{"id":5294,"date":"2019-05-29T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=5294"},"modified":"2019-05-29T09:30:33","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T13:30:33","slug":"a-bit-of-scary-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2019\/05\/29\/a-bit-of-scary-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bit of Scary Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So last night a line of severe thunderstorms rolled through our area – which is nothing unusual – but then both my wife and I looked down at our phones and saw something that nobody wants to see: a tornado warning urging us to seek shelter immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Emergency
Well, shit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, tornados are not a normal occurrence here in New Jersey – they do happen, but it’s rare. Still, this was my first time seeing an actual tornado warning <\/strong><\/em>as opposed to a watch <\/em><\/strong>– and checking the details showed that this alert was based on radar-indicated rotation, not an actual sighting. Still, we decided that it would probably be best to take shelter anyway – just in case. (I was born in the midwest and lived my first 7 years there, so I have a healthy respect for tornado warnings.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we quickly grabbed our pet carrier and shoved two very confused & grouchy bunnies into it (they were in the middle of their dinner) and headed down into our basement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I wasn’t terribly worried – tornadoes in this part of the country tend not to last very long due to the terrain, so the odds were in our favor in that regard. Plus, even if there was a tornado, it might not have touched down, and it probably wouldn’t be anywhere near as powerful as the ones you get in more open areas. Still, with the heavy rain soaking the ground and strong winds, there is always the possibility of a tree coming down on the house. We trim and maintain our trees pretty well for this reason, but you never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that’s how we found ourselves sitting in the basement with the bunnies for about a half hour while we waited out the storm. Our house was built on a 2-3 inch concrete slab on top of steel I-beams, so the basement is a very safe place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Bunnies
The buns did not appreciate having their dinner interrupted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the end, the worst of the storm ended up passing just to the north of us, so we didn’t get much more than some very heavy rain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, that was our sort-of close call with severe weather – our first real bad scary weather incident in our house. Thankfully nothing really came from it (at least for us; others in parts of the state were not so lucky).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The buns got back to their dinner and everything returned to normal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tornado warnings? Take shelter now? 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