Texas Sized Storms

The past couple weeks I've been introduced to hail as big as quarters and dimes!! Tuesday night we had a lot of hail at our house but I just slept right through it. Mommy and Daddy had to run out to get our car inside the garage. But last night I was introduced to straight-line winds with gust up to 80mph!! My mommy ran into my room at 3am and grabbed me out of my crib. I could hear a loud noise outside and mommy said it was a tornado siren. We ran downstairs with daddy and the dogs and crawled into a secret room under our stairs. Daddy, mommy, Ace, Niles, Bess, and me played with the flashlight in our little room for a long time. Mommy said before she got in the room with us she heard the wind blowing against the house and it sounded like a freight train (but I didn't hear any chugga chugga, choo choo...so I think she was hearing things) The lights went out so when we went back upstairs I got to sleep with mommy and daddy and all three dogs on the bed. This morning mommy said she didn't think there was any damage outside but then they saw the fence across the street laying on the ground. When they walked back to the alley we had lost one of our trees which was now laying on the neighbors driveway and lots of branches from our other trees. Some of the big dead trees in the alley that mommy has been trying to get the city to cut down were also on their sides (I guess God heard mommy's prayers and cut them down for her) Luckily we all came out okay. And I had lots of fun. Hope we can do it again soon!!!