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May. 11th, 2008 02:45 pmZOMG! Jungle Park is still there. You still see the outlines of the track, and what are probably the foundations for the grandstands. JP was this weird, African-themed sprint car track that closed a few years before I was born. When I was little, you still heard all of these stories about how strange and wonderful Jungle Park had been. The backstretch was uphill, and the front straight ran sharply downhill.
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We just had a tornado warning here. I loaded Flaster into the Qat Prison, and stood outside watching for a bit. A wall cloud passed to our west, although I didn't see a funnel. One of the bad things about Ohio is that the funnel comes inside of the rain wall, rather than in front of it as I'm used to (for whatever reason, this changes from west to east - in Indiana you can usually see them coming - in the Plains, you can always see them coming). Now the sun is out, and it seems to have missed us.
Wide Open West was no help at all. They ran a blurb across the screen saying 'tune to channel 16 for information', which I did, but of course all that was on 16 was the worthless 'TV Guide Channel', which is basically nonstop advertising for the PPV channels. Wouldn't do to interrupt someone's paid advertisement for something as trivial as a tornado, after all. I'm halfway tempted to complain to the FCC. They evidently felt it was important enough to interrupt qualifying coverage for the 'tune to 16' blurb (which I agree with) but then once you're at 16, they'd like you to sit through some advertisements before they give the PSA. I got my information off the internet, which was faster and more reliable.
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And here go the sirens again. Now there's a tornado a few miles north of here, near Powell, just west of Polaris. There was evidently a funnel inside that rain wall after all. It's moving away from me, though.
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We just had a tornado warning here. I loaded Flaster into the Qat Prison, and stood outside watching for a bit. A wall cloud passed to our west, although I didn't see a funnel. One of the bad things about Ohio is that the funnel comes inside of the rain wall, rather than in front of it as I'm used to (for whatever reason, this changes from west to east - in Indiana you can usually see them coming - in the Plains, you can always see them coming). Now the sun is out, and it seems to have missed us.
Wide Open West was no help at all. They ran a blurb across the screen saying 'tune to channel 16 for information', which I did, but of course all that was on 16 was the worthless 'TV Guide Channel', which is basically nonstop advertising for the PPV channels. Wouldn't do to interrupt someone's paid advertisement for something as trivial as a tornado, after all. I'm halfway tempted to complain to the FCC. They evidently felt it was important enough to interrupt qualifying coverage for the 'tune to 16' blurb (which I agree with) but then once you're at 16, they'd like you to sit through some advertisements before they give the PSA. I got my information off the internet, which was faster and more reliable.
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And here go the sirens again. Now there's a tornado a few miles north of here, near Powell, just west of Polaris. There was evidently a funnel inside that rain wall after all. It's moving away from me, though.
