Re: A scary night
- From: Winnie <wwl10@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 12:19:38 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 6, 9:50 am, Daniel Mahoney <d...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Last week the weather radios I ordered finally arrived. Wednesday night I
set one up and plugged it in up in the bedroom. Just before midnight the
siren goes off, warning us of a severe storm warning. Another at 1:30.
Another at 2, and one at 2:30. Made for a long day yesterday.
Last night was more interesting. Around 11 PM the radio alerted us to a
tornado watch. A little after midnight it went off again with a tornado
warning. This time the voice alert said there was a tornado on the ground
in Lamb's Grove, with another expected to arrive in 5 minutes.
Oh - Lamb's Grove is *here*! It's sort of like West Newton. That's maybe
two miles away. I went upstairs and got Nancy to head downstairs with
blankets and an armful of cats, I put on some clothes and grabbed an
armful of cats, and we all headed down to the basement. As we reached the
basement stairs the town tornado sirens started going off.
Some of the cats were quite incensed at having their sleep disrupted. Cleo
in particular seemed to be saying "you silly humans, it's just a little
wind!" Ranger thought it was a great opportunity to play, and helped us
with everything we did. Harri expected us both to be petting her since we
were all together. Amelia looked worried - the basement is HER storm
hideaway, and having it crowded with everybody else did not please her.
Sammy and Tabitha were hiding, but they spend a lot of time doing that.
I e-mailed a handful of people from the basement (the storm didn't
interrupt our DSL service), then after we had been down there for 10 or 15
minutes the winds passed. The town sirens had shut off so we let everybody
out of the basement. Amelia stayed down there for a while, just to make
sure.
We checked both the front and back yards, and we didn't receive any
damage. The only sign that anything at all happened was that both of our
back yard lawn chairs had been flipped over.
I am glad to hear you are OK. I heard about the tornado in Iowa on the
news and was wondering whether you were affected.
Winnie
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