Hurricanes Lounge XXIX: The "Hot and Cold" edition

[Unsustainable]

Awaken to a tornado warning, spent the last hour in the laundry room with the family, one touched down a few miles away

 

[MinJaBen]

Awaken to a tornado warning, spent the last hour in the laundry room with the family, one touched down a few miles away

The tornado warning alarm clock is no fun. We had to do that last year (or year before...I'm old and can't remember anymore).

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

The tornado warning alarm clock is no fun. We had to do that last year (or year before...I'm old and can't remember anymore).

Our phones started blaring about a Flash Flood warning waking us up at about 2am.

 

[MinJaBen]

Our phones started blaring about a Flash Flood warning waking us up at about 2am.

Yeah, those are the worst. We used to have a weather alert radio for tornado warnings. But the number of flash flood and areal flood warnings we would get made us pull the plug on the damned thing. I live near the top of a hill, if I have to worry about a flood, the rest of Durm is underwater.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Yeah, those are the worst. We used to have a weather alert radio for tornado warnings. But the number of flash flood and areal flood warnings we would get made us pull the plug on the damned thing. I live near the top of a hill, if I have to worry about a flood, the rest of Durm is underwater.

Yeah, usually I shut the phone off, but given how bad the storms were and the fact that the tornado that went through the area in 2011(?) went less than a half mile behind our neighborhood, I didn't want to miss a real tornado warning. I'm guessing there is a way to configure it to ignore flash floods, as we aren't in an area that could be impacted by those either.

 

[RodTheBawd]

That flash flood warning about pissed me off. I don't recall ever getting an alert for that previously. Combine that with 2 hours later hearing my daughter on her tablet, and the subsequent meltdown, made for a grumpy start to my day.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

I think I figured out how to turn those off. If you go into your emergency alert settings, there are sliders for "severe" weather and "extreme" weather. Explanations here.

I turned off the severe alerts. Storm surges and dust storms are not a concern here, and snow squalls are rarer than hen's teeth. So the only one we ever get is the flash flood alert. My house is not in a floodplain, so I don't need my phone to wake me up in the middle of the night to tell me it's raining.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

They use those loud alerts here for amber alerts. A couple weeks ago they issued one late at night for a little girl missing in the Toronto area but the alert was pushed as far as Ottawa. Big deal, right? Some people got so mad at being disturbed by it that they called 911 and/or took to social media to complain about it. People are so shitty.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

In lighter news:

40-year-old man suing parents for destroying his $29K porn stash

 

[Lempo]

Now what the hell is this "You may also like" nonsense on my Sponsor forum view?

 

[MinJaBen]

Now what the hell is this "You may also like" nonsense on my Sponsor forum view?

Yeah, saw those and my first thought was I need to renew my sponsorship. However, if that is a new "feature" of sponsorship, maybe not.

 

[MinJaBen]

RIP Notre Dame.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

RIP Notre Dame.

That's awful. An incredible place.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

The Crown of Thorns is there and may be lost. Horrible.

Hoping this doesn’t have anything to do with the multiple arsons in Paris churches over the past weeks.


(FYI, in case you're not as up to date on Catholic Twitter as I am: Catholic churches have been desecrated across France—and officials don’t know why)

 

[MinJaBen]

The Crown of Thorns is there and may be lost. Horrible.

Hoping this doesn’t have anything to do with the multiple arsons in Paris churches over the past weeks.

The cause is yet unknown, but my first thought was a construction accident given that the roof is covered with scaffolding. But that is just speculation on my part.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

The cause is yet unknown, but my first thought was a construction accident given that the roof is covered with scaffolding. But that is just speculation on my part.

It’s likely one of the two, and praying you’re right. Just a horrible event.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

CBC is reporting it was related to the renovations but they didn’t say how exactly.

Also there’s this:

 

[MinJaBen]

CBC is reporting it was related to the renovations but they didn’t say how exactly.

Also there’s this:

That moron doesn't understand the weight of water, apparently. Because, what an old structure on fire needs is 100s of tons of water to come crashing down on the structure or the priceless stained glass windows.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Man, that's horrible to see.

Captain Blowhard here would be just as effective at fighting literal fires as he is at fighting figurative ones.

 

[Lempo]

I don't much like the world one-upping my agitations.

"Oh? You don't like ads? We'll let me torch a gothic cathedral for you!"

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Reports are that the relics and most of the movable art were saved.

 

[MinJaBen]

Reports are that the relics and most of the movable art were saved.

That's good to hear. I fear the Rose Windows are gone.

 

[MinJaBen]

Looks a lot better than I thought it would.

 

[Lempo]

Surreal. Where our press' internet sites yesterday had live video from Notre-Dame of Paris, today they had live video following a vicarage in Kempele, Finland getting destroyed in fire.

This is like a really sad attempt to get in on the game with the big leaguers.

 

[Unsustainable]

My cousin was there just a couple weeks ago.

Sad to see.