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... it's a twister!
Posted on 2008.05.25 at 14:27Current Location: not blown 20 miles away
Current Mood:
indifferent
i'm sorry for neglecting everyone, it's been a frenzied week ... you know in between work and nearly being blown away
yes blown away
from early thursday afternoon until friday evening, northern colorado and southern wyoming went under the assault of severe thunderstorms accompanied by whirling tornado dervishes.
on thursday i was accompanying one of our cable installers as a little bresnan field-trip, and i was literally climbing a router pole to hand him wire when the alarms sounded throughout town. however my escort technician seemed unamused and we finished the task at hand, through the 60+ mile an hour winds, hail and all.
i came home to michael shaking like a leaf and ten pounds heavier with rain soaked clothes
i guess through the whole ordeal i just couldn't get over how dramatic people were about the mess. i have never seen group panic at it's peak before and it alarmed me more than the twisting weather.
it wasn't even THAT bad - yes, windsor colorado had severe devastation, but cheyenne went untouched. if i'm correct only two tornadoes touched ground, and when i say touched i meant tapped ... the briefest of contact before they dispersed.
but you wouldn't know that from the text messages coming in all evening - 'one just touched down 10 minutes from town and it's heading this way!!!'
ahhh? oh no?
i guess i just failed to be amused, even if it did slam into the ground and charge us all into poverty - there's nothing anyone can DO about it. so why get into this harmful state of terror?
poor windsor though, my thoughts are with them. we can all be ever grateful that the weather system was oh so alert and people had time to save themselves, in two days of never ending storms only one person perished. a miracle certainly!
