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outnumbered outnumbered friday june 3 2011 we aren t in kansas anymore as a child i watched the wizard of oz and was in awe when dorothy s house was picked up by a tornado i have had nightmares about tornados but honestly never once have i thought that i would experience one so very close to me on wednesday at about 4 30pm an hour after i picked up the boys from the bus stop we started hearing some rain and it quickly turned to hail and the hail just kept getting bigger and bigger honestly some were almost the size of golf balls i had been in a really bad hail storm in idaho so i wasn t very worried when i was a kid we used to sit on the porch and watch and listen to the thunder and rain storms i loved it at 4 45 aaron started asking how our weather was he proceeded to tell me that a tornado touched down right near his work he said that a co worker could not even open the door to get out because of the strength of the wind after the wind and storm had calmed there another co worker told him that the tornado was headed for our community of wilbraham he then told everyone that he was leaving and told me to take the boys to the basement away from windows at home i calmly told the children that we were going to go downstairs because of the storm the power went out in the middle of all that my phone battery was low and i couldn t recharge it i was so worried about aaron getting home and that i would not be able to talk to him my fears came to pass as we hid ourselves in the most central lowest part of the basement away from the windows i silently prayed we huddled up close to eachother and listened to a crank radio as sterling cranked i tried to charge my phone on the battery that was left from the laptop my phone would come on for a minute or two and i would get a message or two from aaron and then i would lose power again he told me that he couldn t get home and that there were lots of trees down and roads blocked he then said that he was headed for boston rd then i lost him as we listened to the radio they said that the tornado was headed for boston rd i cannot even begin to describe the utter panic that welled up inside of me i tried to control my emotions as much as i could for the boys but it was too late so the boys were beginning to understand the seriousness of the situation from the radio and from me and they cried i asked damian to pray amazingly calm in that moment he uttered a simply and faithful prayer to heavenly father for our dad and husband he always is our little spiritual rock in our home he has great faith in god after the prayer my words to them were very optimistic and hopeful but i couldn t help thinking about all the worst case scenarios however i think that my external optimism helped my internal fears subside at some point i received a message from my phone when it came on briefly saying that aaron was walking home that was scary too he told me that he was down the hill from us and needed me to come get him that message was sent at 7 40 i got it at 8 40 i got the kids out of their sleeping bags the tornado warning from the radio was until 9 we ran out the door in the rain to get aaron as we drove down the road from our home there were power lines down and trees down blocking our path the rain was coming down uncontrollably and i had to turn around as soon as we got home i got the kids back down in the basement and started charging my phone in the van i called my mom and aaron s mom to see if either of them had heard from him i assumed though that his phone battery was dead too after about 15 or 20 minutes i saw headlights come up our road it wasn t our car but i knew it was him it was quite the emotional and scary experience he had been walking about 3 miles part of which was uphill and climbing over big trees to get home he hitched a ride with a couple of passerbys i was so happy to see him our community had a lot of big trees go down and a lot of power lines there was also a pretty good amount of structural damage we lost power for a little over 24 hours and didn t have running water either but we are very grateful to be alive it was much worse for so many in springfield and in our community and surrounding communities i learned a lot of valuable lessons about being prepared we had some things but definitely not all the things we needed i will be making a list of things we thought of having after i will be posting this soon on our blog so watch for it here are some photos of during the storm and after this is a picture of the connecticut river being picked up by the tornado aaron s office is really close to the river and he saw it go by the basketball fame building where he works this is a church in monson we live on the border of wilbraham and monson these pictures don t even begin to paint a picture of the devastation in springfield and the surrounding areas we are grateful for support from family and friends and pray for those less fortunate than us posted by kimmy at 7 45 am 6 comments tuesday may 3 2011 noel and joe aren t these two a great looking couple posted by kimmy at 10 36 am 1 comments thursday march 3 2011 one little two little three little indians this is what i found on my couch i didn t encourage this this was his idea posted by kimmy at 6 43 am 2 comments birthday 8 wow these are just a few silly pictures of the 8 year old zachary on his big day we are super excited for him to get baptized in a couple of weeks what a handsome boy posted by kimmy at 6 35 am 0 comments friday january 21 2011 snow days four snow days in the last two weeks are not necessarily good for my morale that is bad to say isn t it posted by kimmy at 12 51 pm 1 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom contributors aaron kimmy the blogs i read auntie laura auntie michelle miss kimmy kevin jeremy and family wade and crew the jensens eric v blog archive 2011 9 june 1 we aren t in kansas anymore may 1 march 2 january 5 2010 7 december 1 october 1 may 3 march 1 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