Well, If life doesn't have enough trials mother nature decide to add another one. On Thursday Jan 10, it was just another day at work. The weather as usual was raining and of course being at work I don't get any weather reports.
I decided to run over to Safeways and pick up laundry soap and few other things. I was in the store for about 20 mins and when I came out the sky had darkened a great deal, no biggy. Just as I was getting things into the car there was a hugh flash of lighting and an unbelievable loud thunder, it sounded like a shotgun going off right next to my ear. I climbed into the car just as the rain started coming down harder and a little bit of hail. Now this hail was the size of small grapes and hitting my windshield, which I thought it might break. Okay, so I start driving back to the office it's less than 5 min drive. There are 4 stop lights, 1st and 2nd are working fine and the wind is picking up, hail coming down harder, raining heavier. I turned the corner and look ahead to see that the 3rd set of lights are out and people are slowing down, we are doing four way stops making it through the light. All the liquids are getting heavier and the wind in swirling around me. You can't really see anything around you, and I am praying that I will make it back to the office without getting hit. I didn't know at this time that it is a tornado and at the 4th light people are not taking their turns and it gets a little harry. I make my turn and just as I am getting around the corning a car in front of me stops suddenly but, I have enough distance to stop safely. Coming across the road (now this is a 6 lane road) is a shopping cart and it's coming at a very fast speed, it stops when it runs into the side of Baja Fresh restrauant. I turn into the parking lot, park my car, I am only 3 feet from the back door of the building and I get soaked. The lights are just starting to come back on. And then we find out that it is a tornado. The path of it is just 1 block from my office and I missed the main event by about 3 mins of maybe seeing it. I think it passed by us just as I was trying to get into the back door. You can see pictures of the damage if you go to www.kgw.com . Look for the Vancouver Tornado.
Other than that things are going good with my new job and I am bored to tears, but we are in the early stages and trying to make sure all of the computer systems are working right.
Suzie