Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storm. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

The Life of a CrAzY Working Mom...

NOAA weather radio in conjunction with a three (almost 4!!!) year old who is terrified of storms kept my attention for a couple of hours in the wee morning. As the weather radio came on with it's very loud and annoying weather alert warning, I heard a sobbing Tyler in the background. This poor little guy, along with Oscar the wiener dog are completely petrified when storms roll in. I must admit that it is mostly my fault. We had a pretty bad scare when Tyler was young and had to hide out because there was a tornado just down the road from us. Thankfully that time we were spared and only had some limbs down in the yard. Now every time it rains he's afraid it is a tornado.

We finally went to sleep around 4:30. Apparently sometime after that the NOAA radio was finally silent and I fell back to sleep only to be awakened by my cell phone at 6:00. Thank goodness because sometime during my short slumber, our power must have gone off because my alarm clock was flashing 12:00. I quickly jumped out of bed with worry and fear thinking that for someone to be calling so early something must be wrong. I had no idea what time it actually was because it surely felt like I'd only just fallen back to sleep.

On the other end was my mother. I answered the phone, "Are you all right???" Her response was a "Yes" followed by a pause. My heart rate must have tripled at this very moment. "Is everyone else all right?" Her answer was again the same. She then began to tell me that her house was okay and my sister who lives right beside her was okay, but my brother's home was not. They had a tree in their kitchen! Said tree had also fallen across not one, but both of their vehicles! They are okay and so is their dog. I am glad everyone is okay, but they are all without electricity due to downed power lines. They had to cut a tree out of the road to get to my brother, his wife, and their 2 year old daughter and the road was closed going on into town.

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Now that my heart rate has returned to normal, I am going to drink some coffee and begin to wake the sleeping beasts, also known as my children and husband.

so says Crazy Working Mom at 6:42 AM 9 comments, add yours here

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Monday, June 15, 2009

Manic Monday - Shower

Previous MMs ~ The Manic Monday Master
This is what happens when we have showers in Arkansas!
Yeah, maybe there was a bit of wind associated with this shower.
This poor tree couldn't withstand the wind after all of the saturating rain.
This tree landed on our neighbor's storage building next door.

so says Crazy Working Mom at 5:54 AM 10 comments, add yours here

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Thursday, December 04, 2008

Stormy Weather Brings Sleepy Moms

Last night we had some crazy wind and rain. Tyler would not stay in his room because he is absolutely terrified of storms. I can say that he gets it honest. *sigh* By the time we went to bed, he was asleep on the living room floor and the rain and thundering had subsided. Brien laid him in his bed. By midnight, the wind was literally howling and he woke up terrified screaming like a banshee on his way to our room. He crawled in between my us.

I was again awakened at 2. Nope, it was not the 3 month old Emily, it was the six year old Shelby! She said that she heard some "scary" noises outside her window and was scared to go back to her room. Yet again another child in the bed.

It's a good thing we've got a King sized bed! Both kids do not sleep well with others. They like to prop feet up in places where one should not put feet, sleep sideways, and flop all over the place. I am exhausted today. I'm off to find some coffee!

so says Crazy Working Mom at 6:13 AM 13 comments, add yours here

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Ike's Wrath

We're fortunate that our home was not damaged during the remnants of hurricane Ike that we received here in central Arkansas, but our evening was cut short by the threat of severe weather moving our way. We'd taken the kids to the County Fair. They both got to ride all of the rides of their choosing since it was arm band day. We were waiting for the rodeo and demolition derby to begin and dark, ominous clouds began to form over the fairgrounds. I sat idly by as people all around me were receiving phone calls from others with tornado spottings. My in-laws were keeping baby Emily and I had been checking in with them. Finally the emergency sirens in town began to sound so we made an early departure before the festivities began. The all clear was given before we'd even reached our home, but by this time I was shaken and did not want to go back. The kids were tired and we all decided just to continue our journey home to be with Emily should something occur later.

As we headed for bed, the winds had really began to pick up but there were no more tornado warnings, thankfully. As I made Emily's bottles throughout the course of the night, I would check out the windows and some of the trees were leaning pretty heavily from the strong winds. As we got out to survey the damage this morning, there were lots of leaves, and a few branches in the front yard. Out back, my patio furniture was strewn about and the umbrella was across the yard. But, the biggest shock of all was this:

Unfortunately this fell on the neighbor's outside storage sheds, fence, and dog kennel. They did not use the dog kennels, so there were no animals harmed. The storage building has some minor damage which my husband has made arrangements to fix. They are out there now cutting the tree into pieces. I am just glad that the thing fell the way it did and not any other way. It could have fallen on power lines or my husband's shop. Thankfully no one was hurt and we get along with our neighbors so we can work it all out and not spend our futures trading insurance information and police reports.

This is the scene at 5:00pm after the tree was cut into pieces:
This was where the tree once stood and now it is a mess:
The future plans for this spot are to put gravel there and have a place to park our camper and boat. We'd been wanting to do that all along, but that tree was just in the way. 

so says Crazy Working Mom at 4:31 PM 12 comments, add yours here

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