If You Give a Mom a Moment: The Weather

Wednesday, August 22

The Weather

I was woken up at 12:30 last night with a crack of thunder that shook the house. For four nights in a row now we have had thunderstorms with crazy rain. It looks like it will happen tonight too. For those of you who don't know, we live in tornado alley. We have had 3 tornado watches since we moved here. Two years ago they had a tornado hit down on the ISU campus (where Christian works, yikes!) If we have a tornado warning, there are sirens all around the town, and I will have to lug my two children to the basement of the clubhouse about a block away. Let's all pray for no tornados, shall we?

5 people wanted to leave a comment:

Gatnnos said...: Geesh! Between tornadoes and hurricanes - we have the weather covered! I hope you don't have any tornadoes while you are there.; August 22, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Liz said...: I hope you have no tornadoes either! Glad to see you blog
Liz; August 22, 2007 at 7:59 PM
Crystal Bulloch said...: Get used to the watches, they happen all the time.(unfortunately). Nothing ever usually come from it.....usually.; August 22, 2007 at 8:39 PM
Laurie said...: I hope no tornadoes come through where you are. That would be a bit scary. A bit like Wizard of Oz.; August 23, 2007 at 9:20 AM
Kallie said...: this sounds like something out of my own journal -- two days after we'd moved here (OH) the sirens were blarin' and we had no idea what they were -- but the scary scary scary weather led us to go sit in some ward members' house with a basement. anyway -- i totally hear ya.; August 27, 2007 at 8:38 PM

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