Penny: We had a scary day last week,

there were sirens going off and all kinds of loud weather.

Mom had to do the Comfort-the-kitties thing for a good while.

Penny: Thank heavens, those tornadoes did not come to visit our house!

Just 4 blocks down from us got some hail and LOTS of damage.

The hailstones were 3 inches in diameter!

Penny: Mom’s friend Ken is a storm chaser and got this amazing photo in Vernon Texas.

Mom does not like her friend chasing storms,

what a crazy thing to do!

But Ken assured her the tornado above was moving away from him

and he was perfectly safe.

Yeah, sure – like tornadoes never change direction?!