Tornado Watch!!

Last night the tornado sirens blared, my phone starting ringing, Lloyd's phone starting ringing and a text came through on my phone. All of this commotion began at about 11:00 p.m. Before we moved our answer to tornado warnings was to watch out the window as we had no basement to move into. Last night I woke-up Lloyd and asked if we should move the boys and Nora. We decided since we have a basement it would fall under bad parenting if we didn't move them. So, we watched the news and listened to the storm. About 11:15 p.m. the cell had weakened and the watch expired. We moved the kids back to their beds.

Everyone except Lloyd went back to sleep. Then it was like ground hogs day. Sirens blare....you get the idea. This time we were smart parents. We set up the port-a-crib, make the extra bed and moved the boys and Nora to spend the night downstairs. Lloyd and I made ourselves a comfy cozy bed out of couch cusions. We had seen the line of storms stretched down to Ohio. It could have been a long night but we slept. Occasionally we woke up to the storms thunder, lighting and rage. This morning ou house was safe and outside looked fine.

A tornado did touch down about 20 minutes from our house and lots of flooding in the area. 5 people lost their lives in Ohio and only minor injuries for people in Michigan. Some areas look horrible. Many people were up most of the night trying to get generators hooked-up for the subpumps. I can't believe we slept and felt safe. What a blessing!!