That morning proved to be filled with tornado siren after tornado siren. Just when I thought we needed to pick the kids up from school, the storm seemed to pass and then there went the siren again.
I had just called my husband to ask him to come home because I just had a funny feeling that we were really in for a super storm when he told me he couldn't leave because they were under the threat of a tornado!
That's when we got the message from school that all the kids were being sent home, because it was being reported our area had a HUGE tornado heading our way!
My husband finally was able to get away and got home just as the kids got home. We immediately went to the 'tornado closet' and my husband proceeded to bring in all the candles and flashlights he could find. Good thing because we didn't know that about an hour later we would lose power for 5 DAYS!
As the day came to an end and the power was gone, we went onto our back porch and surveyed the damage to our neighborhood. We were shocked by what we found. Several of our neighbors had downed trees, one neighbor had a huge tree put a hole in the roof of their brand new home and all we lost was our butterfly bush, well maybe the word 'lost' is a bit strong, it's still trying to hang in there.
It would be the next day when we spoke to family outside our area when we learned exactly how terrible the storms had been and that's when we decided to go to Florida.
Just today, we learned from one of our neighbors that we had been directly in between an EF1 tornado and an EF4 tornado. It was a miracle everyone in our neighborhood (as far as we know) made it through okay!
God is sooo good!
This is a picture of our neighbor's back yard.
Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by those terrible tornado's.
