Crazy weather!

Ok, so I thought I had seen thunderstorms. I mean, it rains sometimes in Fresno...we get some thunder...little bit of lightning maybe. Well after last night, I will never think of that as a real storm again. Storms in Oklahoma are CRAZY! It seriously felt like the world was coming to an end, like the sky was falling. I've never seen anything like it. It was raining SO hard, and the thunder was pretty much a constant rumbling, with lots of loud bangs and crashes mixed in. The lightning lit up the whole sky, and then also had the lightning bolts that seemed to split the sky in half. I never thought I was afraid of storms...apparently I'd just never seen any real ones. And I've learned that the night tech who works on weekends LOVES storms...she said she'd love to be a storm chaser. So here I am freaking out, the whole time she's talking about how great this is, how she'd love to go up to the roof and watch, don't I want to go out on the porch and watch (I ended up being dragged out there...said she didn't want me to be afraid of it...I'm not a fan of the whole "exposure therapy" idea). Ok, she was actually very nice and comforting about it...just thought it was a little funny that I was so scared of a storm. People were shocked that this seemed so abnormal to me, that I'd never seen a storm like this before. I keep trying to tell them all that we have nice weather in California...never again will I complain about the weather in Fresno! And apparently out here they have these sirens that go off to warn about tornados and severe weather, so now I am completely paranoid about anything that sounds even remotely like an alarm...I think the nurses got tired of me running out there every time I heard a noise :-). And then, after the big storm last night, we got an even bigger one at like 4:00 this morning...it woke me up...I ended up back up at the nurses station...keeping a close eye on the weather channel for a tornado warning. Needless to say, I did not sleep well. It's supposed to be storming all week :-(. That's about all the exciting news I've got time for right now...I'm being summoned to snack time. Just pray that I don't get blown away by a tornado in the next couple days...