Thursday, May 22, 2008

Okay, I didn't really mean it.

Today there was a storm, and a big one too! We could hear thunder or something in the background. It hailed too. Now, what was the cause of this? Answer: A tornado.
No, I'm not joking. We didn't know this till we went to a farm supply store to get chickens, they said they were going to get some aurucana chickens--well, chicks.
It turned out that the aurucana chicks they had shipped in were NOT aurucana chicks.
They were Rhode Island Reds!

We bought some stuff for the chicks though: a waterer, feeder and some chicken food.
And that's where we found out there was a tornado that was devastating Windsor and Loveland (well, sort of: not as bad in Loveland.) We watched the weather and looked at some of the videos that were being taped by a helicopter. Wow, I'm glad that storm missed us! In fact it barely did! There's cottonwood branches all over our front and back yard!

There's even a power line that got knocked down on the road!

Now it's over: just some thunderstorms.
(You can hear them from here!)

Well, that's the most exciting thing that happened today. There's other things that happened: a piece of hail I found that was about an inch long. And that's it except for the tornado and the thunder i can hear right now from our porch.

Hope everyone that's reading this blog can't say they have been in a tornado, or at least one that hit a bit too close. I think we're lucky it missed us.

4 comments:

Barbara Sullivan said...

Hi gang,
You have us beat, but our stormy night is not over yet. I don't know how much rain we got, "buckets" is my best guestimate, but we had five or six very close and very loud lightening and thunderbolt experiences. Close encounters with the thunder god. It's still raining, a little.

Glad you're okay.
love,
grandma

Unknown said...

It rained heavily here yesterday, too, and blew like heck. We're ready for the sun to make its return...

Anonymous said...

yo sue, you need to google rhode island reds..they are like REALLY famous here in rhody land and very hearty and quite good looking (for a chicken)..you might not want to pass them up. they are actually hard to get here.............aunt d

Anonymous said...

Holy Mackerel!!! We wondered how close the twister was to Fort Collins. Glad it missed you.

It sounds like you all had a wonderful visit in SoCal. Love the photo of you and G'Pa Mike, Maddie. Great fish!

Love to all.

Aunt T