In my 34 years of life, I've never been through a storm so bad that I was actually scared. When they advertised this storm, we knew it might be tricky. We went ahead and put the kids to bed, and waited. Let me be clear - I can handle storms in the daytime. When I can see them coming and I see them blow over. But when they come at night, and you can hear them, but you can't see them....that's just a little too scary for me. So at one point, I tempted waking the kids, then I thought I was over-reacting. That I'd let the fear they build on the news get to me...but then the electricity went off, and the tv was gone, and we didn't have any way of knowing what was going on, or any way to see the radars. So, we grabbed the kiddos, brought them down to the basement and waited. And listened. And Jason would occasionally sneak up to see the damage/see what it was doing. All the while, I'm texting Mom & Trent for what had happened there, and texting Jacki to see how ...
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