Last Soccer Game - tornato '11

Acacia's last soccer game of the season had to be rescheduled to a school night. And not just any school night, but the last day of school night. We drove to a neighboring town and the girls really dominated this other team. We were short a player and a little sister was able to fill in and she even scored!! The game was called about 80% of the way through due to lightning. Afterwards the team went to Culver's for ice cream and various presentation to the coach and back to the players.

 

The girls had fun and outside the weather was getting more and more stormy. Families started to take off. Randy left with Chris and Acacia and one other girl were the last ones. I finally managed to get her way. We stepped outside and took about 3 steps towards the car when I turned and literally shoved Acacia back inside. All the TV's were on watching all the "funnel clouds" all over the area where we were. The rain outside was just blasting sideways as if a fire truck were spraying from a hose. Not much later the manager came out and told us a tornado was sited in the area and we all should move to the cooler. So, off we went.

Needless to say, it was cold in the cooler .... but they dug into the lost and found and managed to get enough sweatshirts and coats that everyone had at least one. 15 or so minutes later standing in the cooler lost it's thrill and luckily the winds started to die down enough they let us out. Maybe another 10 minutes of waiting and we were on the road. Driving home was amazing watching the sun set and the lightning!! Acacia was freaking out as I had to keep the weather on the radio and it was BAD!! Trees down all over, power outages, roads blocked, etc.

We made it home to find two of my potted plants smashed having been blown off the patio wall. But other than that all good!