Sissy stuff to keep warm with during the "VORTEX"?

[Betty]

Mother nature continues to go nuts. It got up to the 50s overnight & was 51F (11C) at 6am this morning. So all the snow melted & there's gooey mud everywhere. Tonight it goes back down to 28F (-2C), & tomorrow it snows again. More snow on the weekend too, then back up to 50F on Monday.

[Angela M...]

Yes Betty, getting colder here also and the wind is picking up making it even more chilly. Even started to get freezing rain very early this morning but it didn't last long thank goodness. Had to run to the bank this afternoon, message from them said a card was scanned at a popular local shop. Thought they were talking about one of mine but it was another client. They replaced every ones cards just to be safe. Love the security here as they call if you make an out of the ordinary purchase just to be sure it is you. 

[samantha1]

hi,
It appears that mother nature sure has a funny side to it. Having rain and 50f and a wind chill factor all at once is driving me mad, as i am up at 6am to open my friends shop and it is freezing, now back home to receive my new kitchen equipment and keeping the heating to 68f daily is driving me crazy. Still that is life.

[Betty]

120 tornadoes reported in Kansas last week, with many reported in Oklahoma & neighboring states too.

Here's a mix I made of some of them complete with a musical soundtrack. Scary but awesome stuff!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnz-1SXAuk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnz-1SXAuk</a>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnz-1SXAuk

Hang on & stay safe my friends.

I may complain about arctic cold here, or sticky swampy hot summers, & up to 16 feet of snow in the distant suburbs, but we don't get tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, or volcanoes.

The last tornado around here was a small one in the suburbs over 10 years ago. We get water spouts over the lakes. Those are smaller tornadoes over the open water. We also get hurricane strength gusts during storms, & minor floods.

Air quality was terrible around here since Friday. I had a terrible time breathing up until yesterday, even with running air filters & AC. My brother had to go to the hospital again with pneumonia. With only 1 lung left after a battle with cancer, I believe the recent poor air quality was a contributing factor.

I've been a bit better since yesterday, & my brother's condition has improved.

Maybe he should set up a room or 2 at his place that has some serious air filters & AC to increase is chances of staying well, & improve his quality of life. Sure, he's on O2 most of the time these days, but unless he's in an airtight space suit, he's also breathing the air around him.

[Betty]

Meanwhile, Paris, many other parts of France, & Germany are flooded, with 2 more inches of rain expected.

[Betty]

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[Betty]

I put up some more video of last week's tornadoes in Kansas. As scary & destructive as they are, they can also be fascinating & beautiful things. After about halfway through there's some dramatic close-up footage.

Enjoy!

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGOYwHQ-928" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGOYwHQ-928</a>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGOYwHQ-928

I edited, enhanced, & mixed the video/audio myself. It can take hours or most of the day to complete, & post an hour of this stuff with custom audio. Takes a weeks to battle all the copyfraud, & copyright trolls/mobsters who claim they own the copyright to almost everything posted anywhere on the internet.

As usual, when watching lower resolution video in full screen on 32" or larger screens, don't watch with your nose right up to the screen. They actually look better if you sit 6 feet or more from big screens.

BTW, for those who still don't know by now, the Unclegadget/PSK Research website & youtube channel are also Betty's sites & channels. They're for a lot of our non-sissy stuff. We are not just sissies 24/7.

[Betty]

In the first Tornadoes video there was a copyright dispute on youtube about the first 6 minutes of the video. At one point, I just got tired of arguing with them. A NOAA government produced video, made with taxpayer money, equipment, vehicles, & employees, cannot have a copyright according to USA law. Even if the person holding the camera claims rights it, it isn't legal as he was filming in the service of his job for the USA government & its taxpayers.

But sometimes it's just easier to cut the few minutes out of the video than spend a month or so in a copyright dispute. The copyright claimant may not be affiliated with the creator in any way, but may be a scammer just out to collect money on material that's not rightfully theirs.

Anywho, here's the highly compressed version of what was cut out served from our own servers instead of youtube.

http://unclegadget.com/media/Kansas_CutPart.mp4

Here at Betty's, I will not dispute that somebody may own some of the material on the sites. But if they want it removed, they have to prove they actually own it, or if they bought rights to it, they must submit who they bought them from so I can confirm they bought it from someone who actually owned it to sell in the first place. And take down notices are not valid if the material was posted and/or distrubuted before they owned rights to the material.

If the material was in the free & clear when posted, before they bought the rights to it, their claim against those older versions is not valid.

[samantha1]

Had a lot of rain for the last two hours. Just stopped now, although the temp. is still 20 degrees C. However it has just started again with thunder and lighting. Got soaked coming home as I thought I had missed this weather and did not wear a coat.

[Betty]

20C (68F) is just about a perfect temperature for me.

So far our rainy spring season has been mild with no big storms. But south of my town they've had some heavy storms & flooding.

We're still experiencing very odd weather though. Just about a week ago it got up to 89F (32C), way hotter than normal for the end of May. Tonight it's expected to go down to 49F (9C), way colder than normal for early June.