Help!!

Turns out the storm last night was a hail storm...I realized this when I was awoken from my sleep at 2:30AM thinking "Wow, this is loud rain! the rain drops have gotta be huge!!" but after listening for a while and hearing the loud pounding, I came to the conclusion that it had to be hail. That, of course, sent my mind racing. I know that tornadoes come with hail. I know that there's usually no rain with tornadoes. I couldn't tell whether there was rain with the hail or only hail. I'm in Texas. Extremely flat, and very likely to get tornadoes. And the wind is blowing like crazy right now! Oh geez, they don't have a basement. There are no cellars. What am I gonna do? I'll jump in the tub (cuz apparently that works?)! After psyching myself out for an extremely long time I prayed that the house stayed intact and that none of us were harmed. Then I decided to sing to myself cuz that usually helped me calm down. The first song that came to my mind was an old hymn -- you are my all in all. So I sang that for as long as I can remember; basically 'til I fell asleep. Needless to say, it was an exciting night. I woke up this morning to the sounds of shop vacs being used all over the neighborhood. Windows had been broken everywhere. The office downstairs got a broken window, the Cain's new car had some pretty bad damage from the golf-ball sized hail (yikes!), trees had been shredded, leaving their leaves on the ground (haha that's a pun!!). And almost every time I answered the door there was a roof repair person or a window repair person standing there with a flyer or business card, making small talk, trying to get me to hire them. Lucky for me, I'm not the owner of the house so I'd take their paper and kindly send them away.

The rest of the day was highly uneventful. I watched Friends, The Office, did some Sudoku puzzles, and I'm now finishing up Robin Cook's Godplayer which is soooooo good and so frightening at the same time! Probably not the best book to be reading in yet another rainstorm. And it actually is rain this time. But if it turns out to be hail, I'll be expecting company in my room (aka Becca, the dog and the cat who were apparently all terrified last night haha). AND I now know to lay in the bathtub if there's a tornado. A concept I still find extremely weird.

And that is life through the eyes of a banana munchkin, in tornado-land :)