Friday, April 21, 2006

Spring Showers???

Exercise:
6mph-7.5mph, 60 minutes, 0-2 incline=7.04 miles

The worst storm this year, so far, hit last night. Scared the bejeezus out of my family and myself. It's 7pm. I'm settling down with Lauren. Time for her to go to bed. I do my nightly routine...I grab a Diet Cherry Pepsi, pop a bag of popcorn, turn on the TV to whatever is on that night that I usually watch (Will and Grace, it happened to be), then sit on my bed with Lauren and progress to breast feeding her until she dozes off. At that same time, the wind picks up. You can hear thunder in the distance and rain starts to pelt the roof. Then, lightening starts getting closer and the rain no longer sounds nice. Next thing you know.....BOOM! The wind starts to howl, the rain turns to small pellets of ice, then increases in size as the storm wages war on your house. Then...BZZZZ! The cable goes out. No TV. We have no clue if the storm goes from a Severe Thunderstorm Warning to a Tornado Warning. Dang! The boys become frantic. "What do we do? What do we do?" Bobby gets the boys away from the windows. The wind is battering them with the golfball size hail. We can literally feel the house move! It was a strange feeling. Then we all run to the shower stall in our bathroom. And wait. Then 15 minutes later, the hail is gone but the wind is still strong and the rain isn't light by any imagination. Bobby's Jeep's alarm went off...so he goes out to check on both vehicles. Debris everywhere. Lots of leaves, branches, twigs, pieces of other people's houses...strewn all over the ground. Our house made it...by the skin of its teeth. The vehicles made it to. No broken windows or dents that Bobby could tell at the time. Very scary indeed! What a way to end that day....................

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