Tornado Warnings Last Night, Flooding Today

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We have had very scary weather here the last 24 hours. It started with driving rain on Saturday morning, and then just as we were getting ready to leave work last night, turned into tornado warnings. There were three one right after another. While they didn't touch ground, the take cover sirens went off, and we had to get everyone in the building downstairs into shelter. This was the first time since moving to Oklahoma that I have experienced this, and it was very frightening. The ride home after the tornados passed was scary as well. There were several flash floods, and I had to turn around a number of times to find an unflooded road. I saw people thinking they could make it by driving into deep water on the road, only to get stuck halfway through. I don't know if they misjudged how deep the water in the road was, or if they thought if they went fast enough they could make it through, but in either event, it was a bad decision. The fact that it was very dark out may have caused them to not be able to see the water as well. The electricity was out, so there were no street lights. We're expecting more rain over the next few days. My husband has to take a flight tomorrow and I'm stressing over the drive to the airport. I really hate highway driving to begin with, but highway driving in the rain is the pits. Unfortunately there is no reasonably priced airport transport near here, and he can't get reimbursed if he takes transport to get to the airport. I'm hoping that because his flight isn't until early afternoon, that I can just leave very early and drive slow.