Bad Weather, Go AWAY!!!

...and DON'T come back another day. I think this sums up what Oklahomans are feeling about the severe weather we've been having the past couple of weeks.

Yesterday there was a huge storm over about 1/4 of the state of Oklahoma. Staying weather aware is part of life here. As I was watching the storm, I realized that there was a major threat for severe weather where my Dad is staying. He and my stepmom, Cindy, are staying in an RV park this week, while they are in town to watch the Women's College World Series. This is them before watching the OU women play on Thursday evening. I really love this pic; they look so happy!

He was texting me from the shelter, but it still made me feel very uneasy. While this was going on, my town, Asher, was in the clear. The circulating storm passed and Dad left the shelter. (I think Cindy stayed for a little while longer, I know I would have!) Dad said two RV's were overturned, but luckily his was unharmed.

*small exhale*

It wasn't surprising that the leading edge of the massive storm started tracking toward my small town. I grab a few items that are valuable to me and then Ricky and I (and Levi) headed to my inlaws house where the storm cellar is located. We are definitely being "weather aware" at this point. It looks like we will just miss the storm...

...so I turn my attention to these two cuties...

...and I send some tweets. (I have the best twitter friends EVER, by the way.)

Back to the weather, we are watching the news and the clouds/lightning outside.The wind is blowing cold air, and then alternatively we would feel a blast of warm air. It was the weirdest feeling. I am thinking the cold/warm air is moving and this can't be good. Shortly after this we loose satellite signal, and we noticed that there were a couple of storm chasers at the end of our road. Since we didn't have news coverage anymore we were tracking the storm on our weather apps, and of course watching the storm chasers. At about the time we see that storm is coming south to us, the storm chasers take off in the opposite direction of the storm. Remember we didn't have TV anymore so we all headed to the cellar. I had never been in a cellar before last night. It was hot down there! The storm had stopped circulating activity and formed a hail core. We waited out the hail storm, watching it track over us on the weather app.

If you stood under the vent you could get a little service. After it stopped hailing we left the cellar and returned to the house. The satellite was picking up the news again. I was so thankful to be safe, but learning of the deaths and flooding in OKC was unsettling. I finally returned home.

Safe.

*full exhale*

My state is going to need support in the upcoming months. 

Governor Fallin and the United Way of Central Oklahoma have establish an OK Strong Disaster Relief Fund for the victims of the May tornadoes.