This seemed to be a longer Memorial Day Weekend than thought. Spent
this weekend putting together the latest Townedger album and I think
it's going to be a good one. Had lots of help from good friends getting
it done and if anything certainly Olivia herself may have been the
basis of some of the songs, the album was also the inspriation of good
friends and supporters of the band. Certainly, I think Diggy and Sassy
had also given me equal parts of inspiration to finish it and I like the
results. The album will be released in June to those who desire a
copy.
Seems like this is the year of extreme weather and nobody likes it.
Especially after the mayhem that was the four county tornado that
destoyed parts of New Hartford, Parkersburg, Dunkerton and Hazleton from
quarter after four till about eight oclock. They call it a EF3 tornado
but I think its more of a EF4 judging by the size that I have seen in
pictures. The storm blasted through Cedar Rapids and Anamosa had 63
mile an hour winds and a funnel cloud was to the east of here around
Whitter to Peralta which is south of Springville. Thankfully no
tornados although we did get a brief but another inch quarter of rain
that we didn't need. And no we also didn't need any tornados either. I
do believe that this big monster storm was the most destructive since
the May 15th Charles City/Oelwein tornado of 1968. And we lived in
Waterloo at that time but had the same humid conditions as we did
Sunday.
I'm sure as life gets back to normal tomorrow, with the usual high
gas prices going up even more till everybody pays 4 bucks a gallon for
it thus once again turning our anger to the worthless government of do
nothings and an done nothing president. I think I'll take tomorrow off
and see what fun things I can find at Iowa City although goin to
Waterloo seems interesting.
Some observations...I don't like the new WGN logo. Now when you
watching something on the superstation you have a pair of eyes staring
back at you. Frucking creepy if you ask me..as if they're trying to
hypotise you...you will watch this channel, you will watch this
channel. TV you can't ignore, you will watch this channel.......
I wish that Viacom would realize that not everybody wants to watch
fucking Flavor Flav or Viva Tequila chick on MTV. You can't find love
on fucking reality TV. It's bad enough in real life.
The guilty pleasure CD of the week is Len You Can't Stop The Bum
Rush, which they had one of all time feel good singles of summer back in
99 with Steal My Sunshine. Kinda reminds me of a tamer and less
offensive Bloodhound Gang's album for SONY a few years earlier. Alas,
LEN faded after that big hit and you can find their CD anywhere in the
dollar bins. Also I got talked into getting the Elton John Live In
Australia CD. Better be good otherwise I'll never trust you're opinions
again BL.
PS The New Hartford/Parkersburg Tornado was (no surprise) rated a
EF5, meaning it was a big MOFO, going as big as a whole mile. The
Fairbank to Oneida Twister, EF3 and one by Delaware EF1. Also, while we
had sirens of a possible funnell cloud that night, there was a grain
silo to the east and south of Martelle that got leveled. There were
three silos, the middle one got destroyed and thrown into the field like
a crushed beer can. I hate extreme weather and we all don't like to
see tornados, but you have to respect them, most so during the April-May
period to which the most extreme storms come out around this time.
There's no reasonable way of describing the destruction of one; when we
had the IC/Anamosa storms of two years ago, a small EF1 tornado still
did a lot more damage and when you see it first hand, it's shock at
first site. It's even more shocking to see a aftermath of a destroyer
of a EF5.
We all hope and pray for the ones who lost everything due to these
terrible storms. And pray that it never happens in a heavily populated
area, or hopefully anyplace else.
Ever been in the presence of a F5 Tornado coming through your bank?
