Mrs.J

Quality day today. Was able to head down to see the kids pony. She is shedding like crazy and I washed her tail and mane from all the winter crud that gets in there. Came home and put our deck back together from when we pinned everything down from the wind storm potential a couple of weeks ago. Daffodils out front are in full bloom and some of my deck perennials in pots are coming up. 

Up at the vets office looking NW

52 minutes ago, 87storms said:

I’m getting fringed, but looks like an active cell scooting just to my west.

I am up in Altoona for the weekend and saw the Special Weather Statement come in for that one. Looking at radar looks like my house got the east side of it. 

On 3/12/2026 at 10:44 AM, psuhoffman said:

Sorry if I can't articulate this clearly and concisely enough.  I've been thinking about whether and how to say this for a while.  This winter there have been several examples of posters screaming "bullying" anytime someone says something they don't like.  

I am neurodivergent.  As an adult I'm able to mask it well enough that it's not as socially crippling as it once was.  But I am intimately familiar with what bullying is.  No one on here is being bullied!  No one is being doxxed.  No one is being threatened.  No one is being personally mocked or ridiculed for who they are or their preferences.  No one is being cruelly made fun of for being weird or different.  

Calling out bad behavior or criticizing someone's actions is NOT BULLYING.  Especially when it's done in a non threatening, and often only half serious, way in an online forum.  

I know the internet is generally a cruel harsh place, but this forum is one of the most positive communities I am a part of.  Even when we are fighting and criticizing it is mostly done in a non threatening way.  I don't know if the bullying thing was thrown around as a calculated effort to deflect or mute criticism knowing the weight of that word...or if some people are confused about what real bullying actually is.  But I wanted to say this because bullying is a serious thing, and something I am very conscious of, and I wanted to make it clear what goes on in here when we banter with one another, is not bullying in my opinion, and saying it is minimizes real bullying.  

Waving...

From one high masking neurodivergent adult to another.

On 3/17/2026 at 6:19 PM, TimB said:

Pray for @RevWarReenactor. I have been tasked with the unpleasant duty of informing you all that he is currently in the hospital with a severe kidney stone episode that has possibly led to kidney failure after eating a Big Arch and it’s questionable if he’s going to make it. I know some in this sub don’t see eye to eye with him but he’s still human and some things transcend message board drama.

Oh man have been there 3 times. First had surgery in 99 for a 3 mm stone. Then passed a stone in 2013 and again in 2022. And I eat healthy. Being GF most fast food places are land mines for hidden wheat. Every time you have one your chance goes up 50% of having another. Mine are caused by my neurodivergence and sometimes going a whole day on one 16oz. glass of water. Remembering to drink is my downfall and I go through spurts of being really good and then going to bed at night and asking myself did I drink anything today. Sending good healing vibes to @RevWarReenactor

1.26” of rain and now it is snowing. 

Just got crazy here. Sheets of rain blowing against the house. 

Wow that stationary swath of rain to my west. There are going to be some issues from that for sure. 

2 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Frederick County, MD getting soaked

Looking nasty out and the wind is howling.

8 minutes ago, 87storms said:

That was an easy 0.5”+ downpour. That definitely cleaned up any remaining salt from the winter.

I picked up .70” out of that. Interesting that new tornado warning for Eastern Fred Co. is the part of the line that went through down here. I said I heard the wind before it hit. Heard a roaring sound then it hit so not surprised that it is now warned. Dead calm now and sun wanting to peak out on the backside. 

OMG the wind!

I have never heard it do that before. It was just pouring then I heard it and it was total white out conditions with rain. You could see the wind blow across the deck. 

1 minute ago, 87storms said:

I can honestly say I would not be getting out of school early for this back in the day lol

Same but I understand with the amount of kids who are bussed. That being said pouring rain here now. 

Just got home. First roll of thunder. This is bad timing for FCPS MD and MoCo. This line is coming in right at the 3 hr. early dismissal mark for the High schools here. Middle and Elementary I suspect may be held longer than their early dismissals if the busses have issues with the HS drop offs. 

Just got put under a Thunderstorm warning here. Was at the store heading home. Balmy and windy. 

Sun is starting to peak out up here. The older Ms J told me AU campus is closing at noon. 

64 and cloudy yet again. Had some slight wind earlier but calm still currently. 

1 hour ago, Stormlander said:

Speaking as a past and current employee at other universities around town, and veteran of midwestern tornadoes and being an RA through a couple EF3s, here’s a couple things she can do:

- Does the building have a designated floor marshal or safety officer on staff, and does she know how to contact them? They’ll have exact info on where the shelters are and how to access them. I don’t know how AU’s program works, but Georgetown and UMD have had them in the buildings I’ve worked in to support evacuations and corralling personnel to safe locations.

- If she can’t contact a floor marshal or one doesn’t exist, AU’s police department might have advice if she emails them.

- If she’s got to ensure production safety in a weather event, I’m pulling from documentation that just got circulated to us at Maryland: get below ground, somewhere interior to the building, and stay away from walls and windows, doors with glass, etc. Ideally, the room shouldn’t have a lot of unsecured *stuff* in it like a media production room would, or electrical cables. If anyone has bike helmets or the like, put them on. Flash flooding in buildings can be a risk (this happened to me in grad school, and it happened at one of UMD’s libraries too), and that’s an evacuate ASAP situation.

 I hope that helps, and that it’s all just precautionary!

Do not know about a designated floor marshal. Did tell her tomorrow morning before they start to ask at the front desk of the CAGE, where all the check outs for equipment is done about a designated tornado shelter in the building. I will alert her about flash flooding. I think that part of campus is on pretty high ground but you just never know with water. 

She did say that the level of the studio there are bathrooms outside in the hall that have no windows so that in my mind would be the place I would go. I am going to copy and paste this and send it to her. At least it is an idea of a plan and with talking to staff in the building tomorrow she can do a second safety meeting before shooting starts. Thanks!

*URGENT*

So I need some help. 

The older Ms. J is currently on a film project for her senior capstone aka student run project. She is a AD, assistant Director, on the current project. Anyways part of the AD’s job is safety. They are shooting in studio on AU’s campus Media Production Center. It is in the basement of the building so thinking that is the shelter for the building anyways. She has asked me to let her know the threat level. She texted me this morning. 

“if it is seeming enough that we either may lose power or have to shelter in place worse case scenario I have to hold a safety meeting tonight to tell everyone to get here safely tomorrow and another one tomorrow with protocols."

If anyone can advise me. I have been following along with the two threads here on this set up but I am far from an expert on this. She is really big on doing her job correctly and wants to keep everyone safe so I told her I would help her with this as much as I can. Because her and I are huge weather buffs I am happy that she is on top of this as it may be something that is overlooked by others. I thank anyone in advance if I can give her a clearer understanding for her area of NW DC. 

47 with sun. Not even going to talk about the W word although after a dust up to the morning there is a bit of calm now. 

The cat was meowing so went to see where he was at. Found him sitting on the bathroom windowsill. And looked out and wow there are so many stars shining tonight. Guess he was telling me to come look. 

My Discobs for today...

RUDE 

Backside of the storm. 

Passed through here. Picked up .15” of rain. Still have thunder and got a rainbow. Sun out. So happy that Mr. J got home before all this hit. 270 looks like it is absolutely getting slammed!

Things just got crazy here. Pouring rain and a lot of wind. Thunder and the sky is backlit. 

84 out. Going for a walk with the older Ms. J home on spring break.