I almost got swept off my feet by a tall dark whirling wind of death! Huzzah!

[stoopbeck]

So, apparently, a tornado passed right over our house today. I wasn't too worried about it, because I was too busy being unconscious.

We had some blankets and a yoga mat and stuff set up in the hallway just in case this was the one that got us, and our Emergency Weather Alert!radio has officially gone insane-- it just shrieks at random, and when serious alerts go out ["OMG LIKE GET UNDER COVER NOW OR, LIKE, DIE OR SOMETHING!!!!!1] it's supposed to just make an "alert noise" and then go straight to telling you what the alert is, so you don't, you know, die, but instead it let out this horrific death shriek, and then trailed off horribly, leaving you clueless as to what the death shriek was caused by, unless you pressed the "WEATHER" button.

Mom and I were dead tired [working in the rain'll do that for you] and instead of sitting in the hallway, we just kind of collapsed onto the blankets and cushions and waited to get swept away. We both had air pressure-induced headaches, and we were both ridiculously tired, and the radio was going off every five seconds, and it was a load of fun. Except, totally not.

So then Dad got home, and he found the Mini!Working!Weather!radio, so we both fell asleep again. Which is why, hours and hours later, when I was groggily staggering around the house looking for food, Dad told me I'd slep through a freaking TORNADO going right over our house.

Woo.

Comments

[otakuoverlorde.livejournal.com]

So did it like...touch down, get to your house, think "Well, sh*t, can't run through that," pick up its skirts, and touch down on the other side? *giggle*

*sends pain relief and comfy sleeping areas*

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Apparently.

*snatches pain relief, chugs it down, and clings to comfy sleeping areas*

At some point while I was sleeping on the hallway floor, my brother got sent in to the hallway too. He ended up stealing all the blankets, and all the space in the room, leaving me smashed into the wall with my hip digging into the hardwood floor. He's lucky I didn't smother him while he slept.

[otakuoverlorde.livejournal.com]

You should have thrown him out of the house to distract the tornado while you stole back the blankets.

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

Tornado: Hey look, a blanket-stealing kid! *gobbles*

Alex: Mmmm, blankets. *snuggles*

[otakuoverlorde.livejournal.com]

Precisely.

[thelasttoknow03.livejournal.com]

OMG, you're joking right? Because if it passed over your house, then that means it practically passed over my house too and how did I now know this Gahhhh!!

But wait, what time was it? Maybe I was already at work, safe and sound...

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Not joking. Seriously.

Let's see. The last actual time I remember was around 2:15 or 2:30, and I didn't really wake up again until about 6:30, so sometime in there. Probably closer to 3 or 4, though.

[thelasttoknow03.livejournal.com]

Gaah.

About 3:00, WSFA reported that a tornado had been spotted along I65 around the Autauga/Elmore border...so we freaked out a little about that...but they said it was around Pine Level so we didn't worry too much after that. I guess we should have worried a bit more.

Oh well. ;]

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

Hey, all's well that ends well, right? And considering neither of us got blown away, I'm going to put that in the "well" category. :D

[roadrunner1896.livejournal.com]

But it is good youd didn't get blown away. But you must have been really tired. Those things are usually pretty loud. *huggles*

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

I was extremely tired. I probably wouldn't have woken up even if our house had blown away. Heh.

[skroberts]

When tornadoes are near when I'm asleep, I always think, "Well, if it's my time, it's my time" and keep on sleeping. Ah, well...

*clings to you*