Posted By Russ Emerson on May 4, 2004 at 6:53 pm
Now that this is out of the way…
I can get to work on the Spirit of America ClueBatsTM that are due to various people.
[My garage workshop isn’t large enough for me to do serious woodworking while I have a project in the painting/staining/finishing stage. Sorry for the delay.]
If you were one of the bidders here during the SoA fundraiser and haven’t seen the e-mail I sent out after bids were closed, please allow me to reiterate: send me a copy of your donation receipt and I’ll send you a mini-ClueBatTM (I think it’ll end up between 25% and 50% scale) as a memento and a Thank You for your donation.
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Posted By Russ Emerson on May 4, 2004 at 12:21 am
If there’s one sound I hate to hear, it’s the screech of the Emergency Broadcast System.
OK, there’s one sound that I’ll presume is worse: that of an oncoming tornado. I’ve never heard one, and I hope never to hear one, but I can only assume that it’s far far worse than the EBS noise.
We had a Tornado Warning yesterday. Fortunately for me, the tornado touched down about 12 miles from here. Thankfully, I’ve not heard that anyone was hurt. All we had right here was a thundersorm.
Thunderstorms are not an uncommon weather phenomenon here in NC. But short of a hurricane, none of the weather I’ve seen here compares to the seasonal monsoon storms I saw during three summers in Korea.
In June of 1990, our platoon of MI troopers had been tasked to go to the field with one of the armor battalions from the 2nd Infantry Division to monitor their communications, making sure they weren’t using bad radio procedure. We were to report security lapses in an effort to improve the tankers’ security.
So, SGT Rick, SPC Dave and I piled our gear in our HMMWV and headed to the field site that had been chosen for us, one of several hilltops overlooking the tankers’ exercise area.
In hindsight, a hilltop might not have been the wisest location.
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