A Stormy April

This April, we had some really beautiful weather and we had some really scary weather. The tornado sirens in Wellsville were really working overtime as we found ourselves in two tornado warnings in 10 days time.  The first one was on the evening of Oliver's golf meet in Paola. We weren't expecting any severe weather, and then suddenly we found ourselves in the middle of the red. Oliver wasn't home yet because the team had gone to eat Mexican after their meet.  Thankfully Maddox's dad lives just outside of Paola so the boys were able to go there until the storm passed.

Our electricity went out, and we girls hunkered down in our safe space downstairs while Russ kept track of what the storm was doing on his phone.

Violet was being very quiet until she said, "Pray for Oliver?" She's such a sweet sister. Yes, we definitely prayed for Oliver to make it home safely.

When the threat was gone, we went outside to see a very cool sky. The lightning was almost constant and the wall cloud was HUGE.

Between lightning strikes, you could see so many stars as the sky cleared. It was really pretty.

Thankfully we made it through the night with no damage. Our neighbors in Hillsdale weren't so lucky, as I detailed in my "Post Tax Day Getaway" post.

Then on April 23, we found ourselves in our safe room again. At least we had lights this time.

And we had Oliver at home this time. But not Russ. He was on his way home from an elder's meeting at church and driving almost exactly where the tornado was purported to be.  I decided I really prefer to have all of my family at home when we're in the middle of a tornado warning!

Once again, I thanked God when the storm was over and my family was home and we were all safe. That's enough severe weather for one year, let alone for one month! Hopefully May will be calmer for us!