This past weekend I heard my first tornado sirens! We had taken a trip to Mud Island in Memphis, TN on Friday, June 12. It seemed like a good day; hot with just a few clouds in the sky!
The kids were having fun playing in the "Mississippi" and the water felt good on a hot day, but then the thunder and lightening started! We made everyone get out of the water but allowed them to continue walking beside the Mississippi replica to the end. I waited with Camden, and Jennifer (my sister) started walking across with Josiah to go pick up Rob from work.
Then the rain started, just a little at first; then a lot; then the wind came! I was fairly safe, but Dave and the 3 older kids had to run back to the snack bar area, dodging flying trash cans and keeping Declan from flying away himself! Jennifer apparently had trouble not flying off the walkway herself!
After the power went out and the storm kept getting worse, they made us leave the glass enclosed snack area and go inside the museum and wait away from the windows! It was a long wait (maybe about an hour, but with impatient, wet, and sometimes scared kids, it seemed forever!), but finally they took us on the tram across the real river back to downtown Memphis! That was free for us who didn't pay to ride the tram to begin with! What an exciting adventure!! And I got to hear tornado sirens!!
We really know how to show you a good time, don't we?!
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