Kansas is a scary place
Apr. 8th, 2013 08:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alpharaposaWoke up around 1 am last night to the sound of hail, a weird cyclical humming like a giant, wobbly fan, and lots and lots of lightning flashes.
I was quite freaked out by this. I wanted to run down to the basement, but everybody else was asleep. So I waited through about five to ten minutes of the weird weather before it moved on and normal thunderstorm sounds resumed. The baby woke up long enough to eat and go back to sleep, but it took me an hour to relax enough to get to sleep myself.
This is an area known for being in a tornado corridor, and I find myself wondering what crazy architect in the 70s thought putting the bedrooms on the top floor was a good idea. Yes, yes, natural light and all, but TORNADOS. Ugh. There may be more thunderstorms today, and a bigger chance of severe thunderstorms again tomorrow. I am debating setting up a temporary bed downstairs tomorrow night.
Last time I was this freaked out by weather, it was also in Kansas and I was fifteen. I was camping then, so I had even less shelter, but I was also not as close to something that sounded like an active funnel cloud. The hurricanes that hit us in Virginia didn't bother me quite as much because I knew they were coming and we were fairly prepared ahead of time.
Both the husband and the older cub slept through the whole thing. I think the only reason the baby stirred is because I did and we sleep close enough that we can sync sleep. (There are neat articles about this on the internet - http://cosleeping.nd.edu/)
I was quite freaked out by this. I wanted to run down to the basement, but everybody else was asleep. So I waited through about five to ten minutes of the weird weather before it moved on and normal thunderstorm sounds resumed. The baby woke up long enough to eat and go back to sleep, but it took me an hour to relax enough to get to sleep myself.
This is an area known for being in a tornado corridor, and I find myself wondering what crazy architect in the 70s thought putting the bedrooms on the top floor was a good idea. Yes, yes, natural light and all, but TORNADOS. Ugh. There may be more thunderstorms today, and a bigger chance of severe thunderstorms again tomorrow. I am debating setting up a temporary bed downstairs tomorrow night.
Last time I was this freaked out by weather, it was also in Kansas and I was fifteen. I was camping then, so I had even less shelter, but I was also not as close to something that sounded like an active funnel cloud. The hurricanes that hit us in Virginia didn't bother me quite as much because I knew they were coming and we were fairly prepared ahead of time.
Both the husband and the older cub slept through the whole thing. I think the only reason the baby stirred is because I did and we sleep close enough that we can sync sleep. (There are neat articles about this on the internet - http://cosleeping.nd.edu/)
