Tornado Warning!

Late last night we had our first tornado warning of the year. They usually pop up all around us, but we somehow manage to avoid it. My Nana says it has something to do with the river but I don't know. We got home last night and I was all prepared to watch "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and some other shows. But they had all been interrupted by tornado warnings about 200 miles or more away from the metro area. Finally at around 11pm, I tune in and just scrolling across the bottom is a short blip about a tornado warning in our county. But there was no coverage! Hello? Obviously I couldn't sleep, and I called my mother because that's what I do. Bob wasn't waking up, and I have some tornado anxiety, I won't lie.

I waited for the sirens to go off, there is one very near our house. And a couple of times I heard what sounded like it could be an actual tornado. The sound of an approaching train. It was very unsettling. I had a plan to load everyone into my closet and pull a mattress over our heads, or try and make it to the neighbors shelter and locking the dogs into a closet. I tried to decide if I should put on some shorts or something as I was in my nightgown. Not that my nightgown is too revealing, it's just sort of worn out.

Finally I saw that it had moved past us, and we just had some far off thunder and rain. But it reminded us that we can be smack in the middle of one at any time here in tornado alley. The last time we were affected by one was in 1999. You have to figure that our number is due to come up any day now.

So this afternoon I had to go up to OKC and get some baseball pants for my teams. While I was begging for help, I happened upon a local weather anchor who had the entire team at Academy hanging on her every, dripping with honey, word. She was telling them all about what it was like in the newscenter last night during the tornados. And defending her weatherman, insisting that he told the entire community to take shelter! Blah, blah, blah. She was just so sweeeeet. And her makeup was way overdone and her hair looked like crap. I'm just going to be honest. She did not look as good in person as she does on TV. And her outfit was hideous. Even I, in my capris that only stay up because I will them to and my t-shirt that looks like I stole it from Magic Johnson, looked better than her. Hey, none of my clothes fit anymore, and I'm good with that. I'm just sayin'. She did have nice shoes, and I can't say much about those because I was wearing my blue flip flops that have some dog teeth marks.

Anyway, I hope that we get lucky and we can avoid any more tornado warnings. Those sirens, and sounds of gusting wind give me the heebie jeebies somethin' fierce.