Just another tornadic Friday
Okay, this is more than enough, July. Knock it off.
So, yeah, for the second time in the last few days, I was under a tornado warning. This time I was at home. I was starting to type up last night's concert (which was super-duper special, let me tell you) when the rain picked up. We were under a thunderstorm warning but the heaviest stuff seemed south. Then it REALLY started raining, and was pretty windy, and then the power flickered and went out entirely for a few seconds. When it came back on, I got to watch my clock reset itself--first the time, then the date, then the year. Creepy. Around then came the alert of a tornado warning for Kane County--yeah, that's us. Mom came out of her room just as I did, and she said in a silly voice, I'm scared! So we went downstairs to sit in the family room with dad.
It took a few minutes for the cable box to turn back on but we had on the weather for a while. They were saying there was a tornado on the ground in Glen Ellyn, then Warrenville, but nobody was giving street locations. Finally someone online posted some sort of velocity graphic, I think, very pixelated, but it appeared that some sort of rotation formed northwest of Route 56 and Route 59--very close to where I commute. That's in Warrenville, east of Fermilab, so if it tracked anywhere from north to east, it's likely part of my commute. We probably won't learn more until the morning but I hope things are okay. We just had lots of rain; it sounded like buckets pouring down for a bit. We already had over an inch of rain, nearly 1.25", on Wednesday. We probably got another inch tonight. At the rate we're going, we'll be out of drought status by the end of the month.
So, yeah, for the second time in the last few days, I was under a tornado warning. This time I was at home. I was starting to type up last night's concert (which was super-duper special, let me tell you) when the rain picked up. We were under a thunderstorm warning but the heaviest stuff seemed south. Then it REALLY started raining, and was pretty windy, and then the power flickered and went out entirely for a few seconds. When it came back on, I got to watch my clock reset itself--first the time, then the date, then the year. Creepy. Around then came the alert of a tornado warning for Kane County--yeah, that's us. Mom came out of her room just as I did, and she said in a silly voice, I'm scared! So we went downstairs to sit in the family room with dad.
It took a few minutes for the cable box to turn back on but we had on the weather for a while. They were saying there was a tornado on the ground in Glen Ellyn, then Warrenville, but nobody was giving street locations. Finally someone online posted some sort of velocity graphic, I think, very pixelated, but it appeared that some sort of rotation formed northwest of Route 56 and Route 59--very close to where I commute. That's in Warrenville, east of Fermilab, so if it tracked anywhere from north to east, it's likely part of my commute. We probably won't learn more until the morning but I hope things are okay. We just had lots of rain; it sounded like buckets pouring down for a bit. We already had over an inch of rain, nearly 1.25", on Wednesday. We probably got another inch tonight. At the rate we're going, we'll be out of drought status by the end of the month.