storms

Today, when I turned on the computer, a rolling marquee rolled across the bottom of my screen, like it supposed to do, as I have set up a local weather thing-a-ma-jig to pop up whenever I log on...but back to the story......So when this weather alert rolled acrossed, my heart did a fast and hard thump,thump,thump! It was announcing a severe T storm but not in my county! So then my heart went back to normal, now the reason I got a jolt was, that a few months ago we had a storm , and I mean a storm like I never saw before (well, when I was a kid on the sailboat we had some hum dingers of storms but that's for another time to tell) It happened on May 25. My friend Kellie told me that there was going to be a bad storm and I should park my truck in the garage as there was going to be some hail. A few hours go by and I'm wondering about this bad storm and looking outside and not being impressed (YET) its getting a little windy,but not bad (YET), the sky's getting dark,but not bad (YET) I hear a little thunder, but not bad (YET) So I'm getting a little tired of my T.V. program getting interrupted about this "impending doom" storm, so about the 5th time the T.V. warning came on I went outside, there was no wind, no birds chirping or flying, spooky quite, and the sky was dark black with a yellowish tinge to it,Huh? I wonder whats up with that? I thought, so I stood on the front porch and the wind came, just a little breeze but it had a real chill to it, a few rain drops, I'm thinking.. this is the "storm? I heard the T.V. start to give another warning and so I am watching outside and listening at the same time and low and behold, they mention MY COUNTY and MY TOWN! that we should seek shelter NOW! and I think to myself HUH? why? its just a little rain and some wind. HA HA HA ! In just a few nano seconds,the wind became a gale wind and the rain turned into a down pore! It rained like I never saw rain before, and then it got bad! The wind picked up, how?I don't know! it was already really windy! and then it hailed, I didn't have the mind to think about seeking shelter! I was in the hallway, crouched down, believing that the roof was going to come off and that the widows where going to blown in or broken by the hail! I would say for a good 7 minutes it was like being in a kettle drum! it was so loud, I really could not hear myself think! and then it stopped. I went outside and there was hail the size of my fist all over the yard, my flowers that I had planted that morning ( about 50 bucks worth) where now down to just a few thin stalks.
I learned later that this storm spawned a tornado over in MN and that a person was killed by it.
So now, when I hear about T-storms or the T.V. program gets interrupted,or that little scroll thing scrolls. I call home and tell my Daddy and Mommy that there is a storm. It makes me feel better knowing that they are now worrying about me! ( Bad daughter!)