Having lived in tornado alley for several years I am used to severe storms that pop up without too much notice. I had a couple of friends visiting from out of state, they were not a couple, just friends that flew out together to visit me. The first night as we were asleep town siren went off shaking us out of the beds, my guests were not used to things like this and came running into the hall right from each bedroom. “Get to the basement now” I yelled as the alarm on my storm radio went off adding to the mayhem. We got down the stairs into the basement and I directed them to a small “safe room” to the right t the base of the stairs. I turned on a florescent lantern just as the power went out, they looked scared and I was feeling a bit uneasy myself. “Alex, what do we do?” Shawn asked. “Just hunker down until it passes, there is not too much we can do but wait it out.” Turning on a battery operated weather radio, it confirmed what we had already done, telling us to move to a s
By Seth Cybertar