May 1, 2008

It's may day under the funnel clouds!

Posted At : 10:45 PM | Posted By : Katie
Related Categories: Trying to Stay Calm

So many of you guys live around here, so you already know we had ourselves a tornado rodeo in southeastern South Dakota tonight. Dicey.

Tim and Colton were at baseball practice - so they holed up at a nearby HyVee - Colton in his HyVee team jersey. Tim said one of the employees said, "Nice shirt." I'm just glad they never read this book or saw the movie. Grocery store? Storm? Unable to leave?

Gak.

Abbey, Eric and I made it home - after running through hail at the Shopko parking lot (had to buy gifts for 2 little girl bday parties Eric is invited to over the weekend ... Ab said, "Eric's in LOOOOOOOOVE" and he punched her).

When we got home the sirens were going off, so they ran to the basement and hid in the boys' walk-in closet. Later, after I gave the all-clear, they ran around the house collecting everything deemed worth saving. All the Gameboys (expect the really old one) - the beanbag chair - the cat (under major duress) - the school backpacks and library books - the Lego Star Wars stuff from Aunt Mollie - a few stuffed animals - Eric's May Day basket from his kindergarten teacher - their banks stuffed with cash - and (this really cracked me up) - my purse. Don't they know there's never anything in there? Har.

It sort of cracked me up, watching them abandon everything else to its fate. What would you take? What would you leave?

Ab asked if I would come in if the house started breaking apart, and I said I sure would, but until then I'd stay out in the family room and watch the news. She seemed okay with that.

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Drew sat on the futon in the basement never looking up from his DS. No concern at all, other than at one point when the sirens went off again he said (without taking his eyes off Mario), "are we going to get sucked up in a tornado and die?"
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# Posted By katie | 5/2/08 8:56 PM
Not calm, just sheltered and unaware of his surroundings. Huh. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
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