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Whore of a storm here earlier.

Not even any rain or anything during the worst of it (I'm not sure even if there was any rain at all) but trees down all over and tractor-trailers knocked over on the highway and last I heard a train derailed.

They had redone the lights in the orchestra room, stopped the ones in the front row from flickering like they used to, so when the lights went out when we were in there, I thought the idiots in maintenance at the school rewired it wrong. Nope. But that would have been funnier.

And my mom was yelling at the Fox news people. Because they timed their Bad Weather Breaking News things just when the people were about to start to dance on "So You Think You Can Dance" (which I must admit is rather interesting, the actual dancing part) every time. 3 groups in a row. They showed the lame bits where they pick the type of dance and meet the choreographer and try a couple of steps, and then the announcer chick goes "And now, dancing to whatever by whomever, somebody and somebody!" and then it's all 'duh da duh da dip! Breaking Bad Weather Stuff! If you haven't yet noticed from the last 10 times we broke in this hour, it's crazy like a whore outside!'

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Didn't know Omar Epps' birthday was on the same day as mine.

It's pretty cool, there are a lot of people born right around the same time as me. (Okay, say it with me now. Duh.)

I mean, Eriq Lasalle, Charisma Carpenter, Daniel Radcliffe, and Omar Epps all on the 23rd, and Elisabeth Moss and Kristin Chenoweth the day after.

Interesting.

/random

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Hottest day of the year so far here and virtually all of St. Louis is without power. It was 103 today, plus whatever heat index.

We've still got power by some miraculous twist of fate. That storm last night was crazy bad. Tornado touched down not far from Katie's house, and part of the roof of a hangar at the airport got blown off onto somewhere.

Bad.

Sometime between 2ish last night and 8ish this morning, our phone line got pulled out or off or something. The people came around to fix it this afternoon (we don't know when they did it, but it was fixed by 5 because my grandparents called around then to tell us that they got to the hotel on their way back home). I thought it was funny that there was this whole big storm, and then it's after the storm that our phone line screws up.

So Katie's without power, saturn_hime is without power, so that kinda puts a damper on our whole little party thing. Curses.

The people across the street from us have no power either. This is crazy. There's one street in our whole little block thing with power, and I happen to live on it. I think it was the universe trying to make sure I didn't die of heatstroke before my birthday. Yay, universe. Thanks.