Tornado

[rain_gryphon]

I do believe we just got missed by a tornado. I'm okay, and no obvious damage, but for a minute the rain was completely horizonal, then reversed direction, and now it's almost calm again. Now, ten minutes afterward, the sun is out.

I went outside, ready to go to ground if I had to*, and got soaked. I came back inside, considerably shaken, and wrapped my cold wet self in Chris' dolphin blanket.


*It's probably a commentary on the times we live in that I grabbed my billfold, my cellphone, my keys, and my tablet.

Comments

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

I was caught at a small, rural amusement park in a near-tornado situation once. It was one of the top few frightening moments of my life. Nothing compares to the eeriness and feeling of imminent disaster.

I'm glad it passed you by.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

'Eerie' nails it, really. The wind and rain were doing things you don't normally see, plus there's the pressing awareness that everything around you may cease to exist in the next few minutes.

[rapidtrabbit.livejournal.com]

Indeed you did....the OH! Pawpets! Show is on the air tonight (filling in for Funday) and they were standing by to cut the show short in case they had to take cover.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

Apparently there was a funnel cloud no more than a hundred yards or so to the north, although I didn't see it, and it didn't touch down. Some of the people in Polaris (a huge shopping district just north of us) saw it go by to the south. The rain here was too heavy to have seen it.

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're okay.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

As am I. Tornadoes are terrifying.

[loganberrybunny.livejournal.com]

I'd say "I can imagine", but I can't, really. I think it's the weather phenomenon I'm most glad we don't have (on the same scale) in the UK.

[xolo.livejournal.com]

They are the gold standard of destruction. For anyone who grew up in the midwest, "It looked like a tornado hit it" is how one describes something that has been torn to pieces, and then each of the pieces smashed and splintered.

[pyesetz]

Good selection of items to grab!  Does the tablet have wi-fi or its own cellular link or some already-downloaded content to play with while waiting for the storm to pass?

[xolo.livejournal.com]

It's one of the Samsung 10" tablets. It's got wifi, and quite a bit of locally-saved content (mainly books, along with a few My Little Pony episodes and some old broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500 - I'm old enough that there is considerable novelty and delight for me in being able to carry around a library in a device that takes up about as much space as a smallish magazine). Grabbing that was more about having a working internet-connectable computer while I squatted amidst the rubble than about waiting out the storm, though. Tornadoes are over in a few minutes.