I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!

Last night was probably the freakiest experience I've EVER had to this point in my life! I got home from my walk at 10:00 p.m. and there were storm clouds rolling in. I sat on my deck for a few minutes and watched all the lightning flashing to the Northwest of us. When it started to rain I went inside. Jer and I sat in the Dining room watching the storm all around us. The lightning was crazy!

At 10:20 we went up to bed and were lying there when all of a sudden something was very wrong. We heard this most unearthly sound and our house was making weird noises. Jer looked at me and says "get the girls and go in the basement." So I go grab Aidan and Jer gets Ella and we run to the basement into the mechanical room under the stairs. I'm shaking so bad and the girls don't have a foggy clue what's going on. After a few minutes Jer goes to check what's going on. He comes back and says it's okay, we can come up. I put the girls back in their beds and go check what happened and to see what all the commotion in our back yard is about. Well apparently a twister of some sort went through our back yards and picked up our neighbors trampoline and tossed it into their neighbor's garage 2 doors down from them. Can anyone say scary?

While we're out there it's deadly calm and warm. Let me just say, it was NOT warm yesterday evening or most of the day. So that's freaking me out a bit. Suddenly the weather changes and the wind is weird again and Jer says "let's get the girls and just go in the basement for a while until this things blows over." So that's what we did. Poor kids! Getting dragged out of their beds twice in one night. But I wasn't going to be sorry.

It took me a while to fall asleep after that...I had to check the radar about 15 times until I was sure that it had passed and could relax. We don't know if it was an actual twister (we don't think it touched down) or a very, very strong gust of wind, or what. All I know is I've always been afraid of tornadoes even though we've never had one here, and now I can say why they freak me out. I could never, NEVER live anywhere where tornadoes are a risk factor all the time. Unfortunately my safe comfort zone has been seriously damaged and I don't think I'll view storms quite the same, which is really too bad, because I love thunderstorms.