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Anyone else have incredible storms last night? The system reached from Iowa clear back to Colorado! Talk about coming out of nowhere-we were forecast for "light rain"-and I tell you what, I've *never* been in a storm like that before. I managed to get a few hours sleep last night somehow.
I got up w/Trapper about 1am b/c he has a slight ear infection, so I took him out for some Tylenol. Chicken is only allowed in the kitchen, but she was in the hallway, making cooing sounds and panting, so I let her out, thinking she had to pee. I noticed it was raining and lightning. There was a bit of crackling, and then a HUGE clap of thunder, so I figured a transformer got hit. I grabbed a flashlight, let Chicken in, who wouldn't leave my side, and we went to the bathroom, planning to go back to bed. The lights kept flickering and I heard a funny noise, so I went to the living room to look out the front door. As I was walking, the lights went out, my skin started to feel tingly, and it started to feel really warm in the house. I opened the door, looked out, and everything looked blurry and it seemed like the clouds were right on the roofs of the houses. I've never heard a sound like that-like a siren/wind/howl, and all that popped in my head was *tornado*. It felt like my stomach hit my toes and my heart lodged in my throat. I was SO scared and shaky.
I yelled for the kids to get up and get downstairs and we made it downstairs w/Chicken. London asked what that noise was, and I said the sirens. She said no, the other noise, and that was the horrible wind. I've never heard anything like it. I ran back up for JD's police radio so we could hear what was going on. Trees uprooted, power lines down everywhere-the roof of a big building came off, a woman had a tree fall in her house but she managed to hook her oxygen dependent husband up to a generator. The officers were dodging trees falling in the streets. It was crazy.
And this whole time, I'm thinking "Where is my husband?" He was still at work, but did they make him stay? Did he get stuck somewhere trying to get home? After about 30 minutes, I heard the front door crash open and him yelling, so I shined the flashlight upstairs and he ran to the door way, and when he saw we were ok he put his arms out to the sides of the doorway and just slid down to his knees. I about started crying. He said it looked like a war zone outside. The truck kept going sideways b/c of the wind, and he had to backtrack all over to find streets that weren't blocked by trees. One tree uprooted right in front of him and he barely got stopped before it landed on the truck. He ended up driving thru someone's yard to get around it.
That was definitely something I don't want to go thru again. I felt so bad for London-she's old enough to know what was going on, and she said the storm was making her tummy hurt. "My tummy doesn't like this storm".
Anyone else that got hit by this last night, I hope you're all safe and sound!
I got up w/Trapper about 1am b/c he has a slight ear infection, so I took him out for some Tylenol. Chicken is only allowed in the kitchen, but she was in the hallway, making cooing sounds and panting, so I let her out, thinking she had to pee. I noticed it was raining and lightning. There was a bit of crackling, and then a HUGE clap of thunder, so I figured a transformer got hit. I grabbed a flashlight, let Chicken in, who wouldn't leave my side, and we went to the bathroom, planning to go back to bed. The lights kept flickering and I heard a funny noise, so I went to the living room to look out the front door. As I was walking, the lights went out, my skin started to feel tingly, and it started to feel really warm in the house. I opened the door, looked out, and everything looked blurry and it seemed like the clouds were right on the roofs of the houses. I've never heard a sound like that-like a siren/wind/howl, and all that popped in my head was *tornado*. It felt like my stomach hit my toes and my heart lodged in my throat. I was SO scared and shaky.
I yelled for the kids to get up and get downstairs and we made it downstairs w/Chicken. London asked what that noise was, and I said the sirens. She said no, the other noise, and that was the horrible wind. I've never heard anything like it. I ran back up for JD's police radio so we could hear what was going on. Trees uprooted, power lines down everywhere-the roof of a big building came off, a woman had a tree fall in her house but she managed to hook her oxygen dependent husband up to a generator. The officers were dodging trees falling in the streets. It was crazy.
And this whole time, I'm thinking "Where is my husband?" He was still at work, but did they make him stay? Did he get stuck somewhere trying to get home? After about 30 minutes, I heard the front door crash open and him yelling, so I shined the flashlight upstairs and he ran to the door way, and when he saw we were ok he put his arms out to the sides of the doorway and just slid down to his knees. I about started crying. He said it looked like a war zone outside. The truck kept going sideways b/c of the wind, and he had to backtrack all over to find streets that weren't blocked by trees. One tree uprooted right in front of him and he barely got stopped before it landed on the truck. He ended up driving thru someone's yard to get around it.
That was definitely something I don't want to go thru again. I felt so bad for London-she's old enough to know what was going on, and she said the storm was making her tummy hurt. "My tummy doesn't like this storm".
Anyone else that got hit by this last night, I hope you're all safe and sound!
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