Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for June 22, 2021

I TOLD you that.

On the positive side, kids have GREAT imaginations, it’ll still be great.

Yay! Camping in the living room! That’s a great idea. I’m surprised no one thought of that yesterday.

No, wait. I think I remember maybe one or two comments to that effect. (Of course we’re going to have indoor camping! And it’ll be great fun!) (Elvis might even think so, though he probably won’t admit it.)

If it’s inside, the main news team can join them instead of Tommy, Bea, and Baba.

Get the marshmallows out and start toasten’ !

“Hurricane Lupin” made me laugh.

I have a storm on my horizon myself. Thunder and some quite impressive lightning. Whether it’ll actually rain …to be continued, I guess. Anyone else feeling like this arc is very timely?

Yesssssss inside campouts are the best!

Elvis, stop spoiling the Womans’ rants with your logic!

I just searched to see if a hurricane had been named Lupin & didn’t find one (the outrage!), but did find a Netflix series named Lupin based on the famous French thief Arsene Lupin for whom our Lupin is partially named for. Has anyone seen it???

Umm, Man? “Just a tropical storm?” I’ve been through a couple and there’s nothing just about them.

June really is one of the stormiest months of the year where I live.

Lupin IS a hurricane when he gets in that mood!

I hope everyone is ok in California. (Hurricane Elvis would be terrifying indeed.)

I agree with the Woman. It’s like Mother Nature has a schedule to keep or something!

I am under the impression that the practice of naming tropical storms was started in 1887 by an Australian meteorologist called Clement Wragge. Sometimes he used the names of politicians he didn’t like, which must have provided plenty of names to choose from.

Shouldn’t that be Zoomin’ Lupin?

Man for the save again!

He brought out the drone to entertain Lupin, too.

When will Elvis see the man as a problem solver?

Probably when he stops putting his paw on his face while he tries to sleep. The cease fire over his generosity with CoVid has to be over by now.

Time for s’mores in the fireplace (do they have one?) as the rain is probably keeping it cool enough to use a hibachi in it(but not a full wintertime fire) to cook some burgers, hot dogs, corn in tin foil and then the yummy chocolate, marshmallow, graham cracker treats everyone loves! If no fireplace, camping in the living room is still a fun idea!

Pucky toe beans!

Ah, there’s the Burt snark we’ve been eagerly waiting for.

No campings? Oh no. No campings means no picanic baskets. Woe is me.

“The children need to learn how unfair and harsh life can be anyway. Let’s teach them about taxes.”

As a hurricane forecaster, I notice that “Dave” is rotating clockwise, meaning that it is a Southern Hemisphere storm.

OT – SHIRINS. Have we heard from her lately?? I was just checking ot some older strips and noticed its been 2 yrs since Nushi was first diagnosed with FIP. Hoping all is well!!

Ok, nit picky here, but the storm on the chart is spinning the wrong way.

Puck chart and a pointer!

And yet they keep planning for a camping trip at this time of year?

Hurricane Lupin works for me. :D

Camping in the living room does sound like fun.

AHA! :-D

Don’t know why

There’s no sun up in the sky

Stormy weather

Since we made outdoor plans together

Keeps raining all of the time

Oh, yeah

Feelin’ bad

Gloom and misery everywhere

Stormy weather, stormy weather

And we’ll just have to play inside together

For what seems like all the time

The time, seems so rainy all the time

When it goes away

And blues skies will cheer us

Oh, yeah when it goes away

Campfire tales are gonna scare us

All we do is pray

That Cat will let us

Walk in the sun once more

Oh, this can’t go on, can’t go on, can’t go on

“Lupin” twirls dusk to dawn

Stormy weather, stormy weather

Since hurricane “Lupin” has been goin’ on forever

Keeps raining all of the time

Oh, oh, keeps raining all of the time

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah raining all of the time

Stormy, stormy

Stormy weather

Yeah

I love Puck’s visual with a backwards Tropical Storm symbol ! I take up “hurricane watching” every May (season starts in June but sometimes something happens in May). The NOAA has a Hurricane Center with all sorts of info and graphics and visuals. The NOAA has lots of cool info and radar mosaics and such. It’s nerdy fun.

It will be a dark and stormy night.

Well, one of the downsides of living on the coast, I suppose.

Go, Elvis!

Sure you can! Put the tent in the living room and toast your marshmallows in the fireplace. Just remember you’ve got Hurricane Lupin indoors.

For the 2nd day in a row we have a marine layer over us. It hasn’t stopped any camping around here. :)

People are frantic to get out. I hope that dose’t bite us in the butt later. :(

I hope Man and Woman in their real life are smarter about watching the weather. Further south, most of us watch the weather every single day, sometimes considerably more, during hurricane season. Politics, etc., have far less affect on us than a killer storm. My very busy family over my state also have a “you need to pay attention to weather, RIGHT NOW” person, me.

Never understood camping. I’ve tried it.

So The Man is going to pitch a tent in the living room?

…I’ll just see myself out. ;^.^

Wait, (looks closely), Puck toe beans found.

OT: Ouch!

Where would I be without Pucky giving me the relevant details of storms.

That’s a great name, Burt.

Great idea! No, seriously. This is a great idea!!!

Several years ago we were visiting my aunt and uncle in the Outer Banks NC when a hurricane (Bob I believe) hit. It was a pretty mild hurricane and the eye never even came ashore so we sat it out. However, out of concern the power would go out, we cooked dinner on the grill (covered deck porch). Midway through my cousin (their daughter) phones concerned and asks if we’re evacuating to which my uncle calmly replies, “No we’re barbecuing.” Since then it’s become a running gag in my family when there’s a hurricane approaching to call and ask whether they’re evacuating or barbecuing.

For those of us who have experienced many Tropical Storms, especially in the Gulf states, I’m not sure it’s cool to be so dismissive of their impact, i.e., “It’s just a tropical storm”. The winds aren’t usually as bad as hurricanes (though only 1 mph officially separates a Tropical Storm from a Hurricane), but they often move very slowly and drop incredible amounts of flooding rains over a surprisingly wide area, e.g., the 1979 “edition” of Tropical Storm Claudette (per Wikipedia): “Texas – Claudette produced torrential rains in both Texas and Louisiana when it made landfall. The highest one-day total was reported near Alvin, Texas where 42 inches (1,100 mm) of rain fell. This remained as the highest twenty-four-hour rainfall record for any location in the United States until the 2018 Kauai floods, when 49.69 inches (1,262 mm) of rain fell in 24 hours in Waipā Garden, Kauai, Hawaii. Two other towns also reported rainfall totals exceeding 30 inches (760 mm). There was only one death from drowning and Louisiana received only minor damage from up to 15 inches (380 mm) of rainfall. Texas was hard hit by Claudette, with flooding reported in southeast Texas from up to 45 inches (1,100 mm) of rainfall. Many residents had to be rescued from low-lying areas that were flooded.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Claudette_(1979)

Way back in my ancient times (like, 15 or 20 years ago, when our daughter was away at university, my wife and I would have an occasional indoor campout in the family room, with the fireplace logs burning atop the log-lighter. Inflated the air mattresses and opened up the sleeping bags. Didn’t always roast marshmallows because of the fire-ladened drippings. But, fun times for a Friday or Saturday night.

Tropical storms can be spooky. BTDT.

There speaketh a cat.

Who, I wonder, writes the ribbons? Probably Burt, but this one sounds like Lupin.