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| Topic: Will the Tornado Get Me Dad? |
| Date: 2011-02-28 15:20:52 |
Message: Have you seen the Elmo's World episode where Elmo opens the door to a tornado (Auntie Em! Auntie Em!) and then has to chase it out? Well Emmett has. While on our evening walk yesterday, Emmett expressed his recent fear of tornadoes. Yesterday he heard on the weather a tornado warning was going to be in effect for the evening. He kept asking questions like: "If I hide in the basement, will the tornado not see me, and won't suck me up?" or "If the tornado knocks on the door, and I don't open it, will it go away?" or "why does the tornado have eyes?". He was very concerned that a tornado was going to get him in his sleep. As it turns out, both boys were fast asleep by 9pm last night, and by 10pm the tornado sirens went off, and the wind really picked up. For those who don't know, there is a tornado siren just across the street from our house. There's no way you wouldn't be able to hear it go off. Then the marble sized hail started falling, and flash flood rain started pouring down.  A tree branch from the cedar tree in our back yard fell, narrowly missing the house, a neighbor's 15 foot cedar uprooted, his fence blew down, we saw siding laying out in the street (we don't know who's house it came from), and some power lines were down. Amy and I were standing in the garage watching the rain and hail and we had to close the garage door and quit watching because it was coming in sideways (and hurt!). Amy and I went back inside, and thought about grabbing the kids to rush them downstairs as the wind was really blowing, and we weren't sure how much longer the storm was going to last.  A few moments later, the tornado sirens went off again. Then all of a sudden it quit, and we could see the storm blew over (leaving a very impressive lightning show). Two tornado sirens, very strong wind, rain, hail (and possibly a tornado) blew right through our yard, and both kids (even the paranoid one) slept through it! ha! -Dad |
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