Friday, April 13, 2012

April Tornado

We had our first bout of severe weather since we moved to Oklahoma.  A tornado touched down in downtown Norman only a couple miles away from the OU gym where Guard works.  Pretty scary!  I put the kids in my closet with their bike helmets on and covered them in pillows and blankets.  The storm has passed for now but we are supposed to get more tomorrow.  Oh boy!  The hail was so impressive that we had to take some pictures.  The top two are of our front yard.  I just laid some dark brown mulch yesterday so the hail really shows up against it.  The hail was as big as golf balls.  Tyler grabbed a piece that was close to the door to show how big.  I wouldn't let him go out in the storm to get a bigger piece-- not a good idea!




3 comments:

John and Ann Tolman said...

TYLER...grandma "T"says "stay in the house!" TOOOOO scary!What did Hadley think of the "in the closet" time?

Karen said...

Oh man. Tornados are sure scary. We sure remeber. I'm hoping this year were safe.

Diana and Derek said...

Scary stuff. When we lived in Nashville, a tornado took out our Stake Center. We had 37 tornadoes touch down in Nashville on the same day. We're glad that everyone is safe.