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I really dislike early morning tornado warnings. Any time between four and eight in the morning is just inconvenient.
The sirens went off this morning at ten til six (this was after I finally managed to fall asleep sometime after three...I just could not get to sleep). I thought about not getting up, ignoring it. If a tornado hit my house, then it'd be like dying in my sleep.
But, I got up and checked Panic TV. They said that Kenney and Weldon Springs were in the path of the storm. Even though my town wasn't mentioned, I figured that since it's right in between those two places, it was in the path, too.
I put on my shoes (a tornado will not hit my house if I don't have to climb out of the rubble barefoot) and shut down my computer.
I watched the storm blow in. It was pretty intense. The lightening was nearly constant. When it finally started to rain, it came down in sheets. The wind gusts came from every direction and I had to shut every window in the house (this included physically moving Pete out of one window because apparently she didn't mind that it was raining in on her). Trees were rocking and bending. Surprisingly, there was no hail.
At the end of all things, we never lost power (though the cable went out after the worst of the storm passed) and only lost one branch off our tree in the backyard (to be fair, that tree's sustained enough damage over the years and really can't afford to lose any more branches).
I went back to bed sometime around seven this morning and was back up by ten.
I really wished that storm would have held off until the afternoon. Not only would I have been able to sleep through the night, but in my well rested state I would have enjoyed it more.
The sirens went off this morning at ten til six (this was after I finally managed to fall asleep sometime after three...I just could not get to sleep). I thought about not getting up, ignoring it. If a tornado hit my house, then it'd be like dying in my sleep.
But, I got up and checked Panic TV. They said that Kenney and Weldon Springs were in the path of the storm. Even though my town wasn't mentioned, I figured that since it's right in between those two places, it was in the path, too.
I put on my shoes (a tornado will not hit my house if I don't have to climb out of the rubble barefoot) and shut down my computer.
I watched the storm blow in. It was pretty intense. The lightening was nearly constant. When it finally started to rain, it came down in sheets. The wind gusts came from every direction and I had to shut every window in the house (this included physically moving Pete out of one window because apparently she didn't mind that it was raining in on her). Trees were rocking and bending. Surprisingly, there was no hail.
At the end of all things, we never lost power (though the cable went out after the worst of the storm passed) and only lost one branch off our tree in the backyard (to be fair, that tree's sustained enough damage over the years and really can't afford to lose any more branches).
I went back to bed sometime around seven this morning and was back up by ten.
I really wished that storm would have held off until the afternoon. Not only would I have been able to sleep through the night, but in my well rested state I would have enjoyed it more.
