If you have a weather alert radio, it will scream for tornadoes, flash floods, etc. Night time hurricanes are the worst!
Yeah we have one of those, plus we’re signed up for the local CodeRED emergency notification system so the phones will ring (at least I hope they do if we have power) if there’s anything overnight. Husband says he’s probably going to stay up all night, he works second shift so its not outside the realm of possibility...
NautiNurse,
Thank you for a most excellent thread. I here there are now over 2 million without power and there is still a long way to go before Irene has run here course.
Please don’t let the anal emissions from a few select posters deter you.
I am sure some lives were saved by following this important thread. And many found comfort and helpful hints to ease distress & answer questions.
KUDOS
NautiNurse,
Thank you for a most excellent thread. I here there are now over 2 million without power and there is still a long way to go before Irene has run here course.
Please don’t let the anal emissions from a few select posters deter you.
I am sure some lives were saved by following this important thread. And many found comfort and helpful hints to ease distress & answer questions.
KUDOS
We were in Jackson, Tennessee in the spring of 2010, the weekend when Nashville was flooded. During the night, the weather alert radio was going off so often with hail, tornado and flood warnings that our cousin pulled the plug on it. There was nowhere to go, and nobody could get any sleep, so we just shut it up. The next morning we drove on the last open road out of the county heading to St. Louis. I'd never seen such flooding in my life. Fields and roadways turned into lakes, and water was everywhere as far as we could see. As we drove, we heard reports of water rescues, hospital evacuation, and tornado warnings just south of our route. Nature is powerful and quite sobering.
When we lived in MN for a couple of years, we used to go outside briefly if we heard a tornado siren. Being from NYS we’d never seen one. But when the storm warnings came at night, I cowered like a blithering idiot; simply scared to death of what I could not see.