On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 03:45:31 GMT, "Threnody" spewed forth :
>I grew up in Illinois and Iowa, and I remember spending a *LOT* of time in
>my big wooden toybox in the basement of our house during storms. (My dad
>made it especially as a storm shelter for me but it held toys the rest of
>the time.) A few times we would return upstairs to have all the furniture
>stacked against one wall from where Mom had to open the windows to relieve
>pressure in the house before we all went downstairs. I think we replaced
>the carpet at least once a year. So when I think "big storm," what Austin
>gets simply isn't it. I think the hail is kind of fun -- as long as I'm >under cover.
Amen, sister. Last year's hailstorm was scary to me because it brought a train with it and I didn't have a hole to stuff my son into. My husband is from here so doesn't get why golfball-sized hail flying horizontally freaked me out so much :D
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