I am going to have to say that I'm better at predicting the weather than trained meteorologists. I looked and looked at the prediction maps yesterday for TS Edouard and kept thinking that there was no way it was going to hit where they said it was going to hit. Sure enough, 6 am this morning...TS Edouard hit just 30 minutes from Beaumont.
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We are currently in it's throws - sustained winds of 50 mph (gusts to 65), which is just enough to blow my car, THE TANK, right off the road. There is no rain to speak of at this point, just a blank spot over Beaumont in the middle of a swirling storm...I am VERY disappointed.
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There are police posted at strategic points around Beaumont (not to mention emergency announcements going out over the radio) telling people to get off the road - UNLESS you happen to be in the medical field.
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So, those of us who are so importantly medical are at work while all of our patients are being told to go back home. There are currently two patients here who cleverly "tricked" the police by taking the back roads. Outstanding. Good thing the doctor thought this through.
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erin, sorry you're in a hurricane or tornado or whatever those kinds of storms we never see here are. I just wrote your sister to tell her what i'm going to tell you. i just started a blog at the nevada appeal called uniquely nevada, about nevada, of course. i plan on mining other blogs for content sometimes. that may include you on occasion. be warned. people here may have already looked at your blog fyi.
love,
teri
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only 50 mph? that's nothin'! you know what amy gardner always says - the wind isn't really blowing in ruby valley until it blows a chain straight out from the fence. wait a second, that doesn't make any sense. maybe we should just say the wind blows really hard here, really often.
I KNOW! It was the weeniest storm I have ever been through in my entire life. Of course, since none of the old people patients would go out in it, I got half a day off - unpaid of course.
Maybe when you become a true superhero you won't use demeaning words like "retard." Real superheros know that you don't have to have a family member with special needs to know how slurs and stereotypes hurt.
I certainly meant no disrespect by it. As someone who actually works with a lot of people who have special needs I would never use that term when speaking of a person. I simply repeated what the weather men were saying all day long in that Edouard was "retarded" in it's progress and strength, which apparently was a mistake. If I have offended you, I am sorry.
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