Bad weather, new tail lights + carb rebuild kit

So I don't know if you've heard about the horrendous string of weather that Kentucky's been putting up with for this past week... particularly today. We've been told for the past few days that it could either be nothing or absolutely horrible. Then we hear that "Storm Chasers" (the TV show) and a few other prominent figures have traveled here to follow the storm... that was a bit worrying, I assure you.

We were getting ready to go to work and I saw our room mate coming home early. Apparently her entire building was sent home early because of the weather. Even more unnerving. She says she's going to her parents' house since it has a basement.
We headed to work anyways, expecting this to all be over exaggeration (or at least, hoping it would be). Besides, our building NEVER closes. Within minutes of being work they evacuated the building and locked it down. Even scarier.
 Here are some photos of today's storm, taken from various people: http://www.whas11.com/news/slideshows/Your-photos-Second-round-of-storms-move-through-Friday-141176143.html

To sum all of this up, it was terrifying. The weather was NOT people overestimating it - it was just as dangerous (and unfortunately, deadly) as the professionals had warned. A town about 20 miles away was completely leveled. Several houses nearby were damaged. Tennis ball sized hail in surrounding areas (our house was the ONLY house I know of that actually got *no* hail). Being a coward, I hid in the bathroom while the sirens were wailing. Jimmy watched the storm from the garage. This went on for hours. Luckily we had no damage to our house, property or cars.

It was all over after about three hours... and we still had sunlight left afterwards. We decided to use this opportunity to actually work on the Mini. Yep, dangerous weather makes us want to fix cars. This morning we got in our new tail lights and carburetor rebuild kit from Mini Mania, so we set to it.

We haven't gotten a whole lot of progress on it as of right now, we're waiting for the parts to finish soaking overnight... but most of the carburetor has been cleaned and from what I understand just needs to be put back together. Hopefully then the Mini will start! I'm really hoping for it.


And, since I haven't had any photos in a while, here's a few updates!

With bonnet removed!

With the carburetor removed.

Cleaning everything.

Just a shot of the back without the tail lights. We'll be installing the new ones soon.

Just an interior shot for now. Yes, that is a bucket being used as a seat.