Tornado

When my children call the house after nine in the evening, I get a little concerned.  I was sitting last night on the sofa resting after a busy day and the phone rang and startled me.  The caller ID revealed my daughter was calling which made my heart do a few skips.  She never calls late not unless an emergency.  She started by saying are you okay.  I replied yes what's up.  Next she said, " Do you hear the sirens?"  I thought what sirens it sounded pretty quiet.  Then she said, "You and dad better take cover because there is a tornado on the ground coming towards you."  I immediately turned the television on and to my surprise she wasn't lying.   All I could say was holy crap.  In all my years of living here, I have never been the victim of a tornado.  We gathered some personal items in a backpack and prepared to bunker down in closet under our stairs.  I called my dad and warned him as he had no clue either that we were even under a warning.  Then my son called and we were all worried.  The tornado was moving at 20 miles per hour in direct path of us and by some miracle it shifted and went north west of us but did some destruction 4 miles from our house.  Thank goodness no one was killed by the tornado as it made its way north.  It just missed my brother-in-laws house and they lost power.  We are all thankful today, but not all is clear yet.  As I was writing this a bad storm has moved through the area.  We are expected to have more storms through the evening.

We have had such weird weather and the humidity has been bad.  I found out that we didn't hear sirens because our community doesn't have any.  My daughter lives close to an airforce base and she heard their sirens.  I will be on guard this evening as these storms are packing high winds and lots of rain. 

You never know from day to day what will happen.  Another lesson learned live your life to the fullest.


Life is beautiful !!

Elizabeth:)