sunshine0221's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I Almost Got Killed by a Tornado Last Night I Almost Got Killed By a Tornado Last Night Yesterday the Mom and I went shopping in Iowa City. Clearly I need to train more for shopping, perhaps with a few Shopping 100 Yard Dashes, or maybe a Shopping Marathon or two, because by the end of the day, I was wiped out, and barely had the energy to lift my arm to swipe my credit card. I purchased some snazzy pants, a whole bunch of books, and the Mom got a very nice lavender handbag that looked like Chanel and Marc Jacobs got together and had a purse baby. We were all excited that this amazing handbag find was only $10 at the consignment store, until the Mom checked the inside label, and it said “Payless”. Hee! At least we know where to look for the matching wallet. We arrived home around 9:45, just in time to hear the tornado siren going off. We get a zillion Tornado Watches, but a real live Tornado Warning, accompanied by the tornado siren, is more of a rare occurrence. I turned on the TV, and the weatherman was saying to take cover immediately, wear a helmet (!)if possible, go to a basement or inside room, and basically kiss your ass goodbye. The Mom did not want to go to the basement, and I did not push the issue because it is creepy and has enormous spiders. I don’t have any rooms without windows in my house, so I herded the Mom and Spike into her bathroom, and tried to catch Teeny. Who was not at all interested in being caught. I finally got him into the bathroom, and then Spike got out. When I finally had all available parental units and cats in the bathroom, I realized that my TiVo was still plugged in, so I bravely ran over to my house to save my TiVo from being attacked by a tornado-induced power surge. That’s right, I risked my life to save my TiVo. And I would do it again. So there we were, two hungry cats thinking I was weird for locking them in a bathroom, the Mom in the bathtub, and me on the throne with a bathrobe wrapped around my head (I don’t own a helmet). There was some wicked sounding hail and a bunch of rain and thunder. And the weatherman went from, “Oh My God, you are all going to die”, to “Now back to our regularly scheduled programming” without saying that it was ALL OKAY NOW. We waited until the warning expired, and then I freed everyone from the bathroom. And I was very lucky, the only “tornado” damage was an extremely squished tomato plant. 9:59 p.m. - June 05, 2005 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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