We did get the tornado here...
Jul. 19th, 2007 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kellyblahLovely, isn't it? One of the few times my husband isn't working at home (he had a meeting) and we get a tornado. Of course, it was while it was dumping buckets of rain, and I was trying to figure out how to keep the rain out of my big ass lab UPSes, as well as just plain out of the server labs (never again will I have an office on the top floor).
My aunt called me, wondering if everything was ok. She had just tried calling my house, got no answer, and worried. She had just heard about tornados touching down in Islip Terrace. Normally, my husband is home, and answers the phone, or the answering machine is on. This is when I started to worry, a little. I was just kind of wondering what was going on, I was able to access my home server from work still, I knew the basement & the cable line was ok.
So I went home. As soon as I turned on to my block, there were a few trees down. At the far east end of the block, there were bulldozers & dump trucks cleaning up. Somehow, my block in the middle was pretty much undisturbed. My patio umbrella hadn't moved. The tornado went south of us apparently. So, we're lucky-lucky. Animals are ok, house is ok, we are ok. Pretty good all around, no big injuries to life or house, in the area.
My aunt called me, wondering if everything was ok. She had just tried calling my house, got no answer, and worried. She had just heard about tornados touching down in Islip Terrace. Normally, my husband is home, and answers the phone, or the answering machine is on. This is when I started to worry, a little. I was just kind of wondering what was going on, I was able to access my home server from work still, I knew the basement & the cable line was ok.
So I went home. As soon as I turned on to my block, there were a few trees down. At the far east end of the block, there were bulldozers & dump trucks cleaning up. Somehow, my block in the middle was pretty much undisturbed. My patio umbrella hadn't moved. The tornado went south of us apparently. So, we're lucky-lucky. Animals are ok, house is ok, we are ok. Pretty good all around, no big injuries to life or house, in the area.
