Our First Tornado Warning Of The Season...

Thursday this week was a very strange weather day. Every time we have one of those strange weather days, you had better watch out.

It started off pretty cold, very rainy, and terribly blustery. By mid morning the rain had tapered off and the wind had died down. Around 3:00 the sun came out and it really began to heat up. The sky stayed pretty clear for the remainder of the late afternoon. Probably at about 6:15 Kate's boyfriend, Robert, called and told her that we were suppose to be getting some tornado activity.

We turned off the DVR recording of American Idol Gives Back to see the weather report, and found that yes were under a tornado watch. For us, the Perchalski's, that is a big deal because once we go into a watch that is the time we begin taking all the animals to the basement of the big house. We have made that our plan since we moved here because our tornado whistle only gives a 2 minute warning. Which literally means you only have 2 minutes to take cover before the tornado is here. Since we have 5 cats, 3 dogs, 2 gerbils, 1 turtle, and the goat it is better for us to already have them in the basement if we end up in a warning. Both Paul & I know that if we went into a warning the kids would panic over the animals, so this plan makes it easier to get the kids to cooperate when/if that tornado whistle goes off.

Anyway, what was really strange was that on this particular day we literally went from watch to warning in about 15 minutes. That usually doesn't happen, what is a lot more common to happen is that the counties surrounding us will go into there warnings first and then it will hit us. Thursday that tornado was spotted so close that there was no almost no watch at all. The ironic thing was when we went into the warning the sky was still pretty light, it really did not look like much. It just goes to show that looks really can be deceiving. Well, needless to say the tornado did not hit Bushnell or anyplace else as far as we could tell...but it was our first tornado warning of the season. The only thing really scary about that is usually when we get them this early, it is a good sign that our tornado season is going to be terrible. I hope not, but only time will tell on this one.