{"id":2339,"date":"2010-07-19T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/?p=2339"},"modified":"2010-07-19T21:20:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:20:37","slug":"its-a-twister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/its-a-twister\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Twister!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re having a big thunderstorm, as this area is wont to have in the summer (which is part of the reason I like spending my summers here).  The screams of my actors up and down the halls made me aware of the fact that we&#8217;re under a tornado watch.  Apparently it&#8217;s all over the TV, but my TV doesn&#8217;t have a remote, so I refuse to move it from Channel 56 down to the kind of channels that would carry local news.  <\/p>\n<p>Weather.com and WeatherBug on my iPhone mention severe thunderstorms and hail, but nothing about a tornado.  Not sure if it&#8217;s much ado about nothing, or if they just want me to get unsuspectingly killed or transported to the magical land of Oz.<\/p>\n<p>My apartment faces away from the direction the storm is coming, so when they knocked on my door I took the opportunity to visit one of the apartments facing the other way.  It does look a little bit scarier, but there&#8217;s a big building blocking most of the horizon on that side so it&#8217;s hard to really see.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I&#8217;m blogging is because when they came to tell me, I quickly packed a bag before going to visit the other apartment.  In about 10 seconds I decided on what to pack as a stage manager preparing to ride out a tornado:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My everyday flashlight<\/li>\n<li>That other flashlight, too<\/li>\n<li>And yeah, that other one that can be used like a flare<\/li>\n<li>And the other one that&#8217;s the same as above but in another color<\/li>\n<li>Car keys, just in case that somehow becomes useful<\/li>\n<li>Laptop?  Probably not necessary. After all I have my iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Laptop.  Because if I survive and my apartment doesn&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll be really pissed that my brand new laptop got destroyed because I was too lazy to carry five more pounds with me.<\/li>\n<li>I also packed my <a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/the-space-pen-a-stage-managers-best-friend\/\">space pen<\/a> without even realizing I did it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m back on my couch watching the storm, and will try to get some work done on <i>Hairspray<\/i> before we all blow away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we&#8217;re having a big thunderstorm, as this area is wont to have in the summer (which is part of the reason I like spending my summers here). The screams of my actors up and down the halls made me aware of the fact that we&#8217;re under a tornado watch. Apparently it&#8217;s all over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2339"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2339\/revisions\/2343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}