Tornado, tornado go away

So... last night, my area was under a tornado watch....then a tornado warning. As a girl from up North, tornadoes still strike fear into my heart. However, I've gotten better with them since I moved here in September. Before I would just freak out at a watch. Now, I'm calmer during a watch and start to prepare just in case it turns into a warning. Generally, my bathroom gets turned into a bunker with everything that I could possibly need or would be really upset about if it got destroyed. However, last night freaked me out.

We've had a lot of this weather the past couple of weeks. Each time it seems to be worse than the time before. This time, the storm was so bad that I lost power for about two and a half hours. That was the first time that I lost power in my apartment.......and the first time that happens, it scares you. Not only did I have to find candles in my apartment to be able to see where Ross was but there was this annoying beeping that was driving Ross nuts! I thought it was the smoke detector but......it wasn't. It was the security system that's in my apartment. So, I decided that I'd continue to check the weather via my phone and when the coast was clear that I'd relocate to the church. I've been told that the church would most likely have power if I lost power. I got everything together that I could need to crash at the church for the night and loaded it into Ella. Then it dawned on me that Ella was in my garage.......and the power was out......how was I going to get her out so I could drive her to the church? Apparently, there's a rope you can pull on your garage door that will detach it from the motor so you can open it yourself. I got the garage door open and walked back into my apartment to get Ross when......the power came back on!!!! All that work for nothing! I unloaded Ella and crashed on the couch. I thought I was done and that I could finally rest......and the power went off again causing my security system to start beeping again. By this point, I'd had it. It was almost 1 am and I wasn't about to move. When I had the TV on while I had power, they said that the main part of the storm was past us.....translation in my mind: You can go to bed. You'll be fine. I dug out my ipod, dragged Ross into my bedroom, lit another candle so I could see where I was going, and went to bed. Normally, I would care about Ross not being crated during the night. Last night, I didn't care. If he chewed something up, he chewed something up. I was too tired to care. Once in bed, I tried really hard to listen to my ipod and make the beeping sound go away and it worked for a little bit.....until I heard voices.....This meant one of two things:
1. I had gone crazy and I was hearing voices in my head.
2. My power came back and that the voices were really coming from my TV in the living room.
I turned over and looked at the cable box in my bedroom to discover that the power had indeed come back on! I got up, fixed the TV in my bedroom, went and turned off the TV in the living room, and crawled right back in bed. I was finally able to fall asleep around 2 am.

I know that I'll get better at dealing with this kind of weather the longer that I live here. It just takes some getting used to. Each time this kind of weather rolls around, I do better than I did the time before. However, I have the sneaking suspicion that I'll still freak out when this kind of weather comes in......Like I tell all of my members: You're reaction to snow is my reaction to tornadoes. You get scared by any amount of snow fall and decide to hunker down in your houses for days after making a run to the grocery store for the essentials. I will most likely have a scared reaction to tornadoes by begin extremely cautious and living in my bathroom for several hours.

It is what it is......Thank you, Lord, for keeping all of us safe last night and bringing us to a new day today. Amen.