As I previously mentioned, Saturday started out pretty. Then by afternoon the wind was beginning to pick up.

And last night ..... man, talk about a crazy night of weather.

Normally, severe weather doesn't tend to be as severe once it reaches the Georgia coast. Tornadoes happen, but nowhere as often as further west.

I'm sure by now you're familiar with the twister that struck downtown Atlanta late Friday, doing damage to the Georgia Dome, Centennial Park and the CNN Center. Well, that same storm system scooted toward the east-southeast, and by Saturday night the storms were beginning to take aim for the Coastal Empire.

After I mowed the gra--I mean, weeds in the backyard, and got showered up, The Gleckfolk went down to Pooler. We had a couple of things to get at Sam's, and also met somebody there for a "Freecycle transaction." I'm now the proud owner of two boxes full of empty CD jewel cases, with insert cards. I flip over the cards and use those as label inserts for my CD/R and DVD recordings. From there, it was across the street to Carey Hilliard's for supper (yes, of Gleckfest '08 fame), and finally to Kroger on the way home for several things.

By then it was 8:00 and very windy ... we're talking 20-30 MPH gusts outside ... and it was a juicy kind of wind which foretold ugly weather in our future. After those Atlanta storms, I had a weird feeling that we were in for some rough sailing later in the evening.

Indeed, we were. On my bedside table, we have a little Midland weather radio, the kind you can program for individual counties, and by 9:00 that thing was beginning the workout of its life! It was going off every 5 minutes. Tornado warnings were piling up for the area west and northwest of us, and they were headed in our direction.

The first storm into Effingham...

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