 YOU, IN A TORNADO |
Every spring in my neck of the woods, Oklahoma, we get hit by some pretty severe weather. This past week we have had high winds that almost blew my small car off the road, hard hail the size of quarters and half dollars that dinged up my car (see the video here), incredible rain that has created an almost swimmable pond in my back yard, and solid black thunderclouds that look like an anvil about to drop on you.
Of course the superstar in this weather cataclysm is the TORNADO. To those outside the midwest of the US, tornadoes seem like the most capricious and dangerous of events, but in truth they are among the most predictable. I don’t mean you can always know when and where they will hit, but you can know the circumstances and environment when they will create themselves. If those circumstances aren’t there, the tornado will not form.
When those circumstances are there, when it’s bearing down right on you, you get in the basement. If you don’t have a basement you get in an interior room, preferably a bathroom and you get in the tub. You then put a mattress on top of you.
I have a friend who is going through a life tornado now. She is hurt by the storm so far, but she is also doing the smart thing by getting as far away from the storm as she can. She is no longer on certain social networks, she is removing herself from a job, and (not because of the tornado) she is moving to a new town. You might think she is giving up but she is not. She is protecting herself from a very mean and vicious tornado as best she can.
Sometimes it’s what you need to do when a life tornado is approaching.
Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
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