Well, last night we had 6 or 7 tornadic storms in the area... tornado sirens going off all around for several hours... golf ball to baseball size hail pounding on my little car that was parked outside the apartment complex and the windows of my apartment complex being hit hard by the hail as well. I went down to the lowest level of my apartment complex. My neighbors and I were standing there watching the storm and they started smoking. I was scared because there isn't a good place to go in that apartment complex for tornados... they say go to a basement, but there just isn't one, and the lowest level is the stairwell with windows above you and in front of you on the door and there isn't any place towards the interior of the building to go. If a tornado hit my complex, we would have all surely died... there's no question about that. It was very scary, not to mention chaotic as the tornado passed [b]less than a mile[/b] from where we were (which is, of course, very close).
I stood there watching them smoke, longingly staring at the cigarettes. I knew that if I could just have a one, I would have felt better... just having that pacifier again. There's something about smoking during a terrifying event that calms you, just for a second. And the thought that "well, if I die in a tornado tonight, it's not going to matter if I smoked a cigarette" running through my head. Yes, the junkie was working overtime last night. But, I'm happy to say that no severe damage came due to the storm and that I'm still smoke free today. And now, I think I'm going to ask the landlords where exactly we're supposed to go in a tornado. Fun night! Luckily, everything worked out just fine.
Crave the Quit!
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[B]My Milage:[/B]
[B]My Quit Date: [/B] 10/28/2005
[B]Smoke-Free Days:[/B] 136
[B]Cigarettes Not Smoked:[/B] 3,409
[B]Amount Saved:[/B] $448.8
[B]Life Gained:[/B]
[B]Days:[/B] 9 [B]Hrs:[/B] 21 [B]Mins:[/B] 33 [B]Seconds:[/B] 53