A Wild Night in Tornado Alley

Last night there were 65 tornadoes in 6 states. At least six of them were within a hundred miles of ADB. Crazy night, sitting there watching weather reports like it was a football game (or maybe like it was combat reports from Iraq). Hail up to the size of baseballs missed my house by less than a mile. A huge line of storms over 100 miles long sailed up and across Texas, and the entire line came within a mile of my house, sometimes east and sometimes west and sometimes right on top of us. We were watching one of the networks on Tivo about 10-20 minutes behind "real time", but all of the tornadoes were north of us. It's not particularly funny, since people were killed, and it had the Bengals terrified (and having two terrified leopards in the house who want to sit in Mommy and Daddy's laps is anything but funny). But it's the kind of thing nobody can do anything about, so we just live with it. I've stood on the front porch of my house and watched tornadoes go by less than a mile away (although not last night). We all just pray, keep the televisions on, and keep in mind the best place to go hide.