Create an emergency preparedness plan.
I love weather. If I could go back in time, I’d become a meteorologist. Alas, I digress.
To give you a little prospective, I live 2.5 miles from town and a 5 minute walk from a double set of train tracks. Everyone says a tornado sounds like a train. Is it a tornado or a train? 🤔 I’m pretty much doomed if a tornado does strike my neighborhood.
Sometimes the trains travel so fast, they can vibrate my bed. Not like one of those jiggle you for a quarter hotel beds. But enough for you to notice. There have been several nights that this has happened. I wake up, listen, say ‘it’s a train’ and fall right back to sleep.
King Kong was on t.v. There is all kinds of noise in this movie. But above the noise from the movie, there is a whistling sound. It was steady. It reminded me of air escaping from a tire. After a few minutes of the movie, I realize this sound is not part of the action.
After pausing the movie, that noise still remained. Not too loud. Just enough to know something isn’t right. I have no clue what this sound could be. It’s time for – investigation mode.
I’ve never been a big ‘Henny Penny the sky’s falling’ type person. It would be amazing to have a breakfast room and just watch the weather.
Outside, there was a storm coming. Dark clouds, wind. No rain at this point and that sound. No train on the tracks. Still that sound.
Then it hits me like a limb fall from a tree. It’s our towns air raid sirens.
A tornado didn’t hit us that day. Praise God.
Sadly, I’ve never been prepared for a massive weather event.
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Tornadoes are one of the reasons why I moved away from The South. They frighten me beyond all reason.
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They are truly a force of nature.
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I am afraid of wildfires. Yet, I love my place. Fortunately I don’t live in the middle of a forest. I go to the woods when it rains enough to feel good.
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There are so many concerns to take into consideration: the fire itself, smoke or the roads getting blocked to where you’re trapped. I’m glad you live in a place where wildfires aren’t a major threat.
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There are, but this year California received a lot of rain, so we had a smoke free Summer so far.
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That’s wonderful that you’ve had a smoke free summer.
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2023 is the other side of the medal:
– California had rain / NewYork had smoke ( my eldest’s city)
– and now a hurricane on the West Coast
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I saw the news reports about the hurricane. Forecast models saying that areas of CA could get a years worth of rain from this storm; I’m sure that makes folks concerned about flooding and mudslides. 🙏🏻 Forecast models have been wrong before.
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Not being on the road and stay safe indoors is a priority now. A daughter of a friend waited for her cat to come home before leaving her place in a flood zone. Both girl and cat are now safely indoors uphill.
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Amen
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