Well, there was 'supposed' to be little to no tornado thread with last night's storm front. Turned out otherwise. Our local TV station switched to solid weather coverage at around 7pm and didn't return to regular programming until not long before the 10pm newscast. Not long into that newscast they switched to solid weather coverage again. At about 10:20 it began to look as if the really bad weather threats would pass just to the east of us on its way north. That being the case I decided to hit the sack and hope for the best. Waking at circa 0330 this morning this proved to be the case. The front has now left our area except for a few lingering inoffensive rain clouds. My immediate area seems to have survived unscathed. At the very least I had expected to be without power for some hours due to predicted high winds.

I attempted to join a forum centered on silent and early sound films. Registered prior to 4pm yesterday afternoon. As with this forum, all seemed to go well -- until I reached the validation stage. And again like this form, I never received the necessary validation email. Unlike this forum, I have no inside connections to draw upon there. It dawns on me that this is at least the third time I've had issues joining forums due to missing validation emails: last night's attempt, Chorrol last year, and a forum for migraine sufferers quite a few years ago. No idea what's up with that. BTW, thanks again to those who helped me work around it here.

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Keep that up and a horde of Vikings will invade the thread

Decrepit, I thought of you tonight when hail started peppering my windows. No tornado, but I opened the door to watch for one. It was pretty exciting. No trees down, thank goodness. I’m glad your storms passed without much damage.

Callidus, I also experienced a shoe failure. Mine was last night. I was wearing impractical shoes for a wedding, and eventually I fell off of them. In the middle of the street after the reception, thankfully. Also the reception might have contributed to the mishap. Then my attempted three-point superhero landing was spoiled when I kept going onto my face. I was spitting dirt for the rest of the night. Also picking glass out of my palm.

On the plus side we were on our way to a St. Patrick’s Day street party and I felt overdressed in my wedding clothes, but when we got there my bloody face made me blend right in.

mALX, you had a Foxy sighting?! That’s cause for celebration! (I have just the shoes…)

Decrepit, I thought of you tonight when hail started peppering my windows. No tornado, but I opened the door to watch for one. It was pretty exciting. No trees down, thank goodness. I’m glad your storms passed without much damage.

Callidus, I also experienced a shoe failure. Mine was last night. I was wearing impractical shoes for a wedding, and eventually I fell off of them. In the middle of the street after the reception, thankfully. Also the reception might have contributed to the mishap. Then my attempted three-point superhero landing was spoiled when I kept going onto my face. I was spitting dirt for the rest of the night. Also picking glass out of my palm.

On the plus side we were on our way to a St. Patrick’s Day street party and I felt overdressed in my wedding clothes, but when we got there my bloody face made me blend right in.

mALX, you had a Foxy sighting?! That’s cause for celebration! (I have just the shoes…)

The misadventures of Grits falling off her shoes!

I'm glad you weren't badly hurt. It's not funny. Really. It's not. . . well, maybe a little.