Crazy Night!

I have lived in Oklahoma, in tornado alley, my entire life, but last night was the most scared I have ever been about tornadoes, because I had not watched the radar and had no clue what was actually going on. I was scared because I was leaving town right when the tornadoes were coming down highway 51, which is how I get home. I didn't know what was going on, where the tornadoes were, and had no cell phone service. So I turned south on a dirt road, listening to the storm chasers on the radio saying if you are anywhere in this area, I was very close, you need to take cover now, this storm is dropping tornadoes everywhere. Then I hear them talking about another storm northwest of us that took a turn southeast, so I just stopped at an intersection in the country and sat there for a while, contemplating my plan of action. There was one immediately to the north of me and one to the northwest heading southeast....I called Adam asking him what to do and he said head west to the house, well my phone was breaking up and that is all I got out of the conversation, so I proceeded to drive parallel to these suckers, going 70 mph down a dirt road, which is not all that safe, listening to these storm chasers scaring the crap out of me. All I could see were the trees on the side of the road, a huge black wall cloud over me and the storm chaser helicopters flying over me. That was not a very comforting feeling. I finally get to the cattle pens by the house on a hill to look at what I was running from, and was very glad I did not try to go home down highway 51! Here are some pictures from last night. I didn't get very many of the actual storm... because of the story I just told you.

They said this storm dropped 3 tornadoes in our area.

There were lowerings everywhere.

This was a wicked looking wall cloud

Then we turned around to look at the house and saw this, again, very comforting when you have nothing for tornado shelter around your house. Seven buildings/barns and none of them would even slightly make me feel safe if a tornado dropped on us.

Storms almost always give you pretty pictures though.

We had a double, full rainbow that hung out by our house for about 30 minutes. It was so pretty.
It touched down on both sides.

Here's the other side of it.

And here is the back of the storm.

I swore I saw heaven last night.




If they call the front of storms thunder heads, are these called thunder asses?


Then the sky turned pink, and then the sun went down.

And here is a youtube video of a tornado over Stillwater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTiZXv-t4I