**Our House!** 

Thursday Prompt for August 20, 2020
Prompt Theme: 365 word challenge with some comedy

As a Kid, I lived in the Midwest. Where the sky breathed, cumulonimbus clouds boiled, twisted and gyrate up and beyond the Stratosphere. Particularly in Spring. One of my earliest memories was being awakened on a May evening and rushed to the next door neighbor's house, which had a full basement. A tornado had been sighted in the lighting strobed blackness. It missed our section of town and the only damage was done to a corn field.  

Yet, I've borne eyewitness to just two tornados in my life. What was is it like growing up in Tornado Alley? Never a dull moment, like the music Video "Our House" by Madness. 

I never lived in Moore, OK. This Filk is dedicated to the denizens of the Alley.


*Father, goes to work in overalls*
*Mother's tired, she turns on the Television*
*It's April and it's storm season*
*She watches Gary England on KWTV*

*Our House, lay in Moore Oklahoma*
*Our House, within Tornado Alley*
*Something tells me we should move since*
*Our House, within Tornado Alley*

*Our house, under a storm cloud*
*April through June, it's tornado season*
*Our Mum, she's so prepared*
*She dug out a storm cellar too.*

*Our House, lay in Moore Oklahoma*
*Our House, within Tornado Alley*
*Gary England pointing to Doppler Radar*
*Hook echos curl ominously about.*

*Our House, lay in Moore Oklahoma*
*Our House, within Tornado Alley*

*I remember way back then, we had tornado drills in school*
*We memorized Tornado scales. From poofy EF0 to EF5 (Homer Simpson Scream)*
*We'd have a good time, huddling in the corridor during a tornado warning*
*The only thing that happened, was baseball sized hail taking out the roof*
*Then we'd brush off our clothing and resume class again*

*Father's work place got wiped out*
*By an EF5 tornado in 1999.*
*Then it happened again in 2013*
*He had to find another job*

*Our House, lay in Moore Oklahoma*
*Our House, lay in Moore Oklahoma*
*Our House, within Tornado Alley*
*Our House, within Tornado Alley*

*Our House, had a storm cellar as a keep*
*Our House, that place where we would sleep*
*Our House, never left the middle street*
*Our House, within Tornado Alley*