Saturday, March 15, 2008

Wow, that was a tornado?





Tornado, hail, power lines down. This is just a couple pictures that I got off of the news website. We are going to take our own tomorrow. Yes, we are so oblivious. We were just enjoying the storm. We were not even in the tornado warning area and then we lost power. What we thought was just a constant rumbling of thunder must have been the tornado heading our way. Who knew? I was outside, under the carport videotaping because it was getting really dark and I wanted to try to get that sound on video. Everything got crazy after that so I didn't even check to see if you can hear it or not. We started getting hail the size of a quarter or bigger. It was hysterical. It was like someone was dropping golf balls from the sky. A little while later it all ended and we went on with our night, except we had no electricity.
Phil went to walmart and then I got the call. "Shannon, you are not going to believe this. There are buildings in rubble."
Me - "Come on - your kidding!"
Phil - "No, I am not kidding.
He came home to get us so he could show us the damage. I couldn't believe it.
You could see the debris trail. The direction the tornado went. I have not ever seen anything like it. (In person that is) It was too dark to take pictures. A church was ruined. A car wash had its roof ripped off. A 7000 square foot warehouse was brought to rubble. They say it was lifted right off of the ground. The middle school had some of its construction material thrown around and destroyed. Praise the Lord!! No one was hurt. Alot of trees down and no power for 6 hours now. I can't believe this happened right around the corner from where we were. God is so good - all the time. And to think, we didn't even pray. We really were just enjoying the storm. Yeah, we are a little crazy. Thunderstorms are the best!!
Well, Lord willing, this will be the last tornado we will be here for.