Tonight I am sitting here in Houston watching live coverage of the storms in Oklahoma. I have been making telephone calls to family and friends making sure that everyone is safe. It is amazing how many devastating storms that have been this year. It seems to have avoided Oklahoma for most part and struck other states. For those that live within Oklahoma it is very normal in the spring to have a tornado watch with possibly a tornado warning on any given night. Therefore it should be no surprise that sometimes the weather does not cooperate while ghost hunting. I was reminded that I have had the experience of being at a location when the tornado sirens go off. The phone then begins to ring with warnings from children, family and friends. Everyone wants you to know that you need to get into a safe spot. Sometimes the calls are to let you know the sirens are going off where you live. Everything I just described happened to my group one spring.
One night I was at a residential location when things began to get interesting. We heard noises including what sounded like someone talking. It was setting up to be a a great night as the sky got overcast and it had begun to storm. Everyone in the paranormal field knows that storms stir up activity. I was excited to see what the rest of the night had in store for us. All of a sudden the tornado sirens go off. We were all looking at one another trying to figure where to go and what to do. First thing we did was to turn on the television. We then
realized we were in a watch area and had a particularly bad cell coming. At that time there were no tornados on the ground that they were aware of. They were urging for everyone in the path of the storm to take their tornado precautions. Then my phone began to ring and I couldn’t ignore it.
On the other end of the phone were my terrified children. They were talking fast telling me that the sirens were going off at our home. They also called me to ask what to do because their dad was not home yet. I told them to get into the bathroom with our animals. I was informed that they were already in there. I am grateful to have very smart, weather aware children. I told them to keep the TV on the channel with the doppler radar going so they would know what was happening. I also told them I would be home as soon as possible. Everyone in the group had received phone calls at the same time. The storms were building up where we were going to keep getting hit by them. For safety reasons we decided to quickly pack up everything and head home. We could always make arrangements to come out on another night. In between the storms we all left to go home. On the way home the kids kept calling to see how far away I was. I did make it home to the kids relief. There was no tornado on the ground at my house that night. The moral of the story is to always check the weather before you go anywhere.
