Tornadoes

On Thursday, May 8th we went out shopping. When we came home I tried to watch the "Survivor" episode that I had recorded, but "Survivor" had not aired -- instead it had been the news. We were having some terrible storms and they had tornado watches out for parts of NC. Z thought they said that torpedoes were coming. Needless to say I turned off the T.V. until he went to bed. I ended up sitting in front of the T.V. until around 1:00 a.m. waiting to see if we needed to seek shelter in the interior bathroom of our townhouse. The weather people constantly showed the radar and in what direction the tornadoes were moving. It is very dangerous when they come at night and with many places surrounded by trees most people can't see them coming. The news went on the entire evening and part of the early morning. Two tornadoes touched down -- one of them not more than 20 miles away from us. I was nervous and scared. When we moved here Jer bought an alarm clock that would issue warnings from the National Weather Service -- the alarm kept going off most of the night and it is loud. The next day they confirmed that the one near us had been an EF2, meaning the funnel was packing winds between 111 and 135 mph. One man was killed when his truck flipped over with him inside. The weather people did say that this was pretty out of the ordinary. Let's pray that they are right.