Stormy Weather

This is a picture of a dorm (or should I say what is left of a dorm) at Union University in Jackson, TN. Jackson is about 3 hours west of us. Quite a few students that graduated from CPA attend Union. Everyone we know is okay just some bumps and bruises.

Tuesday night Austin was playing basketball at school while these storms were going on. At 9:00 when the game finished an announcement was made that everyone needed to go straight home, the storms were headed to Nashville. Randy and I made it into the middle of Bellevue, about 10 minutes from our house - when I received a call from a friend (thank you Marjo) that the "tornado" was going to be in Bellevue in 5 minutes. UH OH!!! So, we took a detour to another friend's house in Bellevue and waited there. Austin on the other hand, had left school, was about 2 minutes from school when he heard the tornado sirens, called Randy and Randy told him to turn around and go BACK to the school. He did and was amoung 45 to 50 other people in the downstairs of the high school very safe!!

We are all okay. Austin made it home about 10:00. Another round of storms came through at 2:00 a.m., but not as bad as the one earlier in the evening, so I thought. My friends at worked couldn't believe we didn't get up and take cover, I actually slept thru that one, not sure if that was good or not, but we survived.

The tornado did not hit Bellevue but it did go North of us (about an hour away) and do alot of damage there. I am not sure of the death toll, but one is too many. Please pray for the familys who lost loved ones and the ones who lost everything they owned.