There was a tornado warning.

[conuly]

I grabbed my kindle and Finn, ran down the stairs, grabbed Moonpie and the kids, headed to the basement. The warning was specifically for the North Shore, yikes, so I didn't make a trip up to rescue the cats, but happily, there was no tornado.

Once the warning cleared... there was another warning. I had no sooner gotten up to the landing when we all headed back down again. Poor Moonpie was panting, she was so scared :(

But again, no tornado, so we're all fine. Honestly, I knew something was up when I walked outside an hour earlier - I kept walking first through weirdly warm and muggy patches of air, then through weirdly cold and clammy patches of air.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Muggy+clammy is... yeah, that's weird and creepy and I might've just stayed in the basement for some time. *shiver*

[conuly]

...my kindle was running out of battery.

[spikethemuffin]

I laughed out loud. Because that's EXACTLY something I would do/ say.

[archangelbeth]

Now, see, this is why basements need power outlets! O:>

[conuly]

Oh, it has plenty!

I just left the charger upstairs.

[archangelbeth]

Ah, well, that's true: you would have had to at least go up and grab that.

[spikethemuffin]

Glad you're okay! Tornado warnings are the American haiku... nature expressing mood, panicked disruptive nothings until they're not.

[conuly]

I don't think a tornado actually formed around here, but the storm was super violent, and lots of the Island got hail.

[spikethemuffin]

Sounds like telling people to stay in was a good thing, then. Except for that one guy in shorts. There is always that one guy in shorts, standing around outside when the weather is not fit for man nor beast.

[conuly]

Fuck that guy.

[kengr]

No thanks. Sort of like a parent going "don't put that in your mouth, you don't know where its been" only more so.

[conuly]

He's got some great survival skills, though, maybe they're heritable?

[spikethemuffin]

Yup. He's never around when it's lovely out. I doubt his stated motivations.

[gwydion]

I'm glad you're all right.

[siderea]

Whoa. Glad everyone is okay!

[baronessekat]

glad you are safe.

I spent a good chunk of last night watching the weather channel and FB to keep an eye for friends in the HUGE sections of tornado warnings.

[readerjane]

Glad everyone's okay!

[oracne]

Eep!

[nanslice]

Oh no! I'm so glad there weren't any tornadoes!

[malkingrey]

And this is why I like living in far northern New Hampshire. At least with blizzards you get time to prepare. I spent my adolescence in Texas, down at the southmost end of Tornado Alley, and I do not miss that kind of weather At All. There's something so very finger-of-an-angry-God about a tornado; it's no wonder the region tends to produce apocalyptic religious types.

(But I remember that weird waiting feeling in the air, and the sky turning that lowering greenish-grey under the clouds, and the flat echo-less quality to all the noises. Like I said, not missed.)

[redsixwing]

Yikes! Glad you're okay.

[delight]

I fell asleep with a migraine at about 5pm, ahving been sent home fromw ork early.

1. Now I know why I had the migraine.
2. I SLEPT THROUGH A TORNADO WARNING?
3. ... your post is how I learned about it???

Having confirmed with The Googles, yes, that is exactly what happened. I hope you and my colleagues in Staten Island braved your even more locally specific warnings well!

[konsectatrix]

If it makes you feel any better, I tend to sleep through tornado warnings as well (also the actual tornado, apparently, if we're counting the small one that touched down about a mile and a half away or so).

I enjoy storms, but the level of atmospheric conditions that come with tornados and hurricanes make me freakin' miserable for hours (or days, if we're talking Sandy) beforehand.

[konsectatrix]

Glad you're safe. :)

[agoodwinsmith]

Glad neither of them were there, and that you were able to get to your safe place in speedy time. Spooky outside, though.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Tornado warnings in Staten Island, wow - that's new! Glad you didn't have an actual tornado!