Yesterday Michael and I met my parents at my brothers house for a visit. Well little did we know we were headed right into "tornado alley." We were about thirty minutes from our house and heard on the radio that travel was not advised for the day... Well Michael and I looked at each other and said "Let's keep going." So we headed to my brothers for a visit, since Jacob's game had already been canceled.
We were about 45 minutes from my brothers and he called to let us know that the sirens were going off near his house. My heart started beating fast... I knew we were headed into bad weather. Five minutes later he called back and said they had stopped. The skies were grey but did not look threatening. Michael and I continued to drive. We were two exits from my brothers house and decided to stop for some lunch. We went through the drive through and just after we payed for our food and pulled to the second window... the sirens went off again.
Ok, this time it was not cool, we were in our car and from the look of the sky the storm was in the direction we were heading. I called my brother to find out that it wasn't bad at his house yet but it looked nasty. He told us to find a store nearby to go into until it passed. Michael and I pulled into the parking lot of a goodwill store and a furniture store. We sat in the car, both a bundle of nerves, watching the sky as we ate our lunch. By this time the sirens were no longer going off. We finished our lunch and decided to head towards my brothers.
Wow, that was a scary 15 minutes. The sky was as black as tar and the rain was falling hard. We made it to my brothers just as the sirens went off again. Just 45 minutes later my parents arrived and said it got so bad they could not see the road in front of them.
I believe the next time they say travel is not advised, we will not travel.
After all that we had a great visit. We hung out in the basement and watched the weather go from black and raining to blue and sunny. We all went to this really great restraunt, Family Tradition, then headed home.
