Gryphoenix
05-03-08, 16:54
Well last night was pretty scary.
We had a huge line of storms come through with two waves of tornado-producing ones. Right before I went to bed we had a warning (tornado actually on the ground or they see rotation in the radar) and the thing was headed STRAIGHT towards my neighborhood!
I was kinda horrified but I went and brushed my teeth cause the tv was making me too excited. However, by the time I got done the storm had already passed and apparently it was just rotation. The weather man was like "Sorry folks, this is just the beginning, we'll have more of this in an hour." Anyway I was too tired cause I only had 4 hours of sleep the other night cause of insomnia so I went to bed. An hour later my dad woke me up and told me to get in the middle of the house cause our weather radio was beeping for the warnings and we lost power. I did kinda freak out for a second, but not in the panicky way. I knew exactly what to do and grabbed my pillows and moved my precious computer away from the windows just in case! My heart was pumping and I had so much adrenaline surge in me at once my stomach hurt, but I was okay though. I knew that it's a perfectly legitamate fear response and half of everyone that goes through this kind of thing has that happen to them too! Well it turns out that we were already through most of it and we didn't get hit by a tornado. A giant tree limb hit our house though. That's probably what got my dad up too. So I'm glad I didn't have to sleep in the bathtub (which I seriously was about to go do cause I was tired, man!)
Anyway I'm so happy that I did not panic and I treated my fear response as legitamate and not get scared of it!
Unfortuantely I got too excited and I couldn't go to sleep for a few more hours so after one night of insomnia, here we go again! I was so mad at myself again. But then again, it's a perfectly legitimate response, there's probably lots of people that can't drop right off after that thrill ride. I think I got 6 hours in though so that's good. I'm just sooo annoyed I couldn't get a good night's sleep and I had to go through insomnia AGAIN.
Anyway that was a really scary storm even though I personally love storms and am a weather buff. I just wish it was during the day so I could have got the camcorder out in case it was a tornado! :wacko: I'm a bit crazy like that. XD I remember watching this tv show called "Twister Sisters" and they took a family with them storm chasing (therapudic for them cause they lost their house to a tornado) and I was getting reeeeally anxious watching it trying to put myself in their place. I was dissapointed cause it's been a dream of mine to storm chase ever since I was a little kid but thought myself too panicky to handle it. Now I feel better cause I experienced something similar and I was fine! And after watching that show the chasers in it were very close to panicking too, they were very anxious due to the dangers even though they were happy and excited.
We had a huge line of storms come through with two waves of tornado-producing ones. Right before I went to bed we had a warning (tornado actually on the ground or they see rotation in the radar) and the thing was headed STRAIGHT towards my neighborhood!
I was kinda horrified but I went and brushed my teeth cause the tv was making me too excited. However, by the time I got done the storm had already passed and apparently it was just rotation. The weather man was like "Sorry folks, this is just the beginning, we'll have more of this in an hour." Anyway I was too tired cause I only had 4 hours of sleep the other night cause of insomnia so I went to bed. An hour later my dad woke me up and told me to get in the middle of the house cause our weather radio was beeping for the warnings and we lost power. I did kinda freak out for a second, but not in the panicky way. I knew exactly what to do and grabbed my pillows and moved my precious computer away from the windows just in case! My heart was pumping and I had so much adrenaline surge in me at once my stomach hurt, but I was okay though. I knew that it's a perfectly legitamate fear response and half of everyone that goes through this kind of thing has that happen to them too! Well it turns out that we were already through most of it and we didn't get hit by a tornado. A giant tree limb hit our house though. That's probably what got my dad up too. So I'm glad I didn't have to sleep in the bathtub (which I seriously was about to go do cause I was tired, man!)
Anyway I'm so happy that I did not panic and I treated my fear response as legitamate and not get scared of it!
Unfortuantely I got too excited and I couldn't go to sleep for a few more hours so after one night of insomnia, here we go again! I was so mad at myself again. But then again, it's a perfectly legitimate response, there's probably lots of people that can't drop right off after that thrill ride. I think I got 6 hours in though so that's good. I'm just sooo annoyed I couldn't get a good night's sleep and I had to go through insomnia AGAIN.
Anyway that was a really scary storm even though I personally love storms and am a weather buff. I just wish it was during the day so I could have got the camcorder out in case it was a tornado! :wacko: I'm a bit crazy like that. XD I remember watching this tv show called "Twister Sisters" and they took a family with them storm chasing (therapudic for them cause they lost their house to a tornado) and I was getting reeeeally anxious watching it trying to put myself in their place. I was dissapointed cause it's been a dream of mine to storm chase ever since I was a little kid but thought myself too panicky to handle it. Now I feel better cause I experienced something similar and I was fine! And after watching that show the chasers in it were very close to panicking too, they were very anxious due to the dangers even though they were happy and excited.