Thursday: excitement

It's our anniversary!  Due to all the Japan excitement we didn't do much, although we did go out for dinner with Ben's family.

Severe thunderstorms were predicted for the evening.  Then around 10:15pm, just as I was becoming exhausted and ready for bed, a thunderstorm warning with high winds came through, suggesting a shelter in place.  Well, I learned my lesson from spring break two years ago and promptly went upstairs to get people.  Then, as we were just sitting down in the office the thunderstorm warning came through.  So we all moved to the basement bathroom.  Then Ben found a tornado tracker and the estimated cone went right over our house...so we moved to the basement storage room.  We had Tornado the cat with us, but Horizon the cat couldn't be found and we left him to fend for himself.

We settled in after reminding the kids that we don't get huge tornados and we have insurance, so even if a tornado hits us it will be just a large pain to deal with rather than a catastrophe.  At this point my adrenaline was racing while my eyes were exhausted, so I was in great shape.  It was a good thing that I've cleaned out the storage room so much so that we actually had a place to sit.