When the tornado sirens blow, the GG goes OUTSIDE!
Jebus frickin’ aitch Mackinac kee-reist! THAT WAS A BIG COUPLE O’ THUNDERBOLTS! THOR! Shut down yer dern bowling alley!
I had this niiice boring little post planned about the seagulls (two of them) that took up residence on my loverly little Ninja ALL afternoon. Yes, my cute little vee-hickle is now covered with bird crap. At least it was before this storm happened. That might be the least of my problems now…
When I left the office today, there were severe storm watches and warnings and even a tornado watch (or warning?) for some areas. The sky looked a little iffy and I sort of hemmed and hawed about whether I should take the I94 18-Wheel Clogway or surface roads. If there *was* severe weather on the way, I did NOT wanna be on the freeway. But everything seemed okay so I did take the freeway and I made it home with maybe 20 minutes to spare. Thank you god that the left turn signal from Jackson onto N. Maple was letting more than 5-6 vee-hickles through at a time. So…
I futzed around at the Landfill for a while and then the GG texted me. “ACK”. Wellll… “ACK what?” He wanted to know whether the Landfill was being hit by a tornado. Well, not so much. Actually it didn’t look bad at that point. It looked like the worst of it was going north of us and although we were getting hail, it was this kind of piddly stuff that didn’t make a clinking sound when it hit the ground or the roof or the car…
The GG has never been one to shy away from a good thunderstorm so he drove home during the storm and then things got really bad, which meant that he went *outside* to check things out. I was never really concerned about a tornado here because it never “felt” like we were gonna get one to me. I *was* concerned about lightning.
You’ve heard of golfball-sized hail? I have *never* seen that before this evening. I am afraid to go out and look at our little fleet of vee-hickles at this point…
Disclaimer: Okay. We were under a tornado warning tonight here and we had a pretty big storm. One house north of Dexter was hit but everyone is apparently okay and I am happy about that. Here at the Landfill, there wasn’t one single moment that I felt like I had to go down to the Landfill Dungeon. We get tornadoes around here sometimes but they are usually the small F1 type that might destroy a garage or a roof or something. I have been in one real tornado in my life (in the POC). It was scary as hell but it did not wipe out a whole town (or even the POC). I cannot even imagine being in the path of a big F5 tornado and my heart goes out to all of the people who have experienced those. I cannot even imagine hanging out in a bathtub or closet holding onto all of my children with all of the strength that I have, waiting for a huge tornado to blow through and hoping it won’t rip my children out of my arms…
March 15th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
I can’t imagine that size hail either. Hope the cars are OK!! We are having a strange run of cold and very rainy weather. (or even snowy) We want the unseasonably warm weather on the East Coast, thank you very much! 😉
March 15th, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Colorado had golf-ball sized hail with some regularity, and Carl remembers a soft-ball sized hail. (They were widely spaced, but did manage to kill at least one person) Back to the golf-balls. I was driving through one of those, with no place to hide, and had the dimple dents in my little brown Honda to prove it. That was when the car was pretty new, and they stayed with me the full 20 years that I had that car.