Tornado Warning

On Tuesday night, we experienced our first, and hopefully last, tornado warning. I'm a California girl, and I'm not gonna lie... tornados never really scared me, until now. I was never really worried for my little family, but my heart goes out to all those who have been effected by all these crazy tornadoes happening lately. We were put under warning, and told to get to our "safe place". Our safe place was the kids bathroom. The kids were already asleep, so we just carried them to the tub and let them continue sleeping. We had our first aid kits, water, food, flashlights, candles, matches, blankets, crib mattress (to cover ourselves with...it's what the website said), Dave brought a hammer (he was really proud of that idea), I wore a watch (I don't like not knowing what time it is in case the power went out), and I put lots of toilet paper in the bathroom.
Luckily, our kids slept through the whole thing. Nothing happened to us here, but better safe than sorry.
In the morning Audrey said, "Hey, did I really sleep in the bathtub last night?" I guess she remembered a little bit of it after all.

 

The sky was incredible. So much lighting. Excuse my annoying voice. I was on the phone with Mandy, who was husbandless, and her TV went out. She also thought Dave's hammer idea was a good one and included it to her emergency stash. It was a mix of rain and hail, but nothing too serious. Our street looked like a river at one point, but we didn't get the baseball sized hail like some parts around here did. The eerie sound is the tornado warning sirens going off. They go off every month just to practice, but it's during the day and there aren't any tornados near. I will never listen to it the same way again.

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Just kidding.  Click here instead. Same video, just now it is working.