Well, that was exciting

[ksmith]

Nothing like huddling in the hallway listening to the tornado siren with a large dog who barks and howls when he hears sirens.

Comments

[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

Nothing GOOD about that, I'd think. Glad you're OK now.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

The skies are still all churny, and it rained like Whoa. King is trying to figure out a way to crawl onto my lap without my noticing. Mickey hunkered down in a back bedroom, but King had to Be With Me At All Times. I don't know which one was smarter.

My ears are popping a little. We had some pressure drop.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

We can assume it missed you? Since you're on-line and all?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

The tornado touched down 15 or so miles south, and headed due east. I don't know if it edged north a little or not--my town's siren cut off after a couple of minutes, but I am pretty sure I could hear the siren in the town south of me for about 5-10 minutes after that.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Having lived in two tornado zones (Michigan and Georgia), I can get along fine with no further acquaintance. They are rare, but not unknown, in Maine.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Something in Maine's favor when it comes to considering places to retire.

[kateelliott.livejournal.com]

Yiy! Scary!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

That's about what I thought...

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That would have scared the beejebus out of me. :/ So glad you're ok.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I was upset. Because it's weather and it's inevitable and unstoppable and there's nothing you can do but protect yourself as best you can. I strained to hear that telltale train roar over the siren, and figured I was OK as long as it stayed relatively quiet.

According to all I've heard, this particular tornado didn't cause much, if any, damage. Others did.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Believe me, I understand. I spent much of Hurricane Frances huddled on the floor of an interior closet with the cats and a storm radio. Again, I'm very glad you're OK.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Glad you made it through OK, too.

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Phew. I'm glad it missed you. We had a quiet night in DeKalb. The storms seemed to part around us all night.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

We could get more fun tonight--a frontal boundary is drifting down from Wisconsin.

I hate this unsettled weather. The only thing that makes me feel even a little better is that I had the new sump pump and battery back-up installed a few weeks ago.

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we just got new gutters. Isn't home ownership wonderful? :)

It looks like another line of storms is moving through the state-line area. I guess I should be happy that it isn't a snowstorm.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I have gutter covers in the garage that I really need to attach to my gutters. I have a pine tree located about 6-7 feet from my front window, and it can shed enough needles and cones to block up a newly-cleaned gutter in a matter of a day. That's one chore I would like to hold off on until my week's staycation at the end of the month. Hope I can wait that long. I have one of those long-handle things that lets me scoop out a gutter while standing on the ground, but it's not the right sort of thing to handle a blockage.

Can any gutter keep up with rainfall of an inch or two within a very short period of time, even if it's whistle clean? You're funneling a lot of water down a comparatively small aperture--I'd think there'd be some overflow no matter what.

Or maybe not.

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

That's a scary situation -- I'm very glad that the tornado didn't touch down in your neck of the woods and that it didn't cause much damage when it *did* touch down.

You can't die yet, so I'm not worried

[technomage.livejournal.com]

You haven't written me in yet, so I know you'll live forever...

That could be a technique... I'd wait a long time to know you were going to keep producing.

Re: You can't die yet, so I'm not worried

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

That means I can't write you into the wip? But--but--

It's all planned. You'll finally get your tuckerization.

*sigh* I hear thunder. Again.