Teru Teru Bozu
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About Teru Teru Bozu
- Birthday 03/03/1982
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Well hello there.
If you've stumbled upon this page, you might be wondering what the heck a "teru teru bozu" is. Well, in Japan, when children wish for sunshine, they sometimes make little ghost-shaped dolls and hang them outside to ward off the rain. These are called "teru teru bozu", which literally means "shine shine monk". If the dolls do their job, so to speak, they (the dolls) might be rewarded with decorations like smiley-faces or whatnot. It's pretty cute.
Aww.
Anyway, sort of a weird name for me, because I usually don't wish for sunshine. It's not very exciting! I prefer stormy weather. The weather first caught my attention when I was [REDACTED] years old, and an unusual-but-not-unheard-of November tornado struck a couple of towns over from where I lived at the time. An F4, no less, which was on the ground for over 80 miles. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. It was pretty scary.
Folks in Central NC know the deal...back then, the phrase "we go live now to Charlie Gaddy, who is on the scene" was code for "sh*t just got real, people."
Anyway, much like how the best way to get over your crippling fear of spiders is to voluntarily immerse your hand into a terrarium full of tarantulas (or so I've heard...), it also turns out that the best way to get over your crippling fear of severe weather is to voluntarily immerse your brain into a copy of Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991 as well as repeated viewings of an increasingly worn VHS copy of The Enemy Wind. So now instead of freaking out and crying every time a tornado watch is issued, I swing into full red alert geek mode and regale my friends, family, co-workers, or anyone else in range with the latest observed helicity values at KGSO or how many RadarScope screenshots my phone can hold. That's better, right?
My parents recently obtained a restraining order against this jpeg. I think they might be tired of looking at it, I dunno.
ANYWAY. I hope to see you around here, in the electro-technical sense, and perhaps we may then engage in discourse of a meteorological nature.
Peace out,
TTB 