Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Finally some excitment

So today started out like any normal day. That was until lunch came around. It started to rain. Then the sierns off base started to go off. We didn't think much about it until the sierns on base started going off. Our new neighbor, Steph called, saying she was at 5700 building and worried about the sierns. Being from Alaska she didn't know what to do. So I told her to stay there until the sierns stopped. I said that if anything bad was to happen they would annouce it and move everyone into a safe place. While I was on the phone with her people started running and a lady came over and told her to get off the phone and she needed to take cover! While I was on the phone! So John got online and I turned it to the base channel. There was a tornado that was spotted just off base in Enterprise.

People around here freak at tornados due to the fatal one that happed last March (scroll down a bit... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise,_Alabama. Here is a memorial video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhieNF-eHUQ)). So civilians get very worried. So Steph kept calling us back asking what was going on because she was trapped up at 5700. John and I went outside to see what was going on. And we saw the scariest thing ever!

We were standing on our carpot when from behind the houses across the street clouds began to pour over then. You could actually touch them. Until we looked up and saw they were starting to rotate! A tornado, later confirmed and touched down, was forming right in front of us! I thought I caught it on my new phone, but didn't, but I did catch some footage a few minutes later and you can see the swriling! It was so freaky.

Steph called while we were outside crying because she said the Wal-Mart in Enterprise got hit! We haven't confirmed it yet, but what a disater that will be. We have missed some of the news so we haven't been able to see how bad the damages were. But it was pretty bad. I just kept saying if John starts to run I just need to catch up!

Ohh on a happier note, Cade took two-three steps today! He has been taking a few the past few days, but today he took more than just one.

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