I don't think we're in Kansas anymore

[jhetley]

But we weren't in Kansas _before_ the storm hit, so that isn't a problem. I did think we were headed for Canada on a couple of those gusts. Gusts up over 50 mph, with heavy rain, temperatures in the 50s F, all the snow has vanished. No visible damage to our house, a few dead limbs down in the yard. Never lost power. Trash all over the neighborhood -- this morning is the weekly garbage pick-up, and some differently-abled individuals put their trash out last night or even earlier in the week.

Flood watches for the rivers, with the rain and snowmelt and the ground frozen like a rock so nothing soaks in. We're a hundred feet above the nearest water, so I'm easy on _that_. If the river bothers us, we'll have worse things to worry about.

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, what the hell is wrong with putting out your trash the night before? When you have NO IDEA what time the trash pickup is going to show up, and it could be anytime from 7AM to 5PM, it's the only sensible way to handle the situation.

Unless, of course, you're one of those weirdos who enjoys getting up and hauling the trash can out at an obscene hour...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Whether in cans, bags, or loose, the net effect is littering -- 50 mph gusts, 40 mph sustained winds for at least twelve hours before the earliest possible trash pickup. Some of that stuff is still going to be out there in March or April, because now it is frozen down. In other people's yards. I was picking up used Kotex this morning....

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I understand why you're annoyed. What bothered me was the auto-equation of "putting the trash out the night before" with "retard".

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

From where I'm sitting, it sure looks like the alleged perpetrators either were too dumb to realize the logical result, or didn't care. I was being polite and restrained by putting them in the first category.

In case you hadn't caught the nuance, the auto-equation _also_ involved ambient conditions of the particular night before in question. Other factors also come into play around here. Due to the common presence of nocturnal critters up to and including black bears, we never put out garbage overnight. It is liable to end up torn open and scattered, even without wind.

If that wouldn't be a problem in your neighborhood, I'm glad I live a fair distance away.