Comments on: Thy Name is Paranoia

By: supertiff

supertiff — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:12:06 +0000

my mom says that every night before i went to sleep, i would make her promise that 1) the house wouldn’t catch on fire 2) a tornado would not come, and 3) no burglars would come in. she says every night she would close my door, walk into the hallway and shake her fist toward…i don’t know, heaven, i guess…and tell god that he better make sure nothing happened, because she didn’t want me to think she was a liar.

but, none of those things ever happened, so it was alright in the end.

By: Ritch

Ritch — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:33:55 +0000

You lived in freakin’ Tampa for how long? It’s the lightning capital of the world. We get squalls like that on a weekly basis. You couldn’t have been brainwashed by the folks up there already? (I do love how you turned “hurricane” into a verb. NICE!)

By: Tonya

Tonya — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:18:09 +0000

OMG there must have been something in the air last night because I had this total vivid dream about a tornado or hurricane coming and I was trying to get home but Jay was on a plane coming home from camp and they wouldn’t drive them home from the airport so we had to race the ‘whatever it was’ with all of it’s loud weird noises to pick him up. I haven’t been able to get it out of my mind all morning.

I would have been freaking out too. I keep trying to think of a ’safe spot’ in our house but can’t come up with one aside from the tub in the main bathroom. Mmmm.

By: cheryl

cheryl — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:22:07 +0000

Tornado terror freaked me PRE-twins, now, if I wake at 3:00am in the summer and it’s inordinately quiet (isn’t it always deathly quiet before a tornado?), I go rummaging over to hubby’s night stand, pilfer the remote and watch the red lower third warnings. Nice and healthful.

Ever since the kids saw that friendly tornado in Elmo’s “Wild Wild West” they seem to think you simply ask it to leave and shut the door. For now, until I have to wake them because the red warnings/watches freak me to the point of mid-sleep bed to basement extraction, I’ll let them sleep blissfully.

Paranoia, thy name is Parenthood.

By: Chicky Chicky Baby

Chicky Chicky Baby — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:52:51 +0000

Damn. That would have scared the hell out of me.

My safe place is in the deepest part of my brain. When I go there it usually involves the fetal position and a little thumb sucking.

By: Kristabella

Kristabella — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:41:19 +0000

I think there should be some fear, since those things are scary and they should know that. But then you could also tell them that they have sirens and weather alerts and if you see them comin’, you know to RUN AND HIDE! Tornadoes freak the hell out of me!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:14:06 +0000

I’ve never talked too specifically about tornadoes to my girls either — but week before last, they held the kids at school due to a tornado warning that had been issued. Mimi seemed nonchalant about it all, but I was shaking in my boots at the thought.

And yeah, that was some incredibly strong rain. We were watching it from the safety of indoors at work, and just seeing the rain sweep in sheets off the neighboring buildings was an amazing sight.

By: Amie

Amie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:30:17 +0000

we showed our kids pictures of a tornado that came through our area in 1998… so then that backfired on me when we had to visit our safe place a couple of weeks ago for tornado sirens in our neck of the woods. my son was HYSTERICAL. but that is his nature.. a worrier..
glad to hear you guys are good: )

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:27:28 +0000

Sadly you can’t. We were in a head on collision with a drunk driver on Mother’s Day - physically my boys are okay but emotionally….my older one is still having issues. Just hold them tight as you can and tell them you love them.

By: Maggie

Maggie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:51:52 +0000

I don’t think that you can prepare them for everything - especially since you don’t live in a place where tornados are all that common. You just have to do the best you can…and make sure that you always have the batteries of the Nintendo DS charged up!