i have always wanted to be a storm chaser. you know, those crazy people that drive towards a tornado instead of away like a smart person. well - today we had a crash course in storm chasing and i gotta say that if i could do it without my kids - IT WOULD TOTALLY ROCK!
so here's the deal. due to a little drama we were running a little bit late to church. right as we put everyone in the car the tornado sirens start going off. larry steps out to the street to check things out and says that he doesn't see anything but the sky looks really ominous. we decide to go ahead and head towards church. as soon as we hit hampden, which for those of you that don't live around here the road is less than 2 miles from our house, we see a funnel cloud. it was so awesome! we could see it from dip down from the clouds and slowly extend it's slender finger towards the ground. we pulled off to the side of the road and just watched it form and change shape. it would get closer to the ground and then pull up and then stretch back out again getting closer and closer to touching down. then we actually saw a little debris cloud for a couple of seconds before it pulled back up. while larry and i are thinking this is one of the coolest things we have ever seen all three girls are crying hysterically begging larry to drive as fast as he can away from it. so we decided to head back toward the house and get everyone under cover in the basement.
these are the shots of the funnel cloud from our back yard. the storm did move on further down the road where it touched down and caused some damage. which of course is not so cool. i wish that we would have had our camera with us in the car because the view we had was AMAZING! i think my next career choice will be a storm chaser ;)
