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*yawn*
Yesterday's stormy weather provoked a migraine. Went home an hour early, after the storm passed through, and capitulated to taking meds abut 6PM as the headache intensified. I went for the full promethazine+hydrocodone cocktail, and by 8PM was so zonked I dragged myself to bed and, except for getting up about 11PM to put on my nightshirt, slept until 7AM. So naturally I am still sleepy today but PAIN FREE so yay.
Also I am over 2/3 of the way through The Black Company, which is a short read admittedly, and this time I think I'm finally understanding the landscape each scene is set in. I read fast, and have a tendency to skip over parts--I can't slow my reading down; I've tried and I just lose track of what the heck is going on--so each reread through something tends to be revelatory as I discover new things that I'd missed all the times before. And this time, it's the landscape.
BTW, on the topic of storms, a comment from Reddit (the /r/askhistorians subreddit, which is one of the places with draconian moderation so the conversation is actually interesting and useful): the user MomentOfArt explains the moment he understood why one Native American tribe called the twin-tornado phenomenon Dead Man Walking.
Edit: Posting comment and pic under cut because as the assertion that it was called Dead Man Walking is only from a TV dcoumentary and there's so far been no scholarly support for the fact (the OP is searching), the mods are debating deleting the comment. So take the assertion as you will.
Also I am over 2/3 of the way through The Black Company, which is a short read admittedly, and this time I think I'm finally understanding the landscape each scene is set in. I read fast, and have a tendency to skip over parts--I can't slow my reading down; I've tried and I just lose track of what the heck is going on--so each reread through something tends to be revelatory as I discover new things that I'd missed all the times before. And this time, it's the landscape.
BTW, on the topic of storms, a comment from Reddit (the /r/askhistorians subreddit, which is one of the places with draconian moderation so the conversation is actually interesting and useful): the user MomentOfArt explains the moment he understood why one Native American tribe called the twin-tornado phenomenon Dead Man Walking.
Edit: Posting comment and pic under cut because as the assertion that it was called Dead Man Walking is only from a TV dcoumentary and there's so far been no scholarly support for the fact (the OP is searching), the mods are debating deleting the comment. So take the assertion as you will.
I watched a documentary on tornadoes that mentioned that one of the plains tribes had an oral tradition of referring to one particular type of tornado as a "dead man walking." They had footage of a May 27, 1997 tornado that went through the small Central Texas town of Jarrell, that was described by storm-chasers as beginning with a medium dual-rope tornado or multi-vortex pencil tornado. (as it went through town it became lethal)
For the first and only time in my life, I saw the dead-man-walking. It looked like the hips, legs, and feet of a huge giant. The two tornadoes were connected at the top, which looked like hips/lower torso. The clouds obscured the imagined upper body, the bend in the "rope" made knees, and the point of contact with the ground made a dusty swelling that could be thought of as feet. As each of the twin tornadoes rotated around each other they created a haunting optical illusion of legs walking. It was a real heart-stopper. Edit: Still image found here.
After seeing that footage, I have no problem understanding how an oral tradition of an angry spirit scuffing his way across the landscape could occur.
Edit: Updated details once I located the correct event.
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