Comments on: My Cats Love Tornadoes

By: lattegirl

lattegirl — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:45:23 +0000

I wish I had a basement. I meant to have one built in our house, but I was so pregnant I forgot.

This cracked me up, Anne!

By: kimsch

kimsch — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:48:54 +0000

First Tuesday at 10am here. We call it the Tuesday alarm. I actually had just gone out the door when the alarm first went off. I was going to Hollywood video to rent fantastic four and 1408. I picked up premonition and the number 23 as well. Then I went to WalMart to buy the platinum edition of Jungle Book.

I think the village has the button somewhere where it’s easy to hit it. Like in the drawer where the lady that’s been working there forever puts her large purse, or on the counter next to the Staples Easy button. Just like that commercial where the guy sits on the easy button and inkjet cartridges start raining down on the office… It goes off and stops right away, but it happens often enough…

By: Stateria.Com » About

Stateria.Com » About — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:54:00 +0000

Jesus Diaz wrote an interesting post today onMy Cats Love TornadoesHere’s a quick excerpt Like this morning, when the alarm pierced the air for a solid 5 minutes but not one single local TV station was running a weather alert. Nor was the Weather Channel. Nor were any of the online weather sites. Was it a real

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:25:37 +0000

Wow! You’re serious about tornadoes! I wish I had a basement. I meant to have one built in our house, but I was so pregnant I forgot.

And the cats don’t go with you to the basement? I’m going to call PETA.

My mother-in-law was a child in war time England. For the record, I’m about to say something kind about her. Or at least not nasty. They got so tired of going into their bomb shelter when the air raid warnings went off that they quit going. However, the dog was certain that they always needed to rush to the bomb shelter, so he would pester them until he was carried (his legs were too short for the ladder). I thought your story was going to be about the cats insisting on going exploring in the basement.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:10:51 +0000

Teresa,
I’m going to disagree with you here. Dark and stormy is not a reason to call 911. You call 911 when there is an emergency in progress or a crime is being committed. Granted, the cats’ conspiracy to pilfer the household seafood was a cunning plan, but I doubt that they could have been charged.

Disclaimer: I’ve been through all of the natural disasters (the firestorm really sucked), live in hurricane and tornado country, am married to a cop, and have 2 cats.

By: Shelli

Shelli — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:04:45 +0000

I bet they were behind it, the little scamps. We never take the monthly drills seriously. We should, we have a similar record of storms and tornadoes here in Minnesota that you do there in Kansas.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:11:09 +0000

You can call the police station.

If it’s dark and stormy outside you can call 911… if it all looks clear and nothing out of the ordinary – call the regular number.

Once they get enough calls they’ll call the local radio stations to tell everyone it’s a false alarm. (used to happen to us every once in a while in the Midwest – there are no sirens out here on the Northeast coast that I can see)