Words can't describe. I don't even know where to start. Tornadoes hit all across the state, lives were lost, homes gone, and power was out.
I was with my mom the day it happened. We were caught out in the storm heading to her house. We couldn't get home, there were trees down everywhere. It was only 11 o'clock in the morning and we still had the rest of the day ahead of us. We were shaking with fear. We didn't know where to go, we headed to Kroger, sat in the back dripping wet, shaking, freezing, with 100 of our closest friends it seemed like at that moment. Some publix lady was holding wesley, trying to keep him warm. How kind was she. People screamed updates. Tornado here, one is heading this way. The worst was yet to come though.
Mom, Wesley and I made it home a short while later. We ate our cold lunch, and stayed glued to the tv. More tornadoes came through. I had everything we would need in the hallway and bathroom. Kris was stuck at work, and couldn't come home. Then about four o'clock more storms came. The worst thing you can hear from the weather man, Monrovia you have FOUR MINUTES to take cover! I was mess. We did that for the next two hours. In and out of the bathroom. I cried. We laughed. We were in a daze really. My sister made it home right before the last storm. We huddled there together. Ready for the worst.
We went outside at a break. I found hail the size of a golf ball in the front yard.
The next storms came. Kris made it home. We had no power, no tv, no cell phone service. We were in shock. We had a weather radio that was our lifeline to the outside world for the next five days.
That night came. It was eerily dark. No lights anywhere to be seen. It can get pretty dark without any light whatsoever. Kris and I drove to our apartment to collect items and make sure it was okay. We talked to some friends from tuscaloosa, they lost everything. You can read her story here. You will need a tissue or two.
The next five days we had no power. We volunteered. Helped friends that were worse off than us. My mom got a generator the next day from clarksville tn. We survived pretty well. Others were not so lucky. We went to one of the neighborhoods that got hit horrible. It was unbelievable. Nothing left of houses. Pictures of people everywhere. We helped what we could. Talked to people cleaning up what was left of their houses. There is still tons to be done. But we were lucky.
That's our clothes line, where we ate. and how we cooked at night. We could hook up things to the generator. Laundry was a must with a baby. and its amazing how one little lamp can make you feel so much better.
Now every time a storm is coming we get uneasy. I think i might get ulcer or something from worry. At one point during that Wednesday i took my blood pressure and it was something outrageous like 140 over 87. Usually it's around 110-120 over 60-70.
