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Environmental annoyances
Jun. 12th, 2013 08:26 pmFor the past three nights, the cell phone tower directly north of town has kept the flashing strobe light going all night, instead of switching over to the slow-pulsing red light after dark. I know this because it flashes into my bedroom, through the upper pane of my north-facing window. It lights up the white-painted closet door. If I put the curtain back up (I took down the upper curtain because I liked looking out at the sky from my bed in the morning) it lights up the white curtain.
I don't know why they stopped shifting to the red light, but it seems I have three choices to deal with it:
1. Buy blackout curtains for that window. Which... no.
2. Put together a big enough piece of cardboard to fit the upper part of the window. This would block me from being able to have the upper part of that window open for ventilation overnight, which is how
I normally deal with the heat.
3. Get used to it. Ugh.
In other weird environmental news, there has been a strange odor in the air all day. I finally realized it most resembles blacktop paving. So, presumably, somewhere near my home there is paving going on.
We are also currently under a tornado warning. It's very small cells of disturbance coming through, but they are all passing north of us, and we haven't even had a drop of rain today (was supposed to be cloudy with intermittant showers and thunderstorms. Instead it was blue skies and a few little puffy clouds all day). There is a much larger system coming along later, but current radar tracks indicate it, too, is likely to pass north of us. I don't want the storms, but we are already way short on rain for the year, so some showers would be nice.
I don't know why they stopped shifting to the red light, but it seems I have three choices to deal with it:
1. Buy blackout curtains for that window. Which... no.
2. Put together a big enough piece of cardboard to fit the upper part of the window. This would block me from being able to have the upper part of that window open for ventilation overnight, which is how
I normally deal with the heat.
3. Get used to it. Ugh.
In other weird environmental news, there has been a strange odor in the air all day. I finally realized it most resembles blacktop paving. So, presumably, somewhere near my home there is paving going on.
We are also currently under a tornado warning. It's very small cells of disturbance coming through, but they are all passing north of us, and we haven't even had a drop of rain today (was supposed to be cloudy with intermittant showers and thunderstorms. Instead it was blue skies and a few little puffy clouds all day). There is a much larger system coming along later, but current radar tracks indicate it, too, is likely to pass north of us. I don't want the storms, but we are already way short on rain for the year, so some showers would be nice.
