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06.23
If you’re driving through a tornado, just keep driving.
As of June 18, 2009, I have officially been at HCK2 for one month, and what a month it has been. Everyday I come in a dry sponge and by four o’clock I’m usually soaking with the knowledge of the day. It’s all part of the process though, and just like the title states, on top of everything I’ve done I can also scratch “driving through a tornado” off my list.
In my defense, I did not know at the time that it was a tornado hurling around outside my Sentra and cracking my windshield. Though, I did wonder why so many people were pulled over on the side of the road. I turned to my favorite radio station—Lone Star 92.5—for a trusty weather report, but as usual they were playing Led Zeppelin. So I kept going. Crazy stuff was flying around and by the time I got to Lake Lewisville I felt like I was driving over a scene from The Perfect Storm. I eventually made it to Denton in one very shaken piece. The overall experience was terrifying, but I learned something about myself and also the people I work with.
There are two types of individuals in this world. The first type is cautious and hit the brakes when skies get dark. The second type just keeps going—albeit they might be ignorantly going forward (cough—me), forward they go. I really believe that even if I’d known a tornado was so close to I-35, that wouldn’t have stopped me because—get this—it didn’t seem that bad.
How many things do we experience that really should be made a big deal of? I guess that creeping through a tornado is one, but here I am practically blowing it off. It’s just that I know that won’t be the last “tornado” that I “drive” through. There will always be days that you have to stay late and help someone out, or get really mad at yourself because you did something wrong. Deadlines will be extended and excuses will be made, but we have to keep moving through our mental tornados because that’s how the work gets done. I would have to say that everyone up here at HCK2 is that second type of person. Tornados figuratively blow in and out of here weekly, but no one pulls over on the side of the road to watch it pass. No, not at all, because we’re something different.
We’re storm chasers.
White Flood
Hey - nice write-up. Just last night we had an earthquake that was just 4.4 on the Richter scale in Los Angeles. It wasn't at all big but it gets me a bit worried about these types of things. Anyway, nice blog... I'm subscribed to your feed now so I'll check in more often!
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