So, its been a while since I've been on and I have a shit ton of stuff to go through here. However, that's beside the point.
As we all know, I'm in the Navy, and I'm currently in Great Lakes Il waiting on my A school. Last night we had a horrific tornado blow through and brought down ALOTATATATATA rain and wind. Bad enough to make the tree in the courtyard that housed our mascot squirrel fall over and he was in his nest and rode the tree as it fell and he came out alive.
Anyway, as the rain came down our courtyard started flooding.
At first it wasn't bad and duty section could control it... but the rain didn't stop. It got worse and worse to the point where all hands remaining on the ship had to get into either utilities or coveralls and get into battle dress and get out into the courtyard to get rid of the water.
So, I got out of my civillian clothes and into my coveralls, rounded up what remaining females on the female deck and ran outside to the courtyard while grabbing all of the rags and buckets left on the female deck.
So I went outside and tossed a bunch of buckets everywhere and got to throwing water out of the smoke pit with one other girl while HT2 was sitting on the drain with a plunger and a rag, trying to keep the water from coming up.
For the longest time, this indoc girl and I were in the pit with HT2 throwing water out, and there was enough water that alot of the other sailors were carrying out the water in giant trashcans to the street out into the front of the barracks.
The rain kept coming and at one point was getting heavier and heavier until finally one of the student leaders said to just go ahead and unplug the pit drain because it was going to flood up into the barracks anyway. Well once HT2 got the word to unplug the drain, the water started to let down and drain out of the pit.
The next thing that happened was to get rid of the water in the courtyard and off of the smokedeck. Well the indoc girl and I were still scooping water out of the pit while water was being carried from the courtyard to the street.
The next thing we knew, the water started to come back up out of the drain that HT2 was plugging up earlier, so we had to haul ass and get the water out of the pit. So instead of being in the courtyard and getting rid of the water, we had to get the water out of the pit and all of these guys and just me and this one other girl were scooping and carrying water out of the pit until finally the water started going down again and FINALLY drained out completely.
So, we saved the courtyard and the barracks. YAY.
Oh wait next best thing that happened was that during the entire crisis, my adrenaline had shot up, giving me the rush that I've been missing since I left home, and when everything was said and done, one of my buddies asked me to put some of my dip in his lip and just as did, my adrenaline shot back down and I nearly collapsed on him. Fantastic, right?
But anyway, I had fun last night in my barracks and got wet and muddy and now my back is killing me with all this tension and stuff.
HOOYAH ENTERPRISE!!!