Writer's Block: Fearsome

[violachic]

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Tornadoes!


Oh my god. Tornadoes actually featured very prominently in my early childhood nightmares. I still get pretty anxious in really bad weather.

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When I was a child...

[rennie-frog.livejournal.com]

The monsters under my bed were very much like child-eating squirrels. Rabid, red-eyed squirrels with claws and teeth perfect for tearing small children apart, if they were silly enough to put their feet on the floor when the lights were out.

Needless to say, the squirrels in the attic of the coach house in Chicago, and the current squirrels in the wall by my bed made/make me twitchy.

Re: When I was a child...

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, squirrels are going to make -me- twitchy after that description.... :-)

[ironheadjane.livejournal.com]

Ditto for me on that one.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Which is kind of weird, considering I never actually lived through one until I was 14 or 15.

[ironheadjane.livejournal.com]

I've only seen tornadoes from the distance, the closest I ever got to actually seeing one was probably during colorguard practice one summer in high school when we saw the sky turn *green* and a funnel cloud appear. We had tons of tornado warnings growing up, and there were definitely some strikes (not like the Oklahoma/Kansas baddies), but never really went through one.

Spent a lot of time in the basement, though.

[madresal.livejournal.com]

Well, that's a pretty rational fear, considering that entire high school in Plainfield got wiped out when we were in high school. :(

[violachic.livejournal.com]

True, although the nightmares occurred for years before that happened. But maybe it did come from living in a minor tornado alley, who knows? Also, its sort of the chicken-and-the-egg- did I have the nightmares because I was afraid of tornadoes, or was I afraid of tornadoes because of the nightmares?