Yesterday, was unseasonably warm, with temperatures in the eighties. This warm weather spawned evening thunderstorms, tornado warnings, hail and flash flooding. Sirens sounded, our phones wailed warnings and we ate dinner with phones, wallets and keys in our pockets. We put our shoes on our feet again, ready to run to the basement. The TV was broadcasting storm updates, which we kept on, while we dined. I do not think that there were any tornado touchdowns, but there were plenty of hooked clouds. Bad weather raged most of the night, at least until three. By then the weather had begun to subside and Anne’s alarm went off, to wake her from a sleepless night to work the polls today.