Here’s my new pet peeve: hearing the news copters overhead and having no way to watch the news.
So we decided to get out of bed after four hours of sleep. Ten houses away: that house has no exterior walls left. I think all that’s left is the bathroom. It’s some tiny room. The house nine houses away looks like the weather event tried to suck the laundry room out of the side of the house.
I say “weather event” because I haven’t heard officially if there was a tornado. If there was I want you all to know this story of tornadoes sounding like a train is pure bullshit. I heard no train.
I’m out in the car because there is still no power. The national news talked about Oklahoma, of course, as they should, because if a tornado hits your house a week after a tornado hits your house, that’s news.
Fox and channel four are a block away. We talked to a neighbor and he said his insurance agent was out at his house at ten last night.
The local news says we had “severe weather.” I was very confused looking at the house twelve houses away, trying to figure out how someones bathroom got on top of their house and I realized they used to have a two story house.
Sobering. And I feel powerless, literally, because there is still no power. And incredibly lucky.
8 responses to “Aftermath”
Wait until the generators start. Then you’ll be sick of hearing them and they’ll go on longer than the news copters.
Glad you and Gary weathered the event.
Glad you’re okay!
Becs – friend three lives nearby and says power came on last night when I was flying to QC
suburban correspondent – not as glad as I am.
I share your pet peeve. We weren’t home at the time to experience it, but several people said they heard whistling. Many said their ears popped. We finally learned that it was an F3 tornado that travelled about 22 miles but hit our area – and specifically your neighborhood – the hardest. We, too, were 2 blocks away from severe damage. My sister was 1 house away. Over 100 homes in the county have been deemed uninhabitable. Alas, million dollar homes on golf courses are no match for Mother Nature any more than $150,000-$200,000 homes. The last person I knew without power got it back at about 7:00 pm Sunday. Despite all the damage, people here are amazingly optimistic and grateful. I now hear birds chirping through my windows that are open because it’s in the 60s. No generators. No helicoptors.
Caroline – I would never have known a tornado was coming. Luckily channel four showed that hook headed for the weather station by our house. We must have been in the basement when the tree went down. And the tree frogs completely lost their minds. The birds were quiet. One thing I saw at the bottom of the street was a dead bird that seemed to have fallen out of the sky.
I finally found some photos and video of your area. Wow! You were lucky. BTW – where did you fly from?
I had an experience like that in Seattle (yes!) Huge hurricane-type storm that I actually slept through that knocked out power for four days where I was staying and uprooted hundreds of trees.
Silk – I KNOW. Every day Gary and I remind each other we got off lucky. (And since the Internet isn’t private, I lied about the number of houses.)
Hattie – I probably should buy one of those devices that will wake you up if there’s a weather alert.