I am a very rational person, definitely a realist. I very rarely lose my self control, during emergencies I can usually be found calming others and helping the best I was trained to do. I keep a cool head…most of the time.
Picture if you will this scene:
Driving down a flooded street (thank you remnants of Faye) trying to keep control of your car, everyone around you clearly losing their minds not knowing how to navigate through the ankle/calf high flash flood water. Suddenly your cell phone is ringing off the hook, but if you take your hands off the wheel it is a guarantee that you will lose control and end up in either the ditch to one side of you or what once was a creek that is now a raging river on the other side of you. So you keep driving and wish you had activated that nifty blutooth gadget. After the 3 solid minute of the ringing, you finally answer it and your panicked mother says this to you- “There is a Doppler tornado heading straight for you, get off the road…NOW!“
Shall we take this into perspective for a moment? These are the exact thoughts in my head when she said that sentence to me.
1. Doppler tornado, that means there is rotation and they can’t tell where the funnel will come down. Awesome!!
1. A) Shit…they can’t tell?!
1. B) OMFG a tornado!!!!
2. I’m no more than 3 minutes from my house, and the dogs are in the back…I have to get them somewhere safer.
3. I have to call Mim she can NOT be on the interstate right now. (this is where the cell was projected to cross over)
So I call Mim, telling her to stay put at work until it passes. And she tells me “But I’m at home.” You never really know fear for another person until you hear a good friend of yours make that statement. She lives on the 3rd floor…and that particular storm with all of that lovely rotation that no one knows if it will or where it will drop a funnel is heading directly for her. So what would you do? I handled the situation with screaming at her to get somewhere safe, yeah not so cool and collected at that point. The logical place? My house.
She doesn’t live far from me and I didn’t want to be alone no more than she did if this really did happen.
So as I waited for her to arrive, I scrambled to get the comforters and pillows into the hall way. Slamming doors to the bedrooms and bathroom, hustling animals into the front part of the house, and finally closing the french doors and immediately started to pray.
I walked out onto the front porch and stared at the sky, everything was still. It wasn’t raining anymore there wasn’t any thunder or hail. Just quiet.
And then I saw the twisting, the sky was literally swirling inside of itself. I’ve never seen anything like it before, and it made me sick.
Not even a few seconds later Mim walked through the door, and the news channel announced the cell had dissipated and the warning was no longer an issue.
The fuss was over nothing, though three tornadoes touched down in counties all around us. And one unconfirmed in the lower part of our county. The “Bubble” had held up and kept us relatively safe again.
And I’m so thankful for it.
Much Love,
K
Song of the Day:
Just for you Mim. Lol. Just because we were talking about it last night.
