fun with weather

as if our 100+ record breaking snowfall for this winter isn't enough there's more potentially coming this weekend. and right now i see yellow and red on the radar with five (!) noaa national weather service statements:

flood watch: heavy rains & flooding, vigorous cold front coming, thunderstorms
special weather statement: large hail to 2 inches in diameter, damaging winds to 70mph
hazardous weather outlook: more of the same, flooding, rain, thunderstorms, etc.
& our favorite,
tornado watch: tornado watch is in effect until 8pm

good thing we had a tornado drill at work yesterday ;0) and now i know to take shelter in the middle of the building (at our house i suppose the basement is our best bet). no tornado sirens have gone off yet, so i'm staying in our bedroom resting with a tummyache.

lots of lightening and thunder over the past 24 hours. most people (including myself) couldn't sleep last night with all the racket going on. and today when i checked for eggs i found the coop filled with lots of feathers everywhere. not sure what happened?....maybe the chickens were so scared they lost some feathers? or pulled them out?