TORNADOS and Goals In Life

We just had a tornado!

Well-- not really. The only tornado (tornados?) that touched down was a few miles east of us. We had some crazy bad-ass storms, though; the rain was pouring, and it was positively eerie out! As I'm at the lake, we could see everything. In fact, as I was downstairs watching the local stations for weather updates at the bottom of the screen (leave it to today for our remote to go out, so that we cannot access The Weather Channel, just four or five random local access channels . . . ), my dad and little brother saw what they swore were funnel clouds-- like cloud-like stalactites dipping down lazily from the clouds drifting across the sky (EERIE!!!)-- just off to the north shore of the lake, meaning they had past us but that they were still present . . .

So we all went downstairs to the lower floor (we have no basement, at the lake-- but it is a walk-in, so I suppose the back of the lower level is basically like a basement, and basically anything is better than the upstairs which contains one wall which is solidly windows!) and basically watched the TV for updates. There was lots of lightning-- one particularly funny moment was when someone shot off a large, bright white ball firecracker high up above the lake, into the rain, and, just moments later, the storm responded with a brilliant flash of lighting just above their house . . .

In the end, the storms passed us, of course, but they did have some tornados nearby, and I suspect some more further on as the storm progresses onward across Michigan and perhaps even into Canada/Ohio. Oh well . . . it was exciting while it lasted!

I'm actually pretty upset I didn't get to see the funnel clouds! It would have provided a means for me to see tornados up close and personal, without being threatened by them!

Which leads to me to a similar meme (well, meme-sort-of-thing . . . ) which Kristina was working on earlier . . .

( My Goals In Life )

TORNADOS and Goals In Life

We just had a tornado!

Well-- not really. The only tornado (tornados?) that touched down was a few miles east of us. We had some crazy bad-ass storms, though; the rain was pouring, and it was positively eerie out! As I'm at the lake, we could see everything. In fact, as I was downstairs watching the local stations for weather updates at the bottom of the screen (leave it to today for our remote to go out, so that we cannot access The Weather Channel, just four or five random local access channels . . . ), my dad and little brother saw what they swore were funnel clouds-- like cloud-like stalactites dipping down lazily from the clouds drifting across the sky (EERIE!!!)-- just off to the north shore of the lake, meaning they had past us but that they were still present . . .

So we all went downstairs to the lower floor (we have no basement, at the lake-- but it is a walk-in, so I suppose the back of the lower level is basically like a basement, and basically anything is better than the upstairs which contains one wall which is solidly windows!) and basically watched the TV for updates. There was lots of lightning-- one particularly funny moment was when someone shot off a large, bright white ball firecracker high up above the lake, into the rain, and, just moments later, the storm responded with a brilliant flash of lighting just above their house . . .

In the end, the storms passed us, of course, but they did have some tornados nearby, and I suspect some more further on as the storm progresses onward across Michigan and perhaps even into Canada/Ohio. Oh well . . . it was exciting while it lasted!

I'm actually pretty upset I didn't get to see the funnel clouds! It would have provided a means for me to see tornados up close and personal, without being threatened by them!

Which leads to me to a similar meme (well, meme-sort-of-thing . . . ) which Kristina was working on earlier . . .

( My Goals In Life )