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This week is Severe Weather Awareness Week. What steps do you take to prepare for severe weather?
Asked at Hy-Vee, 3504 Clinton Parkway on March 2, 2013
“We prepare ourselves by making sure our vehicles are in good shape, if we go out. If we are in the house, we make sure we have food, flashlights and candles. ”
“I guess I give myself more time to get places.”
“ I just traveled here from Nevada, so I made sure we had all the travel stuff ready.”
“ I work at a school. We are always doing drills. At our house we have a basement and a weather radio.”
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Comments
inmate 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I keep my back to the wall in case the lights go out.
I tried using the LJWorld search bar to search for a user and it didn't work. Why is that? I finally tried Google and found them. Took me three spellings, but I wanted to see if H_Lecter was removed. Seems like the LJWorld search bar ought to be able to search for all of its online content.
Pywacket 2 months, 3 weeks ago
The LJW's so-called search engine has always been a joke. Don't even bother wasting time on it--go straight to Google.
If they ran an article about alligators with prosthetic limbs two days ago, and you typed "alligators, prosthetic limbs" into their search engine, you would either get no results at all, or you'd turn up an article on marijuana paraphernalia from 2005 and another article about fallen tree limbs from a 2007 ice storm. It would find nothing about the article you were actually looking for.
There is absolutely no rhyme or reason to the disconnected, outdated crap their searches turn up--and no logical reason why a search with logical key words fails to get any hits with articles containing those same words--articles that ran within the same month or even week of the search.
They made some fanfare about trotting out a "new" search feature some time ago, but nothing changed.
riverdrifter 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Py is spot-on with her rant. LJWorld search engine is worthless. BTW, H-Lecter skipped town with Multi a while back and they're not coming back.
Pywacket 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ha--let's hope not, for H-Lecter's sake, River!
Pywacket 2 months, 3 weeks ago
I always find it helpful to run in circles, scream, & shout.
psycho_theclown 2 months, 2 weeks ago
It varies by locale. From now on, in Florida, I'm tying a rope from my waist to the car bumper.
Joe Hyde 2 months, 2 weeks ago
No kidding. A long rope with a quick-release knot at your waist, in case you notice your car going into the sinkhole first.
tomatogrower 2 months, 2 weeks ago
You and my husband should be friends.
cait48 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Well you darn well better prepare, Thanks to the sequester the Early Warning System is now about as useless as teats on a boar hog.
riverdrifter 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The only thing I've done is get a better weather radio. Over the past 6-7 years I've tossed 3 of those $21.95 cheapo Midland weather radios. They gradually become unreliable when it comes to receiving weather warnings. I'm giving the Sangean CL-100 a shot.
raerae 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Always have a sturdy pair of shoes by the bed; extra water, MREs, a noise source and water in the basement in case we get trapped by debris; and the cat carrier is stored down there, too, so he won't get loose and run off if the roof should blow off the house.
Is that guy's name really Sam Fortune? Love it.
faceit 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I got tired of the alerts from a weather radio years ago. I'm connected to enough electronics w/o one.
Was the "cull" a crack down or did they leave in protest? I have to say, I do appreciate the fewer posts. (3500 posts per year by one poster is too darn many)
Katara 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Higher level of discourse... LOL that's a good one!
Pywacket 2 months, 2 weeks ago
The gators most certainly were off topic, Autie, but I just could not resist jumping on the search-engine bandwagon. It's not like the LJW is going to provide an article discussing the dreadfulness of their search tools, so those of us who are irritated by those alleged tools have to snark where we can. ;-)
gphawk89 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I always follow my dad's lead when it comes to tornado warnings. When the sirens go off I go out and stand on the front porch. My wife doesn't seem to think that's the proper thing to do.
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