Yesterday afternoon...wow

As some may know, yesterday afternoon there was a tornado warning in the area of Waukesha city. Not watch, warning. That was a first for me.

At the time, I was at the house of a 4-H family from our club. It was drama practice for our skit, the Cookie Caper. I'll talk more about the practice later...

Anyways, the moms were upstairs when they saw the weather.

"Maybe we should turn on the TV," Mrs. W said, going downstairs into the basement, where all us kids were. She turned on the TV and changed the channel to the local news.

"Tornado Warning for the following counties until 3:15," the scroller read. One only had to wait half a second in order to see that Waukesha county was the one warned for tornados. It was a red zone all around Waukesha city. Nervousness stuck me as I gazed at the television, wondering if I was actually going to experience a tornado.

The rain outside continued to pour and pour, flooding the streets. Thunder could be heard and lightning seen before it. When one went upstairs to look through the W's front window, the water was covering half of their front lawn. You couldn't tell where street ended and the sidewalk began.

As bad as the storm was, a tornado never came to the W's house. Our 4-H drama troupe was safe. Come 3:30, the water finally resided enough for it to be much safer to drive home.

With the way the state of Wisconsin is, there were damp roads and flooded ones. The water trickled off of the hills and ran into the lower spots, flooding them. There were police cars and various roads. On the way to my home, my mother and I saw a fire truck, an ambulance, and a school bus, veered a bit off the road. As soon as I had saw the school bus, it clicked in my mind.

"School buses don't have seat belts," I said to my mom. "Why don't they? They take about seventy kids to school and back home every day of the school year. School buses are used for going to summer camps, also. The buses are so clumsy that if it slipped, kids could get concussions. The only person who has a seat belt on a school bus...is the driver."

Trees had been snapped by lightning. One tree fall over in someone's lawn, causing a sort of tree patrol to come and slow the traffic. Just plain tree branches were all over the landscape and roads.

But this isn't the first time I've seen something like this, either. It was just a reminder to me. The world has been at war with itself since the first sin.

But at least God's still here. The prayer that I made, while I was in that basement, worked. I prayed that all the people I knew, all my friends in the city of Waukesha would fine. Even the C's had lightning strike right in their lawn, but only a beach ball was harmed. From Uncle Sven's lastest post on his blogger, I can tell he's still alive and kicking.

Yesterday was exciting, I guess you could say. For now, I just pray there were no fatalities.