Bzzzzoooop. click...

Power was out. The storm was raging and the 5 of us were huddled in corner of the basement... praying that we would be spared. As the flash of the lightning invaded our dark, damp, dank basement... all I could see were 4 pairs of wide eyes nervously looking at me.... each of them wondering: would we ever see the light of another day? SUDDENLY, ripping of wood and the crashing glass overcame the sound of the howling wind as the house was being lifted off the foundation. I knew we were in trouble.

Well okay... maybe I am getting carried away... and maybe it wasn't THAT bad. But there WERE severe storms and we were down in the basement. But fortunately for our family, I finished one corner of the basement off... so it is cozy and the kids were sleeping peacefully on the couch. But the storms have been raging and it has been a wild couple of nights. We have a huge portion of a tree down and so I need to remove this... fortunately for Jake and Micker Mackers... it missed their trampolene by inches.

You know what I miss the most living out in the country? Tornado sirens.

So, for those of you living in tornado alley... do you have a basement?

*** ...and it's not: Bzoop... It is said really slo-w-l-y as you drop an octave from start to finish... "BZZZZZOooooppp" (That's the sound of the power going off... the click was the answering machine. When the power comes back on it is... bzzzzzooOOOP... click click click.... Hummmmm... with the stereo and TV coming on again...) Does it sound like that at your place when the power goes off? Or does it just sound that way at ours?)