posted by erin on May 31
Anyone wanna venture to guess what THAT is behind our house? AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I was sitting on my deck enjoying the beautiful weather when I glanced up. I noticed inordinate amounts of traffic going down the gravel road beside our house and suddenly my attention was riveted to the horizon. Is it smoke? Is it rain? Um, Jer? Jer…
We’ve never had tornadoes around our parts that I can remember until the last 2 years. Last year it went right over our house (wasn’t touching the ground and it took our neighbors trampoline for a bounce) and this year we got front row seats to the action. Thank the Lord that it disappeared back into the heavens within a few minutes.
May 31st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
oh my freaking hell! that is scary! I hate summer, I hate summer
I’m glad it went right back up again
May 31st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
We saw it too. And then gathered in the front yard to see what it was doing rather than run for the safety of the basement! Crazy.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:03 pm
That’s a great picture of the action. Still hard to believe that I actually saw it with my own eyes too.
Hey — do you mind if I ‘borrow’ this picture for my blog post? I’ll wait to hear from you before I use it…
May 31st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
thank goodness you are ok
May 31st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Whoa! Great picture, but how scary?!
This is completely random, but I just noticed on your sidebar about the Celine Dion concert!! You’re going?! I am SOOOOOOO jealous!! Can’t wait to read that post!
May 31st, 2008 at 10:01 pm
oh….wow erin.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
good pic! shelley has some up on her FB. scary stuff! we weren’t even sure what it was right away. hope this is the first and last of the year…
May 31st, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Yikes! Being from Texas you’d think I’d seen my share, but nope. Been close, but thankfully never in the midst of one. SO glad that sucker at your place went back up! Great pic though.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Yeah, NOT a sight I’d want to see. We had one here last year (while we were away), but from what I understand, that’s the first time anyone’s ever seen one up here. I’m happy with those statistics!!
June 1st, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Crazy stuff, I didn’t even notice all the drama until my sis in law called to make sure we were all okay and I say WHAA??
Great pic! Scary stuff!! If Conrad would have been home he would have chased the thing!
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:40 am
Yikes, I can’t believe you took a picture! I would have been running around like a lunatic!
June 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 am
Oh my!
I have never seen a real tornado – only on TV. Not saying I want to…just saying.
The picture is pretty cool.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I’m hoooome!
The tornado — a little freaky and a little neat!
Growing up on the farm we watched one go through one of our fields. I remember my dad coming inside the house and telling my brother and I to go with him to watch it. So we moseyed outside the house and stood and the sidewalk and watched it go through the field next to us. It really neat.
But of course I do realize how tragic they can be.
What a great picture