Just found out that National Geographic has done a Documentary on the Joplin Tornado.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

Some kids were watching it on YouTube here outside the Library. I was shaken but was able to keep from totally losing it. I say it was a small victory for me. But I ran inside ASAP. Did not want to push my luck.

So yeah, I am celebrating not flipping out like I did with the sirens at the Football game!

[Warpy]

1. I guess living on Beacon Hill in Boston traumatized me for life

because the barest whiff of smoke in the middle of the night will get me standing up with my shoes on before I awaken, ready to flee. The buildings were all Victorian firetraps with rickety to no fire escapes. They were also crammed together, 50,000 people living in an area a quarter of a mile on each side.

I've been able to watch documentaries of disasters I've been in and they're curiously surreal, nothing like my memories of the mess (flooding, blizzards, hurricanes) and sensationalizing the whole thing instead of acknowledging the sheer boredom of living through it with the maximum in inconvenience.