I'm alive (and lucky).

Well, yesterday there was a tornado warning, and I was pretty scared! Luckily, no tornado went in my town, but it hit some nearby towns pretty hard. After the storm went away, there was a giant thunderstorm. The sky was GREEN AND ORANGE. Well, I got home, and I did some important errands for my mom, and then I went straight to the computer. An hour later, I found myself face-to-face with that annoying tone on the weather-channel. I checked it out. "Severe thunderstorm warning". I wasn't impressed, since severe thunderstorms are almost all the time in the spring/summer. Mercury was scared though!  He spent MANY hours on mom's lap, and he's a 68 pound lapdog. Suddenly, it switched to the frightening. "A tornado warning is in your area." blared through the speakers in the other room. That's when I went to the pants-wettening "This might be bad, but at least I'm surrounded by mountains!" thoughts. I calmed Mercury down, and got Lucy, my sister's guinea pig. About 30 minutes later, it went to the "Oh crud, this is going to stink. Might as well work on my will now!" mode. "A tornado warning is in your area! Get into a shelter NOW! THIS ISN'T A TEST YOU IDIOT!" blared through the speakers. (Except for the "YOU IDIOT" at the end, it's basically what it said.) I brought the pig in the bedroom, and unplugged the computer. (That's why I didn't write about it earlier.) We sat there, and shivered. I probably went to the bathroom about three times in 3 hours. When the tornado hit a few miles from here, it tore up TONS of buildings, and it only lasted 45 SECONDS. Sadly, 8 people perished in that sad less-than-60-second twister. They had a 5 second warning, and then time stood still. Someone's house in sturbridge was destroyed, and their checkbook was found 90 MILES AWAY in someone's yard. It threw cars like they were toys, it took 150 year old trees like me with broccoli, and it SUCKED UP WATER. Thankfully, we survived due to the laws of physics, and just plain luck. (Tornados can't survive low speeds, and the higher the angle of a mountain, the lower the speed. My town's basically the cereal inside Massachusetts's bowl of mountains.) So, my sister and dad came home with some emergency supplies, and dad was amazed. Not because he was afraid, but that he's never seen a tornado in real life. To show you what happened near, here's a video of it. Sadly, there's always some idiots saying "IZ HOMER OKAI?" due to the name similarity of Springfield MA with Springfield WTWTFTI (Wherever The World This Fictional Town Is). So, I'm praying for my community, and Joplin MO. FOR PETE'S SAKE, THIS ISN'T TO BE LAUGHED AT! Poking fun at things is reserved for things like airline food, and the media. Does this LOOK like airline food to you? (If it does, then I recommend getting your eyes checked.)