Now I Can't Sleep

[Jay_Bunny]

We are on weather.com watching the radar every few minutes. Every time it refreshes, we check it.

[tigerlily]

So did you make it through the night ok?

[Jay_Bunny]

Yea. I ended up falling asleep at 2:30, I was sooo tired. The storm passed over us with nothing too bad, but apparently surrounding areas got pounded.

[tigerlily]

I'm glad you made through okay.

[AndrewGeibel]

I feel your pain. Severe storms scare the heck outta me. I've gotten better, but a few years ago I was bad enough to where I would literally spend the whole storm going from window to window staring out, looking for funnel clouds. Sleep? Forget it.

Ironically windows would be just about the worst place to be during a severe storm.

[Kristy]

Oh man scary stuff right there! Glad to hear everything is okay.

I love it here. The biggest threat we usually have is snow and lots of it.

For the most part we are pretty cushioned from all the major natural disasters here.

Except for Volcanoes but we are far enough away that I am not too worried. When Mt. St helens errupted we just got all the ash. Most are dormant in this area anyway.

[Brimstone111888]

Ill take my paradise for a chance at losing your house every year to a hurricane. Its almost like legalized gambling.

[BMorrison]

We had a tornado come through my parents house a few years ago. Didn't get the house but threw a huge tree through the pole barn (3 days before our horses were supposed to come) and if you haven't ever seen a tornado live... you're missing out! It's intense!

[Ginevive]

Scary stuff..! I have seen water spouts (basically tornadoes over the lake) and small dust devils, but never a tornado. Although our garage here was de-roofed a few years before we moved here.. tornado went right down the driveway, past the house and into the garage. Yikes! I always get paranoid at tornado-watch time, though it is pretty hillly here, we do get some within 20 miles.