see a tornado

Well, I almost accomplished this goal on monday. I knew bad storms were on their way but I wasn’t really paying much attention to it since it seems like the weather man has been wrong frequently lately. So my mom and I were eating dinner when the tornado sirens started going off. It didn’t look that bad outside yet so I knew I had some time to go gather blankets and other things and go put them in the basement. After I did the the sky started growing darker and darker and then all the emergency warnings on the t.v started. I stood on my front porch and watched the clouds come barreling in. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such bizarr clouds in my entire life. They were almost a red color but when the lightning flashed they turned to an eerie aqua green color. I knew green skies were a bad sign and I had never seen that before. Then it seemed like all hell broke loose and we could hear roaring in the distance. By that time I knew it was time to quit watching and get in the basement. Luckily for us we just missed the worst of it. In fact, our neighborhood was one of the only ones to not have any branches down and we never even lost power. The next day the national weather service confirmed touch down tornados in several of the towns right around us. Amazingly we were right in the middle of it all and nothing happened to our neighborhood. I still haven’t seen a tornado but I finally got to see the green sky and a huge wall cloud. Even without the tornado itself it was still pretty scarey.

For as long as I can remember I’ve had terrible nightmares about being in a tornado. As much as I’m terrified of them I’m equally as fascinated. I think if maybe I see one in real life I might get over my fear. As long as it’s from a safe distance!