Close Call

As I read todays Sunday paper, it brought back a lot of heartache, it'll be 5 years this coming Wednesday, when there was a terrible outbreak.. I remember when I was little, and for the first time saw The Wizard of Oz, thought the twister in it looked so real, thinking Dorothy really did go through a horrible ordeal... Fast forward to 2011, when my husband was at work up in Spring City, and my oldest son and I, worked in the same industrial park, just for different companies... meantime my youngest son was home alone holding down the fort... It was sometime in the afternoon, when my oldest son Paul came to see me at work, saying "Mom, I think I'm gonna head home, and you should probably come too! There's a bad storm coming, and it'll be here soon!" I said "Son I'm going to stay here at work, because this county is not on any high alert." Found out later a tornado did touch down, on the other side of our county, killing around 10 people, leaving a path of wide destruction... Now if I ever hear of another tornado outbreak in northern Alabama, we will be home in our cellar all huddled... and praying together. Addendum: All told, there were 55 tornados that touched down in the whole state on April 27, 2011 resulting in 238 deaths.