Boy's Nagging Helped Save His Family

[vienna]

Sometimes it pays to listen to the kids:


http://news.yahoo.com/boy-s-tornado-warnings-helped-save-family-145430893.html


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[Jimbuna]

Nice one Brevin :sunny:

[AVGWarhawk]

He was not crying wolf! :up:

[Jimbuna]

Nope, he was crying....HURRICANE!! :o

[Wolferz]

Tornadoes don't play. It's always best to err on the side of caution, heed the warnings and get to a safe place to duck and cover.

WTG kid!.:up:

[AVGWarhawk]

Nope, he was crying....HURRICANE!! :o

:haha:

[swamprat69er]

He is living proof that some kids do listen and learn in school.:up:

[vienna]

He is living proof that some kids do listen and learn in school.:up:


I'm sory, what did you say?...I wasn't paying attention... :D


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[swamprat69er]

I'm sory, what did you say?...I wasn't paying attention... :D


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You weren't paying attention in spelling class either, were you?
There are two r's in sorry.:haha::har:

[vienna]

Not bad spelling, just bad typing... :D


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[swamprat69er]

Not bad spelling, just bad typing... :D


<O>Okay, I will let you blame your fingers for what your brain and eyes should have spotted.:D:yep:

[CaptainMattJ.]

Well his mother certainly didnt learn much in school. Anybody living in a tornado-prone area has an obligation to know that tornadoes can literally appear in seconds in conditions you wouldn't expect at all. Even if you think its a drill (which is a ridiculous assumption anyways, considering they would've most likely announced it), its much better to be safe than dead. Personally id rather leave the professionals with monitoring equipment to tell me when to get to safety than a gut feeling.

Unfortunately the best detection equipment for earthquakes gives you less than a minute's warning, so in California we don't get the luxury of early warning systems.

[swamprat69er]

Personally, I can't see why anyone would ever live either in tornado alley or anywhere near where earthquakes happen as often as they do in California.
But we all gotta live somewhere, don't we?

[CaptainMattJ.]

Personally, I can't see why anyone would ever live either in tornado alley or anywhere near where earthquakes happen as often as they do in California.
But we all gotta live somewhere, don't we?
Well earthquakes certainly can be well protected against. Just look at Japan. Some of the biggest earthquakes in modern history, and the damage directly from the earthquakes are minimal considering their size. Even that doomed fukishima nuke plant was actually perfectly fine until the tsunami hit.

But yeah, its one of the big considerations when living in harsh environments. Some people accept the fact that they might experience tornadoes; others may accept the fact that -20 degree snowstorms may hit them, like in Canada or states like north dakota. For me, i have confidence i suppose in our building standards to reasonably survive an earthquake.

[vienna]

Okay, I will let you blame your fingers for what your brain and eyes should have spotted.:D:yep:


Didn't spot it because I typed it in haste; it was submitted just before I had to attend rather quickly to another matter. I didn't even give it a second look. Also, I don't post from the same computer all the time. The keyboards differ quite a bit in their sensitivity and, although I don't exactly recall which computer it may have been, it could have been the one with the rather stiff key response. Sometimes you have to really bear down on the keys, particularly when typing repeating letters, such as the double 'r' in 'sorry'. It could have been worse; there is on computer (I try to avoid using it like the plague) that is so sensitive, it has a sort of 'keyboard bounce; if you bear down on it, it will automatically repeat the letter you just hit. So it could have been a "ssoorrrryy" situation... :D


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[swamprat69er]

Didn't spot it because I typed it in haste; it was submitted just before I had to attend rather quickly to another matter. I didn't even give it a second look. Also, I don't post from the same computer all the time. The keyboards differ quite a bit in their sensitivity and, although I don't exactly recall which computer it may have been, it could have been the one with the rather stiff key response. Sometimes you have to really bear down on the keys, particularly when typing repeating letters, such as the double 'r' in 'sorry'. It could have been worse; there is on computer (I try to avoid using it like the plague) that is so sensitive, it has a sort of 'keyboard bounce; if you bear down on it, it will automatically repeat the letter you just hit. So it could have been a "ssoorrrryy" situation... :D



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I don't do it very often, but I just had to get that cheap shot in.:D
Now you can 'get' me for ending a sentence with a preposition, before the grammar nazi does.

That is okay. I know what it is like to use different keyboards. I have two I use and they are as different as night and day.

[Cybermat47]

I wish my nagging could save lives.

[swamprat69er]

I wish my nagging could save lives.

One day, maybe grasshopper.