Randomest Thoughts v3

[dayraven]

all of the IAT staff are in my thoughts this evening, and i hope in all of yours as well, as the nerve center of IAT got eaten alive by tornadoes this evening. that town is in for some major rebuilding. peace and good luck to all of the IAT staff.

[Tekwych]

Had a 12 hour shift today so I haven't read the news (IAT comes first) so I did not know this. I hope all is well at the home office.

[dayraven]

Had a 12 hour shift today so I haven't read the news (IAT comes first) so I did not know this. I hope all is well at the home office.

no worries, i'm getting the word out. you gotta quit these long hours though, it's not good for your health.

[Tekwych]

Eb has posted that everybody is OK.

[dayraven]

yup, everyone in joplin has checked in apparently and everyone is ok, but the IAT teams live on different sides of the city and so are separated right now by the swatch of destruction.

[Lay Ze-Man]

Really really sucks.

All the photos coming out of the area are just horrible!

[Tekwych]

One week later.



Hang in there Joplin, we're still thinking of you.

[dayraven]

sil's got a photo of air force one on her FB page... we got the president down there, surely the walmart will be fully cloned and operational within a fortnight.

[manekochan]

Someone I spoke to said the Wal-Mart would take a year to rebuild. I'm not really sure that's accurate since the Chick-Fil-A guy told me they(Chick-Fil-A)'d be back up in a month.
I went by my old house today. Sturdy little thing was in the thick of it but all of its exterior walls are still standing. It has no roof now and no windows. It'll still have to be torn down but it's kind of nice to see it still mostly there. It was an old old house. All rock. Those rocks are still there unlike the houses that were rock/brick exterior and wood inside. Those are gone. It had a full basement, too. It's nice to know that, even if we still lived there, we would have lived.
When you live on the North side of town it's so easy to forget what's going on. It's when you get over (a mere 5 blocks from here, actually) there in the South end that you really feel it. Yesterday was the first morning I'd driven through it without wanting to cry. I think I was just too tired. Today, it was back again. It's so horrible. Every time I drive Vault to work it's like a week's worth of depression dropped on my head at once.
Our power was out for a day which is just crazy. The last time it was out it was gone for 8 days. I'm so happy they got it back so fast.
Our boil order is over and our internet access is back, but I find myself, after not being able to get online for a while, using the internet less and less.

[NoisyDvL5]

Most of what you're going to hear is rumors, gossip, and downright lies. You wouldn't believe some of the crap I've heard in the last week. There's an intense vacuum of information and people are just making crap up to fill it. It's like Anthony Crispino, the second-hand news correspondent on Weekend Update.

I was accosted by a random elderly lady at Target the other day about how the entire Olive Garden staff shouldn't have been fired for not serving the WBC people.

Repeat any & all "information" with caution.