Seattle’s Bizarre Cloud Mystery
My Nextdoor Neighbors are Higher Than Yours
Cloudy With A Chance of Nextdoor: A high dive into cloud debates & social engagement on the networking app, Nextdoor.
Today in Seattle, mid-June, the mercury is refusing to rise above 56 degrees. It’s chilly and damp, so a bunch of us are making chili and posting on Nextdoor. We’re fine with cool weather and medium-hot chili.
Hopefully, I don’t have to explain the Nextdoor app, but I’ll have ChatGPT explain it, just in case:
“Nextdoor is a social networking service for neighborhoods, allowing users in neighborhoods to connect, share information, and engage with their local communities. Reporting and discussing local issues: Users can report issues such as lost and found items, suspicious activities, or neighborhood nuisances.”
Note: If you are new to Nextdoor, you will fit right in if you blame any local problems on the City Council. Even the coyotes.
Mostly it’s for lost cats. People, there are coyotes everywhere! Keep your pussycats where they belong, that is, inside. If you can’t build a catio, keep your coyotes inside.
Here in Seattle we are celebrating Pride month; we are inclusive, smoke legal weed and are dealing with multiple crises — homelessness, Fentanyl, crime, coyotes, and aforementioned lost kitties. SO many wandering kitties.
But sometimes there are unexpected threats to be dealt with.
Neighbor Neil W. posted this alarming warning today:
ALERT! this past weekend I was in South Dakota and noticed this cloud. has anyone else seen this? it was quite disturbing.
Our neighbors are tightly bonded after years together on Nextdoor. The neighbors leapt into action: First, they lit a bowl or munched an edible. Then they carefully studied Neil’s photo. Responses began coming in from different neighborhoods:
Michael: (in)Matthews Beach. Could it be a bad cloud over the Badlands?
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Stephen: Southern Bryant. I recognize the clouds and the mountains. What is the blue stuff?
Robert: Sheridan Heights. Not sure of my spelling but that/those clouds are called 'cumulus.’ We had them here last week.
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CJ: Greenwood. Robert, so, definitely crossing state lines? And it’s “those/they.” Try to keep up.
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Kathryn: Seattle, WA. I think too many of you have been frequenting your local pot shops. Please pass the brownies.
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Cathi: Hawthorne Hills. I’m confused?? What’s the problem??
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Paul: Pinehurst North. TROLL! Nothing more! And so many bought into it. Do you have Medicare part B, or would you like to purchase it? I gotta great deal for you!
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Peggy: Bellevue, WA. It’s something called a spherical contrail from a government airplane spewing chemicals on unwary citizens.
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Susan: Bitter Lake South. The disturbing part is being in South Dakota.
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Sally: Northwest Wallingford. Oh no … the big one is splooting. We all know what that means.
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JD: Haller Lake. Did it make a noise?
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Ellen: Snohomish, WA. That’s gotta be the cloud that all my important information is stored in. No wonder I could never find it, it’s been in SoDak!
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John: Seattle, WA. Rorschach inkblot test detected.
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Ben: Bitter Lake South:
Cloud: a simple post
So full of new directions
What is clear to you?
(Wish I knew how to line break here without sending)
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Megan: Kirkland, WA. @Ben: haiku?
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Elaine: Seattle, WA. Nope
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Catherine: Seattle, WA. I was calling about the used pineapple.
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Adam: Seattle, WA. I’ve seen clouds from both sides now. I really don’t know clouds at all.
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Cristina: Cedar Park. HEY South Dakota, you crazy cloud thieving miscreants! Give it back!!!
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Gloria: Bellevue, WA. Not to worry! However, if you were in North Dakota you definitely would need to be cautious!!
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Joe: Hawthorne Hills. That’s my cloud and you need to get off.
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David: View Ridge. That’s MY Cloud! I back up my music files to that one. Don’t mess with it please.
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Rebecca: Seattle, WA. Wow, it looks like the ones we get here! Do you think it followed you?
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Dan: Olympic Hills. Looks like a Chinese spy cloud.
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Michael: Matthews Beach. Neil, thanks for clearing things up! I think things are fairly obvious now. This should pretty much end all discussion on this post.
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Neil: North Laurelhurst. South Dakota is a beautiful state.
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Loren: Seattle, WA. Neil, it is one of the most beautiful Dakotas.
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Neil: North Laurelhurst. definitely in the top two.
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CJ: Greenwood. Loren, true. I just wish it was a little more north.
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Tanya: Haller Lake. I just recently watched an interesting documentary; it said NASA can create these clouds with some type of man-made machine. Don’t know how much truth there is to it, but I thought…
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