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Tornadoes all around. Keep me in your prayers!
There are tornadoes on the ground close around. I've had pea sized hail at my house. This is going to be a long night. More is on the way. There are
no sirens out here in the country, and I'm depending on the TV to keep me informed. Power is out in some areas, I hope I keep power tonight.
I'm getting off the computer so I can shut it down.
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Hope you stay safe Nancy. Good luck.
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Positive thoughts for safety for you and everyone in the area. That's scary stuff.
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Be safe, Nancy. I hate tornadoes with a passion.
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When calm returns, let us all know you made it out of the storm, Nancy.
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I remember those all too well from when we lived in Oklahoma and Texas. I'll be praying for you and all of those in the area, Nancy. Stay safe!
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Stay safe Nancy!!
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Stay safe, Nancy. We've been in a system too, maybe it's from the same one. We had hail and high winds (60mph) earlier. Now it's just a steady heavy
rain and the kitchen ceiling is leaking again.
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Stay safe Nancy. The storm coming in from Missouri and you should hit here in about an hour. The tornado watch is already up.
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Quote: Originally posted by moonshadow68  | | Stay safe Nancy. The storm coming in from Missouri and you should hit here in about an hour. The tornado watch is already up.
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Just in time for bed. Don't you just hate that?
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Everybody in the track of these systems is in my thoughts and prayers... Looks like it might last a while... sending out positive energy to feed on
the negative ions!
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There is no storm...
There is no storm...
There is no storm...
Ned
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Prayers for you and everyone in the path of the storm.
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Hunker down Nancy, I know how you feel. I live in hurricane country.
Don't let fear and common sense stand in your way.
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Nancy G.
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Whew! All OK at my house. I'm not much of a woos about tornadoes, but with one on the ground east of me and another moving toward me from the SW and
the TV weatherman saying "if you live in this area take cover immediately" it gets a little scarey. Living out in the country there are no alarm
sirens to warn you. The one they were warning about was next seen just north of where I live moving NE, so I went to bed. Yes, Cyndee, I hate it at
bed time. The only place I can think of to get to be somewhat safe is the bathtub in the bathroom in the center of the house, so I put my purse, cell
phone, flashlight and medicine in there, just in case I had to jump in there in a hurry and and house blew away. I've been too close too many
times.
All's well---until next time.
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Glad you made it through the night, Nancy. We live close enough to town to hear the storm sirens if they go off, but the couple times this region has
been hit by really bad storms, the sirens are usually on after the fact.
When we lived in Carbondale, we lived on a hill and the city has never been hit by a tornado. That house had a basement.
The property we live on now was hit by a killer tornado in 1982 (killed 10 people while it was on the ground) and is out on a big flat stretch of
prairie. Like Nancy, my tornado shelter here is a bathtub in an inner room (pretty much dead center of the house).
We've got storm warnings out for the day here, but the radar looks clear for now...so I think it's just going to rain...I hope.
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Whew, I'm glad to hear you're safe, Nancy. I'll continue to pray for all those in the path of the storms.
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Glad you made it okay!
We have sirens, but you never hear them over the storms. I think we are a little too far away. One ot the reasons I picked this house, it was over one
hundred when we bought it. I figured, it made it through a hundred years and nothing took it down that long. 126 and counting now, lol.
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That's pretty cool! One hopes there have been upgrades made to the house since the 1880s... 
Ned
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It's good to see you in good shape and not awakening in Kansas... I'm very glad you are alright, Nancy.
"Two things are infinite; The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
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I came to this forum worrying and wondering how you were Nancy. I'm glad that you weren't sucked away like Dorothy. My wife was on chemo and too weak
to evacuate from hurricane Rita which made a direst hit here. It got real sporty about 03:00 AM. We lost power at 8:30 PM and around 3:00 AM trees
began plowing through our house. Rain was pouring in and I had a little transistor radio. One station in Houston was still on the air and I got
through to Mamacita.
I told her that we had lost power at 8:30 and wanted to know if the ye had passed yet? She asked me "Where are you?
I said "Lumberton."
She said "Good God, what are you doing there?"
I said "Sitting here with a very scaird dog sitting on my lap, rain is flooding the house, the roof is gone."
She said "Hunker down baby, the eye is coming your way."
Not what I wanted to hear at the time, but we lived. I'm glad that you are OK, we both are too old to be sleeping in a bathtub... no offense.
Don't let fear and common sense stand in your way.
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Yikes- I haven't lived where there were tornadoes, and think I don't want to! Glad you are ok.
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Nancy G.
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This is nothing new. The first nearby tornado I remember was when I was 5 years old--in Oklahoma City.
Thanks for all the good thoughts, people. I'll keep them gathered around me for the next storm.
One person was killed in this one when their house blew away, but not near me.
[Edited on 3/12/2010 by Nancy G.]
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I was born about three miles away from a tornado touchdown in Ohio. They evacuated my in-labor mom to the basement of the hospital. I remember going
to the downstairs basement during tornado warnings/watches as a kid. I had to shove half behind the toilet because I was the smallest.
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Thomas Forthe (Tom)
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Tornado drills in school when I was a kid in Illinois was such fun, but I guess it is necessary in places. Here we have no basement because of the
water level so it's the bathroom four all humans, dogs, and cats if it comes to that.
"Two things are infinite; The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
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Nancy G.
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I remember when I was 7 years old and had my tonsils out. It had been scheduled for some time, and then a tornado hit OK City. There were no rooms in
the hospital to be had, and I remember that beds were lining the halls of the hospital. My mother was a registered nurse, so the doctor had her bring
me in, they did the operation, and then they took me right home instead of keeping me for a day as planned.
My oldest 2 daughters remember when we lived in Mississippi and had a tornado busy year. We lived in a house where the kitchen pantry was under the
stairs going to the second floor. On bad nights they made a pallet on the floor of the pantry and slept in there.
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Is anyone old enough to remember the nuclear war drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis? "Duck and Cover", they had us lay down and lace our fingers
behind our necks. Little did they know we would still be vaporized, or they at least acted like we wouldn't.
Don't let fear and common sense stand in your way.
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I remember bomb drills long before the Cuban crisis. OK City being close to Tinker AFB we were told we would be a target for an A bomb. We got under
the desks (as best we could) and covered our heads with our arms and the back of our neck with our hands. Yeah, I remember thinking at the time we
would just be blown up, but Tinker was far enough away they told us we were protecting our heads from radiation. Yeah, right!
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Where in Michigan are you? When I was little (lived in Union Lake at the time), we had tornado drills all the time and I think I was about six when a
tornado hit the Walled Lake drive-in, about 4 miles from our house.
I think the years I lived in Colorado were the only time I was out of tornado alley. Now, we live in Williamson County, Illinois, which is a tornado
alley within tornado alley (more prone to storm development than even other aprts of the region). You get really good at reading the sky and knowing
when it might be a real problem.
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Thomas Forthe (Tom)
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We had all those wonderful monotone narrated films on how thick the materials needed to be to survive the fallout, and what you needed to hoard in
your shelter to live until you could go outside again... only to starve because they forgot to tell us all the truth about nuclear war.
"Two things are infinite; The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe."
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