I took advantage of a day with a vehicle and headed to the "big city" to grocery shop and run errands. Mulch and dirt has to wait. It rained early morning, but tapered off about 8:30am.
It sure was nice to put away groceries with a clean fridge. I got a trip in to the library, gassed up the truck, and other needs.
I'm so glad I moved a lot of stuff out of my walk-in closet the day before. Someone was sending me a message that I'd be sitting in it.
Rain was due back again about 3pm, and the forecast was possible severe thunderstorms. Again. And we did indeed get them, along with a passing tornado that was heading towards our town.
I was literally stirring homemade meat sauce on the stove when I got the warning. I quickly turned the stove off. If this sauce is good, I'll share a post about it in the near future. You bake a double batch, and freeze one.
Anyway...
I got the warning on my cell phone, and as I was running out to shut up the chickens I heard the siren. Thereafter, I got calls and texts from family warning us we were in it's path.
I was home with our 17 year-old daughter. We, along with the cat and dog went to my bedroom closet (best place without a basement). She was very stressed about this tornado. We kept the radio on and waited it out. We made it through it safely. Just lost a limb off one of our trees.
We had more thunderstorms after that, and rain the rest of the night. Yard is once again flooded. There's no telling how long it will take to dry out again.
It sure was nice to put away groceries with a clean fridge. I got a trip in to the library, gassed up the truck, and other needs.
I'm so glad I moved a lot of stuff out of my walk-in closet the day before. Someone was sending me a message that I'd be sitting in it.
Rain was due back again about 3pm, and the forecast was possible severe thunderstorms. Again. And we did indeed get them, along with a passing tornado that was heading towards our town.
(sauce contains wine)
I was literally stirring homemade meat sauce on the stove when I got the warning. I quickly turned the stove off. If this sauce is good, I'll share a post about it in the near future. You bake a double batch, and freeze one.
Anyway...
I got the warning on my cell phone, and as I was running out to shut up the chickens I heard the siren. Thereafter, I got calls and texts from family warning us we were in it's path.
I was home with our 17 year-old daughter. We, along with the cat and dog went to my bedroom closet (best place without a basement). She was very stressed about this tornado. We kept the radio on and waited it out. We made it through it safely. Just lost a limb off one of our trees.
We had more thunderstorms after that, and rain the rest of the night. Yard is once again flooded. There's no telling how long it will take to dry out again.
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When we lived in Illinois, we made it through our share of tornado warnings and I got that awful feeling in the pit of my stomach even reading your post this morning. The worst we had was one that took out farm houses, barns, silos, sheds and animals on a swath directly across the gravel road from us. It twisted a school bus bringing kids home like tin foil and tossed it in a field. The bus driver got all the kids off the bus and into a ditch before the tornado hit. The only casualty was a broken arm one boy suffered when he was hit with some debris.
The closet was a good place for you, your daughter and the animals.