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May 13, 2005
Storm Stories
Today certainly wasn't boring. I drove into work and parked in the remote parking lot (we have to do that every few weeks), then took the bus to the office. When we pulled up, EVERYONE was coming outside. I thought it was a fire drill or a terrorist bomb threat or something. Even the fire department and the paramedics came. But 5 minutes after they entered the building to check it out, they let us back in. Turns out, the guy cleaning the ducts blasted so much dust up that it set off the fire alarm.
And I was very busy at work too. And during our meeting, we could watch the thunderstorm as it passed over us. Lots of lightning and heavy heavy rain. When I got home, it started raining and hailing. (Only about the size of rock salt.) Makes me think of the time when I was in grad school. It started raining so hard, it was as if someone was holding a hose to my window. I happened to be on the phone and got struck by lightning that had hit the ground and traveled through my phone line. Both me and my stereo got fried. I found out that there had also been a twister 2 miles away, so I took Gabriel and hid in the closet for a half hour till it passed.
Though, that wasn't as scary as the storm I saw last summer. I was at Don's office and it started POURING LIKE HELL! It was so bad that the back third of the parking lot was flooded 2 feet deep--no exaggeration! And there was water running from the front parking lot to the back lot like a river! I saw a transformer blow up in a nearby neighborhood too. I was terrified! I started to gather up my stuff and was about to head into the basement of the building because I truly thought we were going to get an F4 tornado. Luckily, it let up, but the water had literally washed out the retaining wall of the Kroger's parking lot next to our lot and it took DAYS for the parking lot to un-flood. That was THE most unbelievable storm I'd ever experienced! Though, if a storm like that ever hits and blows out power, we're well prepared with a generator, canned food and a small portable gas range.
Posted by Amy at May 13, 2005 07:02 PM
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