Doom!

[evilhippo]

Looks like I won't be biking tomorrow.

Bring it, Chicago!

(Actually, maybe I shouldn't say that. But it'll be an adventure, at least.)

And while I'm nattering on about super-local nonsense: someone is selling a loft with a fireman's pole in the West Loop. And considering how tastelessly the rest of that beautiful space seems to be decorated, no wonder they pointed out the fireman's pole (my personal selling-point for a loft) as the main feature. Someone want to loan me about a million dollars so I can get it and fix it up properly?

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[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Please don't die, k? :D

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

I'll do my best!

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

And I thought it was windy and rainy here. Has it started?

I had the same reaction as apple_pathways to the National Weather Service's advice about unsecured objects. Like... wow, thanks for the update guys! XD;

Better watch out for that Batmobile.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

It's definitely windy, and it's 7:30 and still dark, but, as I said below, no cows in the air. Storm, I am disappoint.

Man, I tell you Bruce Wayne has been a downright menace in that thing. Sometimes he gets bored and picks up people looking for taxis. It's also known to lead the presidential motorcade.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

...It still has time to get worse? *looks hopeful*

DD: Man, you are so lucky! I want to get picked up by the Batmobile!

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

Yep! Five minutes before it's time for me to walk out the door and now it's pouring down rain. I shouldn't have said anything. (-:

If it's any consolation, it's not as fun as it sounds. It's really not built for taxiing, so sometimes people just have to hold on to the afterburners and hope he doesn't floor it.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah, that's what you get!

...What I wanna know is, how do people possibly get the Batmobile confused with a taxi? OOH! OOH! Does it have a taxi urban camouflage mode?! :DD

So did the storm get any worse better? I suppose I could look it up myself, but meh. Work.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

He just puts a little taxi lamp on the top. People just assume that that makes it a real taxi. I dunno, I'll never understand tourists. On slow nights he does paint it yellow, though.

I caught the worst of it on my walk to the bus stop. Despite my raincoat and umbrella I ended up soaked, but that's about it. It wasn't even windy enough to hurt my umbrella, and it was done with by the time I got downtown. We have a much more impressive storm four years or so, I think, which uprooted a significant percentage of the trees in the neighborhood. I should really see if the storm was worse elsewhere, or if people just really enjoyed hyping it up for the heck of it.

[zolac-no-miko.livejournal.com]

Man, is there, like, no crime in Chicago? Batman sounds like he must be really bored.

...So the worst storm in 70 years featured... some rain. LAME.

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

We're in that awkward phase between the appearance of superheroes and the awakening of their nemeses. Batman has been very bored since they ousted Blago, who was a decent stand-in for a super-villain, but not quite the same. Hopefully we can find a good replacement this coming Tuesday.

I know, right? Chicago weather needs to try harder. I used to be afraid of storms at home. Here, I don't think the weather has even managed to make me jump at the sound of thunder. (Gunshots, yes. Thunder, no.)

[apple-pathways.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! I need to see how much of this is going to make its way to Detroit...

The National Weather Service advises unsecured objects may become airborne.

Why do I find this perfectly mundane sentence so hilarious?

Travel may become difficult with high profile vehicles becoming difficult to control.

My first thought when I read "high profile vehicle" was: "What, like the Batmobile?"

Totally forgot the other definition of "profile". :)~

(Take care of yourself tomorrow!)

[evilhippo.livejournal.com]

So far (7:30am) it's all talk. Dark and rainy, and I think I woke up to the sound of some formerly-airborne unsecured objects, but there aren't cows flying through the air or anything (sigh).

Yeah, they put that 'high-profile' thing in there every time now, since Bruce Wayne likes to joyride up and down Lake Shore Drive during inclement weather. You should've seen the time he challenged the pope to a drag race. ^_^