend from Texas called her dad crying and telling him she was about to die.  =)</div>

maggieandrey

Resa - that's part of the reason why I live in New England... but in the last year we've had all three so there goes that idea of security!

Calypso - sounds like fun! I've never been to Vegas. I live close enough to Mohegan Sun & Foxwoods that I'll play the slots there occasionally, but would love to go to Vegas to see cirque de soleil and eat a lot of ridiculous food.

Tami87

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_catholic-weddings_thursdays-hurricanes-and-vegas?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:615Discussion:edd5a1b6-8dfa-4d36-beff-4fe29a1df141Post:881d5698-049d-4fa2-801a-64c0efa7ff1c">Re: Thursdays, Hurricanes and Vegas</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Thursdays, Hurricanes and Vegas : Growing up in Oklahoma and Arkansas, I've been conditioned to go outside and look for a funnel whenever I hear the tornado sirens.  In college I was driving around with a friend from Texas when a big tornado hit pretty near our school, and the two of us who'd grown up with storms like that decided to go look for it, while the friend from Texas called her dad crying and telling him she was about to die.  =)
Posted by professorscience[/QUOTE]

Ditto on the torandos. I grew up in Kansas and I remember in college walking back to my dorm during a tornado warning. I was supposed to have a physics test but because the sirens were going off and people might not show up they just sent us home (not to the tornado shelter in the physics building). When I got back to my dorm there was tons of people on the lawn trying to take pictures of funnel clouds while the RAs were yelling at them to get back inside.

Although when it is close to us I do take them seriously. We actually had a tornado hit K-State's campus during the summer and I was in the tornado shelter at my husband's apartment complex because I knew our fastly built duplex to rent to college kids wasn't a good spot to be. I also really hate serve weather coverage out here in Maryland compared to what I am used to. They never tell you where the tornado or funnel clouds are or where it is traveling, or how soon it will get to where you are. They just give a warning for the whole county and say take cover and then go onto the Beltway traffic report.

I am however terrified of earthquakes (I blame riding the earthquake ride at Universal studios as a little kid). I felt an earthquake for the first time in Maryland and it definitely freaked me out.

kgrawedding

News of a hurricane so late in the season startled me, FI are going on a honeymoon cruise to the Caribbean in 10 days (when he will be my H! and I will be his W!), I hope everything is cleared out and cleaned up by then.

Today is also my Friday, I'm in a friends wedding Saturday and they are having a rehearsal lunch tomorrow so I took the day off.  My final fitting is scheduled for the morning too!

SusieSunshine2

I really hope that the hurricane doesn't make it to New England.  We are suppose to have our engagement pictures taken on Sunday on the coast.

Have fun in Vegas, it's on my travel bucket list.

Resa77

Professor, somehow I knew you'd be the brave/reckless type when it comes to natural disasters lol! 

When I was little, I thought an earthquake would seperate my house right down the middle, so I would be seperated from my parents, and I'd never see them again.  That's what earthquake meant in my mind.  With tornados, I thought there were just tornados that travelled on and on, lasting forever, and if you got sucked up by one, you'd live inside the funnel forever.  And that sounded awful!  Hurricanes I thought would OBVIOUSLY result in a Noah-style flood, where we'd all die unless we had a boat.  Yeah....these things TERRIFIED me.

erin5286

Resa - you had quite the imagination as a child!  I wasn't as scared of the natural disasters since we didn't have too much of that in my area except for the occasional tornado.  I was more scared of bears for the longest time - my older sister convinced me that they could definitely travel all the way across the state from the Black Hills and climb into my second-floor bedroom... gotta love sisters!

Calypso1977

im pretty psyched.  staying at MGM - last time i was there i stayed off strip at green valley ranch which was nice, btu im excited to be in the heart of it.  im only bummed that i will once again miss david copperfield!  he's there every weekend - except the one im going.  :-(  im a huge foodie so i cant wait to eat at some of hte places.  bobby flay's restaurant is on my list as well as one of mario batali's (but that ones pretty expensive).

bibliophile2010

There aren't a lot of natural disasters around here. We technically  could get earthquakes -- they say if the Big One hits SoCal we'll get a pretty decent quake here -- or small tornadoes (but too much geography to really sustain them), but we're waaay too far inland to get any hurricane activity but rain. We're too dry to get anything more than flash floods. We get dust storms and fires. Not so Hollywood "glam." However, as a child, I used to have horrible nighmares about my house burning down -- so I'm always wary and fascinated by fire!

My prayers are with anyone affected by the hurricane in the coming days.

I've been to Vegas lots of times because I used to have family there, but only once for Vegas' sake. I'm not a big partier or glambler, so it's not really my thing. Now that we're grown up, though, H and I really want to go to see the cool hotel/casinos, see a show and eat. Since it's only a six-hour drive, I'm sure we'll make it for a long weekend in the next few years.

*yay* for all the weddings coming up! Ladies who are going to/in weddings this weekend -- have a great, great time!

Ciardasully

I have been watching the Hurricane news like a hawk.  I always do during hurricanes.  I was a child in Massachusetts with Hurricane Gloria and Hurricane Bob.  I moved to Maine and while most storms are just remnants of Hurricanes and Tropical Storms, I still know never to mess with ocean storms.  I moved to NY and DH, then FI, made fun of me for preparing for Hurricane Irene, because it was Upstate and Upstate got hit the hardest!  He actually hasn't made fun of me for preparing for the storm.

Being from the North, blizzards don't borther me.  I have lived through minor earthquakes.  What scares me to no end are tornado sirens.  I only once encountered them when I lived in Southern Indiana.  I can live without doing that again lol.

Calypso1977

my home state of Vermont is STILL recovering from Irene over a year ago.  so sad.

what infuriated me was the idiots who were chastizing people for not having flood insurance.  Um, hello, when you live on the side of a mountain, one doesnt expect to need flood insurance.  people near rivers?  sure, but on a mountainside?  no.

there is still unrepaired damage up there and many businesses have not been able to recover.  please consider buying some vermont made products this holiday season - they can use the help.