TORNADO!

Very early Sunday morning...around 2a.m. I was awakened by a thunder storm. I was irritated and just wanted to go back to sleep. I couldn't though because of the lightening flickering in through the window, the sound of the wind against the house, and the thunder booming outside my window. To make matters worse some sort of allarm went off. I thought, "Okay that is a severe thunder storm warning... like we can't tell that already." Finally, it stopped, and I resumed trying to fall back to sleep. Then, I heard this strange noise...it was like wind, but different. It sounded kind of like someone blowing in to a bottle but bigger...and it sounded like it was coming closer. Then, the power went out, and the noise got further away. I thought, "That was strange, I wonder what that was?" Then, I got up and went in the guest room so that I could get some sleep. The wind and rain didn't sound so loud in there. Just when I was finally starting to fall asleep my cell phone rang. I picked up the phone and looked to see who was calling me in the middle of the night. It was my mother-in-law. I groaned, thinking that she was just calling to see if I was scared. I wasn't, I just wanted to go to sleep. So, I turned off the phone and rolled over. The next morning I decided to call her and see what she wanted. She was upset. She said, "Heather, I was calling you because there was a tornado in your city and I wanted you to go down to the basement!" I was shocked... I had NO idea that it was that serious. I felt really bad then for not answering my phone when she called. Just as I was about to get off the phone my brother-in-law and his wife pulled up. They came to check on me since Debby didn't get ahold of me that night. I told them what happened and they went back home. A little while later I decided to go for a walk to see exactly how close the tornado was. As I walked down the street I started seeing some broken branches... then a leaning telephone poll. I walked up over this hill and couldn't beleive what I saw. It looked like the neighborhood had been bombed. It was awefull. I walked down and asked people if they needed any help or anything else. Everyone said that they were okay and had everything taken care of.I walked back home and tried to get some homework done. I had a hard time focusing though...