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The power was certainly out from McGee to Baltimore and 19th to Truman Road.  Our neighborhood in Longfellow/Dutch Hill had power, although our porch furniture had been tossed into one corner of our porch, and there were a couple of downed trees...

The construction workers who have been working on our street had their outhouse tipped over by the wind.  I am not looking forward to coming home after that spill has had some time to fester in the hot sun. 

No damage, but I wonder how high the winds were.  It's the first time since moving into WST that I actually felt the building swaying.  I was trying to read and had to stop because I was getting motion sick. 

My power on the 4700 block of Roanoke went out at shortly before 9 p.m. last night, did not get restored until this afternoon.  Boo.  I'm off to throw all my now-room-temp groceries out of the fridge.  KCP&L said last night that they anticipated it being restored around 5 a.m.; that didn't happen.

I had just dropped someone off at the airport last night when the storm hit.

The drive back downtown took 1-1/2 hours, including 2 stops to wait out particularly nasty parts.  I had intended to run an errand on the way home so was taking side streets.      I ended up having to turn around at one point because the road was flooded out, forcing me to drive the wrong way on a divided parkway until I reached a crossover.      Several times it seemed like I was in a hurricane and with my detour plus almost zero visibility I got totally lost.  I thought I was in Gladstone but wound up in Parkville.    Coming back through Riverside on 9 the wind and rain was so strong that I was so convinced there must be a tornado about the come over the hill. I caught myself thinking "At least when my car flips up in the air it will be a really cool way to go, I just hope I hit the ground and don't get flung into the river to drown."  When I reached North Kansas City (I couldn't see the 169 exit to take it) I thought I was in the clear, but just south of 12th & Burlington I nearly wrecked while swerving to avoid a stalled minivan that was stranded in water over the road.  Second scariest thing I've ever driven in after a nighttime snowstorm in the Rockies.

Was I delusional or did 'they" say this morning that it was going to be 106 degrees Fahrenheit (with heat index) by noon today??  What happened?  I don't think I've ever seen the forecast off by 30 degrees before.

yep, you're right. i had planned on staying in the ac today because of the forecast. i don't see how they can be so off like this.

Brian Busby is going to have to pan out a bit to show his "bullseye" accuracy chart tonight. 

it was also supposed to be our first orange ozone alert. i'm guessing with no serious heat that it wasn't actually that bad.

Today's actually the first day in probably a month that I HAVEN'T run the AC.

Dangerboy noted elsewhere that we had tornadoes the other day but Katie Horner was on vacation. The irony.

Tosspot wrote: Dangerboy noted elsewhere that we had tornadoes the other day but Katie Horner was on vacation. The irony.

Think of all the lives that were saved because she was on vacation!

Where are all the rainbow pictures?

Anyone else's Internet connection slow as molasses today? I'm figuring it's because people are staying shut in and yankin' their puds to Internet porn. Damned inconvenient for me as I'm trying to transact some Serious Business.

Not just a slow internet...  I keep losing my TV signal too.

AND KCI Airport is closed!  We're all going to die...  AHHHHh!

Tosspot wrote: Anyone else's Internet connection slow as molasses today? I'm figuring it's because people are staying shut in and yankin' their puds to Internet porn. Damned inconvenient for me as I'm trying to transact some Serious Business.

Do you have Time Warner?  The cable feed to the Mizzou game cut out 3 or 4 times today, I'm thinking that Time Warner is having some problems with their system - possibly due to the weather.

shaffe wrote: Do you have Time Warner?  The cable feed to the Mizzou game cut out 3 or 4 times today, I'm thinking that Time Warner is having some problems with their system - possibly due to the weather.

I'm on AT&T DSL, actually, as I canceled my former Time Warner Internet Service about a year ago because the connection was consistently way too unreliable into my building. The DSL here is far more reliable, just damn slow today. The reason I even thought to bring it up now is because I've been trying to get some large files to someone, and it's bloody interminable.

I thought this was mildly amusing - here I am yesterday morning in 20-ish degree weather surrounded by snow and ice.




...fun and fancy photoshoppin' I went about here too just for, well, fun.

I didn't quite get the sunrise light I wanted with the snow because I didn't get to the Plaza quite early enough. I had then vowed to go back for sunset/snow photos, but by then the snow was all gone what with that dramatic temperature rise.


Anyway, I never "tooned" into Channel 5 through this; did Katie Horner stay on top of her game this time around?

Haha, that's awesome.  You're such a thug!   

PumpkinStalker wrote: Haha, that's awesome.  You're such a thug!   

Hehe, well the photographer's vest makes me look a lot meaner than I really am, but it's sure convenient for changing lenses on the fly and so forth.