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I drove Mom and all her stuff up to Oregon last week, just got home from DIA a bit ago. No more hotel horseshit now.
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We weren't too sure we were gonna make it through last nite.
At 1:14 AM the world exploded, or at least that is what we thought.
About 11:30 the thunderstorms arrived. Pretty much normal rain, lightening and thunder. Off and on until Armaggedon at 1:14. That clap of thunder "hit" so hard the house shook and several figurines fell from shelves, was so loud it woke all six people in the house and sent the normally only nervous Buddy dog into full blown terror/panic.
First time in 12 years we have had to restrain the dog.
My first thought was that a tornado was on top of us and the explosion that woke us was the house being ripped apart, instantly followed by several other nightmarish scenarios. Amazing how fast that stuff runs through your head.
So, dog raising holy hell, tearing through the house looking for way out, older kids panicked and calling out, younger kids crying, general chaos for few moments.
I yelled at wife to herd older kids to cellar and sent them toward her (they usually sleep in great room as group when at our house) while I grabbed the youngest and the dog and followed her down.
While all of this is going on, the storm still sounds like a full blown artillery battle going on in my yard. Power went out about 3 minutes into the chaos adding to the fun. Blinding lightening and thunder that repeatedly shakes the house.
It finally started to ease up about 2 AM and we were able to get dog and kids calmed and back to sleep about 3 AM.
Looks like about 3-3 1/2" of rain over night and some stuff blown around the yard. Have not been outside yet to see if any real damage.
^^Wowzer^ When we noticed the flags were pointing northwest it was a little sketchy around here. That bad tornado 5-6 years ago came in from the SE. We started moving valuables from their normal storage to the "shelter" until end of season, probably mid june.
Last edited by Great-Kazoo; 04-26-2015 at 07:47.
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"when you're happy you enjoy the melody but, when you're broken you understand the lyrics".
After the fact I can say it made for a very realistic disaster drill.
At least the older kids calmed enough to take directions when I made it to the great room and directed them to head for cellar.
The wife did well also, arriving at cellar door just ahead of minions and leading them down.
Well, nothing much happened up here last night.
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Sounds like an eventful night lobo.
We stumbled across The Babadook on NetflIx. Wasn't bad for having no idea what we were getting into. I actually rather liked it.
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Dang lobo... Glad you guys are alright. We have some thunder and lightning, but nothing house-shaking. I haven't had a real house-shaking storm since I left Michigan.
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a shit ton of rain in the Castle Rock earlier....just a steady light rain now
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