I’m snuggled into a bean bag chair with Faith in our very cluttered storage room in the basement. We have lived here 8 1/2 years. In that time, the tornado sirens have gone off four times. One time was last Wednesday and two times were tonight.
A half hour before the sirens went off we told the kids to gather their pets and beloved items and head for the basement to play. Once they called the warning, we all went to the interior room. In our walk-out basement the only room without windows is the storage room where we also have the furnace, water heater and deep freezer. It is not scenic or comfortable. The cats are both shoved into the single cat carrier. They are not comfortable either.
A half hour before the sirens went off we told the kids to gather their pets and beloved items and head for the basement to play. Once they called the warning, we all went to the interior room. In our walk-out basement the only room without windows is the storage room where we also have the furnace, water heater and deep freezer. It is not scenic or comfortable. The cats are both shoved into the single cat carrier. They are not comfortable either.
Both girls have suddenly discovered that they had to pee so Rich has had to accompany them to the bathroom. To top it all off, Hayden keeps farting. Nasty, smelly, farting. He’s not my favorite right this minute. Why the poodle has not abandoned her spot next to him, I do not know.
Rich is disgruntled at the whole scenario. Given his choice, he would be standing in the driveway with binoculars but every time he leaves the room, the kids and I whimper and make him come back. He grew up in tornado country and is very blase about the whole thing. However, the man on the radio is talking about funnel clouds hanging over the city so my panic overrides his calm, because the science is on my side this time. He did get away long enough to take the picture at the top of the river that has appeared in our backyard. I had to way over-expose it to be able to see anything because it’s so dark out. Oops. Hold on a minute.
Yeah, so this hole behind me that would have a sump pump in it if we had one, is filling with water. It hasn’t ever done that before. How . . . . interesting? I’m going to go deal with that. I’ll update tomorrow and let you know how it turned out.
Yeah, so this hole behind me that would have a sump pump in it if we had one, is filling with water. It hasn’t ever done that before. How . . . . interesting? I’m going to go deal with that. I’ll update tomorrow and let you know how it turned out.
Thursday morning:
After two hours in the storage room, I threatened to send Hayden down the stream that was flowing behind our house. That was the worst of it though and we’re feeling pretty fortunate about that this morning.
in our general area, but my neighbor and I walked the neighborhood this morning and only saw two trees down. No tornadoes touched down in our town and while I’m sure that there are many wet basements and impassable streets due to flooding, it appears that no one was hurt. As for our basement - we sucked the water out of the sump pump hole with the shop-vac and all was well.
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