tornadoes

Thursday night Benji and Sarah had me over for dinner. We ate the salads in the dining room and the rest of the meal in the basement. Why? Because there was a tornado alarm blaring all over the city and they were warning everyone to take shelter. I've never experienced anything like it. During that first "cell" there was a tornado that touched down. They said it was moving at about 45mph! I thought they went, like, 5, maybe 10mph. Once the first storm cell passed I saw on the radar that I had a window of opportunity to make it back to SBTS before an even larger cell came. I needed to study for my Hebrew quiz in the morning, so I left. When I got to the school I found out people had been hiding in the basement here as well. I studied and went to bed and apparently slept through another one that sent everyone to the basement. The whole thing was a crazy new experience for me. I think I had only ever felt threatened by a tornado when a hurricane was coming. At the point you are kind of freaked out anyways. Up here it just kind of came out of nowhere...