Storm

Brittney has a birthday party today so last night we ran to Walmart to pick up the birthday present. We noticed the sky was getting pretty dark so we tried to hurry with our shopping. We rushed through the store, grabbed our 4 things and were just heading to the check-out when they announced "Code Black" over the intercom. For anyone not well versed in Walmart-speak, Code Black is bad! The poor customer service girl was freaking out. Our area was in a tornado warning and they were locking down the store. We quickly went through the self check-out to try to get out of the store before they made everyone take cover. That actually happened to Brit and I last year. We had to sit in the layaway area for a couple of hours with 50 other people. Anyway, last night we sped home to ominous clouds, thunder & lightning and reports on the radio that there was rotation in clouds 15 miles away. I fully expected to arrive home and find Steve glued to the radio or the TV and all the kids downstairs. When Britt and I pulled into our driveway, there was Steve calmly sitting on a lawn chair in the garage with the garage door wide open and talking on his phone. When I told him that we were in a tornado warning, he said, "It's in Oldham, not here." Never mind that he doesn't know where any of the small towns are and the bad weather was right at our back door. I kept trying to convince him that we needed to put the kids in the beds in the basement but he was positive that nothing was going on. Until 5 minutes later when all the tornado sirens in town started going off! Long story a little longer, we threw all the kids in Taylor's room downstairs. Taylor & Anthony on opposite ends of Tay's bed and Riley & Zeke on the trundle. They went back to sleep eventually and the storm blew over within the hour with just a lot wind and rain. Five miles south of us the hail was 1.5 inches and just east they had tornadoes that didn't touch down. This morning the kids are all downstairs "playing tornado". One says "tornado" and the others all run and hide under the bed :)