Glad the trip was safe for you, I was just reading this morning that this has been the deadliest tornado outbreak in the US to date. Even though I am in Ontario, we're also in "tornado alley" (been through 1 confirmed and 1 possible in my younger years), and honestly it is not something you forget, ever! I feel for everybody who has lost a loved one in the past couple of days in this extreme weather. I do hope that this will be an uneventful summer as well.

My boyfriend was sent home from work, and the only Tim Hortons along his drive home was closed due to power outtage, we know as Canadians that if Tim Hortons is closed, the weather is extreme!

Thankfully I live in a the Pacific Northwestern coastal climate, where I'm cut off from much of the nastiness coming from the south and east. Unfortunately the weather has been extremely windy here, as well. No major storms, actually been slightly sunny the past week. Leaves me feeling guilty, but definitely grateful.

Everyone please take precautions to remain as safe as possible (both you/your family and your animals!) First aid kits and emergency meeting places have never been a bad thing!

Having grown up in a firehouse the majority of my childhood, I can firmly stand behind the "have a plan" method. Too many times I have seen/heard about families who lost loved ones and the like because they didn't have a plan. Save yourselves and the emergency responders the heartache and MAKE A PLAN! Set an escape route and meet-up place, as well as alternatives in case these are not available. Have a first aid/emergency kit ready with not only medical supplies but things like flash lights, batteries, candles and matches/lighters, FOOD for at least a few days for everyone, WATER for plenty of days. Even things like a change of clothes can be the difference between life and death. Have a way to communicate when the phone lines are down/power is out (land-lines instead of corded phones still work when the power is out). Have a plan for equine evacuation should you need it. Etc etc. :) Be safe everyone, seriously.

as beening in sask yesterday and the day before sucked pouring rain added to the already more than wet fields and corrals and yards, yesterday everyone woke up to screaming wind and knee deep snow we could not see across the street, we were un able to make it to the farm and lost a mini donkey baby as no one knew she was prego, so sad, things like that make me feel bad but, as our big ass truck would hardly make it around town in 4 by 4 it would have been more dangours to take the highway that was just as deep with no visabilty, we have several friends that lost upwards of ten calves a pieace friends that had them in their house trying to warm the little guys up, trying to remother them up when they got back out to their moms etc, it was a rough day a city 45 mins from here had no power for 18 hours as sask power could not get out, it is a sad day when your farm is already flooding and you get three feet of heavy wet snow, my thoughts go out to those who spent the day struggling and dealing with endless death anywhere and everywhere.

thanks it sucks should say not my donkey my bosses but sometimes i think i care more than they do which bites ass, but on a lighter note it is sunny and melting so hoping the rain will stay away for a couple days.