Tornado Warning

It's 1:55 am. At least, that's the time it is when I started writing this post. I may lose electricity shortly, so I might have to publish this at another time.

Before I moved to Nebraska, I assumed that hanging out in tornado shelters was a normal part of everyday life for Midwesterners. Fortunately, I soon learned that was not the case. Every time I heard the tornado siren, it was for either testing, or just to tell the public that it was lunchtime. Tonight was the first exception.

After a weekend of family camp, I was tired. But for some reason, I still didn't crawl into bed until 1:20 this morning. I never had the chance to fall asleep, because I noticed it was really windy outside. Then I saw lightning. Then the siren went off. My entire basement apartment is a tornado shelter, but since my bed is right next to a window, I decided to get up and sit on the other side of the room at least.

The alert is no longer active as of this point. We still have a severe thunderstorm watch active for the next three hours. (I never pay attention to those though. For some reason, I've never really been scared of thunderstorms. In fact, the sound of thunder may even help lull me to sleep.) I guess I'll go back to bed now then. I really am tired.