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What Would You Take in an Emergency?
May 17th, 2009 | 
Author: We had a freak weather situation here yesterday. I almost never have the TV on and for some reason I turned it on during a light slow drizzle of a nice rain storm. All of a sudden TORNADO WARNINGS and we were exactly in the center of the path. From 4 to 6 pm it got really weird around here with storm dark howling noises, driving winds and rain varying from a roar to extremely silent and then back to thunder boomers and howling again.
I know now what I hold most sacred because without thinking I gathered up my last 4 notebooks, my smallest laptop, did a quick backup of my main system on to my external hard drive, a digital camera, threw them all in a duffle bag to take with me, and made a nest in the smallest bedroom for me and the 3 dogs and cat.
It did howl like crazy nearby but we were untouched and I have not seen the news yet this morning but I bet it did hit nearby. We almost never have anything like that around here in this part of Upstate New York. Once I was driving across country and was going from Nebraska up to Pierre, SD to visit people and the car radio was warning of tornado possibilities near Pierre, and I actually saw two different funnels ahead of me, one on the left and one on the right at the same time. Very scary and they do a lot of damage.
It was funny after the fact what I decided were the most precious possessions and what was the most important to save. There are lots of very valuable family heirloom antiques around here and I did not think about one of them. What would you decide was the most precious things to take with you and are you ready?
Update: The tornado did hit just over the next mountain only a couple of miles away and destroyed a house and some barns and some horses were lost on a nearby Amish farm. I knew I could hear it nearby but could not see it. Our neighbors will pitch in and help them rebuild I am sure. Be prepared!
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