Tornado brewing - PIC HEAVY

[gumpsgirl]

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Mine is a paid fireman and volunteer, so we get the warnings first too! Those monitors are life savers!

 

[Wildsky]

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Mine is a paid fireman and volunteer, so we get the warnings first too! Those monitors are life savers!

I'm telling you!!! I told my hubby if he gets called out for anything, he's leaving that pager thing HERE.... once he's out on a call he doesn't NEED it -

 

[gumpsgirl]

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Mine is a paid fireman and volunteer, so we get the warnings first too! Those monitors are life savers!

I'm telling you!!! I told my hubby if he gets called out for anything, he's leaving that pager thing HERE.... once he's out on a call he doesn't NEED it -

No kidding! That's for us, right?!?!

 

[Wildsky]

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We're just so far out of town that we can't hear the sirens - unless the wind is blowing in JUST the right direction - so that pager thing is staying HERE!

 

[gumpsgirl]

Oh we are very rural so we don't have any sirens. I think everyone needs one of those pagers just to have the tones hit to let people know a twister is coming. It is especially comforting to have when my DH is working his 24 hr. shifts and I am on my own with my kids here at home.

 

[countryatheart]

Thank goodness we don't get bad tornadoes much here in south Texas. We do get hurricanes though. Claudette almost blew away my little yard shed. I have since gotten a new Tuff Shed and had anchors into the ground. I guess I need to anchor my coop before the hurricanes start! We were also without electricity for 4 days and really humid nights!! I tried sleeping in my hammock on the patio, but the mosquitoes like the taste of me!

 

[Wildsky]

We were without electricity for 3 or 4 days when we lived in San diego - after the fires in 2003 - it was HORRIBLE.

We were beat up last night with the storm that did hit us. 20 minutes of hail, rain and high winds, I'm not sure how much of my veggie garden is left. Some tomato plants have totally disapeared.... corn is droooopy, peas lying over on the ground..... lettuce with holes in them and all droopy and covered in mud.....
Very sad....... I just looked over the fence I didn't go into the yard area.

 

[gumpsgirl]

Oh I'm so sorry.

How discouraging. When our bad storms hit, I first think about the chickens and then I panic about my garden! I don't quit panicking until the storms stop and I can assess the damage. Shoot! The way food prices are, I don't think there are many people out there that can afford to loose a garden this year.

Again, I'm so sorry for all of the damage. Glad you got that window in the first go round of the storms though!

 

[Robin'sBrood]

Very sorry about your garden Wildsky.

 

[Lunachick]

Wow - those clouds are mesmerizing, I would have a hard time figuring if I should RUN or stay and look at the clouds.