It's (apparently) springtime, and the tornadoes are in bloom...

Feb 10, 2009 16:33

I just got out of tornado lockdown. For the THIRD time this afternoon ( Read more... )

tornado, wtf, severe weather, oklahoma

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indiefic February 10 2009, 22:48:19 UTC
Oh damn. Already? Ugh. Kansas had the most tornadoes in 2008. We had a thunderstorm yesterday, but no tornado warnings ... yet. It's going to be a long season.

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ladyaeryn February 10 2009, 22:53:54 UTC
I didn't even realize it was supposed to rain today. But then I'm sitting in my car, chilling before I go to class, and suddenly the damn sirens are going off! And it looks like we've got several more hours of this crap, more potential tornadoes. :-S

I guess tornadoes don't really give a damn when the calendar says spring is supposed to start!

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indiefic February 11 2009, 14:25:06 UTC
Holy cow! Just saw the news this morning. You okay?

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ladyaeryn February 11 2009, 14:39:39 UTC
We're good. :) The town where all those people died is about 100 miles south of me. We had a few homes damaged/destroyed and a couple of injuries here in OKC, but fortunately nothing in my neighborhood.

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rosemerry February 11 2009, 00:34:19 UTC
I've been thinking about you! Sorry you've had such a scare! *hugs*

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ladyaeryn February 11 2009, 14:47:24 UTC
Thanks. Really, the first time the sirens went off noone was really scared - it's such a common thing here, and the sirens go off any time a tornado's been spotted in the county, not necessarily in your specific area. Hell, SOP for a lot of Okies when they hear a siren is to go outside and look for the funnel! ;) By the second and third times they went off, though? Yeah, nerves were getting a little frazzled. :P

Fortunately most of the storms wound up passing a few miles north of me, including one that destroyed several homes.

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lazypadawan February 11 2009, 00:34:23 UTC
Stay safe :O.

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ladyaeryn February 11 2009, 14:42:36 UTC
As safe as I can, heh. Unfortunately with tornadoes it's a gamble whichever way you go, since the damn things are so unpredictable... :P

The first time the sirens went off we were all like "meh, whatever," since it's such a frequent thing here, but by the second and third go around... yeah, nerves were getting pretty frazzled. A girl had to leave my Psych class early because she got word one of the tornadoes had hit her neighborhood.

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crystaltear February 11 2009, 23:56:53 UTC
I hope you are okay D: The news said one tornado from last night was near Oklahoma City, not in it, but I still thought of you when I first heard this morning.

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ladyaeryn February 12 2009, 02:09:50 UTC
*huggles* Thanks.

One of the twisters that hit OKC yesterday - the one that destroyed several big homes on the north side - passed within about three miles of me, but nothing worse, thankfully. We didn't have any fatalities, but a town about 100 miles south did.

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