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Zombie Apocalypse of 2012

4 Jul

Today is Independence Day for the United States of America.  Greatest country in the world. Happy Fourth!

On Friday June 29th, we had a a massive line of Thunderstorms come through.  We had friends coming over and some arriving to visit for the weekend and just as they got here, all hell broke loose outside and then the Zombie Apocalypse began. For some reason, when any type of crisis happen here, everyone feels the need to have a yard sale the next day.  All along my street people were throwing all their stuff outside hoping for some lucky person to buy it.  Granted there was nothing else to do except be miserable in the heat. But still, yard sales people?  So quirky.

The wind was reportedly up to 80 mph at times and they are now calling this a “Land Hurricane”  or derecho.  Here’s a link to an article about this type of storm:

http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/jun/30/a-land-hurricane-strikes-states-from-midwest-to-east-new-storms-predicted/

This storm knocked out power to our whole little town.  Shut the whole town down for the weekend turning our whole town into a ghost town.   Thankfully, we were able to grill a shitload of meat and then have a candlelight dinner with good friends.  The storm itself literally only lasted for no more than 30 minutes with a the damaging winds. We lost siding off our house,  flag poles across the street fell,  huge trees fell on streets and houses (this was two blocks down)

trampolines landed in power lines.  Insane. For a storm that didn’t produce a tornado in our little town, that was the most insane wind storm I’ve ever witnessed.  I’ve even lived in Texas and Tennessee!!! AND I lived in Tri Cities, Washington ….. they should actually rename that town the Windy City!  Ohio, that was impressive — But I’m sick of it, so cut it out with the storms.

It was so hot in our house after the storm, it was hard for the bay-bay to get comfy.  She finally fell asleep at midnight on Friday night.  Bah.  Thankfully our pals let us come up to their house the next day where there was no storm and we got AC for the night.

Mads thought the whole adventure was fun… after we got the hell out of town and back into the land of AC!

(Yea she rocks the highwaisted pantstyle.  Cute eh?  Or creepy?  You decide. YOU BETTER SAY CUTE.)

Electricity came back on around 8 pm on Saturday here at our house.  We were so thankful to come back to electricity.  Thank the lord for AC!

Here are a couple of pictures sent in by viewers in my area– I got off of our local news site:

An open letter to the OHIO D.O.T

20 Jun

Dear Ohio D.O.T:

Ohio is now the fifth state I have lived in.  It has also been the hardest place to transition to and the most unwelcoming place I have moved to.

It is SERIOUSLY a joke regarding  all the running around you have to do just to get your license and vehicle title switched over.  I would like to take a moment and say “Thank you” to my former states: Tennessee, Montana, Texas, and even you Washington!  You guys are FAR superior to the customer service, attitude and your reasonable processes for nomads like my family. I would gladly stand in line ANY DAY and ALL DAY at the Clearwater office in Kennewick just to NEVER speak to anyone in the Ohio Department of Transportation (DOT) ever again.– who, by the way, are some of the dumbest people I have ever encountered. I actually feel dumber after talking with them.

Here is a sample of some of my responses/conversations I had with the really stupid people at the DOT office:

1) “YES.  My name is A-L-L-Y-E  … not ALLISON.”

2) “Seriously, no joke, my name is A-L-L-Y-E. It’s on my birth certificate.. SEE?”

3) “I was born in 1979, not 1976 as you put on my previous Ohio license– which is why I had to come back down to the office and stand in line (again) FOREVER.  I need a new one.  Yes, really.  Yes, it’s on my birth certificate… SEE?”

4) Allye says “.. um, the reason my marriage certificate has my maiden name is because I wasn’t MARRIED yet.  SURELY I am NOT the first person to come in here like this.”  Weirdo Ohio DOT lady says “well, see, your birth certificate has your maiden name and so does your marriage certificate … we’re gonna have to use your maiden name on your DL.”  Allye says “That’s not my legal name.  My SSN card has my married name on it as well as my previous DL.  Doesn’t that count for something?”  Weirdo Ohio DOT lady “um.. er…. I really have to talk to my manager. I can’t make this decision.  It’s just doesn’t add up.” Allye thinks, “I hate you.”

5)  “You are seriously going to falsify my Driver’s License and put my Maiden name? Am I really the first person that has come in here with ALL of her documentation and who uses her maiden name as her middle name?  You people are truly UH-Mazing.”

6) Allye wins.  Corrected birthday.  Right name.  No legal falsification on her DL.

What I would really like for you to take away from this open letter is that Ohio, you really REALLY suck.  Your customer service sucks even worse.  And the people that work in your DOT offices are the biggest suckbaggiest crapbags of them all.  I hope I never EVER have to come in contact with any of you ever again.

Sincerely,

Allye

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