What Tornado Alley?

This was the sky this morning at 10AM. It was dark and ominous - like a lot of the skies we've seen the last two months - but no tornadoes appeared. We haven't really had warm enough weather to stir up serious problems here. While most of the south has dealt with horrible damage and deaths, here in the mid-west we've had one of the calmest springs on record.

Since records have been kept in Kansas only three years have gone by with no tornadoes in May, and the last previous one was 1983.

We certainly aren't looking forward to riding out a tornado in the 5th wheel ... but if it happens here we have options. This RV park has a storm shelter; unusual even in a state famous for serious storms; and this shelter is a real rarity.

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Oh yeah - we're in Kansas Toto!

Notice the yellow brick road leading to the front door..

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A close up shows Toto hanging on to Dorothy's undies while shingles blow off the roof. If you click on the photo you may see the witch on her broom at the top left of the funnel cloud.
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We are leaving in two days despite the security here, going south for Memorial Day in the Ozarks with my cousins. We will meander around the lakes and visit favorite places in the hills there, arriving in Otterville Mo for a Grove family tradition.
Every year my husband's Grandfather would return to his home town on Memorial weekend to visit the cemeteries where his ancestors were buried. Family lore was passed on. We heard about how the family left Virginia to look for a better life and settled in Cooper County; and how John's Great-great-grandfather was shot and killed in Syracuse Mo for showing up in town wearing a Union belt buckle.
John's Grandfather and Father are both gone now but we can't imagine not going to Otterville for the get-together.
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A week or so later we will depart for places north, going on to our next adventure. We plan to wend our way across the North-east until we arrive at Prince Edward Island.
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I miss my grandson Coen already.