I had a freak tooth brushing accident.

This is for Ron.

While this episode affected all of my activities today, it will be fairly insignificant to you.
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This morning, while brushing my teeth, I had a freak tooth brushing accident.

I was stooped over about to spit into the sink. (water running-- hear that Sheryl Crow??)
While I was stooped, I gagged. I gag a lot whilst brushing my teeth. I have a very low gag threshold.

Anyhow, in that action, something twisted in my neck. I felt a pop.....

I stood up and hollered in pain loud enough to scare my cat, who was waiting on the counter for me to finish so he could get his turn at the sink.

I went to work at 5 minutes until 7.

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All day long I couldn't turn my head. I had to turn my entire body to see anything outside of my peripheral vision.

In my sixth period Integrated Physics and Chemistry class, I heard some girls whispering and looking at me.

I asked them, "what are you saying??"
One of them chirped, "she just said that you were moving your head like you couldn't turn your neck and I was laughing because it did look that way!"

I told them they were right.
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Later at Birra Poretti's, and Irish/Italian, pub/restaurant I was sitting and trying to drink a Bud Light. I was situated in the middle of the two tables so that I didn't have to turn so severely to see the people I was sitting with.

I later found out that a severe storm was blazing outside and tornado warning sirens were screeching... but we were none the wiser.
A waitress dropped a tray of glasses and it made a terrible noise. I jumped and jerked my head back.

I instantly had about 50% more movement than I had earlier in the day when the stiffness was the worst.

I told my friend sitting across the table to drop another glass but not to tell me when it was about to happen so that I could be scared again.

He didn't.

Low Pressure Sucks

That what happens in a tornado. Extreme low pressure..... sucking.

I could hear the howling... but I could tell it was a ways off. When I heard the hail and saw golf-ball sized chunks I ran around the house shutting windows. In case of straight line winds, I didn't want everything blown to bits and smashed.

I turned on the TV and heard the meteorologist say "people in the vicinity of Bowen Road and Arbrook need to take cover immediately".

That's me.

They didn't need to say it twice, I grabbed my purse and phone and got in the closet.

What you can see on the radar is a well defined "V-notch" or "hook echo" right on top of my house.

Zoinks!

Nothing touched down. I prayed to guardian angel ---he blew the storm away.

He always pulls through.... doesn't he?

Watch some video of the neighborhood about 1 mile to my west: STORM VIDEO WFAA- DALLAS

They called it a "lowering wall cloud with extreme rotation" spotted in south Arlington.

Growing up in these parts, I knew that Arlington was notorious for having storm damage. I expected the worst. I really did.