Although we live far away from the coast, we did manage to get some bad weather yesterday from the storm. The day started out so pretty. The sunrise was gorgeous.

About 1:00 p.m. our phones started going off with tornado warnings. Then the tornado sirens started.

The rain and the wind was insane. The sirens went off for over half an hour. We were ready to duck into the bathroom if things got really bad. Because we don’t have helmets, I got out 3 big cooking pots to put on our heads. Luckily we didn’t need to do that.

Our rain barrel was almost empty and I’m happy to say it’s now filled to the rim. Donny grabbed 2 5 gallon water bottles and was filling those up with the runoff.

Today most of the water has drained off and all of our plants are watered and happy.

Another thing that happened yesterday is while I was watching the weather I googled the name of the man that had threatened my family, threatened to kidnap me and stalked me, that I know of, from the ages of 4 to 18, had died in 2022. I will have to make a post about that whole incident tomorrow because it is a crazy story.