Crazy Kitties in the Wind!!

**yorkster** · 04-16-2002, 11:42 PM

Oh wow! what an interesting story, and soooo scary!

Those pictures are incredible! Who is the person with the red top in the first pic? Did you take those pics?
We don't really have tornados/twisters up here (east of the Cascade Mountains maybe),
just wind storms, flooding, and of course the occasional earthquake!...........

How are your cats now? Still scared? Did you find them all?

**LoudLou** · 04-17-2002, 12:05 AM

Heard about this onour local news tonight... Hope everyone is OK. Are all kitties accounted for? I worry about all my friends now anytime I see reports like these on the news. 4 feline house I AM SO GLAD YOU ARE OK.

**4 feline house** · 04-17-2002, 12:35 AM

Everyone made it into, and back out of, the closet (except me!

).

I didn't take the pics, they're all from our local news outlets' websites.

The closest touchdown was about 10 miles from us, so we were safe all along, but of course I'd rather be safe than sorry! Funnel clouds and wall clouds were everywhere, though, and it's likely one was very close to either the house or me in the car, if not right over! But the rain was so heavy even the professional storm spotters were saying they couldn't be seen, so take cover as if there was one!

That drive was probably the scariest I've ever driven!

While I was headed to the airport, I was thinking "I've never heard of a tornado striking a major airport, so I'll be safe going this way!"

The car dealers wasted no time - they're playing a commercial for a "storm damage sale" as I type this.

Ho, hum, another spring day in North Texas.

**AmberLee** · 04-17-2002, 01:01 AM

Merciful heavens!!! So glad to hear that you are okay, but my heart was in my throat as I read about the danger you'd been in!!! Part of me want to shake you and part of me wants to hug you. {{{Leah and family, furred and not!}}}

Is there an all weather radio channel in your area?

**lynnestankard** · 04-17-2002, 06:42 AM

Good grief Leah that sounds so frightening! I'm so pleased that Alan and the furbabies obeyed Mum and are safe and sound - strange isn't it that Mum's are invincible. The pics were really good, thanks for giving us a chance to have a look/see.
We're so lucky here not to be bothered by such really bad storms.
Hugs to you and all the family - glad your OK.

Lynne

**auggie** · 04-17-2002, 07:16 AM

Leah! I was driving in the middle of the bad storm and barely missed the tornado touch down in Handley, just obout one mile from work. I started to go home that way to avoid the freeway. Don't know what made me change my mind in the last minute, but I would have been right in that area when the tornado struck.

**tuxluvr** · 04-17-2002, 07:30 AM

The tornado thing scares me. My mother grew up in texas and witnessed two tornados.....you make me stop and think about the emergency plan - on mylist, buy a cat cage...

I do think animals in general have a sense about the weather. Ritz loves wind but really hates thunder, it sends her under the chair in seconds flat.

Leah, so glad you and your family withstood this storm! It's tornado season where I live too, can relate

**Tubby & Peanut's Mom** · 04-17-2002, 02:02 PM

Oh my Leah! And auggie too! We, of course, heard about this on the news. Since I'm on a few lists, with people all across the country and the world, the first thing that goes through my mind when I hear something like this is I hope everyone is safe. So glad to hear you and your family are ok, and give your son an extra hug for listening so well.

Isn't it funny how this post just happened to come up at this time? Weird, huh?

**Ila** · 04-17-2002, 11:04 PM

So glad everyone is all right!! That had to be scarey. We get touch downs once in awhile around here. Neighbors have had problems we have been lucky. Glad your all ok!! Misty and I hate storms.

**4 feline house** · 04-17-2002, 11:54 PM

Yeah, Nomilynn, that was awfully nice of you to start this thread so me and the Fort Worth Twister could hijack it!

**krazyaboutkatz** · 04-18-2002, 12:24 AM

I'm so glad to here that both Leah and Auggie and their families are okay. I guess you were in the right place at the right time when the tornado hit.

**toughCookie** · 04-18-2002, 05:54 AM

the only thing I can say about cats and storms, is....
during one rain/thunder storm, Muffin got scared and hid under my bed, so I went in there with her, sat on the floor and pet her, talked to her, and the next time there was a storm, I guess she decided it wasn't so bad, she wanted to go outside!! well she had to settle for looking out the window with Cookie and me

those pics, how awful, scary!