O_O tornados!
DUDE last night... was I.N.S.A.N.E.
I've never really been through a tornado before, but now I can say I have. I live in North Texas, it was bound to happen eventually, I guess.
Well... I'm working on my take-home test for school, like a good little girl... my windows were open, cause the breeze was warm, but it turned into like... a wind storm and my blindes were like flying at like a 45 degree angle XD and I'm like thinking... maybe I should close my window, but it was hot in my room, so I didn't want to XD And figured it was just a wind storm (we get them often). Then around 3 I start hearing thunder in the distance, but think nothing of it (for once). After a while, it gets a little worse and it's starting to rain a bit, then the wind picks up again and I hear my mom yelling BLOODY MURDER. She's like "MEEEEELISSSA!!! JULIE!!! MEEEEEEELISSSSAAAAA!" And I'm like "What the bloody hell is going on..." so I go downstairs and my moms like "TORNADO! HURRY!" and I'm like "EFFFFFFFFFFF" and I run and get my blanket and pillow to take downstairs and also my laptop and my phone, so we could watch the weather online while we still had power anyway. So, we rushing getting everything into the bathroom, I throw blankets in there to cover up with, I get the bunny and put him in the basket (he bit me a few times), and we find flashlights and get water. I call Heather because even though I'm mad as hell at her, I still don't want her to die, so I warn her, she was sleeping through it, and she wakes up and goes to wake her family up. I call a few other people and warn them too, like Kristy and Sheridan... We're sitting in the bathroom, and then finally the sirens go off. So we're sitting there, and the power is flickering. Sarah start's FREAKING out. Then the power goes off all together and I loose internet. So now, we're stuck in a dark bathroom, listening to the wind howling and the rain pouring and thunder booming. Ginger kept farting and smelling up the bathroom.... We pray for safety, and I'm freaking out too at this point. There's loud sounds, booming, I can hear things moving outside, things hitting windows...
Then it slows down, and I don't hear anything anymore, the sirens are off, but we wait longer anyway. We call my Dad and he tries to give us what weather he can, he was in chicago. We have just a watch now, and the warning has passed, but we wait a while longer. Heather calls me and tells me it passed too, and so we decide it's safe to go out. The storm is still raging outside, a lot of lightining and thunder, and I take a peek out the front door and I see all this debri but I can't tell what its from. I notice the chairs in the backyard are gone, and the trees are all knocked over. The power is still off, so we all sleep in my Mom's room downstairs, just in case there's another warning. At this point it's about 5:00a and I'm tired as hell along with everyone else, but I'm still paranoid have trouble going to sleep. Finally, as the storm died down, I fell asleep. I had to wake at 7a, to take my mom to work and sister to school, because her car was in the garage... which was not working because we still didn't have power.
Driving around Allen, made me realize how much damage there was and how lucky and fortunate we were not to get hit as hard as some of the other places. All the traffic lights weren't working, but some of them had flown off the thing completely, there were tons of HUGE trees uprooted, lots of branches everywhere, fences were completely gone, tree's fallen into houses, the walgreen's sign is gone (I don't know where it flew to), the gas station on the cover thing, the whole roof is gone, pieces of it scattered around the road, trampolines moved from the backyard to the front yard in one case XD. Many of the houses have piece of roofs missing. We were lucky... and it seems like the tornado missed us, but it was right down the street, so it's eerie at the same time, and I'm so thankful we didn't get anymore damage than what we did. We have roof damage, our fence is standing (which is surprising), all of our lawn furniture (which is hardcore metal stuff) flew into the pool, so it's sitting at the bottem right now :\ And there's a lot of debri from overturned trashcans all over the neighborhood.
Driving around right now is a bit surreal, and strange... apparently the news says our town got hit the hardest out of the entire metroplex, so lucky no one else was hit this hard.
XD I'm proud to say I've lived through my first tornado, and it's almost a wakeup call, we need to be better prepared, we are in/close to tornado alley, so we need to be prepared for this stuff, we need to have flashlights together, first aid, blankets and a battery powered radio (we didn't have one...), it would've helped a LOT if we had all that stuff together before hand, if the tornado was worse and it was that close, we may not have been ready for it... and if my mom hadn't woken and checked the weather when she did, we really wouldn't have been so ready.
So! That was my adventure! <3 YAY XD Now we get to cleanup.
I've never really been through a tornado before, but now I can say I have. I live in North Texas, it was bound to happen eventually, I guess.
Well... I'm working on my take-home test for school, like a good little girl... my windows were open, cause the breeze was warm, but it turned into like... a wind storm and my blindes were like flying at like a 45 degree angle XD and I'm like thinking... maybe I should close my window, but it was hot in my room, so I didn't want to XD And figured it was just a wind storm (we get them often). Then around 3 I start hearing thunder in the distance, but think nothing of it (for once). After a while, it gets a little worse and it's starting to rain a bit, then the wind picks up again and I hear my mom yelling BLOODY MURDER. She's like "MEEEEELISSSA!!! JULIE!!! MEEEEEEELISSSSAAAAA!" And I'm like "What the bloody hell is going on..." so I go downstairs and my moms like "TORNADO! HURRY!" and I'm like "EFFFFFFFFFFF" and I run and get my blanket and pillow to take downstairs and also my laptop and my phone, so we could watch the weather online while we still had power anyway. So, we rushing getting everything into the bathroom, I throw blankets in there to cover up with, I get the bunny and put him in the basket (he bit me a few times), and we find flashlights and get water. I call Heather because even though I'm mad as hell at her, I still don't want her to die, so I warn her, she was sleeping through it, and she wakes up and goes to wake her family up. I call a few other people and warn them too, like Kristy and Sheridan... We're sitting in the bathroom, and then finally the sirens go off. So we're sitting there, and the power is flickering. Sarah start's FREAKING out. Then the power goes off all together and I loose internet. So now, we're stuck in a dark bathroom, listening to the wind howling and the rain pouring and thunder booming. Ginger kept farting and smelling up the bathroom.... We pray for safety, and I'm freaking out too at this point. There's loud sounds, booming, I can hear things moving outside, things hitting windows...
Then it slows down, and I don't hear anything anymore, the sirens are off, but we wait longer anyway. We call my Dad and he tries to give us what weather he can, he was in chicago. We have just a watch now, and the warning has passed, but we wait a while longer. Heather calls me and tells me it passed too, and so we decide it's safe to go out. The storm is still raging outside, a lot of lightining and thunder, and I take a peek out the front door and I see all this debri but I can't tell what its from. I notice the chairs in the backyard are gone, and the trees are all knocked over. The power is still off, so we all sleep in my Mom's room downstairs, just in case there's another warning. At this point it's about 5:00a and I'm tired as hell along with everyone else, but I'm still paranoid have trouble going to sleep. Finally, as the storm died down, I fell asleep. I had to wake at 7a, to take my mom to work and sister to school, because her car was in the garage... which was not working because we still didn't have power.
Driving around Allen, made me realize how much damage there was and how lucky and fortunate we were not to get hit as hard as some of the other places. All the traffic lights weren't working, but some of them had flown off the thing completely, there were tons of HUGE trees uprooted, lots of branches everywhere, fences were completely gone, tree's fallen into houses, the walgreen's sign is gone (I don't know where it flew to), the gas station on the cover thing, the whole roof is gone, pieces of it scattered around the road, trampolines moved from the backyard to the front yard in one case XD. Many of the houses have piece of roofs missing. We were lucky... and it seems like the tornado missed us, but it was right down the street, so it's eerie at the same time, and I'm so thankful we didn't get anymore damage than what we did. We have roof damage, our fence is standing (which is surprising), all of our lawn furniture (which is hardcore metal stuff) flew into the pool, so it's sitting at the bottem right now :\ And there's a lot of debri from overturned trashcans all over the neighborhood.
Driving around right now is a bit surreal, and strange... apparently the news says our town got hit the hardest out of the entire metroplex, so lucky no one else was hit this hard.
XD I'm proud to say I've lived through my first tornado, and it's almost a wakeup call, we need to be better prepared, we are in/close to tornado alley, so we need to be prepared for this stuff, we need to have flashlights together, first aid, blankets and a battery powered radio (we didn't have one...), it would've helped a LOT if we had all that stuff together before hand, if the tornado was worse and it was that close, we may not have been ready for it... and if my mom hadn't woken and checked the weather when she did, we really wouldn't have been so ready.
So! That was my adventure! <3 YAY XD Now we get to cleanup.