Tornado Scare.

View from our bedroom.

Last week Kevin offered to watch Lee until he fell asleep after I fed him at 10 pm, even though he has to leave about 6 am for his internship every morning.  Of course the one night I can sleep I was barely starting to drift off to sleep when Kevin laid Lee down and came to bed. A few minutes later we woke with a start to the sound of an awful and loud siren.  At first I thought it was a fire truck or something but the siren’s wails persisted. Kevin pulled up a weather alert on the Internet and found that there were tornado warning sirens.  A big storm had been in the forecast for that evening but all we’d had was a lot of thunder and lightning. Well soon after the siren the wind started hurling quarter-sized hail at our sliding glass door in our bedroom, the hail finally stopped only t be followed by pouring rain. After only an hour and a half, though it felt like much longer, things had mostly died down and the rain was just a drizzle.  By far the scariest storm I’ve ever seen and thanks but no thanks, I do not want to repeat anything like that again. So much for getting a few extra hours of sleep... But honestly, it made me so grateful that I haven't had to deal with many natural disasters personally.