Well, then. When I married my first husband, I moved to Minnesota, where he lived. Fell in LOVE with that state! But I recall one day, newly widowed, when I took my two babes and we sat together on the floor of the bathroom cubby during a tornado. I read a book. My daughter was old enough to know something was wrong; my son just enjoyed the close family time with a book!
A couple years later, they were each at friends homes, all of us a distance away from one another, when a tornado came through, separating us. Talk about anxiety! But we survived.
I will never stop loving Minnesota, the this stuff and the extremes in weather caused me to make my decision: go back home to the Pacific. My son was concerned that it was San Andreas' fault that we had earthquakes, but it took him @ three years to feel his first one. He was at the piano, and it began to shake. My daughter's first felt one was while they were asleep. I made a mad dash upstairs to settle my frightened children, stopping first at my son's bedroom. He was asleep. I ran to my daughter's room. She looked at me sleepily and said, "Was that an earthquake?"
"Yes, Baby."
"Oh," she said and turned over, going back to sleep.