Holden Survives His First Tornado Warning

Today was a bit of an exciting weather day here in St. Louis, when we were graced by a sudden Tornado Warning (for us here, that's when the sirens go off and some people go to their basements while others go out into the streets to see if they can find any tornadoes). It's awfully early in the season for such severe weather and the threat of tornadoes, and that added to the surprise.

I was home with Holden when the TV went red and buzzed for the warning, followed by the sirens blaring across the city. Just to be safe, we joined the group of those who headed for their basements (I mean, who wants to be the idiot on TV the next day explaining why he did NOT get to the basement under the threat of an impending tornado ... not me, and certainly not with Holden). Overall, the weather event was somewhat anticlimactic, although it did hail some and it rained so hard that water came pouring into our basement under the back door. And in terms of tornadoes, there actually was one not too far away in a St. Louis suburb, and then others reported in surrounding areas -- and a decent number of tree branches, and a even a few trees, down in our neighborhood.

So Holden survived his first Tornado Warning here in Missouri, and without any need to nickname him "Tumbleweed."

This is us in the safety of our basement (standing in water, of course).