The explaination you've all been waiting for...

OK, so I am sure nation wide you have all heard about the tornado at the boy scout camp a few weeks ago, but you may not have known that a few days before that, there was a tornado that tore right through Omaha. There is a Wal Mart here that was hit by the tornado. Well, just the other day we were at that very Wal Mart and guess what?! The tornado sirens started going off. Before we had gone in to the store, I had noted to Wes that it looked like tornado weather and asked him what he thought the likelihood of a tornado hitting the same Wal-Mart twice. Then the sirens came on while we were in the store. Wes and the kids had gone to grab something at the back while I was in the front returning a malfunctioning sprinkler. They started to say over and over again on the intercom at that point "Code Black, Code Black, all customers and employees report to the pick up area in the back of the store."

So, I start looking for my family on the way back, we find each other at the back and go stand where we were told to. The employees go back in the employee only area and come out a few minutes later to escort all customers back there where it is the safest. We were some of the first customers in, so we ended up in the managers office where an employee gave our kids some pens and paper to draw, and I nurse Kindle, and we waited for a crazy storm that was coming right at us. It was being reported that this was not a tornado, but was in fact a severe storm with up to 90 MPH winds. So, pretty darn crazy, and we were stuck in Wal-Mart to wait it out. It came right over us and we could hear it even through the thick walls and very high ceilings.

It was a really nuts experience and as it turned out it really was a horrible, deadly, destructive storm. Many, many homes & cars had trees fall on them. Some neighborhoods were hit harder than others. We were thankful to have been spared any damage, but our backyard neighbor had a fence fall down, and there were a few trees and limbs down, but nothing like other neighborhoods. I am sure you can find pics on line of the destruction-it was nuts getting home and going around even the next day!