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Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip

August 27th, 2007 | by audit |

Well last Friday we thought we were going on a trip, a trip via a tornado. I honestly didn’t know if I was hearing the theme song from the Gilligan’s Island or was in the Wizard of Oz. We had a WICKED ass storm pass through Michigan last Friday and it spawned 3 tornado’s out of it. On the way home, I knew there was some serious weather in the air as you could just smell it and feel it but it wasn’t until I got inside the house and channel 7 was live with the weather and were it was hitting at.

I can honestly say that was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life when they showed the tower cam from Southfield and you could see a wall of RAIN and then there was no city or cell towers. It looked like a damn F5 Tornado actually was going though the city but they said it was rain. A buddy of mine is a storm chaser and he was calling me with updates from an area up a little North of us that was getting hit with a tornado. As soon as I saw what was going on outside, I got our “bug out” bag ready and was trying to calm our son down as he always freaks out during these bad storms. I told everyone that “once the sirens go off, we’re out of here so be ready to go!!!”

After the storm passed, a friend of mine called me up to see if we were ok because all he heard is that a trailer park was hit by a Tornado and he wanted to make sure we were ok because he didn’t hear which one it was. Lucky for us, it wasn’t ours but I know one of these years it just may be. So far we’ve been lucky enough where the bad weather just hits either just a little south or a little north of us. But each year it keep creeping further south towards us. The scary part is, I’m never sure where we can go if one does hit us, we have a meijers within 5 minutes if I pedal to the metal it but who’s to say that I wouldn’t be driving right into the storm. That’s really the only place we have that’s good enough for us.

Oh well, it sure was an exciting start to a dull weekend, all we basically did was sit around and watched TV until last night when we decided to go walking along a nice wildlife trail. I wanted to see how our new pet would be once it got the scent of a coon or rabbit, of course I didn’t take into effect how long I would be able to be on my feet. On the way back to the car, I was shaking bad and had a real hard time of it getting back, I had missed the window that I take my meds in and my body was telling me that it wasn’t happy with me. Once we got home and I got my meds back in me, I was fine after about 1/2hr on the couch. Well maybe not fine because of the tremors but as close to fine as I can get by my standards now.

I guess that’s it for now, maybe I’ll post something more in the week when I have more time.