Arkansas Blog

I'm getting pounded up here in my 3rd floor attic space downtown...

Electricity keeps flickerin'...

Rosso,

Ned Perme instructs to go a lower floor. I haven't talked to Ned personally but I don't think third floor attic would be following Ned's advice.

Rosso,

Ned Perme instructs to go a lower floor. I haven't talked to Ned personally but I don't think third floor attic would be following Ned's advice.

Hey, the double post wasn't my fault. A submission error note said to retry.

So Rosso, don't think I was repeating my lame joke because I thought it was worth that.

Well, it seems to be all over down here with no problems close by that I'm aware of. Now what fool should I trounce who keeps announcing possible tornados, thunderstorms, hail, and who knows what other dire weather problems, all the while linking southeast Arkansas counties and CLEBURNE county? It's probably CLEVELAND county, fool. Back to 5th grade geography for you.
Hmmmm. Maybe they don't do geography anymore?

This just doesn't seem just, according to Falwell and other hate forecasters. Taking lives of youngster's over in the most religious city in Ark. Who is god punishing this time chasv and for what reason? Or is he simply again, working in mysterious ways?

story on blue.

Looks like we got skipped over here in LR but the east got hammered...

L. Wood, It was her karma. Buddhism is really the only religion that can explain the taking of innocent lives. Christianity and Islam both fall back to the positions you outline, which is theologically WTF knows what God is thinking, basically. It's an interesting outlook. When thousands of people get killed by a tsunami, their collective karma got them all there for it.

I'm not sure what the rest of the state was hearing, but we were getting a lot of bad information from the radio system provided by the Arsenal and Jefferson County Emergency Preparedness office here. First a tornado sighted at Leola was supposed to hit us an hour after it had been spotted -- a slow and unlikely track. Later another supposedly was headed our way (on a more likely track) and finally a thunderstorm near Star City was supposed to hit Lake Pine Bluff and Grider Field, on a very unlikely north/northwest track and after the storm had passed Pine Bluff. Coupled with announcements jumbled with a sputtered "northwest Arkansas" followed by a short list of southeast counties to be affected, plus one in north central Arkansas -- Cleburne -- left me thinking "Huh?"
I hope none of the deaths from these storms was due to this type of misinformation, although I'd suspect the Henslee storm might have been the one originally seen at Leola.

The Levee,

Karma may be an explanation for the death of the innocent, but it's a cruel explanation. I think I'll muddle on with my atheistic idea that we all die someday, no matter how good or how bad we are, and that it's the circumstances of our life and death in this world that allow us to give it meaning, not our deaths themselves. I don't think that qualifies as an explanation except in a physical material sense, but since I'm made of physical material, I'm satisfied with that.