Holy Tornado!

On Wed May 24th the weathermen had been talking all day about a high possibilty of tornados in the afternoon. Sure enough we had severe weather starting at about 3pm. Jeff came home early and shortly after dinner it started to hail A LOT. Then they announced that there was a possible tornado at 149th and May and we live at 141st and May eeek!! We got the kids in the closet and listened to the weather radio. I came out for a minute when Jeff told me to look out back. I have lived in OK my whole life and this was the first time I had seen a tornado in real life, rightout my back door!

 Golf ball sized hail in the front yard

Big hail from the yard 

 after the storm passed us we let the boys go out and play in the rain since everyone on our block was outside checking out the hail damage. We had all 3 cars outside so they got pretty banged up.

After it was over, we learned how lucky we really were. In other parts of the city huge tornados destroyed everything in it's path and injured and killed lots of people. The saddest story was a family that was taking cover in their bathroom like they should have but the tornado was so powerful it severely injured the pregnant mom and her 5yr old daughter and killer her 3 yr old and 15 month old boys. They couldn't find the 3 yr old for 2 days and it just made me sick to my stomach and hold my babies a lot longer. I just can't imagine.....