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Natural Disaster Survivors

uppityperson

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3. 48 yrs after the tornado, I freaked.

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 16, 2013, 11:37 PM

Jun 2013

Winds have always bothered me but it took going to gulf coast after Katrina to set it off one day. I thought I was just tired, hot, hungry, stressed but I thought I was going to die, right then. The guy I was with just laughed which pissed me off and got me out of it. About a yr later found an essay my mom wrote about the tornado and an older sib told me LA/MS reminded of our neighborhood after the tornado and it finally made sense. Big winds, things hitting the house = gonna die.

So my monkey mind pops up during big winds (which we have every fall) and reminds me I'm not a toddler in the basement but will. be. ok.

I can not imagine being in one as an adult. Just too much and best wishes to all who have been as it sucks.

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Got caught in a dust devil a few days ago and freaked. [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 OP

You can not predict when something like this will happen or what will set it off. Our flight/fight uppityperson Jun 2013 #1

Thanks Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #2

48 yrs after the tornado, I freaked. uppityperson Jun 2013 #3