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Day of weird sites…

So my day included three rather unusual sites.  I’ll start from the top.

Site 1:  Garbage Tornado

I was leaving my dorm and walking across the parking lot to go to my car for work.  About half way through lot 7 I see quite a bit of debris flying through the air.  I didn’t think much of it at first because we’re in BG…. Bowling Green is a city with an average wind speed of 10-20mph.  Then it hit me… I don’t feel any wind!  Yet 50 feet from me I see bags, papers, and bottles being tossed in the wind.  Upon closer examination, they weren’t being blown sideways, they were going in circles!  A mini-garbage tornado…  HOW COOL IS THAT?!?!?!

I watched for about 5 minutes as it picked up leaves, papers, litter, cups, whatever it found in the lot and tossed them in circles.  The base was a solid ring of leaves and the rest of it was invisible except what trash it was flinging around.  There wasn’t any dust or dirt to make up the funnel shape since it was on pavement…  The base would move at about 2mph and I followed it as it wound through the lot.  I ventured in to about 20 feet from the vortex and felt an enormous blast of wind at about 40-50mph.  I figured that a bottle to the head at 50mph would suck so I backed off a bit.  Then I called Sarah on my cell phone and told her about it as I watched it.  I started flinging a few plastic bottles upwards of 100 feet in the air… pretty impressive… Then the base moved over right on top of a car that a family was trying to get into…  You could see their clothes flapping and blowing in the wind and they were all covering their heads with their arms… They were laughing but the roughly 10 year old boy was freakin out and yelling… “AHHH… AHHH… AHHH…”  It was pretty funny.  Then just like that, it stopped.

Site 2:  Stray Dog

As I was driving home that night after work, I had a dog in front of me on the road.  It was just trotting along with its tongue hanging out and it was all happy wagging it’s tail… I’m driving like 4mph behind it and it stops and looks over it’s shoulder at me, steps off the side of the road, lets me pass, then looks both ways and starts trotting right back on the road… It looked REALLY funny… almost like a trained child or something.

Site 3:  Jeep Spin-Out

On the way back to the dorm tonight I was on the expressway and saw a few cars braking for no apparent reason.  As I got closer I saw some WICKED HUGE tire tracks on the far left side of the road that curved off of the road, crossed the 3 lanes of highway traffic, then came to a stop on the opposite side.  At the front of them was a jeep facing backwards on the interstate.  Wow… That must’ve just happened cuz they were all in the car still and the lights were all on… LUCKY people!  That jeep shoulda flipped at that speed and such a sharp angle… AND they didn’t hit anyone else on a crazy busy interstate!  Kinda surprising!

So anyway, I had a pretty exciting and strange day.  Other than all that jazz, I’m fighting a cold and it’s not only beating me, but it’s kicking me in the groin when I’m on the ground.  ::sigh:: Oh well.  I’ll overcome it eventually.  Well, time for bed.  Gotta get up for work at 7:30am.

Mood:  Good, but my nose hates me…