Scary Weather!!!

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Early yesterday morning I got to encounter my first scare of nasty storms. I moved to Alabama a year ago this month, and before I moved I was warned that there would be a possibility of a tornado, but so far so good...until last night!! It was about 4 in the morning and because I have a newborn my sleep schedule is messed up, and BECAUSE I was up, I was able to see some lightning activity through our windows...but I thought nothing of it. Well, I go to throw some soda cans outside and to my disbelief the sky was lit up every second with lightning with the wind whipping around, and soon to follow, for the first time, I was able to hear the sirens for a tornado. Oh...My...GOSH!! I immediately ran back in the house and woke my fiance up to inform him of what was going on...I was truly scared!! We turned the channel to watch the approaching weather and it was PURPLE on the screen!! And then we find out that our county was right there under the purple meaning that we were in the warning for a tornado. I don't know if anyone can tell, but I've never experienced a tornado and would LOVE to keep it that way!! So here both of us are running back and forth from the t.v to the front door to witness first hand what was going on and in the mean time trying to come up with a plan because we have three kids and NO basement. Outside it was awful!! Rain pouring down so hard that you can barely see the outside lights!! Wind whipping so bad that it is forcing the rain into us as we are watching this. Then all of a sudden...dead calm. I FREAKED because I was told that besides hail, that was a way to tell that a tornado was forming...the calm before all hell breaks loose!!! Thankfully it didn't!! So about 20 minutes goes by and the storm is about over, but on t.v there is a hole in the storm and that part was over us, so we were not in the clear...more was on it's way...GREAT!! By now my oldest is awake crying because he was scared out of his mind (poor baby), and the second round was about to start. This time it was worse than the first!! The rain was thicker, wind was harder, lightning was everywhere and a few bolts touched ground. Then all went calm again!! You could actually see the funnel cloud that was looming just a few miles away. Thankfully, I did not get to experience a tornado last night and I thank God for that!! But I know that others were not so lucky!! 55 people died from this storm and there were a total of about 40 tornadoes reported. It did not hit just Alabama, no, it hit Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and other states. They say that "it was the nation's deadliest barrage of twisters in 23 years"!! Here is the article if you care to read. If you care to respond that is fine, I just wanted to share this with you. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20080207/D8UL9TU80.html