tornado warning #2

it's for northern indiana, but it sure scares the bejeezus out of me. and i don't know how far away northern indiana is yet.

when i was little in georgia we used to have drills at school during which we'd line up in the hall and squat down covering our heads with our hands. that's where memory and story start to mix. in my head, i totally remember a tornado coming near the school. the memory/story continues with my mom, who worked as a parapro (some term similar to a teacher's aide) and a school nurse (not at the same time), grabbing my sister and me and the tornado alarms going off. but i might have made it up.

i do know that i was terrified of tornadoes and my parents told me that they only really happened in cobb county (we lived in gwinnett) and that tornadoes couldn't form once it started raining. so i was calmer except when we drove into cobb county, at which point the anxiety, which would prove a defining trait later in life, would kick in.

i also know that once when there was a total eclipse we all got to run to the gym shielding our eyes and then peek at it with magic pin-hole glasses. i was worried i'd get the jacked up glasses and go blind.

my college therapist (shut up) once said i'd be a good candidate for memory recovery hypnosis. i still don't know how i feel about that. for now i guess i'll get out an atlas and figure out where the hell i live.