There's been some kind of storm forecast for Wednesday-to-Thursday for the past ten days or so, according to the ten-day forecasts. I hadn't paid it much attention since this has been a winter of ``wait, is there going to be a winter this year? Or what?'' But as we got closer to the day the forecasts solidified, more or less. We're now under six different weather warning watch advisory super-ultra mega-treat-level-midnight alarms, with the National Weather Service maps inventing new colors to say how bad the storm looks to be.
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bunnyhugger, taking NWS advisories like ``travel is strongly discouraged'' or worse at their word, isn't going in. She's waiting to see if the school calls off first, since if they cancel she'll go back to bed and sleep happily; if she just doens't go in on her own accord she'll feel the need to do something online to substitute.
And me? Wednesday is one of the two days a week I'm supposed to go into the office. And as of the close of business today nobody'd given us any direction about whether to stay home or even where to get word about whether we should stay home. The TV is running a crawl of schools that are already closed for tomorrow, but I haven't seen anything about stte office worker declarations. I did serach Birdsite but 'michigan state workers' leads to other topics. Also some tweets from back in December about Bronner's Christmas Wonderland closing for the storm which lets you know how bad the travel was Christmas Eve.
In any event. My plan is tomorrow, unless the weather has gotten appreciably better --- which would require only that the weather be a couple degrees warmer, must admit --- I'm going to stay home on my own accord. If anyone wants to give me trouble about this I'm going to point out that even though my own commute is merely two miles they're warning all travel will be difficult and should be avoided. Heck of it is my coworkers have tremendous commutes, like an hour or more; I'm going to be stunned if any of them don't stay home too.
Let me get some Women's Pinball Championship pictures in before the weather gets too bad, now.
People gathering together to watch the tournament ... streaming, rather than go into the other room and watch it live. Well, it is less distracting to the competitors this way.
But I dared to go in and watch them playing, here, Getaway from where I couldn't be in their line of sight.
bunnyhugger gets a snap of the play on Getaway.
bunnyhugger noticed this little fish-monster critter inside the Fish Tales and asked if that was standard decoration. I could not remember and took the picture mostly so I would remember to go look it up. No, it is not (look at the front of the transparent plastic bracket there).
The rig set up on Deadpool. Is the Women's tournament coming to the same climax that the Open tournament did?
Looking like! Hard at work playing while everyone watches the stream.
Trivia: The first signal flag adopted for weather transmission was for high winds. Source: A History of the United States Weather Bureau, Donald R Whitnah.
Currently Reading: Suddenly, Tomorrow Came: A History of the Johnson Space Center, Henry C Dethloff. NASA SP-4307.
PS: What’s Going On In Mary Worth? When did Iris get pets? November 2022 – February 2023 in the story comics. Plus a wedding!
