I was meant to be asleep (I had insanely early bedtimes right up until I my last year of high school, when I pointed out that the early bedtimes weren't helping the whole not sleeping thing). Anyway, a heap of blue and red flashing lights started outside the house (no siren) so my sister and I wound up getting up again, wondering down to the loungeroom to see what was going on outside (turned out one of the trees at the primary school had fallen across our road). Mum and dad were just staring at the TV, hadn't even noticed the lights or the tree falling outside.

Next time at school was pretty entertaining, I always got to school earliest and I was amazed at how many people didn't know about it till we told them.