Tuesday Thrills

Nashville occasionally gets tornados. The warnings on the radio start with a series of beeps, continue with an automated voice listing the counties under a warning, and conclude with instructions to get to the basement. My wife and I rent the second floor of a house and can't get to the basement. Normally we just stay away from the windows and concentrate on being lucky.

Tonight while working on being lucky, the wife received an e-mail informing us that a tornado was expected to reach the campus (which is less than a mile away) in fifteen minutes.  We decided that luck was pretty fickle, and that it was time to get to know our downstairs neighbors better. To get to the downstairs apartment we have to go outside, and the sky had a look to it that I have never ever seen before.  It was kind of serene and filled with other-worldly structure.  I would have stopped to study it, if I didn't have the sense of being a gazelle marveling at how lustrous the lion's mane was.

Our neighbors are really nice.