55Flash Fiction Friday

Sometimes people love me

Other times they despise me
Mostly people just ignore me
Last night people hung on my every word

I was center stage and all eyes were focused
Some were curious, others were in panic
Still others were ready to run and hide
For you see I am the local Weather person

Not my best 55 Flash Fiction Friday but I was inspired. Yesterday afternoon we were under a tornado watch (which I am a little pissed about) and we continued to have a very active evening in Mid Michigan. Super cells were coming up out of the South East all evening. Just when we could come off of a tornado watch we would come under another tornado warning that slipped back into a watch. I had my computer running tracking active radar and the storms in the area. I had the TV on to the local weather forecaster seeing what they were saying.

Luckily for me all we had was some rain, some thunder and a bit of wind. When I finally did decide to go to bed I noticed that the power did go out for a little while but it was not for all that long I do not think. Others were not so lucky. There were tornados spotted, several of them at least. With the light of day we will see what actually happened last night but the radar was seeing the classic hook you see when a tornado is forming. A local town, Williamston, was particularly hard hit. Trees are down and so are power lines. A gas line was ruptured. A semi-truck was blown off the Interstate. Schools are closed as the high school is being used as an emergency shelter and the Red Cross has set up a command post there.

I sure hope you had a much quieter night last night.

The above was a Flash Fiction 55. A group of us do them on Fridays. Won’t you join us. It really is fun. Click on the badge in my side bar to learn more. If you do post be sure to let Susie or G-man know so others can come and visit.

Oh by the way, up above I said I was a little pissed. You see I am part of the monitor network for the building I work in. Maybe I am a little weird but I really think when there is potential danger they should be alerting the monitors to the possible problems. I take my job seriously. I want to make sure people stay as safe as possible and a little warning really does go a long ways.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.