The state of Oklahoma was hit by a day of tornadoes yesterday. I sat and watched as all of the news channels anxiously talked about the storms that were hitting Oklahoma City...just twenty minutes north of us in Norman. After two hours of watching the storms cover the state, a small dot on the doppler showed rotation heading for Norman. In two minutes the news had issued a statement calling all Norman residents to head to shelter and then the sirens went off. I ran to get Ady and rushed to the garage where the storm shelter is located. I threw her old crib mattress into the bottom so she would have something soft to sit on and closed the lid shut. Two minutes later Ryan came knocking on the shelter to get in. Ryan ran outside to talk with our neighbor who had just seen a tornado come down and then swirl back into the sky. We all cowered in the shelter hearing the hail and the winds, the pressure so loud that our ears began to pop. Ten minutes later we came out of the shelter sure that we would find our garage gone. Our house basically untouched. Our big tree in the yard split, half of our iron fence bent to the ground, porch fan completely broken, plants uprooted, furniture strewn throughout the yard....but oh so lucky. The tornado jumped down our road, Hwy 9, tearing off roofs, blowing garage doors off, demolishing barns and uprooted all power lines along Hwy 9. Oh how lucky we were, after seeing all of the destruction just 100 yards away. I am so thankful for our storm shelter and for wonderful Oklahoma people who love their neighbors.
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