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Thursday, 07 February 2008

Tornadoes are scary

Glad I've never experienced one, too bad for these people, even though I lived in Manhattan, Kansas for 4 years.

Coming from Boston I had no clue when it came to tornadoes. I felt like there should be some crash course when you show up to tell you the drill so that it wasn't Spring semester first year finals week and I get woken at 5am to the sound of a siren that I have no clue what it is and my lovely roommate Jonathan is up watching the Weather Channel and tells me to go back to bed. So I did. I still had no clue what the siren meant, that someone had seen a funnel cloud or something touch down in our town, and chance of tornadoes was high. I didn't realize the seriousness until I went to class and everyone was talking about it. It didn't help that I lived in a house w/ no basement and no shelter to go to.

It usually happened same time every year, kinda. It always seemed to correspond to finals for me. Next place I lived I had a basement. One time Becca Lu drove over w/ her 3 cats and toad, I don't think she had Boden her dog yet, because she didn't have a basement. Who wants to hang out in a basement though? Most of the time I just looked out the window :0)

What happened more frequently were the scariest thunderstorms ever. They were just crazy and happened way too often for me. The wind was soooo bad. One time the power lines came down and the live wires were sparking and caught the tree outside my bedroom window on fire and I had to call 911 but nothing happened for a long time because the fire dpt. was responding to a building that had collapsed. Eventually the power got turned off. I was home alone, it was finals, middle of the night, no power in the house and I was ready to make a run for it w/ Cleo. Maybe that's when they cut the power to the wires. It was awful!

Let's see if I have old posts about it.

Posted: Feb 07, 2008 11:06

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