So Much To Talk About!

Whew - we made it through quite an eventful, stormy day and night! After watching storms move east all day, they finally made an appearance here around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday. We had been watching a storm come up from Pretty Prairie for quite a while, and it was eerily taking a similar path that the Hesston Tornado took in 1990. When we heard there was a large tornado 2 miles west of Goessel, it was time to hit the basement!

There were so many emotions going on among the 5 of us - Caiden had helped take things to the basement and then he sat in the corner, reading. Cambry sat on my lap, shaking with fear. Delaney was just so happy that we were all in the basement to play with her! Chelan and I had racing hearts, but managed to stay fairly calm - we figured it would probably go north of us, and it did. Chelan even went up to "listen." Luckily, he didn't hear the "roar" he was waiting to hear!

We watched the weather people on TV all evening - we have such great weather guys around here! In fact, because of their advance warnings, there were no deaths and only a few injuries reported in KS. I kept thinking how exhausted they must be, having been on for 13-14 hours straight. At one point, I looked at Chelan and said, "It's like watching a movie, isn't it? You never know where the next storm is going to pop up tonight!" He replied, "It's better than a movie!"

Only in Kansas can watching the weather be Saturday night entertainment! We finally went to bed for good around 2:30 a.m. Needless to say, I took a nap yesterday!

While there is some minor damage around, it all could have been much worse, and for that, we are truly thankful!

Check out our storm damage . . .

This is only funny to us because Chelan yelled for us
to come look at the HUGE branch in the yard! He got
the kids (and me) pretty good!

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