Being the Borquez's: Basement Hopping with The Borquez Family :)

Time to go underground again! Yesterday we had some really ugly storms come thru our area. We were rated a 7 out of 10 on the Tor Con scale. After April I no longer feel safe in a regular site built home..I NEED to be underground with my little people. The first round of severe weather came thru on Wednesday but it wasn't as bad as anticipated and actually completely missed our area . However, we were told even BEFORE Wednesday that Friday's system would pack a much bigger punch so Wednesday ended up not being as big of a relief as it could of been. We had a scary follow up round to focus on. I make a point to stay educated about the weather. I've even earned the nick name "weather girl:" on facebook because I really try to inform others as early as possible. I find that because most of the meteorologists are stationed out of Huntsville their viewing area gets a little more of the focus. Often times I feel that we get shorter notice. I watch the live radar like a hawk, from my home computer, phone you name it. My husband thinks I'm a little crazy but because he loves me/us he always goes willingly to the various underground locations I assign to our family :)
Yesterday we took shelter with with Mom and Larry at their church annex building. It's probably the absolute safest place we could of been. It has a basement thats a good two stories down or more and because its an old bank building it also has a vault room. The walls are unbelievably thick. I was finally able to relax once we got there but the ride over wasn't quite as fun. It was originally forecasted for our area to begin getting unstable in the late afternoon hours. I'll be honest I KNEW it would be here sooner. They didn't expect for the earlier storms that came thru in the morning ahead of the cold front to be very severe but Madison got slammed and actually went into Tornado emergency status. I listened and watch all of it on the radar and it appeared that these were very fast forming systems. Eventually they changed the time once again and informed us that the air would begin to get increasingly unstable between 1-2. We were packed up and ready to leave at 12:45. Even then the sky looked disturbing. I called mom so many times she said she lost count in my effort to try to get her to hurry up and get to the church. I told her more than once that I thought the system would arrive early. I'm not sure if she thinks I'm just a hypochondriac or needs a man to tell her before she believes it lol but it was bad out. She's just never been scared of weather and I'm terrified of it. She and Larry informed me when they arrived that they thought they saw it forming. Seriously, if I had of been in that car someone would of probably psychically needed to knock me out :) I immediately forgave her once she arrived. How can you be mad when someone comes bearing pimento cheese sandwiches, hunny buns, cookies and an array of snack foods to weather the storm! That was probably more Larry's idea but it was awesome :) We ended up staying there from 2:00 to a little after 7:30. Kal-el had a blast with the other children there. He played non stop the entire time. Chris said if for no other reason it was worth it to go so Super could get some interacting time. The peace of mind was worth it to me! Of course sweet Logan barely made a peep while we sought shelter. Best baby...truly :)
We ended the evening of a perfect note. Larry and Mom invited us over for the best spaghetti and best strawberry pie I've ever tasted. We sat around watched Kal-el play, got Logan to sleep and with full tummies and heavy eye lids we made our way back home to our pets. I'm so thankful that no one was hurt in our area. I know there were lives lost in in other states. Over 14 in Larry's home state of Kentucky. So happy that his family are all unharmed as well. I'm so relieved that we have a very safe place to take shelter in the event of bad weather. It's Spring...tornado season...I have a feeling we'll be eating cookies and sandwiches there a few more times before summer!