Tornado Safety purrs
My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I
am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. |
Tornado Safety purrs
On 2006-03-30 20:59:43 -0600, "Pat" said:
My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. Been there done that. Night storms suck. Purrs. |
Tornado Safety purrs
If you leave your TV or radio on the emergency
warning should be loud enough to wake you up. |
Tornado Safety purrs
Pat wrote: My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. Pat, youve just still got mobile home mentality about storms. If you have a basement, you're really quite safe. Sometime you might get a NOAA weather radio; the ones that wake you up when there are warnings in your area. I lived through and survived the F5 that hit Moore, OK in 1999. After that, I wasn't afraid of storms anymore. I realize now, how you have to be *in the path*; and even then, they are so hit-and-miss. Our house was untouched, but the houses behind us were leveled. 3500 homes were destroyed, yet the injury/mortality rate was amazingly low, and the majority of those were folks caught out in their cars. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I used to think that if a tornado came within a mile of me, I was going to die. That's just not true. And warning systems are so good now, we have plenty of warning time. I still respect the weather here, but I'm not afraid of it. Sherry |
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wrote Pat, youve just still got mobile home mentality about storms. If you have a basement, you're really quite safe. Sometime you might get a NOAA weather radio; the ones that wake you up when there are warnings in your area. I do want a weather radio. Ava has sirens, but I've heard them in the daytime and I know I could easily sleep through their sound. I lived through and survived the F5 that hit Moore, OK in 1999. After that, I wasn't afraid of storms anymore. I realize now, how you have to be *in the path*; and even then, they are so hit-and-miss. Our house was untouched, but the houses behind us were leveled. 3500 homes were destroyed, yet the injury/mortality rate was amazingly low, and the majority of those were folks caught out in their cars. The mere idea of being near an F5 is almost enough to scare me to death. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I used to think that if a tornado came within a mile of me, I was going to die. That's just not true. And warning systems are so good now, we have plenty of warning time. I still respect the weather here, but I'm not afraid of it. I could never live in Oklahoma. I'm too much of a wuss. |
Tornado Safety purrs
Pat wrote:
My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. Stay safe purrs on the way. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
Tornado Safety purrs
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:59:43 -0600, "Pat"
wrote: My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. Pat, from one resident of "tornado alley" (albeit the eastern fringes) to one in the middle of things - get a weather radio! You should look for the kind that goes off like an alarm clock if there are weather-related warnings in your area. Put it at your bedside, turn the volume up, and you'll most certainly wake up! (I once had one that would play the weather stations, but didn't have an alarm function) Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:59:43 -0600, "Pat" wrote: My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. Pat, from one resident of "tornado alley" (albeit the eastern fringes) to one in the middle of things - get a weather radio! You should look for the kind that goes off like an alarm clock if there are weather-related warnings in your area. Put it at your bedside, turn the volume up, and you'll most certainly wake up! (I once had one that would play the weather stations, but didn't have an alarm function) Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com We had one of those, but had to toss it as it kept going off for the simplest of *thunderstorms*, and we couldn't figure out how to change the settings! Talk about annoying! |
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Jeanne Hedge wrote:
On 30 Mar 2006 22:27:58 -0800, wrote: Pat wrote: My greatest fear is tornados that strike in the night when I'm asleep, but I am too tired to stay awake any longer tonight and don't want to sleep in the dank basement which I have so far not had time to clean. Would appreciate some purrs to keep me & the owners safe tonight. Pat, youve just still got mobile home mentality about storms. If you have a basement, you're really quite safe. Sometime you might get a NOAA weather radio; the ones that wake you up when there are warnings in your area. Definitely! Pay attention to the weather alerts, but don't let them rule your life (within reason) On April 3, while I was taking cover at my friend's house, my parents didn't have a clue that anything unusual was going on! (they were on the other side of town, but the town just isn't that big!) When I was about 15 a girlfriend was spending the night. As teens will do, we stayed up most of the night talking. I was sleeping on the floor; my friend was in my bed. Sometime around 5AM my mom came into the room saying, "Jill! You guys, get up, there's a tornado coming! You have to come with us into the bathroom!" (It was an interior bathroom, dead center in the house) Mom must have been very frustrated, not to mention scared, because she couldn't rouse us. Finally she said, "Well at least get Libby down on the floor with you!" I remember mumbling, "Libby, get down on the floor" and as an afterthought, "bring your pillow." When we got up later that morning we found the tornado had cut a swath down a hillside less than 2 blocks from our house. Luckily it missed any homes and only touched down briefly, but she and I didn't hear a thing. Jill |
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