the kids down for quite time and a nap. 15 minutes later heavy hail
started to come and Megan mentioned that she had seen paper or debris
flying high up in the sky. At about that time we heard the tornado
siren go off, so we did what everybody would do. We ran to the
upstairs windows to see if we could see a tornado.
We then got Owen out of his room so he could watch hail and the people
outside scrabbling to cover their cars. Megan then went into the
computer room to see what news she could find on the internet. As
soon as she walked into the east facing room she saw the funnel cloud.
Megan quickly grabbed Aliya and started heading downstairs. I, of
course, quickly ran to the window to see the tornado for myself, then
grabbed Owen and Bailey (the dog) and headed downstairs.
Owen was giggling the entire time and Aliya just look confused. In
the end we were in no real danger, Owen had assured us that he would
take down the tornado with a light saber, that and it was east of our
house and heading further east. We stayed in the basement for just a
few minutes before heading back up to take some pictures and watch the
rest of the storm. It did touch down a few miles east and damaged the Southlands mall.
