A First for Everything!

Well here is the first. We were concerned about severe weather on our route from Texas to Oklahoma, Missouri and eventually to Indiana. We normally would never be in this area, tornado alley, at this time of the year.   Les watched the weather very carefully and we settled on going to St. Peters Missouri, just outside of St. Louis. We actually stayed at a very nice city Park, with full hookups on the lake and a 4.5 mile bike loop.  We had decided we would stay just a few days and then head up through Illinois.  The day that we had scheduled to leave was the day that severe storms were predicted, so we stayed an extra day. Later that afternoon the tornado sirens went off in the park, followed by the ranger alerting the few campers that were there to head to the storm shelter.   We shut our slides, lowered our satellite and antenna, grabbed the passports and the cash and rushed over to the comfort station, which served as the storm shelter. I don't mind saying that it was quite an anxious time, not knowing whether there was imminent danger or  if the storm would miss us. There was a couple there who had been through this two years prior at the same location and told us a couple of stories of motorhomes being picked up and moved 35 feet and a man struggling to get into the shelter flying off his feet!!  Well crisis averted, small hail and rain with a very windy evening but we were safe.  Of course now we know that Fairdale, Illinois suffered the brunt of the tornado.