Living Between the Sirens!

Thanks to Tropical Storm (now I think "depression") Fay...we have been experiencing some interesting weather here in Central Alabama. Many of my close friends know that this interesting weather was one of the reasons that I was nervous about living here in Alabama! Just give me a basement, even if it's small, and I would be much less nervous; but here, there really are no such things as basements! Yesterday the sirens went off four times for our county. Justin would go outside and look, I would go turn on the TV; and all four of those times were for tornadoes that were at least 15 miles away from us. Still a little nerve racking but doable. I was thankful that Justin was home and we had several discussions about what particular "closet" or "inside room" was the safest for our brood just in case!!


Bright and early this morning as we were getting ready to head out to school, the sirens started again! It was raining pretty hard, but when we turned on the TV this time the warning was for us...in fact the words they used were "If you are in Prattville, take cover!" The next few minutes they start tell you how many minutes until this funnel cloud will be in your town...so we hunkered down in the bathroom and said a little prayer!


We had the radio on, and set up the computer so that the boys would be a little bit distracted! It worked out well, except Eli's whole goal in life was to grab the computer! He is quite a persistent little guy!!


Seth taking a little break and laying down at Dad's feet. On a side note for those of you who know he was sick and took a quick trip to the ER on Saturday morning...he is doing better. He actually has a little color in his cheeks and felt well enough to go to school today.

Justin just relaxing?? They tell you to bring pillows and blankets with you for protection...we figured the bean bags would work nicely?



I couldn't get outside to take a picture of the weather, but this is a shot of the water pouring off of the roof! We have a small lake in the back yard...and rain is expected all day again today!

When it was all said and done, Prattville came out unscathed...the warning was lifted (watches are still in effect most of the day). The boys went to school just and hour late...and we went on with our morning - at least until the next siren!! For those of you who have gone through this many times will probably just laugh at us...but for us western kids this is a whole new ball game for us!

Thanks Fay for gracing us with your presence!! And our thoughts our with you Trevor as you, your friends, and your boat get hammered with Tropical storm Julio! Be Safe!!