A Storm That Could Have Killed Me

Sunday, December 20, 2009

A Storm That Could Have Killed Me

I thought the best blog post to submit as part of my backdating was the most recent. Let me place you into a situation I was in just the other day! I was sitting on my laptop on the final table of a 45 player Sit N Go Poker Tournament when the wind started literally shaking my windows. It was a little alarming but I carried on playing determined to take it down. Thank god for laptops! The power then suddenly went out.

I carried my laptop with me trying my hardest to at least 99% concentrate on the tournament at hand to the front door and opened it. To my horror there were branches flying everywhere AND my 12 year old son, he was blown off his feet!
Timing out in a crucial win or lose hand, I battled the gale force wind got my son inside and tried to close the front door with my laptop still in one hand; as my younger son hysterically screamed in fear. Once we were safe I quickly clicked that I was “back” in my poker tournament. I expected the rain to fall and the thunder to bang as my power slowly drained from my best friend 'Acer Aspire'. It was worse than I expected though!

The storm turned into some kind of freak tornado and I soon found myself searching for safety under a mattress with 4 little kids. I tried my hardest and seemed to quickly settle them down as I clicked fold, call and raise. It literally was a life or death situation at hand with trees crashing through houses, cars and power lines. My fence was blown down and my gigantic shed roof lifted off!

Before long the storm had settled, leaving traces of its path of iron roofing, wood, rubbish and rescue service sirens. I got out from under the mattress and I was out of my Sit N Go. I placed third in the poker tournament and with the circumstances at hand; this was my best win to date even though it was far from my biggest. Playing this poker tournament in this prepare to live or die situation taught me a very good lesson. “Regardless of the worlds interruptions, attacks and road blocks (such as trees blown down by storms), if the world is falling down around us we can still win playing poker with the poker strategy method of strong focus and determination”. Never give up! Keep Your Cool! Die or Survive and Win Poker Trying :-)

I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest condolences and sympathy to local poker friends and their 8 children who lost everything that day to a bushfire which was fuelled by the winds of storm.

Also sympathy to the other 4 families who lost their home and those residents who had major damage to their property and livestock from either fire or wind.

Credit to The Border Mail for Pictures.