I live in the South.
We like our mother nature with a 2 week notice, re: hurricanes.
So yesterday when the whole “in like a lion” roared through hauling some spring showers, it also brought major thunder, lighting, power outages, and something totally unexpected- a tornado.
Right down the street.
It was super fun huddled in the downstairs bathroom with my daughter, my 5 year old niece, and my kitten.
(tornado damage off of Theodore Dawes and Old Pascagoula in Theodore, Al)
I’m sad about the grocery store, restaurant and the hardware store, but not so sad about BP.
Cause. Well, You know.
~Trisha
So glad we are not there! I hate tornadoes and was just telling John how shocked I was we hadn’t had any, because when we lived in Pcola we always heard about warnings for Mobile. At least we missed this one, but I have a feeling it won’t be the last.
Holy crap, I didn’t realize that was so close to you.
I’m so glad you guys are OK… we have spent a couple of warnings huddled in our downstairs bathroom with the puppies and some blankets. It is really scary.
LOVED your BP photo… payback’s a bitch!
So glad you are ok. I have been through some bad hurricanes and have seen some good tornado conditions too but have never been through one, thank everything. I hope no one was hurt and hope the damage is easily fixed. However, I must say glasses up for Karma giving BP a nice little visit.
when we got Tsuanmi warnings here in Northern California I thought about you….we just dont like weather at all, when it rains people drive like they are driving in land mines and earthquakes only scare us when they are bigger then 4.0
but you did remind me to call my friend who lives in Mobile to see if she was ok!
First off I agree that is why I live in the South I can deal with the Hurricanes since we know a week in advance it seems LOL.
Also I totally love your comment, twitter, facebook box!
Karma on the BP! Very scary though. Do you ever get use to tornados warnings? I just am not into hurricanes or tornados…I guess that is why we live in the pacific nw.
Glad ya’ll are ok…
but BP, not so much
OH man, I guess I can stop complaining about the cold NH weather because that would have scared the crap outta me. Glad you all are safe and look at all that damage. I don’t know what BP is
Bad me ?!
The gas station….remember the oil spill? That was BP.
YES ok … as soon as I clicked submit for this comment I realized BP sounded familiar. I am a news addict should have remembered. Ok .. gotcha. now I understand. Glad you all are safe though!
And that’s the reason I’m glad I left the south for colder temps! ;D
Seriously, I just read about the tornado online and am glad to hear you all did well…and I can’t say I’m sad about the BP station either but definitely sad to hear about the other local businesses. I hope they have insurance to help cover the cost of rebuilding or repairs.
~Jenn
How VERY SCARY and I’m sure too close for comfort for you.
When one touched down about three miles from us a few years back it scared me silly.
When the warning came over our weather alert radio. I put the dog and kiddo in the bathtub and put a twin size mattress over us. My husband wouldn’t come in the bathroom. We have no basement, so that was not an option. How I wish this house had one. Ahh well, not in the budget.
Then last year I saw one up in the sky from my back door, but it was moving away from us. Luckily it touched down briefly between two towns out in open prairie where it did no damage.
I really watch the skies in the summer because I know when rain keeps shifting directions (I mean quickly like minute by minute) it usually means there is one up in the high atmosphere or the conditions are right for one to start. They usually happen more north and east of us, but I think alot of them start and gain their momentum where I live.
Scary. That is seriously one of my worst fears. Tornado’s. We had SOOO many of them in MN last summer.. it was CRAZY.
OMG! This is one part of spring I am so dreading! So glad you all are okay! I read somewhere (can’t remember where) that this year is supposed to very bad with storms and Tornadoes, Blah! Stay safe!
OH lord. Thats no fun, well the rain & winds came our way to FL.
I can’t even imagine how scary that must be. Glad you’re ok.
OMG! Wow. I thank God I’ve never been thru a natural disaster. But hopefully nobody was hurt.