Tornado update

We've been having alot of thunderstorms the past few weeks and last night was the worst storms yet - we had 3 storms come through and the 2nd and 3rd storms caused tornados in the area. A friend called me and told me to take cover because they were reporting tornados in my neighborhood and 5 minutes later the storms intensified. Luckily we didn't have a tornado but another friend about 20 miles away was hit in her neighborhood. Her house only sustained some roof damage but her neighbors weren't so lucky and had their entire garage damaged and another neighbor had a tree on their house going right through their daughter's bedroom.

If you look at this map, we live between the 2 red dots at the bottom and were right in the line of the tornados. All the blue dots represent reports of heavy rains and the yellow dots are heavy winds.

The scary part about these storms and tornados is that we don't typically have tornados here in Maryland - that's for people out in Kansas and the midwest! What is happening with our weather lately?????

We were lucky and I count my blessings that we only had some small trees and branches down in our yard from the storms. We did check for more water damage and we didn't see anything. The bad news is that more storms are due to come through later today and this weekend.

Good news - I don't have to worry about watering my garden and flowers! Ha ha

Hope everyone is okay in the local area - I sent a few emails out to some friends in the areas that were hit and hoping to hear back from everyone soon.

I did come to work this morning only to walk in and find the power out in our building and it was out for a few hours so we're just now getting going and we have a command picnic this afternoon so it's a lost day. I should have stayed in bed, huh?