Friday, May 27, 2011

Tornados :(

So...we had another scare with a tornado again on Wednesday. Geez, I feel like they are following us! jk They really do scare me so bad, especially after seeing first hand all of the desruction they cause and from hearing of all the deaths so far this year from them. There first was one in Joplin Missouri that came through on Sunday night and they said it was one of the worst tornados in history. Then on Tuesday a couple hit in Oklahoma and hit a dozen or so people. On Wednesday they had our area on a tornado warning and we were in one of the highest risk areas.We had the weather channel on pretty much all day and watched as about a dozen tornados were going through and wiping out cities and homes in states all around us. Then at about six or so the city sirens went off here in Memphis and that meant it was our turn. The only place the hotel had for us to go was in the stair wells of the hotel, so that is where most of us wives went to sit it out. I had told Tyler earlier that the news said a tornado was heading right towards us and asked that he come back to the hotel to be with me but he got called on a job and never made it back to the hotel. He hung out in some random persons house until they told us the storm had passed...I really didn't like that he wasn't there with me. The sky's turned black  and it started raining and hailing really hard. I thought for sure one was going to hit us, and I didn't feel too safe sitting in the stair  well of our hotel, but that is the best we could do. Most of us wives were freaking out in the stair well and a lot of the guys thought the sky looked cool and they sat outside to watch, which we didn't think was very smart. A few of the sales reps saw funnel clouds come down, one was right over our hotel, but none actually touched the ground in our area. There were a bunch that hit in cities above us and below us but not any where we are at luckily. After a few hours the storm had past and we had made it through another tornado scare. I hope we don't have too many more of these! It really made me miss Utah though...I feel so much safer there!! Here are some pics...

This is a picture of the sky when the storm was heading in....it looks pretty cool but scary at the same time!



Here are us wives hanging out in the stair well ha

And here is some of us once the guys got there...Tyler still wasn't there :(

   

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