Texas Tornados

Ah Spring, the time where a young mans' fancy turns to love and everyone who lives in tornado alley holds their breaths, waiting to hear that dreaded siren and run for their lives. We have had two storms over the past two weeks that have produced tornados. There has been only one death when a young man hid behind a stack of lumber and suffered a heart attack when the wood fell on him. Not to bright, but considering we have had a total of 12 tornados in the Metro Plex, it could have been worse. Yesterday we had some storms move through and Fort Worth area had several tornados touch down. Mike and I were taking a nap and when our alarm clock went off the radio station was telling everyone about the tornado warning. We got up and turned on the TV and watched with much concern the line of vivid orange and red colors that were heading our way. Sandy had an appointment with her therapist and we called and canceled that when we heard that Denton county (where we live) was also under a tornado warning. We had told her we would pick her up after school so when the time arrived, Mike went out to get her. She comes home and tells us that the school officials had them in the halls because a funnel cloud was over the high school. She said the sirens were going off and the principals were on the PA system, telling them to stay where they were. What worried me was that the sirens were going off and we did not hear them! More then a slight concern. So we are going to get an all weather radio alarm clock that is connected to Noah weather radio and will go off if there is an alarm of any kind in our area. I will admit that I am terrified of tornados and if it were possible I would spend March through October in an under ground shelter. Perhaps when we build our own house we can do something like that.