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I must have missed the thread on the tornadoes...
About a month after I moved to North Carolina, Hurricane Floyd hit; it is recorded as being North Carolina's worst natural disaster on the books (I think as far as cost/damages). I was living in my mom's Civil War era house, and we stayed there for the storm. I thought the house was going to fall down around my ears; I was scared to death and didn't get a wink of sleep all night. I "slept" in the hallway because the only tree in my mom's yard happened to be right in front of my bedroom, so I thought it would be safer somewhere else. It's actually lucky we didn't go inland as a lot of people did, because the coast didn't actually get hit as badly as 70-80 miles inland did.
I also had a tornado hit the town I lived in while I was in NC. I heard the news report as I was driving home from work. I was basically driving toward the storm in order to get to my house. We lived on the military base, so when I got to the guard gate, the driver stopped me; I was thinking, I can't believe he is checking my ID. He actually told me to get my ass home as fast as I could, because the storm wasn't too far off. We had a strange door that required both hands to unlock/open at the same time, so I jumped out of the car, unlocked the door, and dropped my purse and keys on the floor. When I returned, son in arms, the door was closed....and locked since it locked automatically. What I didn't realize was my husband had come home early and thought it would be funny to play a joke on me. I wasn't amused. The tornado didn't hit our housing area, but it did do quite a bit of damage to the town.
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Formerly Medusa
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