Yesterday was Mothers Day, and we had a nice day. We went out to breakfast at Stack 'Em High in Kitty Hawk with Jenni, Sean, Jantaporn and Phoenix. After breakfast, all of us except Sean, who had to work, went to church with Jenni at the Unitarian Meeting in Kitty Hawk. Jenni joined that congregation a couple of month's ago and invited us to go for the Mothers Day sermon. It was an interesting experience, not like any other church I've been to but just about what you would expect. Very open and all-encompassing, very casual, very mindful of social justice. Phoenix did pretty well for a half hour or so, then Jantaporn had to take him outside to the playground where the rest of the kids from the church were playing.
After that, we dropped Jantaporn off at home because she had errands to run and shopping to do on her only day off, and the rest of us went to the aquarium in Manteo. It was nice, as usual, but Phoenix is just a little too young to fully enjoy it. He liked the river otters a lot, but was kind of underwhelmed by the fish.
After the aquarium, we took Jenni and Phoenix home, and Hilda and I came home, too. The weather had been cool and cloudy all day, but just about when we got home it started blowing pretty good. We were listening to the radio, and the weather alerts kept interrupting every few minutes with news about severe thunderstorms and tornado warnings. As we listened to the alerts, they kept getting progressively closer to our location.
It had been raining on and off since about 5:00, but around 8:00 it really hit. We got lots of rain and some hail (though it didn't seem like a lot) and some pretty hard winds, which I guessed to be around 70 mph. The really severe part only lasted four or five minutes, then it settled down to a regular thunderstorm.
This morning, I read on a local website that a tornado had passed between us and Sanderling (about 5 miles north of us) but there was no damage reported, so I guess it didn't touch down, and we were getting the fringes of it. That was enough for us.
It's been cloudy and blustery all day today, with the wind blowing around 30 pretty steadily, and gusting a little higher. I have to go to Hatteras tomorrow, so I'm just hoping the road doesn't flood. The wind is supposed to stay out of the west and north most of the day, not turning to the NE until late tomorrow afternoon, so maybe I can get in and out before the tide comes over the road.
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