We have a basement!

Here are a few more recent pictures of our house. These pictures were taken a week ago right before the tornadoes came to town AGAIN. Libby and Mike are standing where our basement sliding glass door will be. Not much as been done to the house since. Libby and I are leaving for Michigan on Friday for a little over a week. I hope some progress will be made by the time I get back.

We have been busy around here lately. Libby and I took a quick trip to Cherokee/Storm Lake/Sioux City last Tuesday. We got back just in time for it to storm again on Wednesday. We became storm chasers and eventually ended up at Aunt Joyce's since we still haven't found the storm shelter here. Over the weekend we went to Austin's baseball game and then had our first overnight guests. Jeni, BA and Sophie came to visit for Father's Day. We went shopping, out to eat and played Wii. Monday we went to the College World Series, which was a good time as always. Now I am busy doing laundry, packing and cleaning before we leave on Friday. Our air conditioner has been broken since Tuesday so I am trying to not do too much during the hot days. Maybe it will be fixed tomorrow.

Official Omaha Residents

Here are a few pictures of our new house. The two of the grass are obviously before anything was started. The other two are the basement area. The unexcavated part is the garage. Every night after we eat dinner the three of us go out to the lot to see what has been done that day. I will post more pictures after a few days of progress.

Libby and I have been living in Omaha for 7 days now. In the last 7 days there have been 3 nights with tornado warnings and the sirens have gone off twice. What kind of place are we living in?? I only remember hearing tornado sirens about 4 or 5 times the entire 15 years I lived in Sioux City. Last night Libby spent the night at Aunt Jacque's so Mike and I could go out and celebrate our 10 year anniversary (can you believe it has been 10 years??). The tornado sirens went off at around 2:30am. Jacque had to wake Libby up and take cover. The Millard area was hit pretty good. There are trees and fences down everywhere. A few houses are without roofs and siding today. We drove by our new house and everything is fine there. A couple of houses in the development right next to us didn't fare so well.

Wednesday night, Libby and I were home alone in our 2nd floor apartment when the sirens went off. The funnel clouds luckily died down right before they made it to where we live. The wind was really scary especially since we do not have a basement in our complex. I guess I should be reading up on what to do in case of the next tornado!