So if you were watching the news the past day and a half, you probably heard about the major storm system that ripped through the midwest. Rockford, my hometown where I am currently at visiting the family, was one of those places. Yesterday was the first time I had actually heard the tornado sirens go off in face of a line of thunderstorms rolling through the region and also the first time my family and I have used our tornado room in our basement.Not everyone has a tornado room, but we were sure glad to have it yesterday. As my Mom, Dad, lil sis Lexie (rat terrier) and I tried to squeeze in the space that had become a dumping ground for wrapping paper, storage and unused items, I sighed and told my Mom that this was not the way the space should be used. I can't even count the number of times I had cleaned that room out when I was in middle and high school and back home from college vacations, but had not recently cleaned it out.
It was another reminder to have an emergency plan and supplies in place. Can you identify what to do, where to go and have supplies ready on a moments notice when an emergency arises, if not then you should probably have this conversation. Myself working on various Emergency Preparedness projects at the University of Iowa have been immersed in the culture, but others out there depend, sometimes too heavily, on others to take care of them.
Hope you all were not too affected by the storms and are thinking of those that were,
Ryan
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