...tornadoes like this one last night in the county next to mine....
...that do things like this...
...and this...
The storm passed right over my building and went right down my street toward the downtown area. The wind was howling so loud (no train sound, though) that I could still hear it through the walls and closed door of my bathroom (as I was sitting in the tub, my "safe zone"). The sirens went off and I freaked out, basically. The radio and TV announcers were telling everyone to take shelter immediately. We had golf ball-sized hail fall on the university; luckily, there was no damage to my building or my car. Being a WV girl, where natural disasters like this don't happen, it was really scary to go through this for the first time. As the locals tell me, it only gets worse in the spring-- particularly May and June. Peachy. So far, this is the only real down-side to living where I do. I love this area in all other aspects but, tornadoes are a tough pill to swallow. One guy in my first-year cohort is from Kansas. He told me today that he was actually walking around outside to see "how big it was" and only went back inside when he determined that it wasn't worth worrying about. Sheesh, and here I was huddled on my bathmat with a flashlight, radio and cell phone waiting for the Apocalypse! Silly me. It wasn't so bad in my county but, in the next county to the north something like 30 people were killed. They said on the local news that it was the highest human loss in one night from a tornado since the 1930s. It's scary to experience that, even with all the comforts and protections of modern technology, we as humans are still so small in comparison to the forces of nature. It's a lesson I'm sure not to forget any time soon. Here are video and photos of yesterday's tornado if you're interested--->
CNN I-Report
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