Thunderstorm

Our helpful weather radio just went off and alerted us to a severe thunderstorm warning for our county. This is the first warning of the thunderstorm season which has thus far been pretty slow. It is not, though, the first significant thunderstorm this year; I guess the others didn't have high enough winds to be classified as "severe".

The weather radio is a curse and a blessing. We are thankful that it is loud enough to wake us (if necessary) when life-threatening weather is passing through the area. We curse it, though, when it wakes us in the middle of the night for these severe thunderstorm warnings. If we are in bed and asleep, we don't want to be waken just to find out that we have already taken the precautions necessary for a thunderstorm, namely, to be inside. There have been a few nights when we felt like parents of new-borns, being waken every few hours to a whining radio.

What can you do, though? All of this disturbance is worth the hassle when tornados do come around and we'd much rather over-alerted than under.