Here we go again!

The sirens went off once again here -- there never was an actual tornado warning, but about a half hour ago, the sheriff's office ordered the sirens after a weather spotter reported rotation in the clouds about 2 miles west of here. And not too long later, they said on the radio spotters reported a funnel right over town! This time we acted like real Kansans and looked out the window. We saw it, too -- a small, ropelike funnel not too far south of the house!

It started coming down more from the clouds, but as it moved east, it quickly broke up and there weren't any others. That's really the first time I've seen a funnel cloud up close. There was once in college when my roommates and I were driving back home from Wal-Mart when a warning was issued. My roommate who was driving said "let's go look," and we took we a detour to the west end of town. We saw three tornadoes, all in a row, on the horizon. I was excited, but my roommates got nervous and we headed back home. That day, though, one of those tornadoes did hit a house out in the country. No one was hurt, but a family lost their home.

Anyway, things are calming down now, and there's actually some blue sky out west. There's more storms out west on the radar, but they don't look as bad. So excitement's over for the night, it looks like.