Very Frightening Day

We just got home from the tornado shelter. The sirens went off this afternoon at 3:50 pm with a tornado expected at 3:58 pm. At the city storm shelter, most of the people there formed a circle and joined in prayer for protection from the tornado, and by the grace of God the tornado went back up, passed over our town and touched down just outside of our town.
We are still under a tornado watch until 8 p.m. so we have everything handy should we have to leave home again. We had some hail the size of ping pong balls. You could hear it beating on the small windows at one end of the shelter, which is the basement of the woman's dormitory of the University down the road from us. It was so stressful being there, wondering if our homes were in one piece.
Melanie and Casi were at our house this afternoon watching the weather reports on TV and then went to the shelter with us.
Melanie and I were shopping today in a neighboring town, we decided to leave around 3 this afternoon and got home just 7 minutes after a tornado touched down right where we had been shopping.
We heard about it on the car radio, just as we were pulling into Melanie's driveway.
Steven said he saw a funnel cloud come out of the sky but later went back up. When he went home today after work, he had no electricity and he said it was pretty stormy, so he and Priscilla went to his place of work. What a frightening day.

Looking down the road from the University
Emery holding a small piece of hail
Inside the storm shelter, men watching the storms approaching on the tiny TV