May 27 2008
How we survived a tornado at Crab Orchard Camp Ground
It was a nice day at the camp ground on Sunday. We spent the day on the beach, Susan, Kelli, Mike, Ron, Andrea, Katy,Taylor, and Zachary. We rode our Seadoos in the sun . It was getting around 4:00 so we headed to the camper. The sky was looking bad like it was going to rain so we got everything in the camper. We were watching the news and there was a tornado warning for Carbondale and other parts in the Southern county. Grandma Marge called Ron at 6:00 to tell him the storm was coming for us. Andrea’s Dad Mark was calling her and keeping her updated on the storm also. Ron and Mike were saying it will miss us we will just have a thunder storm, were they wrong or what? Susan and Andrea knew better, they wanted to be safe than sorry, so they took the kids, Kelli, Katy, Taylor, and Zach to the John A. Logan College to take shelter. Right when we were leaving we saw the state troopers telling people they want to evacuate the camp ground. People were trying to push in the shower houses to take shelter! The tent campers were out of there! We were turned to go to John A. Logan College and we looked behind us and we saw a funnel cloud! SCARY!! We ran inside to the college, and some people from the camp ground were already there taking shelter with their dogs, while ours were with Ron and Mike at the Camper. The kids were scared while we stay there for a hour. Andrea called Ron and ask him if he was doing ok and he said, “I’ve blown into the lake and a catfish ate my eyeballs.” hahahah!………! What really happened is the wind shook the campers really hard thats all! Then a Security guy told us the first storm was over, but there is another one coming a couple hours away just as bad as the first one! So we went back to the camper and seen if Mike and Ron survived. They did and everybody and everything was safe! It was raining the rest of the night and the other tornado never came!!☺ We all SURVIVED!!!!!!!!!
