Some wicked thunderstorms and tornadoes hit our area last night so we scurried to our basement to sit it out and watch the action on TV. A confirmed tornado touched down within a couple of miles of our house but somehow we never lost power so we watched it on the WXII radar and wondered if any of our friends’ homes were in its path.  One family we know in Advance who’s house was very near the tornado’s path is out of town on vacation so we don’t know if their house was damaged but we know they are okay. 

Watching the morning news it looks like things got even worse as the storm moved east into the Greensboro area.  They are showing video of cars tossed on top of each other, huge trees down all over the place and of course the requisite shirtless, beer-bellied homeowner walking around his house in a daze.  That guy really dodged a bullet since a huge tree fell within inches of his house and it doesn’t look like there’s even a scratch on the siding.  Now they’re showing a house in Advance that didn’t get off nearly so easy.  Yikes.

They just reported that several people were injured and one guy who was in his pickup in a parking lot was killed.  Hopefully they don’t find any more injured or killed.

Yep, we got lucky.

**Update** They just showed video of Hanes Park which looks to be completely flooded.  The city just spent a bunch of money re-surfacing the hard and clay courts there and I have a feeling this flooding isn’t going to do them much good.  My daughter’s soccer team has practiced on the field every Tuesday for the last six months at Wiley Middle School which is next to the park and I’m sure that field is flooded too since it’s right next to the same creek that flooded the park.