Sunday Specials: Tennesse Floods!

So as per usual, my search for peace and tranquility has been thwarted. I guess I'm just not cut out for it - and in all fairness, I'd get bored.

I arrived to bright sunshine and warmth on Friday afternoon, and checking the weather, they told us to expect storms on Friday evening...

Yeah - it hasn't stopped raining since then. Yesterday, Hols and I decided to go hunting anyhow, and we're blithely driving around, hitting thrifts,  going to subway, grabbing coffee milkshakes and getting soaked, when suddenly we hear a giant siren going off. So we're looking around for a fire truck, police car, whatever, and there's none to be found.

Then the realisation dawned that it wasn't a vehicle siren, it was the tornado siren. As we were on the highway and had no intention of going and lying down in the flooded ditch, we kept driving ( actually, I wanted to go see the tornado, but Holly wouldn't turn around - boo).

On the way home, we saw people carrying animals out of their flooded houses, and cars nearly totally submerged. Right now, there's a river flowing around Holly's house, but at least it's around not through. We have a contingency plan in case it starts flowing through the house - apparently there's someone with a boat....