There's no place like home....

I already posted this video on Facebook, but in case you didn't see- we had a tornado that touched down about a mile away from our apt. I was out job hunting and Tyler was at the house with Bear and his friend Jared. You can hear Tyler talking to me on the phone while he was video taping. I was driving on the freeway when the alarms were sounding. I was closer to where the tornado was and I pulled off the freeway and pulled in to the closest store (which happened to be petsmart) and ran in side. I could barely get my car door open because the wind was so strong. The store manager said for every one to follow him to the employee break room because the tornado was headed our way. I was really scared. there were no windows (thankfully) and I couldn't get very good cell phone reception. The sounds from inside the store sounded like everything was being demolished outside. At that point I sent a text to my mom and Lei, asking why did I decide to live in Texas again??? I was stuck there for about an hour and then when I was going home- there were trees that had been split in half big pieces of metal all over from bldg's and roofs. What usually is about a 10 min drive- took me 45 min to get home. I drove by a big rig truck on the freeway that had been flipped over. It was crazy! Then, when I finally got home- everything looked fine in our parkinglot except for, oh wait, the tree that came out of nowhere and laded on our neighbor's car! I wish I had a picture! Anyways, I am thankful we are ok and I would take earthquakes anyday over tornado's!

Poor Little Bear! After the tornado passed- there were thunder and lightning storms like crazy all night and all the next day. Poor liitle guy would not go outside to go potty and was shaking alot of the time. I think he wished he had red ruby slippers he could click together to go back to Cali!