a thunderstorm?

the hurricane...Ike

we live in tornado alley anyway...and Ike is supposed to spin off a few..

oh!

hold onto your hat... if you have one

well I'm over the LHC bigblackholemaker thingie...so we should be fine

storms...

them too, but has never met a tornado personally.

met one...as in #1

it treated you with respect.

quite an experience I must admit

tell me more.

absolutely not...about 28 or 29 yrs ago

raised our roof ..literally

to know what happened.

Ok

I'll try in this short space to tell you the story

*settles down comfortably*

All five of our children were out playing ball withall of their friends

I had just returned home from work

after picking up baby Pam at granma's house

Hubby worked night shift

it was a very hot and still day

the sky turned a funny yellow color...and the air seemed to suck in

I ran out the back door calling to my kids

to come in..come in!! there is gonna be a storm!

they all were looking up over our house with their mouths open...I didn't know they had already seen a tornado...

our house was kind of down a hill and you could see the horizon behind it

the rest of the kids were too far away from their homes to run for it..

so the whole bunch came runnin into our house.

I gathered about ten kids into a hallway in the center of the house..my stepson and I dragged my kingsize mattress over the kids

we stuck Pam (the Baby) under the mattress with all the kids..then we went all around the house throwing windows open...so the house would

not explode...you could see the windows breathing..back and forth..in and out...oooh

it was wierd

any way I tried to make it back to the pile of kids under the mattress..but we didn't

so we ran in the kids bathroom and lay down ib the bathtub...it was scary...

well out of all that...we lost about half of the roof of our house...a pit bull dog, named Penny and her doghouse...

never found either one of them...the dog or the doghouse

everybody was safe though and had a wild story to tell.about the day the tornado hit the melton house...

the end

wow! What a story!

intrigued about the windows.

crazy..hu?

if we had a tornado here, nobody would have a clue what to do.

well done for dealing with it all so well and in good time!

are you due some thunder and lightning now, or high winds only?

I have had that drilled into me since a kid...get to the center of the house..furthest from all the windows..open the windows..cover

no...tomorrow eve probably 60 to 70 mph wind gusts

rain

possible hail & tornadoes

drilled on earthquakes, growing up in Greece.

Oh yeah...I swear snailrind...sometimes I think

my life is a drama

have you been in a big one?

you won't have to unplug the computer, then, presumably.

only been in small ones that knock over ladders and break the odd ornament.

yes I will tomorrow night...Ive had the life sucked out of one before!

eek! Plurklessness!

do you remember the 7.1 earthquake in northern CA in 1989?

you have a comfortable mattress to hide under.

I know...I'll do my PA chant...

I don't hide anymore..all my kids are grown

just been looking at Hurricane Ike online. Yikes!

you'll be right in its path!

aren't you being made to evacuate?

hmm, 100 mph winds... not so bad, I guess... We get tj

We get those here

you're outsde of the danger zone.

so!

the uk on average gets five to six tornado's a year but very few hit town areas most touch down just off the coast

American houses don't seem as sturdy as UK ones. Most of them appear to be made of wood.

Pochi lieks can has hidez in tha doovay.

bravez.

Mononoke is a very brave kitty...

lol!