Re: Tornado Safety purrs
- From: "Pat" <pdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:45:16 -0600
"jmcquown" <jmcquown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
When I was about 15 a girlfriend was spending the night. As teens will
do,
we stayed up most of the night talking. I was sleeping on the floor; my
friend was in my bed. Sometime around 5AM my mom came into the room
saying,
"Jill! You guys, get up, there's a tornado coming! You have to come with
us into the bathroom!" (It was an interior bathroom, dead center in the
house) Mom must have been very frustrated, not to mention scared, because
she couldn't rouse us. Finally she said, "Well at least get Libby down on
the floor with you!" I remember mumbling, "Libby, get down on the floor"
and as an afterthought, "bring your pillow."
When we got up later that morning we found the tornado had cut a swath
down
a hillside less than 2 blocks from our house. Luckily it missed any homes
and only touched down briefly, but she and I didn't hear a thing.
At 15, a close encounter like that might have been exhilarating. At 35 or
so, I probably would have taken it in stride. If it happened now, I think
the fright would kill me, even if I was safe in the basement!
.
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