Last night we experienced our first scare with unpredictable weather here in the midwest. We haven't had rain in days, and the forecast didn't call for any until Thursday or Friday. Brian and I went outside to watch the meteor shower late last night and noticed a lot of "heat lightning" (at least that's what I call it). No thunder or anything, just lightning far away and seemingly way up in the sky, and we didn't think anything about it since we weren't supposed to get rain for days. About 30 minutes later, out of NOWHERE, we heard the wind pick up full force and it started blowing things around outside and shaking the windows...I honestly thought there was a tornado right on top of us and that we wouldn't be able to get upstairs to the boys in time (of course, I am a little paranoid about tornadoes). Anyway, I grabbed the boys out of bed and rushed them down to the basement. I expected Brian to come down and say that we were overreacting, but he said the weather man said he was a little concerned about the squall line but he hadn't seen any rotation. It all ended up okay (just wind gusts of 60 mph!), and the boys just thought we were having a little adventure.
The glass in our patio table didn't fare so well. This was the 3rd time that it has been blown out of the table since March and didn't make it back in one piece this time. You can see it shattered to pieces in the second picture. It landed in the lot next door again (there just happens to be a house there now). I'm just thankful it didn't hit their house - they just closed on it on Friday and are moving in today (that would've been a great "welcome to the neighborhood" present, huh?).
Anyway, thought I'd share our excitement of the day!
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