Southern Spring Storms!

Happy first day of Spring and it's tornado season already here in the south. Oh joy!

Yesterday was a big weather day here in Tennessee and other parts of the south. Lots of tornado action going on both up above Nashville near Kentucky, and the south near Alabama. I dread tornado weather. My Crohn's flares up with stress and guess what? I've got a flare up today! Started yesterday actually from anticipating and waiting what crazy weather was going to be in store for us.

Our house is about 1 hr. north of the Alabama/ Tennessee state line and we're about 1 hour south of Nashville or so. There was a huge line of storms coming up from Alabama and Mississippi yesterday that the news was saying they were watching because these were supposed to be "dangerous, violent tornado's." Great. Whose gut wouldn't be hurting after hearing that! So I readied my innermost closet with a blanket, pillows, water, flashlights, etc., put everything outside into the barn that might fly away in the projected 85 mph winds, gave my horses a bit of extra food prior to the time when all this was supposed to hit the fan, and prepared myself.

Howard got home around 5 and we went out to eat close-by. About 6, the rain came through and we saw on the tv at the restaurant, that Ardmore, Alabama, right on the Tennessee state line, had a tornado touch down. That's about 48 miles south of us. All eyes were watching where it was going to go next; straight up towards Nashville (us!), or veer off. Lucky for us, it veered off to the east and we dodged a bullet again.

Luckily, no one was injured...this time. Spring has just began so I hope this isn't what's to come for the next couple of months.

Today the weather has turned very cold. Snow was predicted to fall in the northern part of the state. It's about 39 degrees right now here at my house, a big change from yesterdays temps of 67. Tornado's have moved on thankfully.....for now...