| June 4th, Saturday I almost typed "Saturnday"...how odd...pass life memories popping through? June! Wow, it's hard to believe. The year is officially 1/2 way over, it feels like it's just begun! I've only bought TWO Yule gifts so far!!! *Panic!* Between being totally broke and not really seeing anything anyone would want anyway, I'm getting myself in a bind :( Normally by June I have AT LEAST half my gifts bought!!! Not really too much going on....my life is pretty lame. I've been doing those silly quiz things (gods I love those!), feel free to pop over to the LiveJournal account for those. )0( June 6th, Monday I just had a discussion about tornadoes over at the SWARF site...thought I'd share about my experiences with you as well: Encounters of the tornado kind: The first one I experienced was in Ohio in August of 1992. My bridal shower had just ended and my Grandmother and I were the only ones there. I was in the bathroom and I felt the trailer move. That was freaky. I ran down the hall to see what was going on and my Grandmother was looking out the bay window in the kitchen...there was a tornado cutting across our corn field. She just said, "Look at that" I froze...it passed thank goodness with minimal damage. My fiance and I were living in a trailer at the time while our house was being built and that is NOT the place to be during a tornado!!! Do they have trailers in England? Probably not.... The second time I was in the spring of 1994 at my Grandmother's house. The husband turned out to be mean so I was staying with her for a bit. The sky was black and it was totally silent. Then the tornado siren went off (it was directly behind us and very very loud!). I could hear the tornado OVER the siren...it was like a train was coming right at us. I ran down in the basement, my Grandmother refused to go. She sat at the kitchen table eating her dinner and said that if it was her "time to go", hiding in the basement wouldn't matter. Even though I'm not christian I hollered from the basement, "The Lord helps those who help themselves!" She said she was helping herself...to another plate of food...I'll never forget that! She is so funny. The third time I had just had my baby...he was about 2 months old. We were in Georgia, another typical southern thunderstorm was going on...then they declared a tornado warning for an area less than a mile from us! I was freaking out...we were living in a duplex, the only thing I could think of was to go in the food "closet". I pulled all the stuff out of the bottom, put in a blanket with a pillow on top to lay him on and then I crawled in. I figured if the shelves with food above us fell I'd just have to shelter him with my body. The last time was really close. I'm a school nurse and last year we had an early release day so the parents could come in for parent-teacher conferences. I had stayed as well to discuss health information, take free blood pressures, etc. Anyway...it had been cloudy all day long...then it happened...tornadoes. Notice the plural form of the word there. We had 4 seperate tornadoes spotted in our county. One passed right by the school, it was huge and black. I was on my cell talking to my hubby (a cop) about it..."there it goes" and he said he was "feeling froggy" and he needed to move his patrol car. Good thing he did, because about ONE MINUTE later he was called back to that area. A tornado had hit there where he was. If he hadn't have left, a very old and large oak tree would have crushed him. There was also a turned over semi in the road, which was why he was called back. We had MAJOR damage from these tornadoes, we were even on the Weather Channel. My husband had to work until about midnight that night because of the storms, my son and I sat huddled together in the basement on an old matteress. It was a bad day! |
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