John’s first tornado
So, last night was apparently a “textbook” supercell out here– two tornadoes within 15 minutes of each other. We had small children and 6 adults cramming into a laundry room and a mud room to be safe and sheltered. Wheee!
The menfolk avoided all responsibility for comforting the children by standing outside and staring at the storm and rain. After sunset, they were using lightning to watch for funnel clouds. This was John’s first tornado emergency (last night parts of Cameron were hit); I think he had fun, all things considered.
Afterwards, we put all the kids to bed (the Bertucci’s had all fallen asleep, except Jake, who is 11), and I taught Jake and his mom Barb how to play Fluxx. It was actually a good way to calm things down after so much excitement.
Today is my long run– think I should do that before breakfast, but we’ve barely eaten on this trip at all (except lunch yesterday, which was huge), so it might be prudent to eat so I don’t get sick.
Oh, and sorry for the garbledness of yesterday’s phone post. I was, after all, posting from the eye of the storm, so to speak. 
shaddai wrote:
Funny thing is I didn’t even know you had gone away until my mother-in-law called last night and told me about the storms in your area and stuff.
How close was the nearest tornado?
And I’m so glad you’re okay…
Posted on 30-May-04 at 2:38 am | Permalink
halfawake wrote:
You’re not alone, I didn’t know she was gone until I read the phone post.
Posted on 30-May-04 at 4:48 pm | Permalink
halfawake wrote:
The menfolk avoided all responsibility for comforting the children by standing outside and staring at the storm and rain.
Heh, that’s what I would have been doing. I love natural disasters. If I ever saw a tornado, I’d probably stay outside, fascinated by it, my fascination might kill me, which is why it’s just as well that I’m not in a place that gets tornados.
I really don’t understand why people from the east coast are scared of earthquakes. Tornadoes and Hurricanes do far more damage than Earthqutes do - in the United States any way. If you have a well built building that isn’t built on sand, it isn’t likely to get much damage in an Earthquake, unless there happens to be a badly one uphill from it that falls on it, which isn’t likely. The building code in California is such that you can’t find new buildings that aren’t well built. Whether or not they are on decent foundation is debatable, but I think it’s stupid to buy a house that is built on a sand dune, for example, in California. That’s a disaster waiting to happen, and there are houses like that pretty close to where I live. Fortunately, our house is built on solid granite. So I barely feel earthquakes, I’ve slept through them before, even big ones - I believe the one that I slept through was pretty big, like 6 or 7 magnititute on the Ricther scale.
Posted on 30-May-04 at 5:02 pm | Permalink
mortaine wrote:
Don’t tell Karen, but best estimates are that it went right over the house we were sheltering in.
Posted on 30-May-04 at 11:14 pm | Permalink
shaddai wrote:
that’s what she told us, actually…
Posted on 31-May-04 at 2:58 am | Permalink
copper9lives wrote:
Glad you’re safe! Yikes!
Posted on 31-May-04 at 11:22 am | Permalink