To share with you the concern regarding this bad weather approaching our area it should be noted they dismissed schools early, the Governor declared a state of emergency before the storms came, the Mayor of Lexington asked all businesses to close and get people home ahead of the storm AND...5 Guys closed at 4pm. You know it is expected to be bad when they close America's primo burger place early. Goodness!!!
Claude got a call from Scott Meadows, the pastor of the Sadieville Christian Church. He had been asked if they could use the basement of the church as a shelter if it was needed. Scott assured the emergency planning office that would be fine.
Claude also got an update from Jack Donovan, the emergency planning office guy, about the weather and what to expect.
Andie called us in the late morning to be sure we were aware of and prepared for the bad weather. We assured her we were ready. Then she told us an Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel was on his way to report about the storms from Louisville. Yike!! That is certainly calling in the big guns.
We told Andie I was headed to Georgetown and she was unsure why I would do that with the current predictions. We assured her the desire to have my arm heal without having the knife put to it is a GREAT motivator.
I headed to Georgetown about 12:15. I wanted to go to the nursing home and visit with my parents while Papa fed Mimi. Then I would go to the physical therapists.
On the way in I noted an old home they are completely refurbishing. On the front porch were 4 interior doors that had obviously been painted white and were propped up on easel like things to dry. I was amused to think they would choose a day with strong wind, rain, hail and potential tornadoes on the way. I hope those door dried so they could get them inside before the storms hit.
I had a lovely visit with my parents.
Physical therapy has a big screen television that goes all the time. They had it set to the local NBC station with the closings ticking across the bottom of the screen and the weather showing on the top of the screen. The therapists were receiving eMails and texts about the weather. It was definitely the buzz in that big room where we all do our exercises.
One fellow was from Stamping Ground and survived the tornado that leveled that community in 1974. He shared his story of him and his father being in a tiny trailer on their farm after working the fields. The trailer was out there to provide a place for them to take a break and rest during a work day. They hadn't been settle in too long to get something to drink when the storm hit with a fury. The next thing he knew their trailer was bouncing around and he had something cutting him. He looked to find his father and couldn't find him. Then he realized the sofa was on top of his dad and he couldn't get it off. This man was not going to play around with our impending storm.
My parents have both been in tornadoes. Mimi was in one when she was single and lived in a rooming house in DeRidder, Louisiana. The tornado picked up her home and moved it about a foot and set it down again. Papa was in his vehicle each of the two times he was in a tornado. One time it simply turned his truck around while he sat in it.
The physical therapy office got the word to close at 4pm. My appointment was at 1:30pm and I was done by 3pm.
I headed back to Sadieville to ride out whatever came our way with my hubby. It turned out we had a very bad rain storm, no hail and no tornado. Papa had some hail the size of golf balls in Georgetown. Andie had the kind of storm in LaGrange that we had in Sadieville. She and the kids stayed in the basement. Michael was at work the entire time.
After the storm the sun quickly came out. I peeked out the door to the deck and found another amazing rainbow. It arched completely across the sky. At the bases the sun was reflecting off of it and making the colors even more vivid. At one point it even tried to be a double rainbow. This is a panorama shot I took.
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