Tornadoes and Cruising

Tornadoes? What on earth does that have to do with cruises? Well, if you lived in the Denver Metro Area yesterday, it would make sense.

I live in the southeast Denver Metro Area, and yesterday afternoon, we had at least 5 tornadoes form and touch down in a very unusual storm. While tornadoes are a common occurrence in Colorado, because of the mountains and how they break up the weather systems as they come across the Continental Divide, most tornadoes form a more off to the east of Denver. Not this storm.

Starting with suddenly black and green skies seemingly from nowhere, followed by marble and larger sized hail at my office, I was at the leading edge of a serious weather system yesterday.

According to weather spotters, there was a funnel which formed and was sighted over my house. I only know that for sure because of their reports; I was down in the basement with all that was most important; my kitties (my own and some kittens I'm currently fostering for the local shelter), and my laptop. And that's how cruising comes into it. My house could have come apart at the seams (unlikely, as it is a metal framed house, but sure could have windows and roof blow out), but your cruising data would have been safe. While I have electronic backups as well, my laptop is my primary repository of all your booking data. And I wasn't going to let anything happen to it!

Thankfully, the damage which did occur, while serious, didn't result in any loss of life. Buildings can be replaced.

Thank you all for your phone calls and emails of inquiry this morning. It touches me that you were concerned. All is fine here, and I learned my kitten is a very good weather kitty as she warned me that something was seriously wrong at least 5 minutes before the sirens sounded.

And back we return to normal cruising business. Did someone say exclusive 3-day sale tomorrow?