Let’s talk weather
So where have I been? I mean my last posts were May 12 on CFS awareness day, mammoths, and the impending summer hot spell coming our way. Well I’ve been Meshing. Huh? Yeah I was at the Mesh 2006 conference in Toronto. I’ve been wearing my Qumana Blogi Master hat all week so posting about science hasn’t really been possible. I have been blogging my fingers to the bone about Mesh, though, so if you’re interested you can wander over to my "other" blog and read about it (sorry no beakers of coffee there).
So, weather. I’m experiencing some "weather" at this moment. It seems that mother nature has decided, in her great wisdom, to grace Toronto with a thunderstorm. Yeah a mite early. So I’m thinking about lightning. Lightning is really, really dangerous stuff. Lots of volts. Lots. Like we as people cannot generate enough electricity in a power plant to equal it. Yeah really. As for airports, besides the clearly bad thing if a plane gets hit, the workers are restricted from being on the tarmac and such when there is lightning in the area. So no bags on or off. Pretty much, things grind to a halt. Ick. Let’s see right now we’ve got people waiting to got all over Canada.
More lightning facts: cars are safe. As long as you don’t touch anything metal. But someone has to ground the car first before you can get out.
Also both my dad and grandfather (his dad) were struck by lightning, and survived. I figure there is something about us Hussey’s that attracts it, so I’m careful to be indoors and not under lone trees, using ladders, or swinging golf clubs during a storm (all of these things are things you should not do during a lightning storm.
I’ll be back on track tomorrow with a few books I’ve heard about that are now on my reading list.
Also my friend Joey is going to enlighten (ha ha) us on how to make ice cream with your feet (kinda)!
Until then … I’m waiting.
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