A drive across the plains

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We made it to Kansas yesterday! The mountains were cool leaving Santa Fe, which eventually turned into fields..lots and lots of fields. a lot of the little towns we passed through were so depressing..so many things boarded up and deserted and sad looking. Probably the only things keeping them alive are cows and/or grain production. Part of the drive crosses into Oklahoma, so mom and I got our first Oklahoma geocache, yay! In the early afternoon we saw clouds building up, and watched them for hours..one cloud on the right anviled out, which was interesting. Eventually, around 7 or 8 something, we drove into the storm. The lightning was really fun to watch, especially after driving past fields for hours. Mom was watching the radar, and the storm that we saw had an anvil had a "hook echo," meaning a tornado has probably formed. Indeed, we read later law enforcement confirmed a tornado on the ground in Strong City (east of where we were) with baseball sized hail..wow. Crazy we all saw that cloud build up for hours! We had to rush to get everything out of the car once we got to Julie's because of the storm. It was nice to get out of the car though, phew! Definitely a long drive. :P We hung out some and then went to bed..there was another storm at 2 in the morning..I had to check the radar to made sure a tornado wasn't coming LOL

Today we got up late and hung out (Julie and Kerry had to work) and then visited grandma! We sat at dinner with her which was..awkward, because the other poor people at the table seemed all "not there." The residents kept doing odd things, and eventually mom was like "we have to go and help Joelle make dinner!" Cindy was SO relived because it was just so uncomfortable..those poor people. :( We had dinner and now we're just relaxing. Hopefully no storms will wake me up tonight :P



The endless fields of Kansas :P

Super cool mammatus clouds driving into the storm! They're indicators of turbulence in the storm, especially severe storms

Cool rays of sun on the clouds!

Julie's animals (Beano, Lucy, Teddy) all wanting attention at the same time :P


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