Subj : Re: Ugh
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Thu Feb 25 2021 18:21:00

Sean,

 DS>   Is that the weather station at the NWS in Knoxville??

 SD> Yes.  That's the "in-house" ARS that's physically in the MRX office
 SD> which is in Morristown, about 45 minutes east of Knoxville.

  OK, I remember the identifier for Knoxville is TYS, for the McGee-Tyson
Airport.

 SD> That's rampant everywhere.  The Tennessee Phone Net (3.980 at 1930
 SD> Eastern) has a special check-in for people who are leaving to go to
 SD> other nets.  I quit checking into that net because for some reason I'm
 SD> deaf to most of the NCS stations; I think it's because my antenna is
 SD> oriented north/south and I keep working them off the end of the
 SD> antenna.

  That may be something I may do on my nets...noting "you won't be asked for
comments, but be marked as short time".

 SD> You'll get 'em.  Especially those batshit crazy storm chasers.

  I can't stand them. For the folks who do NOT want hazardous weather...be
it tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, flooding rain, snow, or ice...
and they are affected, losing property or loved ones, I will feel sorry
for them. I'm in this group as well...I don't mind "garden variety
thundershowers", but when they start talking about severe weather, I get
very nervous. Yet, when these who WANTED the hazardous weather...and they
suffer loss of property or loved ones, my reply is "You got what you asked
for, got more than you bargained for...and I hope you're happy now".

  It is true in so many ways that "you should be careful what you ask for".
Karma has a way of biting one in the butt...or the tagline "My Karma just
ran over your Dogma". <G>

 SD> I was a member of a particular club here locally and was the treasurer.
 SD> I was "accidentally" sent a copy of an email by the secretary where the
 SD> president of the club was saying things about me and calling me some
 SD> really vulgar names.  The next club meeting, I presented this email to
 SD> the club and announced not only my immediate resignation, my then-wife
 SD> and I told them to pound sand and left.

  Good for you.

 SD> The club voted to refund our membership fees and that was the last I
 SD> dealt with them ... probably 12 years now.  Though that person is long
 SD> gone from the club, I refuse to have anything to do with them.

  I don't blame you a bit.

 SD> The icing on the cake?  This person's first name is Dick.

 SD> Fitting.

  I'll say. <G>

Daryl

.... Is Ocracoke Island where you get okra and Coke at lunch?
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