Tornado Drill 2011

We had our first close call with tornados for this year last week.  Fortunately for us, there was no damage to our home, work, nor any of our family and friends homes.  There was, however, extensive damage in areas surrounding OKC and many families lost their homes and some lost lives.  Prayers are going up all over the state for these families.

My experience living in Oklahoma has taught me not to mess around with tornados especially when Gary tells you to put helmets on your kids and get underground!  We were warned last week that the weather would be pretty nasty and that the potential for tornados in our area would be extremely high.  I picked up the boys around 3 and we headed to Aunt Amy's work (they have a safe room).  I figured it would be better to be safe than sorry.  The kids did great and no one panicked (except a couple poor puppies:)) Numerous tornadoes touched down all around us in the Chickasha, El Reno, and Peidmont areas but none hit us directly.  Thank you Jesus!