Pretty funny video of a crane spinning around in the wind: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/9g8dei/common_babie/
Things are slowly starting to get back to normal here. The main bridge is up again but everything is still flooded on the other side. I-40 is still closed off. Spent the day so far(8am-ish till now) clearing out trees for neighbors. Bars(the few that are open) have become information gathering locations about what's open/closed/flooded/inaccessible(so you can drink AND be productive!). One brewery I frequent had its roof torn off unfortunately. Power is slowly starting to come on for the rest of the county. Basically everything that's public (courts/schools/government buildings) are closed for the week, but private businesses are starting to open again. I hear that some grocery stores are open again but it's utter madness inside(luckily I don't need anything). About to run some food over to a friend of mine in one of the flooded areas.
Death toll now at 32, stay safe dude. Moving water is no joke. Of all the dumb shit I've done, fortunately I haven't gotten stuck in high water, but I know some people who have.
In the last two weeks, I've had three different people at work ask me if everything was going alright, and I have no idea why. That's not a good sign, right?
Could be a brain tumor. That’s what it was for me when they started asking that. Might wanna get an mri just in case. To make sure everything is alright?
As much as I love Game Of Thrones, was it such a slow year for TV that it won the Emmy for best series.... for season seven? They watched season seven, right? The one where characters could teleport everywhere?
Son is well. HK storm (Typhoon?) has passed, albeit with a bit more excitement than absolutely necessary.
Some of the best country coming out of Nashville right now comes from female singer/songwriters. And some of the best voices originally hail from Canada, like this girl:
I just binged a rewatch of all seven seasons, and basically: Season 1: Engaging and enjoyable because the material is great and the acting is good, but the comparatively lower budget shows in the production value in spots Season 2-4: The show hits its stride. Holy shit the writing and acting are phenomenal, and the production value is solid. Season 5-6: Dorne storyline sucks, writing starts to weaken, acting and production value remain high. Season 7: Writing noticeably weaker but the dragons are face meltingly awesome.
Alrighty, so from what I’ve heard the state of emergency will be lifted tomorrow(which means we’ll get mail again, and most importantly the state-owned liquor stores will open back up again). Businesses are slowly starting to open again. Schools are closed all throughout next week though, as apparently several of them suffered major damage. I still have to figure out when/how to get my daughter and my dog from out west. Probably some time this weekend.
I'm far too amused that I found a knife that folds up the size of a credit card. And at 10 for $12 I couldn't pass on the opportunity to get some and give them out just for giggles.
Great to hear... so, having almost made it out the other side now, anything that you'd do differently if it were to happen again? Because by all accounts it's kind of expected that this will be a much more normal event moving forward...
My only neighbors are family, because we live on a ranch. So if I give out knives, the next morning the dads will come back asking for one themselves too. Though years ago when I was in undergrad and lived in the city (fuck that), on Halloween whenever someone would come to my door who was clearly too old I'd give out Atomic Fireballs. Since it was dark, they never noticed. When I was growing up we had a bitch of a neighbor who hated the idea of talking to anyone ever. The only time you saw her was when she was going to get the paper in her slippers and Parkinsons while complaining about it not being thrown close enough to the door -- that kinda wretched bitch... She did bobbing for apples one time with dry ice in the water for "smoke," and my brother bit into a red onion instead. We egged the shit outta her house the following day.