March 30, 2007
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We Survived the First Round
The tornados were more sporadic and more profuse than I had realized yesterday. I guess the weather “people” (you know “they”???) explained it as tornados hidden by cloud cover and ones that were hard to predict. Several people whose homes were struck yesterday said the warning sirens went off 5 minutes AFTER their house had been damaged! The tornados seemed to come out of nowhere.
Jesse heard from Luci’s daycare that the director had gone to one of the northside facilities to help with children because THAT daycare had been hit by a tornado. Their roof was peeled back and windows had blown out of the daycare. Thankfully, we found out, all children were okay and only one worker suffered an injury when part of the roof hit her.
There was LOTS of debris (vehicles) on the turnpike, so Stephanie came via regular roads to the birthday party. JanaLyn was with her dad (Jesse was afraid the tornado had hit JanaLyn’s daycare – it was a different facility) and Rob brought her to our house. The party started about 30 minutes after we had wanted it to start, but things were fun and everything went well.
We have more weather (similar to yesterday’s) moving in now and throughout the afternoon/evening, so I canceled Luci’s psych appointment JUST IN CASE. No sense in me traipsing to the other side of town if it isn’t absolutely necessary. I figure her psychologist (the gal I really like) might like to go home early and be with her own children/family if the weather becomes dangerous.
Praying we are spared again today.
