Tuesday, 08 January 2008

• Tornados… in January?!

  So - this is how I spent my day yesterday, with tornado sirens blaring around me every few minutes, it seemed. The city I live in got hit pretty hard - one of my favorite restaurants got demolished just a few miles down the road! The “county” got hit a little harder, though it looks like.

  Some reports say there were 5 tornadoes, some reports say there were only two (only, lol!) different ones that touched down in several different areas.

  In Wisconsin, we are all used to hearing the tornado sirens - they go blaring throughout my city every Saturday morning at 10:00am for testing purposes. So, when I was at work yesterday and the sirens went off, I thought briefly to myself, “Oh, it’s just the tornado sirens… THE TORNADO SIRENS?!” I tell you, it stopped me cold. Someone said “Oh, they must have a tornado warning.” Um… no. The tornado sirens go off when there is a tornado, not a warning! It basically means “Get your ass under cover or kiss it goodbye.” Which of course, no one did. We all ran outside to see it. Idiots.

  Anyway, no one was hurt by the damage, but alot of people are without power and a few are without houses right now. My family is fine - like clear thinking people they went into the basement.

  [EDIT] I guess the restaurant is NOT demolished. A power pole crashed into the roof, apparently. Woot!

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