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This is Wednesday morning and we are thankful to just be alive this morning, the weather is bad here in Ohio and more coming out of Indiana, we have been under a tornado watch since early yesterday evening, at one point I had to quickly get in my truck and go to my daughter's and get in her basement, as one was spotted and headed directly towards us, When I say basement It is like a crawl space under the apartment. But suited me fine,as we would hopefully be safer under there than upstairs. It is about a 4 foot drop to the ground, easy to get into, but hard for a old woman like me to get out of. We tried to set a step stool up so I could climb out but there was not room for me and the stool. Finally my grand daughter scooted over a tub that I could get my foot on and lift myself to the top, and then scoot out. We was down ther with her purse, which was smart, I never even looked for mine when I left, it is only 2 buildings over, and her cell phone. Come to find out she does not own a flashlight, so if it had hit here, we would of been in a mighty dark place, she called several people to tell them we was in the basement if the house fell in to come dig us out. It is a horrible thing to have to go througt this, to fear coming out to find your home gone and you auto. I was in a F-5 in 1974 and I will never forget the destruction it left. We had warnings all night and I tried to stay away to listen but was worn out, so I turned the tv up so that I could hear the alert as they put it on the tv and wake up to see what was happening. I never wanted to come back to this part of the country and fight these storms, but Hurricane Katrina left us no choice. I will get a weather radio today and know when these warnings for our area are being put out. It is 45 minutes before the tornado watch is to exspire and now they are saying it could be extended, why does people have to endure such horrible things, isn't life hard enough without having to endure this too. Anyone in the path of these storms please be safe and don't make light of these warnings they are there to keep you safe.