Apparently, today kicks off tornado awareness week. Or month. Or season. Something like that. Steve told me about it and I was too lazy to look it up.
But today, our family had a "moment" without even realizing it.
It started when Penny told us she had a "grill," at school today. You know, a tornado grill...
Ah yes. Carolyn had one too. In her grill/drill, she had to sit silently in the hallway and put a book over her head. This clears up the statement she made earlier today about her head being the most important part of her body. Doctors can fix a broken leg, she said, but they have a really hard time fixing heads.
I agreed, that is difficult.
In Penny's grill/drill, she had to stand in the hallway facing her cubby. I guess they weren't as concerned with heads there.
I even had a drill at the hospital. A lady came over the loudspeaker and said, "This is a tornado watch drill. This is a tornado watch drill." And then everybody continued about their day.
Because today is the first Tuesday of the month, Steve heard the the monthly siren on his way to work and also heard a broadcast alert on the radio. This was not as organized as the rest of the family's grill/drill stories, but it was still nice he got to be included.
So, over dinner, we learned that we all sort of had a similar experience today. And after a long day away, it was nice to talk about what happened. Even if it was only a grill.
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Last summer, we picked up the boys from daycare during an actual tornado warning. We were surprised to see the organized chaos that was the entire center in the hallway, with books on their heads. It was surprisngly calm and quiet. And then an actual tornado touched down 1/2 mile away from there. Isaac still talks about it.
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