It’s at least an EF4 per CNN.

Boxturtle (And heading my way later this week)

Only way I know of is to trap ‘em and relocate them. Best left for professionals.

Boxturtle (If you do, expect a rodent population explosion)

Make sure your local vet has an adequate supply of antivenin. For an average human bite it takes a minimum of about 10 vials. I have heard of cases requiring almost 100 vials. I do not know about a dog, but assume it would be based on body weight. Many vets do not even stock [...]

I used to do that when I was a kid. Snakes didn’t bother me at all. But I never found the copperhead my father was sure I’d find.

Boxturtle (Once caught a 3ft watersnake. About as big as snakes get in Ohio)

She wouldn’t get close to me, I found a nearby tree and put the bug on the bark. It still just sat there and made noise.

Boxturtle (Insects just bother some people)

Those things freak my wife out. She’s sure they eat people. One landed on the back of her shirt and the next thing I know she’s standing on the sidewalk in her bra frantically shaking her shirt. I picked it off and put it on my shirt like a manufacturers logo. Boxturtle (It just sat [...]

Wow, that’s a heck of a storm. Especially for that far north. We’d see that one coming days in advance now, but if a tornado gives you 15 minutes warning you’re lucky.

Boxturtle (When I was young, they’d look for a hook echo and assume it was a tornado)

I live in the Land of the Crazy Winds, we’re pretty good at handling tornado cleanup. So’s Oklahoma. What worries me is when some area that was previously mostly safe gets hit for the first time. They’ll have no clue how to respond.

Boxturtle (Imagine the tornado that hits Bangor, Maine)

As temperatures rise, we’re going to see more and bigger tornadoes. And additional 1/2 degree air temperature may not sound like much, But a supercell covers an area typically measured in square miles and an air column up to around 40-50,000 ft. That’s a LOT of additional energy over that area that the supercell can [...]

There is no immediate danger to human life. So go about your business, citizens.

That scenario is scary possible if the Fukushima SPF’s catch fire.

Boxturtle (I’ll be dead of natural causes before the radiation gets me. So no problem, right?)

It’s a Tolkein quote

And >>>I<<< didn't recognize it as such?!?

Boxturtle (grabs dunce cap and heads to the corner stool)

“Not all who wander are lost” – Motto on the back of a black leather motorcycle jacket.

Boxturtle (Officer, if I knew where I was going I’d have got there by now!)

I wonder how many of today’s students would catch the reference. Just feeling gloomy over the state of education in America this Monday.

Boxturtle (My fathers sign to me would have said: Eating and living indoors. They’re important)

Did he get up early anyway? When my stepson graduated, he woke up the next day at his normal time and was most displeased. Blamed High School for preventing him from having normal sleep hours.

Boxturtle (Which for him appears to be 4am – 2pm)

Threw me for a loop too. Here’s my understanding. It’s not so much the age of the water they’re refering to, but how long the water has been completely isolated from the environment. That water was sealed into rock bubbles over a billion years ago and it is an exact sample of what the water [...]

If he want’s to be the US nuke waste repository, I’m sure there’s nobody who will stop him. In fact, I can think of 49 governors, 98 senators, and just over 400 house members who would assist him in that. And a president. We gotta find a safe place to store this stuff. Right now, [...]

Good Morning, All! It is cool and humid here, shortly it will be hot and humid. With Thundershowers, possibly. And on another dog subject, anybody think of a good way to keep large, shaggy dogs that like to sleep outside in the grass under trees from bringing in spiders in their fur? Can’t use insecticide, [...]