February 10th, 2009

Some might say it is too early for a tornado but I say, this is Oklahoma. I have seen 80 degree weather at lunch time and snow by nightfall. This is the state where you see all 4 seasons in a week.
We were home and it was almost time to go get the girls when the sirens sounded. I watched the weather and got Tabitha, her friend and Lucy in the storm shelter. At one point the rain got really loud and I moved Olivia away from the vent. As soon as I moved her it stopped. I am thinking this is when the tornado passed by us. Soon after we got lots of rain and hail. We lost power also. About 4:00 I finally left to get the girls from school but instead of going home we stayed at Olivia's watching the storms than ate dinner and then went home about 7:30. The power had gotten back on about 6:30.

These are pictures I got when we drove around looking at all the damage a few days later.


This is a brick wall not far from my house. It looks like someone pushed it right over. The brick was hardly thrown out of place. In the right top corner is a trampoline that got crumpled.

This neighborhood is about 6 miles from our house. There were about 15 houses that looked like this and many many more that had other damage like, fences down, shingles torn off, outdoor furniture misplaced.

This house is across the street from a row of houses that got a lot of damage. This looked to be the only damage this house got. This is my favorite picture. Look a that flower. It's saying "nothing can keep me from growing"

These two pictures are of the same house. Amazing.

This two pictures are also from the same house in a neighborhood just west of the above neighborhood. Look at the mailbox below. Only the top is missing.

They said the winds were over 100 miles per hour and this storm only got stronger as it went North. The hail also got more severe as the storm moved North. In some area's there was reported softball size hail and also 3 feet of hail in some areas. One person told me it looked like snow everywhere on the highway and it was raining at the same time, very odd.

By our house we had several power lines that snapped. Several on top of houses. I could not get good pictures because they were out working on the power lines. Before there were wooden poles but now there metal poles.