[Travis McGee]

Do your kids get nightmares, "combat fatigue", PTSD, etc from the constant fear, thunder, lightning, TV images etc?

[wardaddy]

My 14 year old daughter is old enough to remember going thru Andrew in Miami when they had to get under the stairs and cover with a mattress as all the windows got blown out and whatnot. She has also seen a tornado at distance down here with me and the destruction afterwards. She is definitely spooked. Phobic.

When she is here she makes me plug in the instant warning NOAA radio that comes on when there is a warning...for her room.

I was in Camille as a 12 year old and around plenty of tornados (but never a direct hit) and I'm not that spooked by it but I do feel very vulnerable when I have a bunch of wee ones and a wife in my care at my home..granted. If I lived in a farmhouse on in a broad plain in tornado alley, I'd have someplace to hide.

My dad was in one as a boy and it blew the roof off their dogtrot and left the biscuits in place on top of the stove one morning.

[wardaddy]

Btw...now I'm getting spooked...all this talk about feeling secure on my hillside makes me nervous...one'll probably come along tonight and smack me right off of here..lol

The big fear here are huge oaks and hickorys behind my house on a sharp grade getting blown over and falling on my house...fortuantely, we're all downstairs except when the girls are here....I hope that second story helps...lol...if Hannah had been here last night, she would have had to have been sedated.

A neighbor of mine last night 3 doors down had a tree blown over and took out his power. That was the only damage last night on my street.

At my mom's in Murfreesboro about 25 miles SE of here, they had some serious damage and hail on the ground several inches deep.