Here is a play-by-play of our fun experience.
We prepared our "safe room" and waited on the storms to pass. It started with hearing the sirens alert us, (even though at this point they were 30 miles away). So we're watching the news and tracking the progress of the storm when we hear the tornado is about 10 miles out, and west Edmond should take cover. This time was when we decided to go into the safe room.
As we're in the safe room with our laptop and live streaming video of the newscast, everything goes pitchblack! I had my iPhone so I used it as a temporary flashlight, and caught sight of Oliver's cofusion from the darkness. In the meantime I'm trying to get a call out to find where the storm might be and what we may need to prepare for. Well in Oklahoma when it tornados, cell phones are USELESS. I had no service, the network was jammed, so I continued to try to call my father, and after about 20+ attempts success! Dad was experiencing his own storm while we sat in darkness. (Guthrie received much worse hail stones than we had).

We were in our safe room for a good hour waiting on power, and the multiple tornados to pass over. After our power came back on the sirens continued to blow another 3-4 times and we still had to wait out storms. We were just thankful for power! Here is a picture of and Oliver's impatience, and our small hail in the back yard. I compared our hail to Sonic ice, while Dad's was comparable to golf balls!

So long story short, we were safe from the storms, somewhat prepared, and we were very fortunate for the tornado to pick up and touchdown a mile away from us! You never can fully predict a tornado's path of destruction. Oliver and I were just thankful for getting missed!
I'm so glad you posted! I was so worried!
ReplyDeleteSharon & Tommy were telling Mom all about the destruction to your Edmond shopping centers!! I'm glad you and Oliver and Brad's house are perfect.
Wowsers. Scary stuff! You're a brave girl!