Mortaine’s Blog

So, last night was apparently a “textbook” supercell out here– two tornadoes within 15 minutes of each other. We had small children and 6 adults cramming into a laundry room and a mud room to be safe and sheltered. Wheee!

The menfolk avoided all responsibility for comforting the children by standing outside and staring at the storm and rain. After sunset, they were using lightning to watch for funnel clouds. This was John’s first tornado emergency (last night parts of Cameron were hit); I think he had fun, all things considered.

Afterwards, we put all the kids to bed (the Bertucci’s had all fallen asleep, except Jake, who is 11), and I taught Jake and his mom Barb how to play Fluxx. It was actually a good way to calm things down after so much excitement.

Today is my long run– think I should do that before breakfast, but we’ve barely eaten on this trip at all (except lunch yesterday, which was huge), so it might be prudent to eat so I don’t get sick.

Oh, and sorry for the garbledness of yesterday’s phone post. I was, after all, posting from the eye of the storm, so to speak.