So last night we had a tornado warning here in north/central Texas. The university decided that everyone on campus had to go to the first floor of their buildings and hunker down til the warning subsided. Luckily, we have some friends on the first floor of our residence hall, so we hung out in their room while all the crap was hitting the fan. My roommate, who often thinks he is right (even when he is flat out wrong) refused to follow the warning texts and automated phone calls, saying that he would claim that he didn't get them. He finally admitted he would go when the emergency PA system alerted all of us to go to the first floor hallway.
Anyhow, the storm was pretty nasty, with several tornados forming and being sighted. Ironically, from looking at the radar map on the news channel, it looked like all the stuff was being formed just west of our city, and moving east. I have never seen that much purple on a weather map before.
We passed the time watching the storm, making Lord of the Rings references to Saruman causing the storm on mount Caracras (spelling possibly incorrect).
I was in contact with my dad, who was looking at the radar map on his phone while on business in Calgary. That's what I like about him - he likes to keep up to date on how things are going for us. The good news is that he is not overbearing about it. Actually, I never notice him keeping tabs until he randomly says in a phone call, "nasty weather you've been having lately."
In the end, we survived, but class wasn't cancelled.
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