Neighbors across the hall lit their kitchen on fire. Sprinkler system suppressed it, but in the aftermath it flooded my kitchen. There are now two industrial sized fan’s and a huge de-humidifier running in my small kitchen, as well as the bottom foot of all of the kitchen walls missing.
My roommate got the shittier end of the stick, as he can’t live in his room until they finish tearing up the carpet and replacing his walls.
Lorini
3842
Walt Disney Concert Hall (there’s a reason it’s not named Disney Concert Hall) is not in Disneyland. It’s in downtown LA, right in the center of downtown. And yes, of course I meant Handel’s messiah :)
Athryn
3843
I actually do know that, but my brain just read “Disney” and “Messiah.”
So, there we were on an open floodplain with a 7 foot saltwater crocodile lying on the ground. We were trying to film it walking across the floodplain (the croc belongs to us). Just a standard Friday afternoon. The sky was becoming increasingly ominous, dark clouds building and a distant rumbling. The cameraman decided to set up a time-lapse shot of the clouds rolling in over the crocodile while the wind started to pick up. I must admit I was getting a bit concerned, the wind was whipping up very quickly and those clouds were looking seriously angry. Before we knew it, dust and debris was whirling around us and we felt the first spatters of rain. Usually these storms are over in a few minutes, so we retreated into our vehicles to wait it out. We left the croc on the floodplain in plain sight, he wasn’t going anywhere because there was nowhere to go.
Shortly after getting into the car, we saw a wall of water flying across the floodplain towards us. Now, when I say “wall of water” I mean exactly that. You could see dry floodplain followed, 2 metres behind it, by a white wall. Oh shit! The water and gale-force winds hit us like a explosion, the sound was phenomenal. The croc was quite happy however, we weren’t worried about him. At least, not until lightning crackled down onto the top of a hill about 200 metres away. By this time, the wind had become so fierce that the car was being buffeted sideways. I’ve never been in a car before that I felt was in danger of getting blown over, so this was a first. I quickly turned it to face into the wind, and realised that the ground was becoming flooded all around us. Sure enough, the crocodile felt this was an ideal time to wander off, sitting as it was in at least a couple of inches of water. With gale force winds and lightning strikes every few seconds, there was no way anyone was getting out of the car to follow it. All I could do was hope the storm wasn’t too prolonged so he couldn’t get too far.
At this point I was so worried about keeping an eye on the croc, disappearing as it was into a grey torrent of rain as the last vestiges of light started to fade away, I forgot to take any photos or video. After what seemed like an eternity, the wind and rain started to abate and the lightning strikes became more distant. I decided to risk it then, stepping out of the car into literally 4 inches of water sitting on the floodplain. Every few seconds the landscape was illuminated by the flickering lightning, and I could just make out a pale shape in the distance perhaps 100 metres away - our crocodile. By this time, with the taste of freedom on his tongue (no lips, you see), he wasn’t best pleased to see us. Nobody else had followed me this far, so instead of trying to manhandle him I simply grabbed his tail and dragged him backwards towards the vehicles. I doubt he really minded, as he was slipping quite nicely through the water and over the mud. This was the moment that I realised what it was I was doing: dragging an angry crocodile by the tail across a flooded plain in near gale-force winds with lightning striking nearby. I could see the newspaper headlines: “Zoologist hit by lightning while towing crocodile”.
Tune in next week for the exciting conclusion! (or, if you prefer spoilers, we managed to get back without further incident)
Brendan
3845
And… that’s the thread done folks.
Jojo
3846
Its been a week since I had gum surgery and one of my lower wisdom teeth removed. Had the stitches out this morning, gums don’t feel too bad at all. Wisdom tooth hole still hurts like hell, I’m still maxing out my painkillers every day, and I STILL haven’t regained sensation in my lower lip, gums and chin on that side :( Dentist says it will probably come back in a few weeks, may take up to 6 months. In very rare cases it never comes back at all. I’d better not be the rare case, because its driving me slowly insane. I feel like I have a fat lip all the time. Wah me.
This thread is useless without a graphic novelist to adapt it.
-xtien
kerzain
3848
Whoops, wrong thread.
Nothing that interesting has happened to me lately: slinks off.
I put a few pics in the “interesting pictures” thread showing the prelude and a bit of lightning.
Marged
3850
Krazykrok, I thought of you the other day. I had a tour of our local natural history museum which had an exhibit on the SUPERCROC. They had a life-size skeletal cast of the thing. It was awesome! 40ft long!
Thoro
3851
Damnit, Krayz, you always win these threads by a ridiculous margin.
kerzain
3852
That’s just because he cheats and uses props. Take the croc out of the equation and he’s just a guy hanging out in the rain.
Hmmm…good point. Maybe I should drag my cat around in the rain…by the tail, obviously. I guarantee I would get some nice war wounds and have a story to tell!
kerzain
3854
Haha no shit. If I tried to drag one of my cats around in the rain I’d be a lot worse off than krazykroc would probably ever be dragging around huge crocs.
Kalle
3855
That’s cause you’re not a trained cat wrangler. You can’t just do what krazykrok does if you don’t have the requisite skillset.
kerzain
3856
I need to work on throwing a tiny lasso.
Also have to change your handle to krazykat, of course.
Nobody spells your name right, krayz. You know that by now!
While I still used Krokodile I should’ve coordinated with Krayzkrok to have a thread where we fought. It could’ve gone down in history.
