Weird Scarey Storm That Lasted Ten Minutes

[shadowkat]

Alright this is scary. I'm sitting on the fourth floor of a brownstone during a tornado warning in Brooklyn, NY. No indication one has definitely touched down. (Okay if it did touch down? I'd be dead. There are no interior rooms away from windows. No basement, I can go to, and no place to be safe. I suppose I could sit in the bathtub. There are no windows in the bathroom. )Before it began to rain - I looked at the sky and it was the color of Kale, a bracken green, deep as seaweed. And when it hit - it was if a wall of rain hit the building all at once. You couldn't see past the window. And lighting crashed against the windows. The air stinks of water, that dank dewy stinky smell of damp moss and algae. It's calming a bit now. But for a minute there I thought the storm would crash through the windows.

Does explain the sick headache I've had all day, and the feeling as if I were swimming up through
a fog. Even inside. All I've wanted to do all day was sleep. Curl tight into a ball and sleep. Ache all over. The air pressure heavy, pushing me down. What can I say? I'm a human weathervane.

Comments

[ann1962]

I can feel drops in the barometric pressure too.

Seriously, a bike helmet, a blanket and a bathtub could save your life. We have the kids put them on when we have to go to the basement for the storms.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ever since I smashed my head open and got the six stitches - shifts in barometric pressure give me what amounts to sick headaches, and aches in every place that I hurt. It's weird. Was always sensitive though. Just more so now. Once it was over, I felt light and happy. Very weird.
Today was the polar opposite of yesterday in that regard.

I know my Grandmother used to go to the bathtub whenever a tornado hit.
The trick is to get away from windows - which can break and pull you out and into the wind funnel. So if you can hide in an interior room, you should be fine. Or so my parents tell me - we lived in Kansas for 17 years, tornados were about as common as thunder storms. Here, they are alien creatures that no one quite knows what to do with. LOL!