It’s still raining as I write. I don’t think it will slow anytime soon. It’s been a long day. Especially for my mom.

This morning when Bekah woke up, the first thing she asked me for was a cup of water. But the second was if we could go see gran-d. Throughout the morning she repeated this question. At lunch I decided that we would go visit mom (gran-d) after work.

But by mid-afternoon we were being issued tornardo warnings and I was thinking that travelling wasn’t a good idea. And Bekah hadn’t mentioned it in a few hours so I thought it would be ok.

She asked again around 4:30pm. The rain had slacked a bunch so I thought we would go ahead and try.

Not soon after we had started packing I called my sister. She immediately told me what had happened.

Short version:

A tornado had come through my mom’s yard a gobbled up many of the pecan trees and thrown them on the brand new Honda Accord, the fairly new AC, the front porch, and around the yard. These are big trees. The roof of the house is damaged and now leaking in multiple spots. I’m sure that it’s ruining the newly installed insulation. The new gutters are questionable. The newly repaired fense needs repair. The storage room out back is missing it’s roof. And one of the cats are missing. And the rest is unknown.

But mom’s ok.

But now she trapped at home because of downed trees and flooding.

Needless to say, we didn’t make it over there because of the weather. But I’m planning on getting over there as soon as possible. I’m not sure mom will be sleeping soundly tonight.

It’s still raining. Quite the downpour. This storm isn’t near over.