Here’s my past 17 hours or so.
We get the word that Clarke and Oconee are under a tornado warning (this is the one where there are actual tornadoes) and we shelter at school until about 3:00. Luckily, the place where I shelter has TV so I watched Channel 2 stumble through the geography of our area (the one and only time Comer will ever be mentioned on Channel 2).
At 3:00, we were told that everyone needed to be off campus by 4:00. Don’t have to twist MY arm, I was out of there and home by 3:25. I came home and called my grandparents and Mom and talked to Stephanie, Kate, Jocelyn, Courtney and Jenny.
The plan coalesced into Jenny and Kate and I cooking dinner at my house (we had just found out we had no school on Friday). Jenny and I went to Kroger and bought ingredients for chocolate pie and vegetarian “sausage” manicotti. 
We met Kate back at my house and got started. Jenny mixed the pudding for 
the pie and put it in the crust in the fridge. She started with the fake meat right when the power goes out.
I hate when the power goes out. I hate this mainly because I always think I am prepared for this and I never ever am. It becomes one of those memory games where I have to imagine where I saw things last. I know there are matches, candles, flashlights, etc. in my house but where are they?
I used the backlight from my iPod as a flashlight and went and got my terrorism bag (present in December 2001 from my grandad. Read more about it here). I thouht there were candles in there but I was wrong. I found flashlights with batteries and Kate found some matches (which turned out to be, seriously, about 30 years old).
Jenny called home and her neighbor said they had power. We decided (stupidly) to go over there and try and finish dinner. It turns out that this was the absolutely worse time to attempt this. It was dark, there were no street lights really, we couldn’t see. Kate and I were in my car and Jenny was in hers. We were gone about 20 minutes and called each other and met back in my house. There was a huge tree down across Gran Ellen down in the park area and Jenny and I ended up on different sides of this (her when she was trying to leave and me trying to come home).
We made it back and assessed our dinner sitch. The three of us decided to have pie, bread, and wine for dinner. Not the best dinner in the world but it worked last night. We just ate the pie out of the pie pan.
About 8:30, our power came back on. Sam’s was off and she heard her rat in her kitchen so she came over to hang out with us. Kate and Jenny went home after “Will and Grace” so Sam and I cooked a pizza and watched “The Apprentice”. She went home briefly but ended coming back over to spend the night because she still had no power. We watched “Survivor: Vanuatu” and I went to bed.
