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Stormy weather
Jan. 8th, 2008 10:01 pmYou may have heard on the news about the storms that passed through Missouri due to the unseasonably warm weather. Well, one of them woke me up in the middle of the night last night. Though that was not so much the storm as it was the storm siren going off in the middle of the night, from what sounded to be right outside my apartment. (Gee, thanks, City of Springfield, for waking me up to tell me a storm was going on.)
This morning, I exited my apartment to head for work to find a couple of Springfield city utilities red and white striped folding warning sawhorses flat on the ground on the road outside my apartment amid a number of wood chips, the yellow hazard light on one of them out and the other blinking feebly. I didn't see if any branches were obviously missing from trees, but didn't really have time to look.
When I headed up to Cherry & Glenstone, a few blocks away, to get a yogurt parfait from McDonald's for breakfast and then catch the bus, I found that the intersection and all the buildings around it, including the McDonald's, were dark. So I had to do without the parfait.
When I rode the bus up Glenstone, the bus driver noticed and called our attention to the Krispy Kreme at Chestnut and Glenstone. The sign was lit up, but it was also completely horizontal, and being filmed by a KSPR33 TV crew.
I'm told that a tornado may have touched down in the west part of town, but don't have any information on that.
I didn't have quite as exciting a time as my Mom, though; she got to see her second tornado in two months "live" (albeit from a relatively safe distance). And to think I've gone almost 34 years without seeing a single one!
This morning, I exited my apartment to head for work to find a couple of Springfield city utilities red and white striped folding warning sawhorses flat on the ground on the road outside my apartment amid a number of wood chips, the yellow hazard light on one of them out and the other blinking feebly. I didn't see if any branches were obviously missing from trees, but didn't really have time to look.
When I headed up to Cherry & Glenstone, a few blocks away, to get a yogurt parfait from McDonald's for breakfast and then catch the bus, I found that the intersection and all the buildings around it, including the McDonald's, were dark. So I had to do without the parfait.
When I rode the bus up Glenstone, the bus driver noticed and called our attention to the Krispy Kreme at Chestnut and Glenstone. The sign was lit up, but it was also completely horizontal, and being filmed by a KSPR33 TV crew.
I'm told that a tornado may have touched down in the west part of town, but don't have any information on that.
I didn't have quite as exciting a time as my Mom, though; she got to see her second tornado in two months "live" (albeit from a relatively safe distance). And to think I've gone almost 34 years without seeing a single one!