Last night I was fast asleep when I thought for sure I heard a noise. I did. My phone. Text message. It was Tina, letting me know we were under a tornado warning. Can I just back up and tell those of you who don't know me very well...I FREAK OUT in storms. I'm going to be one of those moms someday who totally scars her kids for life because she can't keep it together in a storm. High on the list of things I want in a husband, behind a willingness to handle the money and an ability to kill spiders is someone who can keep me from hyperventilating in a storm. He doesn't have to like storms. He just has to keep me from losing my mind AND my lunch.
I turned on the TV and found that we were, in fact, under a warning. So I called my Mom. I didn't care that it was 12:15 in the morning. If I was going down, I wasn't going down alone. She had the scanner on and was trying to talk me through the storm.
As I paced randomly throughout the house, looking outside now and then, I began to remember all the things Lori and Jeff said they should have taken/hidden/etc. I started randomly throwing things in my house into safe places and yelling for the cats to maybe REMEMBER their love of the bathtub and get in it. As things started to pick up, I realized I was shoeless - a problem my niece had after the tornado. So I rounded up some shoes and began looking for a safe place. It doesn't exist in my house. I was just gonna hafta fly through the air if it really it.
When the rain and wind started, I looked outside and thought "How in the world did Lori, Jeff, and Cassie live through something ten times this fierce?" My goodness. A whole new respect.
So if you write me today and receive a ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ for a response, you'll know that my lack of sleep caught up with me.
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8 comments:
Ahhh, I'm right there with you Bekah! I did think of calling you around 12:30 am...but I was thinking maybe by some ODD chance you were sleeping thru it!! Luckily I have a hubby that can remain calm in storms...while he was standing outside on the back porch "watching the sky"...me and the kiddies were in the basement!! I've done a good job of faking it...Jess and Wes love storms! ha!
Oh you should have called! Mom would have welcomed the break, I'm sure. :)
I think I'd freak out a LITTLE less (only a little) if I had a safe place in my house.
I didn't get to sleep until around 2am. I didn't mean to make you freak out, but I wanted someone to talk to. My house has no safe place either. If only I had not been awakened by it to begin with, I would have slept through the whole thing unknowingly.
oh no i'm glad you called! better to wake up and begin freaking out while the full fledged storm isn't raging! I would have awakened when the thunder and lightning got bad anyway.
After it was over, Braeya got in the other side of the bed, crawled completely under the covers, and slept! I guess she was more freaked out than i thought. Kaegan is the one that usually gets easily scared. Of course I think he was in the closet, so maybe he was scared too. I think it was about 2:30 when I finally went to sleep. Thank goodness it was Cosby night on Nick!
I am glad you are alive! I thought of you when WWKI was saying if you know anyone in Marion call them and tell them to be prepared ha I thought hmm I don't know her Number but I know her blog.
We got tons of rain and really bad lightning but nothing like you all, they said a confirmed touchdown in Sweetser, and I was thinking a little too close! Glad you're OK
Hey I gave you my number! You just wrote it down wrong, remember? I can email it to you again if you'd like. :) Or you can call whoever it was that you and Nutz called that time you were coming to my house...I'm sure she'd appreciate that at 12:30 in the morning.
And you're right - Sweetser is too close for comfort!
i usually sleep even better in storms. i don't know what it is, but when there's rain & wind i'm out cold!
Sarah - I'm beyond jealous!
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