Tornado Warning

Tonight, we had severe thunderstorms blow through the Dallas area. It started with heavy rain, then it was followed by thunder and lightning. Next, we got marble-size hail that ricocheted off the windows and roof of the house. The raucous was so loud that Troy couldn’t sleep. As we tried to distract him, so he could relax, the tornado sirens started going off. We decided not to chance it, so we gathered some pillows and supplies and barricaded ourselves in the laundry room.

We were in there for about half an hour before the weather passed us by, and that was plenty long enough for Troy to get into everything! He thought it was a game. He pushed the buttons on the dryer, pulled all of the shoes out of the mud bench, smacked my wife with a pillow, and played with my feet. It was hard to get him to sleep after that, despite it being almost two hours after his bedtime. But he did eventually drift off as the thunder continued to rumble in the distance. I'm just thankful that the tornadoes passed us by. I'm reminded of a quote from the movie Twister, and even so it was a little too close for comfort.

"You've never seen it miss this house, and miss that house, and come after you." - Helen Hunt in Twister