Please give us all an update on your beautiful twins and on how you and mommy are doing!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish I could remember how to set up an actual link. This website is dedicated to the tornado outbreak of April 3-4, 1974. The storm system responsible stretched from Ontario, Canada, all the way south to Alabama and Mississippi. I can't remember its westernmost edge, but the system remained intact right through to the Atlantic coast. Over 300 people died in the outbreak; more than 50% of the town of Xenia, Ohio, was destroyed. If you have never seen footage or photos of what happened to Xenia, take a look. Absolutely devastating. I was with my family in Windsor, Ontario, when the storm struck. We lived in suburban Detroit back then and had taken a day trip to an outdoor fair in Windsor. I was five years old--this was 30 years ago--and I will remember every moment of that storm for the rest of my life. As bad as you may think a tornado is, it is worse. I shudder to think what an F5 would be like.
I do not get hysterical when the alarms go off here, as they frequently do during tornado season. Freaking out accomplishes nothing, it would just terrify my kids. They are growing up with a very healthy sense of how destructive and deadly nature can be, and how important it is to react to warnings calmly and quickly.
BTW--8 died in the Windsor tornado. At least two of the fatalities were at the park where we were.