lei-lani and I were just hitting our beds and saw how windy and lightningy it was getting and something told me the power would go out so I told Lani lets leave the smartphones on tonight just in case I gotta call the power people.

She agreed and we got some candles and flashlights bedside.

so about 11:59 PM Thursday night..... BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gave the same sound as as Amber Alert but i think we both knew this was no fucking Amber Alert... i was expecting "flood watch" "flood warning" "severe thunderstorm warning" yadda yadda....

NEWP!!!!!!!!

"TORNADO WARNING! Seek shelter immediately within your basement or cellar, or a confined space in the interior of your house......"

Well we werent panicked yet because we looked outside and didnt really see anything.... but needless to say we thought well ...better safe than sorry and took the cats toward the basement. My hand gets on the light switch and ZAP....power goes out. So we're fumbling int he dark now with three cats and i guess thank god there was still some moonlight because we got the candles/flashlights finally and headed downstairs....

meanwhile... just about 20 blocks away from us:



i think its amazing first off because we were THAT fucking close to it... on its trajectory, had it kept going.... we were gonna get hit and a lot of people would get hurt. it was only on the ground about 3 minutes and fizzled out... (cuz Cleveland's not FLAT)

But still kinda scary. We ended up losing power from midnight to about 5:00 PM Friday but theres still folks in our area not getting power for days.... im sad to say.

But it did make me create a cool meme for the event:

https://media.discordapp.net/attach.....amp;height=468

hehe...i slay me. :D

so yeah tldr;
Tornado hit, we are all good, cats safe, power on. no casualties.