Day 4,379—Almost Normal—
I slept in this morning by accident, but it made sense. Last night, it was around the usual time to go to sleep, but I started getting alerts on my phone: there was a tornado warning. Even though my personal property wasn’t damaged by the tornado in St. Louis last year, my office was, and my previous school was shut down as a result. Also, a second one that wasn’t labeled a tornado but did rip through a clear path across the street happened even more recently. Was it just last year at this time when it went down? I guess it was. That seems like such a long time ago. My point is that I don’t think I will ever take weather warnings the same way again. We stayed up late enough to see the warning change to an intense thunderstorm, then went to bed. I think my wife was up checking on it because when I woke up a little after midnight, she wasn’t in bed, so it reminded me of what happened last night. Even though all that was in the backgro...
