Driving during a tornado warning....

There has been a lot of discussion over the last few years about the hazards of trying to drive out of the path of a tornado, especially in a large city. We know early in the morning what our tornado risk will be for that day. If you don't feel your home is safe, make plans ahead of time and leave BEFORE warnings are issued. If you are still home when the sirens sound it's too late. Take cover immediately and use blankets, pillows, helmets, etc to protect yourself from debris. The innermost room should survive all but the strongest tornadoes but YOU WILL DIE in your car if hit by even a weak one. I repeat, *YOU WILL DIE* if a tornado hits your car with you in it.

Don't use me as an example. Driving in severe weather is what I do. We have annual safety training which covers incidents from last season. Even with training we lost three professional chasers and two amateurs on May 31, 2013. Several others were injured. I keep my distance from danger and I have communication with trusted experts to keep me out of harm's way. You can't rely on the street by street radar analysis given on TV or radio. Those can be inaccurate because radar is seeing thousands of feet up in the air, not on the ground. Relying on a radar app on your phone isn't a good idea either for the same reason, plus it might be 10, 20, or even 30 minutes out of date. Besides, thousands of extra cars on the road jeopardizes the lives of those who NEED to be out there.

If you are already in your car when a tornado warning comes out find a solid building to take shelter in. A hospital might be able to take you in or most big chain stores have emergency plans and a safe place to take cover. If you have nowhere else to go, the freezer in a convenience store is somewhat reinforced. Don't go to a school and cause security issues.

I will be repeating this message throughout the spring and am not apologizing for the duplication. This is lifesaving information that I want my friends and their friends and THEIR friends to see and think about.

What's good about Good Friday?

...was the question I heard on the radio this morning.

I suppose from a humanist point of view it was a bad day but from humanity's point of view it was a very good day.

Jesus was the last blood sacrifice required for the atonement of sin. No longer was man tied to rituals of killing animals for temporary forgiveness.

Easter represents the completion of the process so altogether it's a great weekend.

Fixed! Don't know how!

Came home tonight to no water pressure. Went out to the wellhouse and started taking things apart and testing with a meter. Everything above ground tested good, which points to the pump in the bottom of the well. Put everything back together and turned the power back on just in case... it started working and built up pressure like it's supposed to. So it's not just computers I fix and don't know what I did - now it's water wells too.

2 questions:

1. Do you think the federal government should enforce fair access to the internet via so-called Net Neutrality?

2. Do you think airport security is efficient?

Both answers should be either yes or no. If not the same, please explain why.

Movie or real life?

The theme of the 3 Terminator movies was the machines (computers) becoming self-aware and trying to exterminate the humans it saw as pests.

If "machines" was replaced by "U.S. Federal Government" what date would you put down as Judgement Day? Are we getting close?

Think I'm barking up the wrong tree? Every authoritarian government in history has found it necessary to eliminate its citizens that it perceived as a nuisance or threat. Who controls education, economy, legal system, and health care in this country?

Now try again on that date.