The Tornado

Here are some pictures I forgot about ..... on our way out of Virginia last Monday, we barely missed being in the middle of a tornado. As we were driving that morning, The Husband was napping in the backseat with Bubby and Fancy was riding in the front with me.

She was fascinated with how dark the sky was in the middle of the morning and took a couple of pics to document it. We were probably almost into Tennessee by the time she took these, but our morning had been mixtures of pouring rain and darkness since we had left Yorktown at around 6am. In retrospect, I should have been listening to the news on the radio as the skies certainly suggested severe weather. Instead, Fancy and I were jamming our way through Virginia on some 80s music. Mom of the Year here. =)

These 2 pictures don't even really do justice to how scary the skies looked .... they were taken at around 10am I guess:

When we stopped for the night in Jackson, TN, we saw on the news that we had been just ahead of a tornado along with severe storms hitting many areas that we had literally driven right through that morning.

Later in the week, we received these pics documenting just what we had dodged.

These were taken at the Naval Base in Norfolk, VA:

I sure am glad we drug ourselves out of bed that day at 5am!!