Pennsic storm story (semi-long)
Hugh Niewoehner
hughn at ssd.fsi.com
Wed Aug 21 10:39:00 PDT 1996
I thought there might be a few people here who would find this amusing. I
guess we mid-western kingdoms have a reputation with regard to storms. :-)
Regards,
Damon
>>Greetings from Tibor. Ellisif wrote:
>> Agreed. About the only thing the annual panicked shouts do is
>> reduce the chances that we'll all react properly if there ever *is*
>> a danger. That they came, this year, from a deputy of the autocrat
>> made it that much worse; usually we just have unofficial Cassandras
>> crying doom and gloom, but this year it was someone official who we
>> were presumably supposed to listen to.
>>
>>Fair enough. I too was disturbed with the level of unnecessary panic. I
>>happened to be in EK Royal at the time, and was hearing about how a
tornado had
>>landed in Youngstown, and other false rumors.
>>
>>I high-tailed it over to Calontir, where I knew Manfred keeps an all-weather
>>radio with him at Pennsic. (He is a pilot). It was very useful at
Pennsic 24.
>>He wasn't in: but I learned the four warning signs of a tornado from the
>>Calontiri:
>>
>> 1. There is a temperature inversion, and the ground level weather cools
>> rapidly.
>>
>> 2. There is a rapidly approaching front, clearly visible on the horizon.
>>
>> 3. The sky takes on an ominous greenish tint.
>>
>> 4. The Ansteorrans and Calontiri take the beer out of the beer pit, and
climb
>> into it.
>>
>>This is a direct quotation, as best as I remember it. (:-)
>>
>> Tibor
>
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