Way too long since my last update!!

It has been a month since a last blogged!! AH! Where do I start?!

Well my family went to Florida a couple weeks ago and it was SO fun! I was really glad to get to take another big trip again. We were there for a week and stayed at the Bonnet Creek Resort on Disney property. My dad, Natalie, Trenton, and I went to Universal Studios one night and it was probably my favorite part of the whole trip. It was an event called Halloween Horror Nights and it was SO COOL! I love horror movies and the adrenaline rush I get from being scared. We walked through eight haunted houses and it was definitely something I would do again. We also got to see The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in the Islands of Adventure theme park, and it really looked exactly like the movies!

So now to the not so fun part... On October 6th (last Wednesday) around 5:15 am, Bellemont was hit by a level F2 tornado. Talk about SCARY! I woke to the sound of high winds and thunder. I sat up in bed and thought "What is going on?!" For about thirty seconds I contemplated what I should do, should I go back to sleep and hope that it's just a bad storm? Should I go wake my parents (if they weren't awake already)? What if this is an earth quake?! Heck, what am I supposed to do in an earthquake anyways?! When my window sounded as if it were going to break at any moment, I ran down the hallway to my parent's room where my dad was standing with a flashlight. Both my brothers were awake, and my sister followed me down the hall. The storm soon ended, but my siblings and I were still huddled together (Claire somehow slept through the whole thing). When the sun began to rise, we went into the backyard to see if there was any damage done. Roof shingles were scattered in our backyard, and as we looked into the horizon we could see homes that were completely destroyed. One house no longer had a roof and you could see the tops of the bedroom walls. We took a walk around the neighborhood and were horrified by what we found. A girl on my cheer squad, Jami Cox, had half of her house blown away in the tornado. A friend from church had a boat in their roof, cars were completely destroyed. It looked like a warzone. I have never seen ANYTHING like this in my life and I am still in shock that a tornado hit Bellemont, Arizona! The RV park across the freeway was completely trashed. Pieces of RV were strewn around the neighborhood. A TRAIN was torn off the tracks! Trucks were UPSIDE DOWN! Jami's house.. Or what is left of it

COMPLETELY DESTROYED

A friend from church's home. There were shards of glass impaled in the walls.

God was watching over us that morning. There were no deaths or serious injuries, and as you see the damage that was done, it is amazing that we all were protected from the tornado. According to the weather services, the tornado hit the RV park and rose into the air, hovering over Bellemont, and then touched down again right at the end of the street.

I was amazed at the sight of a natural disaster like this. You sometimes wonder, if my house was burning down, what would I grab as I ran out the door? But as my house was literally shaking as well as the other homes in Bellemont, my "stuff" was the last thing I was worried about. People are now staying in hotels because their homes are unable to be occupied, but no one is quite concerned for their things, just that we are all safe. It is pure love. Just as I said in a previous post of mine, if I were to define love I would say: "Love is when you sincerely care about someone more than you care about yourself."