Here we go again.
Currently: Getting ready to weather the storms
With the weather, that is. We’re supposed to be getting some severe weather around 2-ish this afternoon. The schools have dismissed; I have picked my youngest son up, and my oldest has just gotten off the bus. My cell phone is charging, I have located our storm flashlight, and am looking for our wind-up radio. I also have water and a stash of candy bars to go to the closet with us if we need to hop in there for our safety. And in case our kitchen is blown away.
I didn’t get to start on our storm shelter this spring like I had hoped. Repairing our cars took a huge chunk out of what I had to try to divide up among home improvements. So we’ll be waiting any tornadoes out in the most central closet in the house. It could be worse, though. At least we’re not traveling the country in one a class A motorhome, stuck trying to find shelter somewhere near an RV park. Or worse yet, trying to find shelter while on the road!
Why does our weather always have to be all or nothing? We might get rains from time to time, but it seems like we never get any thunderstorms unless they are of the severe, tornado-producing variety. It would be so nice to just get some plain ol’ thunderstorms from time to time. You know….rain, slight wind, lightning, thunder. No supercells, no rotation, no tornadoes or high straight-line winds. Don’t get me wrong, I am definitely a storm chaser at heart! But severe weather worries me now because of the kids, even though they inherited my love of it and are never scared.
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