June 11, 2009
Mia on Storms
We are having stormy weather in the Dallas area. Last night we had high winds, and several tornadoes were sighted.
Just before the storms hit, Mia was sitting with our next-door neighbors on their front porch, as she often does. They are lovely people, and Mia adores them. Our neighbor, Susan, asked Mia what she should do if she heard a tornado siren. She emailed me with Mia’s response:
“We usually go in our bathroom. But you have a lot of windows, soooooo, you’re probably not going to make it.”
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mighty Thor continues to throw his thunderous hammer!
Yeah, it’s bad. The electricity has been off all morning at home, and I’m still soaked from this morning’s drive in (I had to wade to my car!) Mia wanted to take her miner’s head lamp with her to cooking school “just in case,” but we persuaded her against it. That girl likes to be prepared.
Mia’s miner’s head lamp.
did y’all sleep well?
normally thunderboomers don’t keep me up much, but lord a mercy, last night was a racket!
Mia is scared to death of thunderstorms (and all dramatic weather), so I slept with her. Meaning that I hardly slept at all.
Every time I talk about a place I’d like to visit, Mia asks if it has tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes, or floods. I lied to her a couple of years ago and told her that, if she wore rubber shoes, she couldn’t be struck by lightning. I mean, it’s not a whopping lie–rubber does help–but she took it to heart and to this day insists on wearing crocs in the rain, considering herself to be lightning-proof.
my youngest nephew has the same concerns.
Get him some crocs.
I love thunder storms. That’s probably because they’re a bit a novelty in these parts. We had a good one last week.
Alicia feels differently. She spent many summers in Missouri as a child and equates lightening with danger. Whenever we experience a storm she wants to unplug all of our electronics (something about exploding TVs).
We spent part of our honeymoon in Squaw Valley. One night a big thunderstorm rolled through the valley and the noise seemed to echo off the mountain walls. It was the loudest thunder I’d ever heard. Each clap would startle you and seem to roll on forever.
I am happy with all manner of dramatic weather except dust storms. I had my fill of dust storms growing up in El Paso, and they are just horrible. I remember the feeling of thinking I would suffocate before I got inside.
And I love rain in any form–probably because I grew up experiencing only 2-3 inches per year. I could very happily live in the Northwest.
Michael, I’m with you. I love ‘em but then we rarely get them – I crave dramatic weather. I know if we were subect to it each year I may not be quite as keen!
I remember a fewq years back I was holidaying in the Dordogne region of France when during a hellish thunder storm I was looking out the door and a telegraph post was struck by lightening and burst into flames. Bloody wonderful!
I too love thunderstorms, but what have rolled through in the past twelve hours have felt apocalyptic.
I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said the summer thunderstorms are enough reason for me to move to those mountains in Colorado where some of my parents live.
I like extreme weather better if I’m in another city driving a rent car.
I’m with Mia and Alicia–thunderstorms scare me witless. (You can insert your comments about my witlessness here: ) If it hadn’t already started by the time I moved into my first RV, that certainly cemented it. RVs are very much in contact with the weather. You don’t sleep through a hard rain when it’s pounding on a wood-and-rubber roof.
That is not a Smiley Face after “witlessness here”: I put in a colon and empty space for you, and CF formatting removed it.