We have been through some rough weather! When we stayed in Atlanta Georgia we lived through our first and hopefully last tornado. It was quite a scare. It had been raining harder than I have ever experienced in my life from early afternoon until it was time to go to bed with a tornado watch throughout. We finally retired to bed around 11:00 p.m. At about 1:00 am I heard a really loud siren that woke me up from a light sleep. I didn't know what to make of it. My gut instinct was this can't be good. I woke Corey up and we quickly turned on the news. They told us what to expect and when! It also kept flashing on the bottom of the screen a warning for trailers and about how that was the worst possible thing to be in, there was nothing we could change about our condition. We thought about what to do if needed. We watched the news for about another hour and 1/2 waiting for it to come through the town we were staying in. Eventually it passed and we were safe and a little shook up. The next morning when I went to check out I talked to the owner of our resort about last nights experience. She proceeded to tell me how lucky the resort was and that the tornado went right around us. I felt weak in the knees and extremely grateful for the protection of our family.
We unfortunately have witnessed others who have not been as lucky! The same tornado that went around us continued on to Raleigh and did some horrific damage there. The hardest story reported was of a young mom and her 3 children who were living in a trailer park. She put herself and them in the bath tub and a tree fell at that exact spot killing all 3 of her little children. I was so sad, I had a hard time shaking my sadness and concern for her.
We had a great opportunity to stop on our way through and see first hand what devastation they had encountered. We were able to help in the efforts to clean up all the debris. It was quite overwhelming. We were so glad to actually be able to do something to help. And those we helped were so grateful.
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