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Baitball Blogger

(51,598 posts)
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 07:20 PM Apr 2025

A harbinger of things to come?

I'm in Central Florida and there was no real time warning about a severe rainstorm until AFTER it had already started. Rain was not forecast for today, but on the evening weather news the weather man said that dark clouds were converging and he felt that meant that rain might be on its way. Based on that small statement we brought in everything that needed to be protected. I did walk out and smelled rain in the air. I had checked the doppler and it looked like something was forming in our area. No sooner were we inside the house when a massive rainstorm swept in so fast that the golfcourse was whited-out from the heavy rain within seconds. A poor jogger was caught in it and alternated between sprinting and jogging, but the man was soaked.

As I said, the warning would have come in too late. I received a couple of texts while it was in full throttle, and two phone calls after it already passed.

What Trump is doing to us, taking down federal agencies that are supposed to protect us, is going to result in unnecessary deaths. But he doesn't care. Has he even come out to talk about those four American soldiers who died in Lithuania?

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A harbinger of things to come? (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Apr 2025 OP
K&R Wicked Blue Apr 2025 #1
Lick your finger and put it up in the air. Irish_Dem Apr 2025 #2
Too bad it didn't hit Murder Lago while IT was on his course. LoisB Apr 2025 #3
Exactly correct. Baitball Blogger Apr 2025 #4
Right. The rest of us don't matter. LoisB Apr 2025 #6
Like this Murder Lago.... a kennedy Apr 2025 #5
i was thinking the same damn thing! only it also consisted of lots of lightening and a douchebag holding a golf club nt orleans Apr 2025 #8
I like the way you think. LoisB Apr 2025 #10
Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1899. Sky Jewels Apr 2025 #7
4 dead soldiers? ReRe Apr 2025 #9

Irish_Dem

(78,972 posts)
2. Lick your finger and put it up in the air.
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 07:25 PM
Apr 2025

That will tell you which way the wind is blowing.

What more do we need.

orleans

(36,606 posts)
8. i was thinking the same damn thing! only it also consisted of lots of lightening and a douchebag holding a golf club nt
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:06 PM
Apr 2025

ReRe

(12,162 posts)
9. 4 dead soldiers?
Tue Apr 1, 2025, 10:21 PM
Apr 2025

Who do you think he is, the POTUS or something? Naw, he don't care about no dead soldiers. He's made it perfectly clear what he thinks about soldiers, dead, alive or in-between.
No, seriously, I have not heard one word from anyone in that Administration about those soldiers. The last time I heard anything in the news, they had only found three of them. Do you know if the 4th was found?

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