Wild Weather!

It's taken me a few days to actually sit down and write this, but last Wednesday, we had some wild weather! The forecast for the day and said something about afternoon thunderstorms. We had a little thunderstorm in the morning and then my mother-in-law came to pick up Eliot at around 2:45 and everything was still calm; no rain; no thunder; nothing.

I'd say it was probably an hour or more after Eliot had left that Ted told me to turn on the TV. They were saying tornado warnings. Usually, this wouldn't impress me much, but given what we've just seen happen in some southern communities like Joplin, Missouri (and given the natural disasters that have been striking in ALL parts of the world), I was a little nervous.

Well, I became a LOT more nervous when I learned that a tornado actually touched down in Springfield, MA. I believe at least one more touched down after that too. Nineteen Massachusetts communities were effected by last Wednesday's tornadic activity (my spell check tells me that tornadic isn't a real word, but I'm pretty sure the weather men on channel 5 were using it in about every other sentence. So THERE, spell check!)

The warnings on the TV were to get to your basement or inside room and to take these warnings seriously. Well, since I was here alone and freaked out, I packed up my laptop and work and went to work in Eliot's room.

After maybe an hour in there, I realized I was probably being kind of silly and I came out. I warned Ted not to come home from work, but of course he did. I was SO glad to have my family home.

We put Eliot to bed and Ted and I sat on the couch and I looked out the window and saw this light reflected off the building across the lot from us at 8:15pm:

(and of course, uploading them to the web distorts the color, but I assure you it was VIVID and BRIGHT!)

Ted and I quickly ran outside to capture a few more photos:

(straight above me)

(To the right of me)

Ted snapped this one of me to get the wind effect, but it's kind of hard to make out.

And then less than an hour later..


It was scary. It hit way too close to home. We get nasty winters and nor'easters and blizzards, not tornadoes! I'll take a blizzard over a tornado any day!

Thankfully all WE got was wind, rain, thunder, and lightening. My heart breaks for all those MA families who lost their homes, cars, and family members in the storm.


To end the post on a lighter (cuter) note, here are just a couple of snapshots from last weekend up in NH:

And YES! That's Diego's face you see under Eliot's clothing. He is potty trained! Woohoo! I'm so proud of my big boy!