In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_anyone-else-staying-in-tonight-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:2f52b878-41d4-4372-9302-5e503a5cab6dPost:3369729f-4443-44ed-9e62-6a06db72535e">Re: Anyone else staying in tonight?</a>: [QUOTE]In Response to Re: Anyone else staying in tonight? : I think we should wear tutus and pointe shoes. Posted by mkrupar[/QUOTE]
<div>Done. I'll have to buy new pointe shoes first, but I can totes do that.</div><div> </div><div>Also, I wanna road trip with J. Do you want to be Maureen or Joanne on Take Me Or Leave Me?</div>
Hurricane warnings are annoying because you're under them for daaaaayyyyys and nothing happens for daaaaaayyyyyysss, THEN the storm hits. And no matter how prepared you are for it, they're scary as hell to ride out.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_anyone-else-staying-in-tonight-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:2f52b878-41d4-4372-9302-5e503a5cab6dPost:a07feb4e-5f51-473c-a017-b93621aa6b4a">Re: Anyone else staying in tonight?</a>: [QUOTE]H told me that no one pays attention to hurricaine watches or warnings. Because we're dumb Floridians. Posted by mica178[/QUOTE] We're like that with tornado warnings. Our friend was visiting from Seattle one summer, and when the sirens went off, he was all, "ZOMG! Shouldn't we run for the basement? Do you have a flashlight? GUYZ?!?"<div> </div><div>FI and I were just sitting in our chairs with our laptops. We barely looked up. I said, "Nah. Sky isn't green, wind hasn't picked up, and we have power. Sit down and get comfy. False alarm." He looked at me like I was crazy. Sure enough, the sirens shut off a couple minutes later.</div>
Petal in there were tornado sirens in Cincinnati. They tested them the first Wednesday of every month at 12pm. WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF A TORNADO HIT AT 12PM ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF A MONTH>>??? People wouldn't believe it. That siren is like the boy who cried wolf.
In HS my mom and I were on the east coast and a hurricane came. It wasn't even that bad of one but I watched porta potties fly around and trees fall. I also walked down to look at the water until the condo manager came running at me yelling to get inside. Not sure why my mom let me do that.
Floridian's attitudes towards hurricanes is encapsulated in the discussion I had with my parents when a category 3 was headed directly towards our island when I was 12
Little Muni: Are we going to evacuate?
Little Muni's Parents: Nah
LM: Should we like, tape the windows up or something?
LMP: Nah.
LM: Should we buy some bottled water?
LMP: Nah.
LM: Should we at least throw the (PVC) pool furniture in the pool so it doesn't blow away
LMP: Whatever. If you do, you're the one that has to dive down and drag it up later.
In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_anyone-else-staying-in-tonight-1?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:2f52b878-41d4-4372-9302-5e503a5cab6dPost:e5994e60-252a-4735-a13c-4c7803390b1d">Re: Anyone else staying in tonight?</a>: [QUOTE]RENT FANS - I bought THIS for $5.00 at Staples. Best $5.00 ever spent. Posted by mkrupar[/QUOTE]
I did stock up on things and fill the tubs with water when Irene hit. Only because people in the Hampton Roads area had nothing but horror stories about when Isabell hit. We were only out power for 24 hours, but plenty of people in the area went weeks without it.
That's what happens at school MK. We do drills but then a watch or warning comes and noe one pays attention or is actually being safe. Or lockdowns. They stand and look out the window during a lockdown. Pretty sure the guy with the gun can see you there.
I saw RENT when it came here and it was the run with both Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal reprising their roles, a few years ago. I sat in the fourth row. It was fucking brilliant.
When I was a kid, we learned about earthquakes and had a homework assignment that was about the earthquake plan each kid's family had. I had to make something up because my mother said: "We don't have one. We'll be fine."
Yeah totally fine at my house MK, thanks. I didn't even get the thunderstorms here, just some sprinkling of rain. It completely missed us. However my friend lives in Hampton but is out of town, so we have no idea how her house is.
Re: Anyone else staying in tonight?
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Anyone else staying in tonight? : I think we should wear tutus and pointe shoes.
Posted by mkrupar[/QUOTE]
<div>Done. I'll have to buy new pointe shoes first, but I can totes do that.</div><div>
</div><div>Also, I wanna road trip with J. Do you want to be Maureen or Joanne on Take Me Or Leave Me?</div>
[QUOTE]H told me that no one pays attention to hurricaine watches or warnings. Because we're dumb Floridians.
Posted by mica178[/QUOTE]
We're like that with tornado warnings. Our friend was visiting from Seattle one summer, and when the sirens went off, he was all, "ZOMG! Shouldn't we run for the basement? Do you have a flashlight? GUYZ?!?"<div>
</div><div>FI and I were just sitting in our chairs with our laptops. We barely looked up. I said, "Nah. Sky isn't green, wind hasn't picked up, and we have power. Sit down and get comfy. False alarm." He looked at me like I was crazy. Sure enough, the sirens shut off a couple minutes later.</div>
In HS my mom and I were on the east coast and a hurricane came. It wasn't even that bad of one but I watched porta potties fly around and trees fall. I also walked down to look at the water until the condo manager came running at me yelling to get inside. Not sure why my mom let me do that.
[QUOTE]RENT FANS - I bought THIS for $5.00 at Staples. Best $5.00 ever spent.
Posted by mkrupar[/QUOTE]
<div>WHAAAAAAT? Jealous.</div>
I am so fucking jealous, haha.
ETA: I think there might still be a tour.