Praise the Lord we escaped tuesday nights tornados with only a few lost shingles. The kids had an interesting adventure though. The girls had gymnastics on tuesday evening ( E was supposed to go to boyscouts but we missed that event) W had left town earlier in the day. I debated taking the girls to gymnastics but there was nothing yet on radar and well ya just never know with the weather so off we went.
About 30 minutes into their classes some of the parents were outside the gym watching a funnel cloud to the north west of us- very near our house, it never touched ground. A bit later the owner of the gym, Gus, was telling us all to go into the main gym with the kids. Once the tornado sirens actually started going off we sent all the kids down into the pit- a concrete hole filled with foam used for landing in when the big girls are practicing dismounts. The pit was covered over with a big mat and Gus sent a fan down to circulate the air. The adults huddled under some of the beams with mats across them. When there was a break in the storms Gus sent a box of snacks and water bottles down into the pit. E tossed them out to everyone. All in all the kids spent a little over an hour down there- singing songs and eating snacks LOL.
I was worried that they would be scared- the big kids because they knew- sort of- what was going on, and T because she didn't. E had fun starting the "food fight", G had fun cuddling on the laps of some of the big girls and T wants to do it again next week!
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