So its no secret I hate Wal-Mart….. so its time to have a little fun at Walmart… and I videotaped it.  For those of you who don’t know WalMart has this really crappy policy where you can’t record in there stores so I had to be very secretive about it.  I stuck my Kodak ZX1 in my front shirt pocket with my credit card in front of it covering the recording LED.  It worked.

So I returned 46 cans…. and printed a bottle slip for each can.  I then went and bought one mushroom (WTF mushrooms cost 18 cents?!) and payed for it with said bottle slips….. enjoy.

So as some of you know Kate called me twice last week.   She called once on father’s day, and then again on Wednesday just before a big storm hit.  I tried calling her back but got the run around from someone else that answered the phone so now I’m having my support people and possibly the police figure out why she keeps calling me but I get the run around when I call her back.

Something is not right, and I’m starting to get very worried.  Why would Kate all of a sudden call me out of the blue twice in a week after not talking to me for months then when I call her back someone else answers and gives me the run around.  I’m starting to wonder if shes calling me for help or what.

So I tried calling Kate and it didn’t go well.  I got a really evasive staff member who would not let me talk to her and said she was unavailable… sometime I just want to kill myself.  This would be one of those times.

So the Storm Prediction Center likes it big today.  And by big I mean massive, huge, and the biggest anyone has ever seen them do.  Today they issued Mesoscale Discussion number 2010-1086…. and its the largest damn Meso I’ve seen.  I’m not the only to comment on it, Bill Steffen of WOOD-TV said “I think that’s the biggest meso-discussion that I’ve ever seen” writing about it on his blog.  This thing is massive and just shows the that everything is coming together for some nice action tomorrow like I said earlier.

   MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1086   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK   0708 PM CDT TUE JUN 22 2010

   AREAS AFFECTED...CNTRL/ERN SD ...SW MN...IA

   CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH POSSIBLE 

   VALID 230008Z - 230215Z

   TIMING REMAINS UNCERTAIN...BUT ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER WATCHES   WILL PROBABLY BE NEEDED ACROSS AREAS NEAR/NORTH AND EAST OF THE MID   MISSOURI VALLEY DURING THE 03-06Z TIME FRAME.

   SEVERAL SCATTERED STORM CLUSTERS ARE NOW ALREADY ONGOING TO THE LEE   OF THE NORTHERN ROCKIES...SOUTHWARD THROUGH THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS.    SPECIFICS OF CONVECTIVE EVOLUTION AND FOCUS FOR DEVELOPMENT FROM   HERE ON STILL REMAIN AT LEAST A BIT UNCLEAR...BUT CONSOLIDATION AND   UPSCALE GROWTH APPEARS LIKELY WITHIN A BROAD ZONE OF ENHANCED   CONVERGENCE ON THE NOSE OF A STRENGTHENING SOUTHERLY LOW-LEVEL JET   ACROSS CENTRAL/EASTERN NEBRASKA INTO SOUTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA.  THIS   WILL BE AIDED BY A FORCING ASSOCIATED WITH A SIGNIFICANT SHORT WAVE   IMPULSE WHICH WILL BEGIN TO SLOWLY ACCELERATE INTO A CONFLUENT   MID/UPPER FLOW REGIME ACROSS THE NORTHERN PLAINS LATER THIS EVENING.    IN THE PRESENCE OF STEEP MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES...MODERATE TO STRONG   CAPE...AND STRONG DEEP LAYER SHEAR BENEATH 30-40+ KT SOUTHWESTERLY   500 MB FLOW...A LARGE SEVERE MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM APPEARS   POSSIBLE...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL.

   ..KERR.. 06/23/2010

   ATTN...WFO...DVN...ARX...MPX...DMX...FSD...OAX...ABR...GID...   LBF...UNR...

   LAT...LON   42690216 44430040 45509752 45379526 43819144 42129126               40819320 40739559 40019960 42690216 

So I saw the presidential motorcade.  The guy next to us clearly drank the Koolaid.

Today I got to see the new Michigan State Police lighting package first hand.

I do however wonder if the old rotating lights or the newer LED beacon lights keep the coffee warmer

Time to get out the Rubber Duckies!!!

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR…
CALHOUN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN…
KALAMAZOO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN…

* UNTIL 615 AM EDT

* AT 1204 AM EDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA. RAINFALL
RATES OF AN INCH PER HOUR WILL IMPACT KALAMAZOO AND BATTLE CREEK THROUGH 1 AM. THIS MAY LEAD TO CONSIDERABLE FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO KALAMAZOO…COMSTOCK…HIGHLAND PARK…GULL LAKE…YORKVILLE… COOPER…NORTHWOOD…HOWLANDSBURG…RICHLAND…BURLEIGH CORNERS…PARTELLO…ST MARYS LAKE…LEVEL PARK…PENNFIELD…FORT CUSTER…RICE CREEK…WATTLES PARK…DUCK LAKE AND BATTLE CREEK.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS…URBAN AREAS…HIGHWAYS…STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.

If this is near you, stick your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye.

AT 1151 PM EDT…NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE TRACKING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. AT 1148 PM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR GALESBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
BATTLE CREEK… BELLEVUE… MARSHALL…
AUGUSTA… BROOKFIELD… OLIVET…
CONVIS TWP… LEE TWP… CERESCO…
BEDFORD… SPRINGFIELD… GULL LAKE…
BURLEIGH CORNERS… PARTELLO… ST MARYS LAKE…
LEVEL PARK… PENNFIELD… FORT CUSTER…

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW…MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.

The SPC is currently screaming like a girl. This statement makes me happy.

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0823
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0929 PM CDT SAT JUN 05 2010

AREAS AFFECTED…SRN LOWER MICH

CONCERNING…SEVERE POTENTIAL…WATCH POSSIBLE

VALID 060229Z – 060330Z

THERE IS AN INCREASING THREAT FOR SUPERCELLS AND POTENTIALLY AN ISOLD TORNADO OR TWO ACROSS SRN LOWER MICH N OF THE EXISTING TORNADO WATCH IN FAR SRN LOWER MICH. A TORNADO WATCH MAY BE NEEDED TO ADDRESS A CONDITIONAL–BUT POTENTIALLY RAPIDLY EVOLVING THREAT.

RECENT RADAR IMAGERY SHOWS SUPERCELL-LIKE UPDRAFTS DEVELOPING ACROSS SWRN LOWER MICH IN THE PAST 15-30 MINUTES. STRONG LOW LEVEL SHEAR 30-40 KTS 0-1 KM SHEAR/ ALONG AND JUST S OF THE WARM FRONT DRAPED ACROSS LOWER MICH IS JUXTAPOSED WITH A MOIST AND INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE AIRMASS FEEDING INTO THE REGION FROM THE S. IF THE UPDRAFTS CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN/DEEPEN IN THE SHORT TERM…AN ADDITIONAL SMALL TORNADO WATCH MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY…N OF THE EXISTING TORNADO WATCH.

..SMITH.. 06/06/2010

ATTN…WFO…DTX…IWX…GRR…

LAT…LON 42068615 42588610 42668345 42558282 42078315 42068615

So if you need a refresher on CPR this will keep you ‘refreshed’.  Its much better then MFR or Red Cross CPR training.

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