Mild fright

Got a bit of a mild fright yesterday. While watching TV, the Severe Weather map appeared on the bottom of the screen, but the storm was well in the south-west of the viewing region, while we are pretty much in the centre of it. Didn't seem to be a big deal. A little while later, our county and the surrounding ones were listed as "Tornado Watch", but it didn't seem too serious. The weather guy's storm tracker suggested the main potentially tornadic cell was going to be east of us, so we'd be OK. Maybe another half-hour goes by. Then I hear the tornado sirens going off outside. We grab the radio, torch (that's flashlight for you Americans), some knitting and a couple of chairs, and camp out in the bathroom for an hour, as that's the only room in our apartment without any external windows.

Of course, it turns out that the storm did pass east of us, and was quite damaging in some areas of the St Louis region, so today there's quite a bit of storm cleanup. Fortunately there appear to have been no serious injuries.

Humph. I thought the tornado season was in the spring.