Tornado Shelter Drill with Our Basenjis
We haven’t done a tornado shelter drill since we got Rookie. We’d taken Dabi and Prisca down there before, in the past. But Rookie had never seen it — or been inside of it at least — and we thought we’d better start preparing, with the new year and spring approaching. Spring comes quickly in Alabama. It’s frigidly cold today, however seemingly in no time every year, we warm up almost overnight. And when the temperatures are changing, we sometimes have trouble with tornadoes. The worst our family has experienced wasn’t from too much actual tornado damage… although we did need a new roof from the hail associated with a storm. But the worst thing was something that happened one year, more than a decade ago. The entire city was without power for 4-1/2 days after a tornado hit.
Dave and I would just like to be on the safe side, and have Rookie and Prisca be familiar with our tornado shelter so if the need arises, we can get them in there without too much trouble.