Lions, and tornadoes, and school... oh my?

Well, today I went to the school to find exactly where my classes are since school starts Tuesday. I've gotta say, I'm very impressed with how lucky I am! LOL! Without even seeing the campus when I signed up for classes, I did really well as far as choosing my days and times and where the buildings are... Let me elaborate to make it more clear. My Monday/Wednesday classes are only 15 mins apart from each other. I was worried that I was gonna have to haul ass across campus just to get to the other class on time. But, as my luck would have it, even though my classes are in 2 different buildings those days, the buildings share a parking lot. Same goes for my Tuesday/Thursday classes. So glad it happened that way! Hopefully there'll be plenty of parking close by so I'm not rushing to my first class of the morning...

I've gotta say, one thing that caught my attention today was in the communications/English building. I'd almost forgotten that I live where there's chances of tornadoes... Until I walked into that building and saw at least 4 of the same signs saying, "In case of tornado warnings please proceed to class rooms ......., ......, ......., or the restrooms across from ...... Because those rooms don't have windows and they've got a double wall." Ugh! Oddly, that was the only building out of 4 I was in today that had those signs up. Although, seeing those signs also reminded me that I need to have some sort of plan for when at home, in case of tornadoes, or other emergencies. Even though, having a plan isn't gonna make me any less terrified. LOL.

I've only had a couple of experiences with tornadoes in my lifetime. In my old home town, that wasn't a worry. Then when I lived in Cali, it wasn't a worry then either. Yes, I know, Cali has earthquakes, but just the couple of run ins with tornadoes, I'd way rather have an earthquake any day! So my first run in with a tornado was when I was in 6th grade. I was homeschooled so was able to travel with a set of my grandparents up to NY. We traveled through a lot of southern and eastern states during that trip. We happened to stop in TN for an evening. Just so happens we had to stop for gas first. So my grandmother got out to pay, and after my grandfather pumped the gas, he also went inside to use the restroom. About that time, the electricity went out and the sirens started. Now, I may not have ever been in a tornado before, but I knew what that meant. So, 11 year old me starts freaking out thinking I was definitely about to die. Needless to say, it did touch down, but not close enough to us that I/we saw the damage. So that was incident number 1, and really, that's all it took to scare me for life on tornadoes.

My second incident, was when I was visiting a friend ay school in Canyon, TX. We stayed the night in Canyon but the next night decided to drive an hour or so to Lubbock where one of her aunts live. We took 2 separate cars. The skies were pitch black and I tried to keep a local radio station on so I could get warnings. We arrived in Lubbock just fine, but it was hailing like crazy, lightening and thundering, and super super windy. We stayed the night with no problems. But when I got back to NM my friend told me that just 30 mins after we left, they had a tornado. This instance was really more of a close call for me than a scare, but tornadoes still terrify me.

LOL, well now that I'm pretty positive I'll have nightmares about tornadoes, I'm out for tonight!