May 28, 2024, 6:05 a.m.
I am Doodlebug, King of the Olde English Bulldogges.
Sweetie: The sky is wailing, Lady Human. Please tell it to shut up.
Me: That’s the Tornado Warning.
Sweetie: So this is another human mess.
Me: Well, the siren is human, but no, we did not invent tornadoes.
Doodlebug: Don’t they know some of us are trying to sleep?
MoonCat: They don’t care about such things. Interruptions are their forte.
Me: Nobody is supposed to sleep just now. That siren says they have detected a hook cloud in the county. That means nearby.
Sweetie: Does this mean an early breakfast?
Me: It can. Is that why you came to get me?
Sweetie: No, I came to get you because I love you. And I wanted to visit with you. And to see if I could get an early breakfast.
BOOM!
Sweetie: Oh, Lady Humaaannn. The patio door’s open.
Me: Oh, great! The wind blew it open! The latch can’t hold it. I’ll have to.
Doodlebug: If the door’s open, we can all go outside to pee.
Me: Nobody is going outside to do anything. We are hunkering down. Except for me. I’m holding the door closed. Yay.
MoonCat: Consider me hunkered down. Y’all sleep tight.
Doodlebug: How long will this go on?
Me: Until the storm passes.
Sweetie: Who turned off the lights? How am I supposed to see my breakfast…when it eventually gets here?
Me: Power’s off. And now we’ve lost the phone and the internet, too.
Doodlebug: Point me in the right direction. I’ll go sniff ’em out.
Me: Sorry, Doodle. It don’t work that way.
Sweetie: The door is pushing you, Lady Human! Bulldog it! You’re plenty big enough!
Me: At least the steel gate is holding. That’s working.
Sweetie: Nothing else around here seems to be. Okay, time for early breakfast!
Me: Sorry, girl. You’ll have to wait until I can let go of the door.
Sweetie: See, Doodle! Keeping the wind and rain out of the house is more important to humans than breakfast. They have their priorities all wrong.
Copyright 2024 H.J. Hill. All Rights Reserved.
Bulldoggy 
Well obviously you’re writing so you are ok but still scary.
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Yes, I have actually seen stronger, non-tornadic winds. One storm 5 years ago took down our 38 year old oak tree and crashed it onto the house. Result: New roof. Need to do that every so often anyway. Thank the Lord for insurance.
This storm cut power to everything on one side of the county and left a bunch of other people totally connected. It got me to thinking (uh-oh) how absolutely dependent we have become on these connections for everything. The best thing to come out of it was how we started physically connecting with neighbors and, when phone service came back on, calling and checking on each other.
Still the patio door event was inconvenient and needs to be sorted out. The dogs were like, “Uh, where are our fans?” Thankfully, the temperature dropped some. And there are lots of branches to pick up. May use them for a barbecue when everything dries out.
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Not that hurricanes are fun but that are the only crazy storms I’ve lived through. Texas weather and tornadoes sound really scary.
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Yeah, we get hurricanes, too. I grew up in Beaumont, Texas. That was a regular threat every fall, but they lose power the further away from the coast they go. We get a lot of press because of the intensity and unpredictability of a tornado. They pull some pretty weird stunts.
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P.S. When I spoke to the internet provider yesterday, just to let them know we were still here and still disconnected, the guy told me there were no estimates for restoration of service because they were classifying this as a “disaster”. Okay. If you say so.
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