storms

It's a quiet morning this morning, but last night was not so quiet. Allen and I noticed the color of the sky first. You know that weird greenish orange color that tells you something is not right? We went outside to get a better look. The sky looked really bad to the south of us. We started talking to our neighbor across the street. We could hear very loud thunder and see lightening to the south of us. Then we heard it...the tornado siren went off in town. I ran to the house and got the boys downstairs. Allen brought the laptop down so that we could watch the progress of the storm online. It looked like the eye of the storm was going to miss us, but it also looked like it was going to go right over where Sarah was with her 4H group that was camping. She is camping at Milford which is about a 45 minute drive from us. I wanted to get in the car and go get her! I was pacing the floor not knowing what to do. I had no phone number for the camp. There were 17 school bus loads of kids at this camp and I could not see where they were going to put all of them! They were listing the towns that the storm was going to hit, and it was projected to hit Milford at 10:22pm. I finally called another mom that had a son at the camp. She was on another phone line with her oldest son talking to him about where the kids would go in case of a tornado. Her oldest had gone to that camp a couple of times when he was younger. He told her that they have a big barn there that they have renovated and it has a basement and that they take all the kids there. Well, I was a little more relieved when I heard that, but still anxious! I felt so bad for her being there by herself (no mom or dad) during such a bad storm. That storm ended up missing us altogether, but then around 2am another storm came through. We had very strong winds, lots of lightening and it sounded like hail against the windows. I have no idea it Sarah's camp got hit by that storm ...if so...I wonder if they would have taken them all to the basement in the middle of the night? I just hope that everything is OK. I'm sure if it wasn't that they would be calling. I just hate that I don't have a phone number to call them! They did not want the kids taking cell phones, but I think in this case it would have been a good thing. I know I would have felt better talking to Sarah and hearing her voice. I'm sure she feels the same! She comes home Friday night, but they are predicting another stormy day for Friday afternoon! I'll be glad when she is home!