Crazy, crazy day!

Andy and I had a very interesting/scary day. Our friend, Wendy, called this morning so we could figure out what time we were going to go see "Up". She didn't want to go to the movies at Southlands due to them having fountains out in front of the theater and she knew her son would want to play in them. We decided to go to the movies at Arapahoe Crossing..about 10 min from our house(Southlands is about a mile and half from our house).

We were about an hour into the movie when someone came in and said that they needed to move everyone into a different theater due to tornado warnings. Um, what?!?!? They get everyone into one theater and just leave us there...nothing more was said at that time. After about 5-10 minutes someone came in and said that a funnel cloud had been spotted at the intersection right out side of the the theater. ARGH!!!!!!! Anyone who knows me, knows that storms and tornadoes scary the heck out of me. Luckily our phone has Internet so we were able to get more info off of National weather website. About an hour later, they let us leave.

On the way home, we the only thing we really noticed was the wet streets until we got to our subdivision and noticed the HUGE hail on the ground. Uh oh! When we pulled into our driveway, we saw several neighbors standing outside. We went over and talked to them...then we found out the really scary news. A tornado had hit Southlands mall! They said there was also a funnel cloud that they thought was going to hit our subdivision. The people across the street had a window that was busted due to hail. Another house had a window a/c unit that was blown in another house. We didn't have any damage at the house other than lots of plants blown over and leaves and limbs. The dogs were whining when we came in.

We watched the news and saw that the tornado had done alot of damage to Southlands mall and the brand new Lowes across the street from it. There was also a gas leak as well. They interviewed someone who had been at the movies and they said that the building was shaking and the ceiling tiles were moving alot. Several stores had windows blown out and a car also was flipped over. So far they haven't reported any injuries! Thank God!

Wendy called me a little later to let me know that she has damage to her house. She lives in another part of our subdivision. She has softball size holes in her siding from the hail!!!

We are all very thankful that the storm didn't do more damage! Pics in the post below!