Well, as many of you know, we had some pretty bad storms come through our way yesterday afternoon. Luckily, I was working out of the office, so I was here when they hit. It started around 2-2:30pm. Our power went out about 2:30pm & didn't come on again until 5:30pm. We were all camped out downstairs with the games closet cleared out enough to take shelter just in case we needed to. It never got that bad, though. Somehow we missed the major hail (baseball-size in some parts) and only got hit with rain a couple of times.

This morning's paper showed where tornados had hit - claiming 11 deaths so far. Looks like they blew past us to the north. The closest one was in Hendersonville, just over the lake from where we live. It takes a good 20 minutes to drive there because you have to drive around the lake, but it's about a 3 mile straight shot from our home. Click the picture to see how close it was.

Reminds us that we've had close calls almost every year for the last few years. First was in Coffeyville on the day Emerie was born. Second was when we first moved to Edmond, OK, and had that terrible July of storms - one tornado moving close to us to the north again. And now one here in TN. Hopefully our tornado quota is full!

I know people were probably looking at us weird when we went out before the storm hit & moved our lawn furniture under the deck, laid chairs down on their sides, moved the grill close to the house, etc. One radio DJ said it best when he was discussing similar storms that were blowing through KS. He said, "If you're in Kansas you're probably just thinking this is Spring as usual. Around here, though, it doesn't happen very often."