Chicago weather…yeeha!
Getting ready for bed last night – kids tucked in…..and all hell breaking loose outside. Heavy winds, torrential downpours……..and then, the sirens.
We’ve been at this house for nearly five years, and not once have I heard the emergency sirens go off (…except for the typical “first Tuesday of each month @ 10 AM test…..). I didn’t know whether or not to wake the kids up and scramble to the basement for cover – or, just keep the TV on and see what warnings flash across the screen. Just as I was about to ‘act’ – the sirens turned off a quickly as they came on…… A few minutes later, they came on again – but from a different direction. I ran downstairs and checked the Web for any up-to-the-minute reports and saw that there was a funnel cloud sighted a few miles to the Southeast of us……. then, everything got silent and calm.
Things pretty much settled down for the rest of the night (…although it did take a while to get to sleep…). Happy mothers day, by the way!