Tornadoes

We woke up to some pretty severe weather on Friday, October 30. A few minutes before Greyson and I were to leave the house for daycare and work, Blake called to tell me about the weather alerts and tornado warning he heard on the radio. It was raining at our house, and by the time I had Greyson buckled up, everything for his Halloween festival loaded up and myself in the car, the weather had gotten much, much worse. I could barely close my car door using both hands because the wind was so strong. I pulled up the radar on my phone while we sat in the driveway. The worst part of the storm was sitting right over us, so I grabbed Greyson and ran back inside the house. The power went out, but Greyson was entertained by a flashlight while I grabbed blankets and (calmly!) tried to decide the best place for us to take cover. The rain finally began to let up, but the wind was still pretty strong. We waited for another 45 minutes before trying to leave again. It took me twice as long to get to Greyson's daycare since one of the main roads to IH-35 in New Braunfels was flooded and had traffic backed up. When I got to work, I heard on the radio that the Guadalupe River bridge, just down the road from my office, had just been closed, and as I stepped out of my car at work, I heard the flood sirens going off.

When I got to the office, I started hearing reports that a tornado had hit the Geronimo area - less than a mile from our house. A few minutes later, I heard about a tornado that hit the main street of D'Hanis earlier in the morning. It was quite an eerie coincidence. There is a lot of heartbreaking destruction in D'Hanis and around Geronimo, but I am very thankful that everyone made it through unharmed. 

Historical buildings on the main street in D'Hanis.

My dad's friend owned this shop that he used for storage... including an old Camaro.

The old jailhouse in D'Hanis.

This used to be a two-story building.