Rained Out

[billroper]

We had planned to take Katie and Julie out to the pumpkin patch today, but, although it was quite warm enough to want to go, the associated rain meant that everything would be wet and muddy. And since the rain was continuing, we'd be pretty soaked before long.

So we went home instead. daisy_knotwise entertained the girls while I went upstairs to work on the cover for What's a Hoosier?. I hadn't finished when I heard a siren. Oops. That's a real siren.

A quick Google search said that we were under a tornado watch, so we bundled everyone out to the basement for fifteen minutes to wait out the passage of the storm cell. As far as I know, we didn't actually have any tornadic activity in the area, just a lot of straight-line wind, which can be quite bad enough.

So everyone was safe, Katie and Julie got the lesson about what to do in case of a storm emergency, and we went back to what we'd been doing.

Yeah, a good day to skip the pumpkin patch.

Comments

[hms42]

I guess that means its possibly not making OVFF? :( Releasing at Windycon?

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

I agree that it's a good day to skip the pumpkin patch. I'm glad everything is okay, though.

[jeff-duntemann.livejournal.com]

Did Gretchen play the accordion?

[daisy-knotwise.livejournal.com]

No, I never got the accordion, remember.
I guess Mother believed mr. Brown when he told her I wasn't musical.

GHR

[jeff-duntemann.livejournal.com]

It was an inside joke, and I didn't expect anyone but you would get it. But for onlookers: When tornado warnings happened and Gretchen and I were little kids, mother would take us down in the basement and play her pearl-red piano accordion to distract us. The accordion passed into other hands, but it's a memory that will always be with me, and an association that I doubt I will ever break: Tornadoes and accordion music. Egad.

[whl.livejournal.com]

Over where I am (a bit south and the other side of O'Hare to the east), we had an actual tornado warning. They've recently augmented the tornado sirens with a voice announcement system, and this is the first time I've heard it actually used. It was warning everyone to seek shelter NOW.

Nothing much exciting happened. And then, late last evening, the cops showed up with a drug sniffing dog to talk to the tenants down the hall from me...