Twisters hit our state last night and early this morning. In fact, one hit very close to home, 6 or so miles from the house. The other one hit a quarter of a mile from McD's office, and it hit my place of employment. Well, I say my place of employment, one of our stores.
We were up until 2 am this morning watching the weather until the power went off, at which point we listened to the weather radio. I spent 15 minutes packing necessities into the storm shelter. What do you put in there that you need? The more I thought about it, the more I put in there. I think we should have made that safe room bigger. I didn't think about having to get two big dogs and a cat in there with us.
There are lots and lots of dark clouds in the sky again today, but you know there is always a silver lining to a dark cloud. Those dark clouds carry rain, much needed rain and we got 4 inches of it. We are thankful for that. The 4 inches of rain also caused a lot of destruction. We will be working on fixing water gaps and fence for a while.
The good things about the storm we went through last night:
4 inches of rain
ponds are full
grass is green and growing
The grass isn't the only thing green. I'm green with envy in California over your rain.
Posted by: MAYBELLINE | April 26, 2009 at 06:46 PM
Glad your ok. We live in tornado alley here in Alabama. I worry when the kids are at school & we are separated.
(ps - do you twitter?)
Posted by: there is a season | April 26, 2009 at 06:55 PM
Nice positive spin on nasty weather. :-)
Posted by: leslie | April 26, 2009 at 07:24 PM
when the news announced where a tornado had hit I thought of you. Glad to know you are good.
Positive for me with rain: My dogs drink from my fish pond and it is always low. The rain filled it up for me when I didn't have time to do it myself.
Posted by: Vicki Madden | April 27, 2009 at 01:34 PM
so glad you are okay...so glad to see you back...belated Happy Birthday
Posted by: ann butler | April 27, 2009 at 03:46 PM
and it provided a nice blog post, too.
I need to call my brother and see if he spent his night in his "fraidy hole", too.
(I'm sure I told you he lives in Oklahoma. I keep thinking I'm going to go visit him....)
Posted by: Pamela | April 27, 2009 at 06:34 PM
Wonderful to see you back! Nice you got much needed rain - I would have lots of food packed for the safe room!
Posted by: Dee | April 27, 2009 at 07:27 PM
Yikes, that is much too close. Glad you are OK.
Posted by: Kila | April 30, 2009 at 11:46 PM