Wall 'o weather

[altivo]

There's an arc of severe thunderstorms due here in ten minutes or so, thunder rattling now. In case power goes out, and because DW is slow again, I'll post this quickly.

It looks even nastier out toward the Mississippi, where there's a tornado warning live. We have a watch here, but that clump of supercells is probably headed this way too.

Work is starting to calm down as summer reading club closes out this week. They already had their pool party on Sunday, but there are prizes and drawings to be held this week, and then it's done. I think everyone has had more than enough of it this time.

Gary found a tree down in our back field today. A wild cherry, no idea why as there were no severe winds or anything in the last 24 hours and it had to have fallen then. I suppose we may know once we cut it up.

There goes the weather radio again, so that's it for tonight.

Comments

[altivo]

I think it was probably budgeted correctly when it started. The "cut everything" Republicans in Congress have been trying for some time to kill the entire weather service, and turn the responsibilities over to private corporations. Fortunately, the Pentagon is unwilling to allow this, so the repeated proposals have been squashed. That doesn't prevent the persistent "cut here first" attitude that gets applied to budget bills. We can't take away gigantic tax breaks that benefit people and corporations who are already obscenely wealthy, but we can keep reducing funding for educational and safety services year after year.

[hrrunka]

Rotten politics... :(