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