Tornado Nights

Are not as fun as tornado days I found out. During the day you can at least see what's going on and we have a good chance of getting out of work early. Last night was not so much the case. When I went to bed I knew there were warnings out, but what can you do unless you want to pull an all nighter. About 3:30 me and Melissa both woke up and came out into the living room and I asked her if she heard the sirens go off. I thought I had heard them but they were kinda distant and I was tired so I couldn't tell for sure but she confirmed that yes, they went off, no, I wasn't hearing things. So we flipped on the TV and the whole radar screen was red and white. I had never seen white on a radar screen before but apparently it's worse than red. We were both kinda nervous so after about 2 minutes we decided to run over to the preschool since it's in a basement. In the five seconds it took us to get over there we were absolutely drenched. So we sat and listened to the weather on the radio for about 20 minutes until it was on the other side of Huntsville. There were several tornadoes touch down in that 20 minutes but they were all a few miles east and the storm was headed east. It was scary though. It probably always seems worse anyways, when it wakes you up and you're a little out of it in the first place. And then I didn't fall back asleep until about 5:00. I guess my adrenalin was pumping enough to keep me up or something. Needless to say, this has not been my most energetic feeling day. Rather, I feel kinda like I got woke up for an hour and a half during the night.