tidbits
as i’m sure you all saw from the news, we’ve had some pretty crazy weather here in colorado. thankfully we were spared the ordeal of dealing with serious property damage, etc. but like i said in the livechat, i did have to spend some time in the basement.
thursday was the really crazy weather day here. i usually don’t watch local news channels, or tv in general, before noon so i had no idea about the tornado watch that was in effect. it started to get really stormy out, then really windy, then we got pounded by hail. the hail started off the size of popcorn kernels, then got to about an inch, inch and a half in diameter. it was pounding down at an angle and i was pretty worried about our windows. so after about 30 minutes of crazy pounding and wind, it let up enough for me to go outside and take the top off the gazebo, that’s when i hard the tornado sirens. the hail was too loud to hear them from inside the house, to i went back inside, threw some bottled water down the stairs, put arthur in the baby bjorn, and got the dogs on leashes then went downstairs to monitor things on my laptop. 🙂
anyhoo…we were lucky! same for yesterday, too…there were a couple more touch downs east of us again.
moving to a different topic… 🙂 now that summer is here i’ve started to wear sunscreen every day again! bleh! but here’s a site that lists nearly every single sunscreen made and rates the health risk of each, since sunscreen can have some pretty nasty ingredients. it’s the cosmetic safety database. i recommend you go and look at your sunscreen to check it out!
May 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
OMG! You need to start packing and head right back to NYC! No, no, not to California. They have 5 awful seasons there: Summer, Mud Slides, Fire, Earthquake and Construction. Colorado now has more than its share, too: Too-Hot Summers, Too-High Snow, Tornadoes, Ping-Pong Ball Hail and Baseball-Sized Hail. Here in NYC we still only have Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring.
So when should we be expecting y’all?