Last night it stormed. The heavy rain all of a sudden woke me up, and it woke up
several of the kids, too. Right now our bedroom is downstairs and the stairway
runs through our room until we get the upstairs finished, and so I worried that
several kids running down the stairs past their sleeping father would wake him
up, but amazingly he slept though it. They were worried about the storm, so I
told them they could check the weather. They fired up the laptop in the other
room and turned on the light in there, and I was surprised they didn't wake
Erick up since the light was shining into our room. I told them to be quiet and
I went in there to look and see if there were any warnings. It said there was a
severe thunderstorm warning, but since there wasn't any tornado warnings or
anything I didn't think I needed to worry too much. I went back to bed, and
eventually the girls did, too. Jay was the only one who didn't go back
upstairs--he slept on the couch. Erick slept through everything and he didn't
even know it stormed until the next day.
When the kids went to take the
dog out in the morning, they noticed our porch swing was upside down, and the
cushions were gone. They finally found them all. One was in our yard, one was
across the street, and the other was a block away at the library. We hadn't
realized it was that windy outside.
Later on, we heard from some of our
friends that there had been a small tornado that came through our town. We
walked over to where the storm damage was, which was only about two blocks away
from us, and saw trees down everywhere, just snapped in half, and a tree lying
on top of a trailer. The lady who lived there was injured when it fell on her
house, but she is okay. Her arm is hurt, and her house is destroyed, but no one
was killed. No one has confirmed that it was a tornado, but everyone is pretty
sure that's what happened since it left a path of damage and everywhere else in
town there was no damage. If it were only straight line winds both sides of the
highway would have looked about the same, not broken trees here and nothing over
there.
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