tsunami helped me clean my barn

Jcran · #1 03/11/11, 11:39 AM

Crazy busy week...no time whatsoever...report card season...barn a mess. When am I going to find time to clean? The phone call this morning! Due to the tsunami warning our school district was closing all the schools for the day (our town is relatively low lying, better safe than sorry, etc). So I get to stay home and clean the barn (and maybe the house!). Tempered with that is the sobering videos of Japan. I'm sending out prayers for those folks.

Backfourty,MI. · #2 03/11/11, 01:47 PM

It's terrible all the devastation over there! I'm sure better reasons to have a day off but nice when you can accomplish something too, I bet the barn looks really good.

kirkmcquest · #3 03/11/11, 01:52 PM

Build a boat in that barn.

#4 03/11/11, 02:22 PM

Back when bird flu was raging hot and heavy (in the media anyway) I was kinda hoping they'd declare a quarantine and make everyone stay home for a couple of weeks. The things I could have gotten done!

But no, we still had to go to work like always. Flu or no flu.

Minelson · #5 03/11/11, 03:06 PM

Oh I thought the tsunami went through the barn and cleaned it for you!

julieq · #6 03/11/11, 05:00 PM

I was born and raised right below you in Fortuna. Sounds like Crescent City got hit pretty hard. Glad you got your barn cleaned, although it's a sad day for Japan.

Jcran · #7 03/11/11, 08:28 PM

Sadly three guys viewing the tsunami surge on the beach north of here on the Klamath River mouth got washed into the ocean. Two got out but one was killed...I just wish they had taken the warnings seriously. We went down to the overlook at 7:30 this morning to watch the beach and one of the rivers. We saw the first surge up the river and it was FAST. Kind of scary fast. Friends of ours got evacuated because their ranch is right down in what we call "Arcata Bottoms", river bottom that fronts the beach. They had to leave animals unfed, etc. as they were evac'd at 5 or 6 this morning. Crescent City was amazing to watch. None of us had any idea that the surge there would be that big. My niece is engaged to a commercial fisherman and he cried watching it.

Minelson · #8 03/11/11, 09:31 PM

I think it was Cresent City on Dateline tonight...wow.