Well, we had a very exciting and late night Thursday! About 9:30 the tornado sirens went off. We had no idea there was bad weather around. We knew it was storming, but the TV wasn't on and we were trying to get the kids in bed. As soon as we realized the sirens were going off, we tuned into local weather and they said there was a storm with tornados about 30 miles south of us, but that it was heading our way. About that time our satelite goes out. . . of course! The kids are terrified so I got on the computer to try and track it, and Rion called his parents to see if they were getting TV. The boys looked outside and said in a relieved voice, "Well, it's stopped raining, and the wind isn't even blowing anymore! " I thought "Uh oh, the calm before the storm!" I got Aaron out of his crib and gathered the boys up and went into the office. After about 5 minutes in there, the TV came back on and said that the storm was passing over a local municipal airport about 2 miles from our house! We stayed in the office until we knew the storm had passed us and then got everyone in bed.
When we woke up yesterday morning there were reports of heavy damage all around us! The airport had lots of planes twisted and flipped and damage to their hangars. After the storm passed over the airport it moved onto a school complex and baseball fields. The baseball fields were destroyed and the high school lost its roof. This was the same high school my husband graduated from many moons ago. There was lots of property damage to homes as well. Thank God there were no injuries or deaths! We feel very blessed that we escaped this devastation by the hair on our chinny chin chins!
Here are some pictures of the storm:
The ballfields
The airport
The High School
1 comment:
can you believe all that? i am so glad you guys were safe. that was a very close call for ya'll. it was such a freaky night.
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