Saturday, September 18, 2004

The evening commute last night was a little exciting courtesy of the remnants of Ivan. I was headed west on I-66 when the tornado warnings started being announced on the radio. I was on my way to my parents house to drop off a box of Depression glass dishes that Mom uses for her tea workshops and to pick up some tea samples that I’m sending to someone. Apparently, that was not far from where a tornado touched down. The sky was ominous, but I never saw the tornado. My parents did though - they were out for their usual Friday dinner date and saw the tornado and a local news truck.

Then I got nervous because they said the tornado warning was now in my town. I had worship band practice, so I wasn’t going to be home for a few hours and I was worried about Annie in our 3rd floor apartment and seemingly in the potential path of tornadoes. Since there wasn’t much I could do about it, I just prayed for her safety.

Practice went well and I was home by 9pm. I fully expected to find that the power was out or had been out, but it turns out that things were normal. Very wet from the blowing rain, but normal.

They’re reporting that there were 9 tornadoes that did touch down in the DC area last night. There are a couple of small towns to the south and west of me where there’s some significant damage to homes. Thankfully, no one was hurt.