Running from the Tornados and a Giveaway Winner

What a combination subject for a blog post. I live in Oklahoma City and, as you may know, last night there were 9 (at least) tornadoes wrapped together making several big ones coming into the city and heading right for my house! Most people here don't have basements, even though we are in tornado alley, because the soil is red clay and basements become swimming pools over the years. So when the weather guy says that if you are above ground, you will DIE, you hop in the car and take off.

See the green sky? I'm so glad to have a photo of that because when you tell people that green skies mean the tornado is near, they don't understand that the sky is really green....not greenish. It only stays green for a few moments but there is always a tornado when the sky does turn green. This photo shows just one of the several tornado clouds coming right at my house. My daughter, Gina, and her kids live 2 houses away from me and my son, Eric, lives about 3 miles "up the road" with his family. We all hopped in our cars with our dogs and drove to Edmond, a suburb to the North. The storm did a sharp turn and we were spared but our friends to the south were not. We sat at the Sonic Drive-In in Edmond in the pouring rain and waited out the tornadoes. I just had a little damage at my house:

That is half of the little tree that was by my sewing room window. The other half is gone. I have no idea where it is but that tree was nowhere near the air conditioner. There are assorted size branches around but most of what would blow down, already blew down last week. Charlie, my little shih tzu, is deathly afraid of storms and he had a really hard time riding the storm out in the car. The tornado sirens were blaring and the wind was blowing with 60 mph gusts and this went on and on for about an hour. This was outside the tornado zone. Imagine what people in the south part of the city were going through. I thank God AGAIN and STILL because my family is okay. I am so sorry for the 5 people who died last night and the hundreds who were injured.

And now, the winner of a half yard of each of these fabrics is:

Belle Johnson from Belle Bottom Blog! I've sent you an email, Belle. Congratulations! Tomorrow I will announce the June Giveaway. I think you will like it! Thanks again to everyone who supports the blog, enters our giveaways and who emailed me to see if I was okay! You all are amazing! Cheery wave from Bev