Storm

Just after we arrived home from Billings on Monday I looked at the sky and thought I should check the weather service website.  When I did, I discovered that there was a tornado warning for our area.  I continued to watch the sky and eventually it looked like the storm was in my back yard.  The wind came up and at one point I swear I felt my house move.  I could see the cloud start to swirl which freaked me out a bit.  It traveled on east pretty quickly, but I knew that M, J and R were all out in the field somewhere north and east of our house so that made me a bit nervous.  R was swathing CRP hay and J was baling.  The swaths of cut hay blew away, but no other harm was done, just a splash of rain and no hail.  Turns out the storm was just getting started when it passed by here.  There were reports of golf ball size hail north of us and baseball size hail as it traveled farther east.  The tornado touched down about 100 miles east of here and two people were killed when the house they were in was demolished.  Again this evening there was a tornado watch south of here.  I was out doing some fence repair and could hear thunder in the distance.  I was hoping that I wouldn't be struck by lightning or carried away by mosquitoes.  The power of nature is awesome and can be awful.

The beginning

The closest thing to a tornado I have ever seen