Tornado in Clemson, how crazy! A lesson learned.

With all of the much needed rain from Tropical Storm Fay, she also brought us a funnel cloud yesterday afternoon. After living in Memphis (aka Tornado Ally) for 6 years, I used to be pretty calm when dealing with bad storms, but that was before I became a mom. As I was working in the P&As Buliding yesterday, the power went off and the warning sirens blared all over campus telling us to take shelter immediately. We were told to get to the basement ASAP. I panicked. All I could think of was how I was going to get to Alli. I realized I didn't have me cell phone with me, so borrowed a students to call Chris to get a plan (of course, he never answered...some plan). Here's the lesson: you never know when an emergency will arise...always have your cell phone on your body. I decided to "risk it" to get back to my building to get to my cell phone and lap top. Sure enough a tornado had touched down in Clemson. Clemson has a good bit of damage, but were blessed that no one was injured. I finally got through to Alli's school to find out that they were alright. Then, another tornado warning came through...hadn't we had enough? I was figuring that I was going to be there all night with all this bad weather. No tornado with this one though. Luckily, a break came in the weather and I was able to go and get Alli. Boy was I happy and relieved to see her. She was fine...never knew what was going on. She and all her classmates and teachers were hunkered down in the men's bathroom at the church and had been there off and on for 2 hours during the 2 tornado warnings. What a day she had too...I can only imagine. I was really pleased with how the school handled the weather situation. I feel more secure since I know their emergency plans and that they were handled well. Hopefully, we won't have any more excitement like that for some time. We've had some week already...both Chris and I had a nasty stomach virus (I think we caught it from our little incubator, who never got sick), then this. I think I'm good for a while.
A link to tornado pic: http://www.wyff4.com/slideshow/17303169/detail.htmlindex.html?currentSlide=11&taf=gs