Well......it has been pretty scary....but it's over now.
The tornado warning issued for my county at 9pm has finally expired.
How bad it has been this time ? (we are pretty used to this kind of stuff, after all)
I give you the exact dimension of it.......my ex husband called me to warn me.
And he called THREE times!
I mean, we are talking about beating any record ever..
He was really concerned too....to the point that he was giving me suggestions about where to go and not to go...dont stay too close to the windows, ok?
Ok, i will not..
Stay in the smallest area of the home, ok? A closet? The laundry room?
Ok, we will.
He asked if we had a torch, stuff like that. I hadn't hear this concern in his voice by ages....
I told him we were going to run in the laundry room in case the tornado was to touch ground over our heads. The possibility has been pretty realistic, to be honest. At 9:10 the tv was telling that the fierce wind had created three rotations and two had touched ground only 15 miles from my home!.
Immediately my daughter had started to pack everything in the laundry room....i mean, blankets, pillows, her school bag, her make up bag, shoes, the bible (sic) and was starting to pull even the dog inside.
"Leave him alone for now, poor dog, he is scared enough"
The dog looked at me and run away behind the couch, panting and trembling.
Then she started to text messaging all over Texas apparently...and from all over Texas her friends were texting her back....call it being the most popular girl at school sigh...
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She was reading the texts to me. Some were hilarious.
"I so freaking like tornado" - Alyson wrote.
"Let the wind blow us down, people" - Preston said
Another one was telling her to take care, another one reminded her to grab her blow dryer (wth?)...Ashley said "Jesus will protect us". Oh well, we are fine then.
I was listening on tv the news about so many people stranded, trees crashed over cars and homes, heavy rain, and i was thinking...what about the animals in the open field? Will they blow away in the air?
What about the homeless? Where do they will find cover?
I even thought about other fellow Scasters living in Texas like me....BeyBey, M&M, LadyGamer, Margaret .....
And i thought....will the tornado make me fly home? Just like Dorothy?
I grabbed my purse and i stuffed it with personal documents, our passports, my wallets....i dont know what else...i wanted to put there all my photos, all my cds, all my books, all my life...
A tornado can make you isterical, you know?....
But naturally i didn't.....i only grabbed the torch and me and my daughter sat in front of the tv watching the heavy storm passing by.....lines of yellow, orange, purple and blue were gracioulsy tracing waves on the screen..
When our area changed from red to green ....it was over .
Then my ex called again....are you guys ok? Yes, we are, Thank for worrying about us. Oh, its ok, he mumbled and in the background his wife was talking loudly....just in case....:-)
My daughter said she wants to sleep in the laundry room anyway.....she said it reminds her of her Girl Scout weather emergency tests...
No way...to bed, missy.
And damned the tornado again....
gingersoul posted on Feb 10, 2009
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Lucytorial said on Feb 11, 2009....
Tagging for later - although I am glad to read that you won't get that tornado, stay safe Ginger... seriously stay very safe. -
secretlife said on Feb 11, 2009....
glad things are ok and the tornado passed you by- -
mobil said on Feb 11, 2009....
Well Dorothy you missed your free ride home, coulda been a bumpy ride though.Glad you are s&s, SL told me that means safe and sound. -
Twylarants said on Feb 11, 2009....
Oh God, Ginger, I feel for you. We get those damned tornado watches all summer....it scares me to death! Yankee that I am, blizzards don't scare me, nor'easters are a piece of cake, I'm even used to hurricanes now, but tornadoes terrify me. -
gingersoul said on Feb 11, 2009....
Lucy......i am........thank you...and the same is valid for you, ok?Secret.....well, what really put me in a frenzy have been all those calls from my ex....seriously....i wasn't even watching tv when he called...i had no idea of that messed up was out there...at that point we were only having heavy rain and very strong wind....But then he called and i thought "Ok, for him to to call it must be really something serious this time"......lol.....But we went to bed and the nigth was back to be almost peaceful....go figure.. -
gingersoul said on Feb 11, 2009....
Mobil...hey you, old bear!. ....It took a tornado to blow you back here? ..lol....So glad to see you again....Yep, Dorothy missed this too...darn it....bumpy trip, i wouldnt mind, it would have been quick and free, which i would definetely care...lol...I am very proud of you...you know S&S now...good boy...good boy....;-D*ginger pats mobil on the back*.Isn't Secret the best teacher? *wink* -
gingersoul said on Feb 11, 2009....
TwillyFrilly........yep, tornadoes...me no like them....no, no......;-)Thank you! -
MsStar39 said on Feb 11, 2009....
Ginger I am so glad that you are safe, very scary time. -
GrapeKoolaid said on Feb 11, 2009....
The tornado that was shaking things around at your place has made it all the way up to here, but it has fizzled out into a regular rain storm. It's just drizzling out...
To think that these raindrops were falling by you last night makes me jealous of these clouds and it makes me miss you that much more. Perhaps it's the cloudy weather that makes me a bit more melancholy...
I'm glad that you are safe and sound.
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Twylarants said on Feb 11, 2009....
If that tornado had picked Ginger up and dropped her in Chicago instead of Oz we'd be cheering for it! -
Alyss said on Feb 11, 2009....
Tornadoes are something I don't really have to worry about here thank goodness but ET has me keeping a careful eye of the hurricane reports.
I am glad you and your daughter are safe.
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gingersoul said on Feb 11, 2009....
MsStar.....thank you......everything is back to normal today...:-)
Grapey.......oh you.... there is nothing to be jealous of, believe me.....those raindrops didn't touch me once, luckily......
I read that the storm traveled up North. In Oklahoma 6 people had died.....
So brush off that melancholy of yours and smile....:-)
Twilly....lol.... but can i hope for a very strong one that would spin back to Italy too?
Alyss.....i believe you....specially when there are some international flights that are going to take off pretty soon, am i correct? *wink*..
Today we had a gorgeous day, anyway....75 degrees and sunny.
I migth even believe yesterday i had just a bad dream...
Thank you. Hope you are ready for the next week....:-) -
rmuxagirl said on Feb 11, 2009....
I'm glad your bad weather is over. We are still having ours. It started earlier this evening. It came out of no where. We left church and I took my friend Caitie home and all was fine. I got to the pizza shop still fine, but not even half a mile later all hell broke lose. The car dealership sign went out, the wind blew so bad it looked like small tornados on the road, I couldn't see a thing the wind threw the rain that hard. I drove like 5 mph. I was scared to death I almost pulled over, but had no where to pull over at. It took me 20 minutes to get home when it should have taken me 5. I can hear the wind blowing so hard, I think tomorrow I will have to clean stuff up -
queenparanoia said on Feb 12, 2009....
ohmygod that is scary..and i'm glad it's over ginger... are you guys okay? any damage?
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mixednuts said on Feb 13, 2009....
If you would.Let me die in a storm for you!