Just passed through. I have not seen it storm like this for years, and it knocked out the power for a good while. It will probably take a week to get Tunch out from under the bed.
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We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)
In my day, never was longer.
Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.
Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
Usually wrong but never in doubt
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Second rate reporter says what?
The words do not have to be perfect.
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Infrastructure week. at last.
Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.
Everybody saw this coming.
Just Some Fuckhead
I got a cat that walks around the house wailing when a storm like that comes through. Which is dumb as hell because when he wakes me up I toss his ass outside in it.
Cats are lousy strategists.
smiley
We’ve got one approaching now. We get them nearly everyday this time of year so the cats are kinda used to them at this point.
Davebo
My Lab is the same way.
But I guarantee you he could get Tunch out from under the bed.
jo6pac
Let’s hope they don’t start any fires, it’s already a long summer here in Calif.
jo6pac
Delia
The California fires are scary this summer. They started early; they’re all over and they just seem to go on and on. We’ve had the smoke from the fires up in Eugene, and on the news they said it reached as far north as the south end of Puget Sound.
John Cole
I just watched Last of the Mohicans, and Mark Twain be damned, it was a good movie.
Incertus
Off topic, but Red State apparently got a full dose of the stupid going again.
SamFromUtah
Our dog is very gunshy, and thunderstorms freak her out pretty badly. Worse, Utah has two big firework holidays in July: Independence Day, and Pioneer Day on the 24th. So people end up lighting explodey stuff, on both the personal and stadium scale, for the whole three weeks. It’s about all we can do to coax the poor dog outside to take a dump.
jake
Yep. It’s rolling this way now. There’s another one coming from the shore. Hopefully the town isn’t about to experience another Weather Channel worthy event.
Current cat count:
1 – Lazing in the backyard because he’s stupid still hasn’t figured out that big boomy noise in the sky means he’s about to get wet.
1 – Hiding under the back porch because she’s stupid and would rather be outside when it storms.
1 – Using the S.O. as a cushion just in case we have to make a dash for the basement.
bad dad
Assuming Tunch is a dog, consider getting a script for acepromazine from your vet. It dopes up our Beagle and Jack Russell pretty nicely for thunderstorms and fireworks. That and PoochPants so they don’t pee everywhere.
Chris Johnson
Global warming- remember, it’s not so much about everything getting generically hot, as it is about increasing the amount of energy in the climate.
Of course we’re already seeing this. It will keep escalating.
Delia
One of my cats is a stray that my daughter brought home from college (one of the unexpected bonuses of parenthood). Anyhow, she (the cat, not the daughter) likes the spend the summer outside in the garden. On the 4th the home fireworks started around 5:30 and when I opened the back door she came out of the garden shed, which is nice and dark and next to the back door, and slunk into the house. She and the other cat spent the rest of the evening in their secret hideyholes wherever they are in the house, and neither they nor the dog showed any inclination to go out, even to pee.
Genine
Tunch is a cat, actually. :)
gbear classics
Puppy Uppers/Doggie Downers
Joy…..Gilda Radner
Jill…..Laraine Newman
[ Jill is visiting Joy, whose dog is lying like a lox on the living room floor. Joy throws a ball at the dog, but he just stares at it as it rolls by. ]
Joy: Gee, Sparky’s been acting dull and listless lately. I just don’t know what’s wrong with him.
Jill: My dog Skippy used to be like that.. until I found out about.. [ reaches for box and pulls out a puppy upper ] ..Puppy Uppers. Puppy Uppers pep up your pooch, plus, they help control his weight.
[ Joy feeds Puppy Upper to Sparky ]
[ ripple dissolve to Sparky rolling over, doing back flips, leaping about, and acting speedy ]
[ SUPER: “Later That Day” ]
[ close-up of Sparky jumping up on Joy ]
Joy: Maybe it’s me, Jill, but I’d say Sparky’s perked up a little too much.
Jill: No argument there, Joy. When my Skippy gets too frisky, what I do is give him these.. Doggie Downers.
[ Jill holds up a box of Doggie Downers, then hands it to Joy, who is still being bothered by the frisky Sparky ]
Joy: [ reading label ] Doggie Downers.. mellows out your mutt. Hmm.. I’ll try them. [ feeds Sparky a Doggie Downer; he collapses ]
[ SUPER: “Later That Day” ]
[ ripple dissolve to Sparky lying like a lox on the living room floor, box of Doggie Downers in the shot ]
Jill: That’s Puppy uppers for when your dog’s like this. And.. [cut to replay of shot with sparky jumping on Joy, box of Puppy Uppers in the shot ] ..Doggie Downers, for when your dog’s like this. From Hound-Doze.
Krista
Awww…poor little buddy. My MIL’s Airedale is like that. Hates thunder and lightning and hates fireworks. A few years ago, before the Canada Day fireworks, they put him in his metal travel crate, thinking it would at least prevent him from tearing the house to ratshit. Instead, he wound up tearing the metal crate to ratshit, escaping, and then venting his fear on the rest of the house.
Frank
Yah that was a Nebraska style summer storm. Came through fast with big droplets.
By the way from you last couple of posts one would think you don’t remember how the press has always treated Democrats.
OriGuy
The Tassajara monks at Big Sur are working to stave off the fires and contemplating The Smokey the Bear Sutra.
Chuck Butcher
The only thunderstorm in the state of Oregon on the 4th was in Baker City. Gus, 150#s of very unhappy dog.
Chuck Butcher
The only thunderstorm in the state of Oregon on the 4th was in Baker City. Gus, 150#s of very unhappy dog.
bad dad
Tunch is a cat, actually. :)
Sorry, then. I think acepromazine only works with canine physiology. I could have just said “works on dogs”, but after typing “acepromazine”, the big word brain kicked in.
Jackie
I have a cat who’s 7 yrs old and is terrified of thunder and fireworks. If he’s inside when it happens he bolts outside via cat door. If he’s outside then he bolts inside and under my bed. He’s not a snuggly cat but he’s very lovable/huggable and about 3:30 a.m. Sat. I woke up just enough to realize he was snuggled up next to my tummy. He NEVER snuggles except during the cold winter months and then it’s usually behind my thighs.
I wish our city would ban fireworks or better; designate certain public areas for residents to light off and have fun. It’s not fun when you work holidays and wknds (nurse) and fireworks going off in your neighborhood and fire truck sirens keep you awake and you worked that day and are working the next day.:-(
vwcat
We are expecting some of those thunders tomorrow. We have had alot for the summer.
Jackie, I had twin boy kittens show up in my garage over the winter. One we eventually got to come out and eventually let us pet and the other was so scared he hid behind the workbench all winter (thank goodness for the heat lamp to keep the warm). by the late spring they took to being pets and came inside. The scared one, Ollie, now hangs inside alot is terrified of thunderstorms. His bolder brother, Iggy, doesn’t have the sense to come in out of the rain half the time.
But, neither does our other cat, Fluff.
rachel
The movie was good; the book sucked. All those things Twain complained about? The repetitive language, the events that could not have possibly happened the way Cooper described them? Those were fixed in the screen version. Besides, the Cooper books read like they were narrated by Daffy Duck, but the movie had Daniel Day Lewis.
les lee
We use to have big thunderstorms here near the coast in southern NE, but for the last 10 years they almost all fizzle out as they approach the cooler marine air.
Dr. Squid
Wake me up when you get a real thunderstorm with 90 mph straight line winds knocking out power for a week while it’s 100 degrees outside.
Ameren sucks.