Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Day 3: May the (Tornado) Force (Not) Be With You



We were by Crossville


Calm before the storm. 



  We went to bed Monday night and were woken up around 1:30am by large raindrops hitting the top of the camper and strong wind rocking us. I’m someone who genuinely loves storms. The more severe, the better. I swear I should have been a storm chaser. However, I don’t particularly love them when I’m currently living in a tissue box. The storm escalated pretty quickly and all of a sudden we were listening to quarter size hail hitting the camper. In turn, Mason woke up absolutely terrified and we all hunkered down in his room. The hail stopped after about 15 minutes and gave way to more heavy rain and wind. 


This was the first system just after it passed over us so we were directly in the red. 


We all fell asleep in Mason’s room and woke up to cloudy skies but no more rain. That didn’t last long as we looked at the radar and saw another strong line of storms headed our way. And then we got the alert on our phones:


👀 



Let’s do this. 



Behind our camper, there was a cinder block building that had a laundry room and a few bathrooms. We started seeing people driving their vehicles to the building and parking there. The weather was really starting to get bad so we made the decision to bring the slide in, jump in the truck, and park by the building as well. It was go time. Tim grabbed Mason, put him in his seat, came back, and I handed him Ava because there was no way in hell that I was leaving the pups behind. The wind was so bad that it almost ripped the door out of my hand as I ran out with Athena. Her and I ran to the building while Tim drove around and parked. Tim got out and picked Athena’s 90lb self up and put her in the crate in the back seat of the truck. And there we waited. 


Hunkered down! 

This is where we were going to go in if we had to. 


Eventually the wind died down and the rain slowly subsided. We drove back to the camper and packed everything up to head towards Memphis. 




Also, I found a worm 🪱 

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