Chin Up Chest Out and Enjoy.
Things are starting to get
Really Interesting in your neck of the woods now and should get even
More Interesting over the next few hours. According to the news here things should be
Extremely Interesting within the next 4 hours.
The only real problem with being in a basement is in the event of a tree demolishing the house you may be trapped there for a very long time, but on the up side if it happens early enough in the storm most of the rubble will be blown away so you'll be able to get out. However that's not something I would care to experience or recommend for anyone else to live through.
Just to make your day I'm going out now to take some photos of the plants a bit of sunshine will do me the world of good.
edited to add Remember the Old Chinese Curse
May You Live in Interesting Times.Col