Our First Tornado Scare

Since we've lived in Texas, we haven't experienced a tornado warning near our house until April 3.  I was at work in a meeting.  John was just about to leave the office.  William was at Lola's.

In the Raytheon meeting, everyone is watching the weather on their phones and computers.  We're getting texts from family members of status in other areas of the DFW area.  Some schools are in lock down mode, where no one is allowed to leave the building...parents aren't allowed to pick up their kids.  I text John to pick up Will from Lola's before the tornados get to McKinney.  30 min later, alarms start to go off in our building and outside.  We head to a designated tornado shelter room (an office with no windows).  I can't get ahold of John.  15 min later, our alarms stop but we are not allowed to leave the building.  We head back to our meeting.  John calls me, he has just gotten his hair cut and is on his way to get Will.......... yes, if you are thinking like me, I think he's crazy.....thinking like John?  no big deal....it was a perfect time to get a haircut, no wait, he just walked right in!

John gets William from Lola's, despite the fact that we're not allowed to leave the building or be in a car per Raytheon's direction.

John and William get home and head to our tornado shelter (the bathroom under the stairs, the only room in the house without windows).  Here is a video of Will's first experience in the tornado shelter.

Luckily, the tornados didn't hit McKinney.  They stayed just South of us and headed past us to the Northeast.  We were very lucky!  Friends of ours actually saw a tornado at their office but it didn't hit their building.  Their coworkers ran outside to take video though....again, I think that is crazy!  Maybe I'm just a little too risk adverse :) 

Not a fan of being in an area where natural disasters that take lives occur regularly.  We are thankful that all our friends and family in the area came out unscathed.