I figured I'd better check in this morning. We had some weather out here last night. Some of you may see news of tornadoes in Arkansas and be worried. I'm fine here.
We did have pretty wicked thunderstorms. Lots of wind and unbelievable lightning. Had to give the dog benadryl because he was freaking out. If there were any tree branches still barely clinging after the ice storm in January, I guarantee they are down on the ground today. The storms came in so fast. In about 10 minutes it went from "getting towards sunset" to dark as midnight outside. Fortunately, the storms also passed by almost as quickly.
However, the tornadoes were all well to my south and west. Some in eastern Oklahoma. The worst look to have been in south western Arkansas. A small town called Mena (mean-uh) was hit pretty hard. The scary part of that one is the biggest storm shelter in the town is in the basement of the city hall, in downtown. A lot of people went to the city hall to take shelter there. And the tornado appears to have gone directly through downtown. There were reports of some people being killed in the storm. Horrible news. Keep a good thought for the folks down there. The local weather guy said there were up to 8 possible tornadoes.
Hopefully Pat will also check in. I know Pat lives just a little north of me (and there's not a lot more north of me that's still in AR.) So hopefully, the worst of the storm missed there as well.
Didn't want you all to worry.
Sharon