snooze and sirens

Snoring along in the middle of the night only to be woken by tornado sirens at 12:30am, I can tell that this isnt going to be a good night already. Im pretty used to the tornado sirens since Ive moved to Ohio because we live close to the city so sirens are everywhere and they go off about 4 times a year and warn you to get to a basement. In case your wondering everyone in Ohio has basements although Im pretty certain the main reason is because the winters and needing to have a furnace down there. Anyways, for some reason I felt safer in our other home this is the first major storm in our new house. Maybe its because our old house was a safe ranch with basement and in between many other homes. It was close to the ground and a tornado would probably just skip right over it like hoping over a jump rope. Our new house all of the bedrooms are upstairs so we are up one more story, we still have a basement but I feel so open here, so exposed. The back of our house backs up to a field so there is nothing to slow it down before it gets to our house. The siren by the way is on top of a water tower that is only 1/4 a mile away from the house so yeah we hear them really well in fact we can actually hear the squeaking of the siren rotating, somebody needs to get up there with some WD40. At 12:30am we are adding items needed to the basement just in case. We already have water, flashlights, candles and matches but who doesn't love a box of club crackers. I grab my diaper bag that doubles as my purse because the last thing I want to do is to lose my license in a storm and spend 3 hours at the DMV to renew it, clothes because we are in our pjs and if Im going to be rescued I dont want to be in my pajamas, shoes and cell phone. At 1:30am they stop the sirens that had been going off for an hour and announce it safe and over. At 3:30am the house shakes from the aftermath storm that has now made its way on top of our house. Preston is now back into our bed because the storm, lightning, rain and wind is actually louder than the tornado sirens and it wakes him up immediately. In fact if my parents were in my house I would of climbed in bed with them too. I sense that a much needed nap is in our future today.