Jackson House spent *ahemwaytoomuchtimeahem* (in my opinion) standing on the porch watching the dark cloud roll in - CNN playing on a loop of storm chaser footage - the weather radio blasting high pitched frequencies and beeps and automated voices saying things like "stay away from winDOWS" - everyone's laptops buzzing with radar maps and weather blogs - then our tornado watch changed to a tornado warning, and we went into survival mode.
Survival mode in Jackson House means filling the bathroom with Temperpedic mattresses; filling the bathroom closet with Milky Way Minis, fruit, and Cliff bars; everyone loading up bags with passports, Social Security cards, important pictures, and the most expensive things we own (me: contact lenses and GPS); and all nine of us snuggling down with our weather radio and The Bourne Identity. It got really hot in the bathroom, and we all ate too much candy.
It looks like damage in Kentucky wasn't as bad as it could have been, or as they were predicting. It was looking pretty sketchy there for awhile.
Also, New England doesn't do silly things like have tornadoes. Time to be heading back soon? We'll see.
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