Scenes from our Storm Shelter

[eating snacks in my storm shelter]

[Self-portrait. Yikes, mom you look rough!]

[Making a tower out of our couch cushions. Glad we didn't need them for anything else.]

[Pulling socks on and off is so funny! Big belly also caught in the picture]

When the first round of sirens went off around 2:30 Scott was at the golf course and Evy was napping in her room on our 2nd story. A quick check in with the local news channel showed I had a while until the storm reached us so I grabbed some books, snacks, radio and my phone and set up camp in the basement. I woke Evy up and we hung out watching the storm coverage for about 20 minutes. Then things started getting close so we went into our "storm shelter" also known as the 4 foot square shower in our basement. We stayed there for 45 minutes as we waited for the all clear. Unofficial reports say that a tornado touched down 4 miles south of our house. We pretended like we were hiding, we ate some snacks, snapped some silly pictures with my phone and read some books. I haven't seen a news update, but we are all clear at our house. Scott is all clear and moved inside to a local bar (!) for safety. Spring in the Midwest...