real life babble

[askerian]

Yesterday was one of the best (worst?) storms I've seen for a while. It's common around here to have storms during the summer, so when this one started rumbling, I more or less ignored it. Made a few noises about maybe logging off, but hah. As if.

And then it exploded just overhead. D: Absolutely no lag between the light and the bang. So WHEE~ *dives for the adapter*

It fell about a dozen times in under three minutes, with deafening KRRASHs every time. If anyone could sleep through that, they're probably deaf. And then it started to rain. Yeah uh it was a little more than three drops at a time. The lampposts had died or something, so there was only the glow of the city in the background to see by... and I saw everything blurred by the rain. In minutes there were rivers in the parking lot. Usually when it starts to rain, it's a sign that the storm is finally breaking, but of course this lightning wasn't stopping for so little.

... And then it started to hail.

... Dude.

Okay, the bits were tiny, not even marble-sized, but it still made very nice clangs on everything metally or plasticcy. And since the thunder was still doing his "HEAR ME ROAR AS I FUCK SHIT UP" schtick, I didn't sleep much.

It was damn cool, though.




what was less cool was being woken up by the neighbor, once again, screaming her head off at whoever else has the misfortune of living with her, saying she'd "had enough" blahblahblah.

Two hours. She kept going for two hours. I heard no reply, and besides she didn't stop screaming and bitching long enough to let one through. GOD SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP. I'M THE ONE WHO'S HAD ENOUGH. >O I WANT TO SLEEP, YOU GODDAMN CUNTY BITCH, NOT LISTEN TO YOU VERBALLY ABUSE YOUR FAMILY.

What's the worst is I have absolutely no idea which of the neighbors she is -- the joys of living in an apartment -- so I have no way of telling her "You know, we can hear you. GO GET SOME ANGER MANAGEMENT COURSES ALREADY."

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

argh @_@ I know what is like to have some fuckin annoying noise as a background when you want to sleep or even study (study!i'm studying for exams and my neighbour decided to use the drill to restore his appartament, my other neighbour has a little cute Crying baby -screaming so nicely from the top of its little lungs- to keep me company 24/7)
You can't really blame the storm, but when it comes to people... uhm, would you please, please FUCKIN SHUDDUP EVERYONE? DD:

[askerian]

Oh, the storm was cool. But then I was planning on sleeping afterwards. Noo, she had to start bitching just after nine am. >O

Urgh, baby. You know it's not the baby's fault either but it's so stressful anyway.

[m-a-foxfire.livejournal.com]

*long, low, whistle* Was she cussing out her housemate or the weather?

[askerian]

Definitely her housemate. =__= She always does. I don't know why the fuck she stays if she hates it so much with them, but god.

Note that the walls are just thin enough that I hear the screaming bitchfits just fine, but I can only catch some words. But it really sounds like she hates their guts and doesn't like being stuck with them. DUDE. JUST LEAVE. Nngh. That really sounds typical of the kind of people who force themselves to stay together "for the children" and then spend the rest of their lives blaming the said spouse and children and making them pay for it. ~_~

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

I love storms like that. We get hail maybe once or twice a summer, and it's rarely larger than pea-sized. But we had a doozy of a storm last fall. I was in a training class here at work, in an interior room with no windows. The rain and hail were coming down so hard I could hear the steel beams in the ceiling creaking in strain. When we went on break about ten or fifteen minutes later, I looked out at the parking lot; there was a lake there, with a ton of hailstones floating on the top. The stones were about 3cm in diameter; the largest hail I'd ever seen. And I wanted to inspect my car for damage (especially windows), but I couldn't get to it because it was sitting on the other side water that would have been over my ankles, easily. After a few minutes someone waded through the hail and water and got to their car, backed out, and in so doing freed whatever it was that was clogging the drains in the parking lot. But three hours later, when I was leaving for the night, the lot was still full of slowly melting hailstones. Looked like some days here when there were about three or four inches of snow, the way it was all piled up behind and around the cars.

But I love storms. I have the URL for the region of the National Weather Service that serves this area memorized. When I know storms are due, I will have that page open in the background on my computer. We are maybe going to get storms today, but they're supposed to be pretty weak since the air is pretty dry right now after some storms on Tuesday.

[askerian]

ooooooooooooooooh *__* Sounde awesome. In the "ohshit my car" way. XD;;;;; But wow. *__*

I love storms too. XD i'd like them more if I didn't have to get off the computer and waste precious internet time, though. XDD;;;;;; *addicted*

[kat-chan.livejournal.com]

I only got a few minor dings on the body. I was expecting worse. My sister-in-law, who was on the other side of town, had her car get dinged up pretty bad.

Ahhh...summer in Ohio. Lots of storms to be had here.

[phoenix-melody.livejournal.com]

Storms are awesome~ But yeah, sucks that you had to leave abruptly. ;_;


And seriously, sadness about neighbors. At least the BunnyCouple never lasts long when I've heard them. ._.

[askerian]

*petpets* i'm sorry I left so fast, but NNGH scary. D: I literally cut off the power ten seconds after I said bye, and in that time there were two more flashes of lightning overhead. @_@


Blargh, at least they don't do it every day or even every week. It's just, well, hearing sex noises is distracting enough, but hearing someone who's that angry, and vicious about it...Ergh. I really can't stand it. ~__~

[phoenix-melody.livejournal.com]

*loves* It's all right--totally understandable. It's good your computer didn't get fried.


*pets gently*

[darkenedwings.livejournal.com]

I sympathsize majorly about the neighbors thing. My neighbors recently had a tiny fire at their house, so now they've taken to doing construction at 7 in the morning when I'm trying to sleep. D:

[askerian]

Seven? *le gasp* D: That's not human!

... Also pretty sure it's illegal in a lot of places. But in the other hand it's pretty hard to be an asshole about the laws when they've just had a fire... Depends how big the damage is, I guess. They can still live in their house, right? they're not homeless or anything? >_>

[darkenedwings.livejournal.com]

It's not human especially when I've stayed up until 3 that same morning. ^^;

I think it is, but my first instinct when I get woken up is to throw open the window and scream at them to stfu. And no, they're not homeless, I'm pretty sure they went and stayed in a hotel for a short while, and are back in their house now. It was just a small oven fire and stayed pretty contained.

[askerian]

Hmm. Yelling never helps much, but perhaps you could ask them nicely to please keep their repairs before nine as quiet as possible since legally they shouldn't even start until... well, it depends where you live. Hmm. But anyway, if they didn't change anything, there would be time to scream afterwards. XDDDD

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Hee~ Storms are fun.

Ask a nieghbor, especially an old one, they'll probably know which wack-job keeps screaming at two in the morning.

[askerian]

Problem is, I don't know their neighbors either. See, the building is very long, and there are several staircases. So I either have a wall in common with the screamers, or they're a floor up or down, but I've never passed them or their neighbors in the stairs or anything. *sigh*

Blargh. Let's hope she got it out of her system for now... ~_~

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Maybe go out into the building's hallway when you hear screaming, just to see if they live on the same floor as you. And if she scream for two hours, plenty of time to go up or down a floor if they don't live next to you. Then... REVENGE!

[askerian]

XDD

oh, that's so tempting. *__* MAYBE I SHALL.

[sister-dear.livejournal.com]

Storms like that are awesome... except when they mess up the power lines so bad that you can't get on the internet for days afterward. >_<

God, I don't think I could live with a neighbor like that. It would make me want to do some screaming of my own. *nods*

[askerian]

Aha. XD I laugh at your country's puny attempts to fix power lines in time!!

... Okay so sometimes our power does get a day or two without being fixed. It's just, I can't remember when was the last time it happened. I think usually it's fixed a grand maximum of four hours after it went kaput, provided it goes kaput at night, and most times it just switches over to an emergency circuit or whatever after a few minutes. The internet, now, it going down for days at a time happens... XD

I'm so glad she doesn't do it every day. x__x Not sure she'd hear me at all over her own screaming, though, so usually I don't bother screaming back. Woe.

[sarolynne.livejournal.com]

Awwww. I would have shared my too much sleep with you if that worked. XD

[complexphoenix.livejournal.com]

We had a spectacular thunderstorm where I live too, just yesterday. the wind was howling and the rain was coming down in buckets and there were waves of water in the parking lot. And some of Mom's stuff got wet from the rain blowing in through the windows before she managed to close them. It was awesome. The power of nature is always amazing.

[ina-noranaya.livejournal.com]

I like storms in principle, but we've lost several trees and had our house struck by lightning, and this is tornado country, so big storms always make me a bit edgy. They are awe-inspiring to watch and listen to, though.

(What's nice is a loud, torrential, cleansing downpour, just rain. Which we could actually use right now. . . )

[askerian]

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:

Tornado.

*clings to her tornado-free, volcano-earthquake-free country* DDDD:

Does it happen often? ;.;

[ina-noranaya.livejournal.com]

A few years back, sections of our downtown area were flattened by a particularly bad storm with a bunch of tornadoes. I don't think we've had any this year, which is unusual. We typically wind up having to hide in a closet at least 3 or 4 times a year, I'd say. I've never been in a building directly hit by a tornado, but I always worry when the sirens go off. . .

(Tornadoes are scary 'cause they're so random. They'll jump over a house and leave it untouched when both beside it are torn to pieces, level one neighborhood and not the next, and so on. At least with other natural disasters, everyone pretty much gets screwed equally.)

And I live near the New Madrid fault, which is overdue for a major earthquake. :( Maybe I should move to France.

[windandwater.livejournal.com]

T_T That storm sounds scary. Even moreso now because it's been a dry winter, so if we get lightning during a storm, we'd probably get fires, too.

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

omg storms! i love them, one of my favorite things to do is go look at the sea in the middle of a storm. but the place where i live is usually pretty tame weather-wise, so we don't get a lot of big ones. i haven't seen a hailstorm since i was like 7.

[askerian]

Hailstorms didn't used to happen so often around here ;_; sadness. Not that they really happen all that often, but I remember them happening almost never when I was younger.

oooh the sea. T_T *wants some sea damn it* *grabby hands*

[gypsy-sonata.livejournal.com]

OMG! I'm usually a lurker but I had to post because I'm going through the same thing with a female neighbor. She is always fighting with her daughters and it seems as though every other words that comes out of their mouths is 'Fuck this' or 'Fuck that'. I'm sick and tired of them. Sometimes I can't sleep at night due to their fighting. I've come to hate thin walls. Worse thing is all the neighbors complain, including the businesses around us. They are that loud when they fight. Yet nobody has called the cops. Mostly people don't mess with them because they belong to a gang and people are afraid of retaliation.

I sympathize with your misery.

[askerian]

... D: gang? eek.

Isn't there a way to call the cops without telling anyone you did it? Then come out and look innocent or something. XD They're not supposed to point out who called them, I think.

[gypsy-sonata.livejournal.com]

They're not supposed to and we've done it before but apparently the cops in my area are slightly stupid. One time we called and told them we wanted to remain anonymous, so they came over and said, 'You neighbor downstairs called us to say you were making to much noise.' My mom freaked out when she heard that. They apparently don't understand what anonymous means. Thankfully nothing happened but we've been careful about calling them again.