Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tornadoes

So we have officially been greeted with spring on Monday evening, when over 20 tornadoes hit Oklahoma. Right after mentioning that the sky looked funny and the air felt heavy, the tornado sirens went off. Caleb was working out, so it was just Mama Luci, me and the little boys. We watched the end of the storm come our way from the front door, with the orange sky underneath the cloudline. Then it decided to start lowering and twisting all around, and of course it was coming right down our street toward our house. So I grabbed the boys and ran to the laundry room. But hearing the garage door shake and rattle right on the other side of the door, I was afraid it was going to rip off, so we headed for the master closet. I heard Mama Luci yell from the other side of the house, "There's goes some swimming pools!" as she watched them fly by the door. She went to go close the doors, and saw the big tree on the side of the house fall. We could hear the howling of the wind from the closet, I was just hoping I didn't hear a train sound, like they say when the tornado is about to hit. We saw a crowd of neighbors in our yard after it passed, so we were able to talk with them and hear their stories. Roofs, shingles, chimney's, tree's, basketball goals, fences and powerlines were all damanged. Hail got the best of our cars. Baseball size balls broke through my passenger side window leaving glass all in the seat. Both of the windshields in our cars got hit a couple times which shattered, but didn't break them. So aggravating! Our neighbor told us he looked out and saw a big cloud of gray in our backyard when it was all happening. So crazy! We were just fortunate we just had funnel damage and not from it touching the ground, or it would of been alot worse.

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