Today is May 30 and it is 1am and I am afraid to go asleep as many other people are tonight. We are expecting more storms to go through the area tonight. The word tornado has become a frightening word after living through multiple tornadoes touching down in various places this past Monday. A Memorial Day evening that marked history for a lot of us. We are so grateful to be here in our home and yet scared of the super storms that keep coming. It seems that no matter where you live they are happening. Mother Nature is not discriminating.
I have lived in the same area all of my life and never worried about tornadoes but this year has been the scariest for all of us. My husband and I spent three hours in closet under our stairway Monday night as tornado sirens were going off and rain was falling along with hail and wind. All I could think about was not being with my children and my dad. We spent the eve texting and calling each other as the tornadoes kept changing course. We were in the direct path of two of them and at the last minute they turned southeast of us. So grateful for neighbors that got my daughter, her husband and my grandson and invited them to stay in their basement. Our family is safe tonight despite some damage to our homes and no electric or water.
Our surrounding communities will never be the same. The destruction from multiple tornadoes has been devastating and has left us all very sad. It is going to take a long time to recover from this as some areas look like war zones.
Every time the sky darkens and a storm comes we all are frightened. This has turned out to be the scariest spring that I can remember.
In the after math we are also dealing with trees that are falling due to all the rain and wind that has weakened them. A huge tree fell in the middle of last night at my dad's home. It just missed his home. He said it sounded like a bomb going off and it shook his house. It fell from the woods behind his home. It was an old tree that snapped in the still of the night.
We never know from day to day how blessed we are until faced with disasters of nature. Make sure you tell your family that you love them. Make sure you all have a plan of where will be a safe place during a tornado. Pack a survival pack and make sure your children now what to do. When a tornado comes there is no time to dilly dally around you must seek shelter.
Let us all pray that this weather system slows down and we can feel safe again.
Life is beautiful!
Elizabeth😴
