Good advice

[yendi]

IF YOU SEE FLOOD WATERS...REMEMBER TO TURN AROUND AND DO NOT DROWN.

I'll get a screencap in case the link goes bad.

But has there ever been better advice? Because, you know, my first instinct would've been to drown.

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[texmorgan.livejournal.com]

When Katrina hit Houston you should have heard the phone message you got if trying to call. "Hello the number you are dialing is not available due to a hurricane in the area."

[texmorgan.livejournal.com]

new Drawn Together tomorrow!!!!!

[yendi]

Already scheduled in the Tivo!

[imortalscot.livejournal.com]

Remember it is a warning, and the only reason they put a warning out like that was.....

[eilonwy.livejournal.com]

Thank you for making me giggle. Given that it is nearly 6am and I'm having insomnia problems, that isn't easy. :)

[yendi]

Glad to help.

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

"Turn around, don't drown" is a rhyming public safety campaign slogan, like the old "Arrive alive, drive 55" or the more recent "Click it or ticket" campaigns.

It's funny how the NOAA writer broke it into more formal language. Those bulletins have a strict format that often sounds stilted.

[yendi]

Hunh. I'd never heard that before.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"Time to duck and cover, the bombs are comin' down
A radiation shower will pour throughout your town
Hands over your head, keep low to the ground,
Time to duck and cover, the bombs are comin' down
Duck and cover
Duck and cover
Get under the desk with your sister and your brother
Duck and cover
Duck and cover
That goes double for your dad and your mother
So hands over your head, keep low to the ground
'Cause all the kids who don't will cease to be around"
(last track, score album, The Iron Giant)

Tuneful, innit? :-)

[la-belledame.livejournal.com]

A pastor and a priest who had churches near each other at a sharp curve in the road were working together to erect a large sign. It said: "The end is near--turn yourself around and go the other way."

A car tore along the road, pausing only long enough for the driver to yell "Why don't you mind your own business, you religious freaks!" before peeling off around the curve.

The next thing the pastor and the priest heard was a screech of brakes and a splashing crash. The pastor turned to the priest and said "I guess you were right. We probably should have just said 'Bridge Out.'"

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

That's a good one!

[yendi]

*snort*

[nishar.livejournal.com]

You would be surprised how many dumb-asses see high water five feet over the road and keep going into the water.