What were YOU doing at 3:30AM?

My head was just hitting the pillow when Mark's head shot up and off his pillow. He jumped out of bed and yelled, "Get in the bathroom!" before running to get the girls from their bedroom and bringing them in to join me. Poor girls were pretty groggy and not really sure what we were doing in the bathroom so early, let alone all together with our blankets, but overall they were really good sports.
In case you're unfamiliar with this scenario, or you don't live in Texas, this is all code for 'TORNADO.' Yeah, the whole sounds-like-a-freight-train-rumbling-past-the-window is a dead give-away. Which, by the way, is what we heard at 3:30am.
As it turns out, the tornadoes were actually North of us, but we still had winds 60-75 mph, and a lightning show that made it unnecessary to turn on any lights! It was pretty crazy. Mark and I were glued to the TV for the next 1/2 hr making sure we were in the clear before returning the girls to their beds and trying to get some sleep ourselves.
The funny thing about it all was that my first (or maybe 10th) thought was that I was glad I've been getting our 72-hr kits prepared, and that I'd just bought a whole slew of batteries at Sam's Club the previous day. I say funny because in reality, a tornado is not something you're going to need a 72-hr kit for. In fact, where we are located, there are very few scenarios where the area would be so devastated and so far from help that we would need to rely on our 72 hr kits. It's a bit frightening to think of what that would entail, actually, but my point is that I feel like my obedience in getting prepared brought me peace and comfort in a bit of a scary situation. Cool, huh?