I expect we will see #TaylorSwift's plane from Japan being tracked every ten minutes during the pre-game shows, kind of like how NORAD tracks Santa on Christmas.
I was at college, walking up the stairs to my dormroom when I heard about it. I spent the rest of the day glued to my little TV in our room.
As I watched the video that was being replayed over and over, one moment struck me: The twin trails of smoke from the booster rockets looked like the wide-spread arms of a giant in the sky.
It was immediately obvious that there would be no survivors. I cried, and prayed that they never had a chance to know what happened, and feeling awful for all the school kids watching the teacher take off, on TVs at schools around the world.
The cause was later determined to be a simple, small, faulty O-ring. It would be months later before any human remains were recovered, found at the bottom of the ocean.
@AnneTheWriter1 Was a student at the Univ of Florida. It was a cold cloudless morning. The chemistry lecture had just ended. Looking to the southeast, I could see the smoke trails from the SRBs and from when the explosion took place. 😢
Near me in #Chicago, there's a long tradition of "calling #dibs" on any parking spot where a nearby resident went through the trouble of shoveling the deep #snow away. Usually, people use a lawn chair or milk carton cube.
But some people like to do it with more flair than others.
(It's #HootinTootin Tuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, & bring lots of smiles to Mastodon.)
Today, Jan.21st, is #SquirrelAppreciationDay. It was created in 2001 by a North Carolina wildlife rescuer named Christy Hargrove, to help people recognize the value of #Squirrels in their local #ecosystems.
It seems appropriate that yesterday, my family & I were driving home from Kentucky, and came through #Olney#Illinois. As we had done on previous such trips to visit family, we drove around the town, hoping to spot one of their famous #WhiteSquirrels, but were (once again) unsuccessful.🐿🌰☹️
More than once, I thought I spotted one. But my theory is that it's hard to distinguish any of them in the snow. So we could only pose next to the town's squirrel statue.
#OlneyIllinois holds regular counts of their #AlbinoSquirrel population, and has strict laws about loose cats and dogs, to protect their unique squirrel colony.