Storm front

I was upset yesterday after driving to
my Legion baseball game to see that the field
was empty. I called the office, got the assistant sports editor and asked if the game was moved to another location or if it was canceled. He told me that the game was canceled. I was disappointed because that was the second time this week that Legion games were called off. When I drove to the baseball field, the sun was shining. It was warm and slightly humid. Finding out the game was off I drove back home and read my book.

While reading the TV is usually on. I turned the channel to the Weather Channel and found out that Lenawee County was under a tornado warning. Who knew? My husband had the night off of work, so I told him about the warning. He walked over and turned on his radio (his police portable radio) and we heard that there was funnel clouds spotted over Onsted, which is about 10 minutes from our house. The calls over the scanner kept coming in, funnel clouds spotted, they seemed to be coming east towards Adrian. A call came over the scanner that said that a funnel cloud was spotted in town over the mall, which is about a mile from the house. Then the call that freaked me out was that funnel clouds were spotted near our house , not even a block away. Instead of immediately running into the basement, my husband and I walked out onto our front porch to look. We didn't see anything, but the sky was pitch black at 6 p.m. Looking around outside, we decided to go down to the basement. Me being the photographer, I grabbed both of my cameras and my photo vest. My husband looked at me when I brought it downstairs, I said, "I don't want to pay for these if something happens."

Mike went back upstairs to get our dogs, Blitzkrieg and Kelly. They don't like the basement and they don't like to go down the stairs. My husband picked up Kelly and brought her down. Blitzkrieg refused to come downstairs. My husband tried to push him on the landing of the stairs, Blitz would wriggle free and run away. After many tries we gave up and left him in the kitchen. While downstairs, we watched Channel 13abc Action News and they had extended news coverage of the huge storm. They talked to a man from Adrian, who said that his flap pole fell over and he lost a swing. Whoopee, a swing.

Along with the funnel clouds, it was raining a lot outside. The street in front of our house was flooded. All of these idiots were driving through so fast and splashing water all over the place. After about a hour, the skies started to lighten up and the heavy rain and storms had finally passed. The water flooding our street receded and everything was back to normal. The great flood of 2006 was over. Once Adrian gets another heavy rain, the streets will flood again.