Tornado warning

Stephen had a phone call from Rudy yesterday morning asking if he wanted to play golf, and also mentioning that Northern Virginia had a tornado warning in place. It was hard to believe at that point as the sun was splitting the skies, but true enough when I checked the forecast we had.

At 2pm the sky went black and someone started hosing the windows with a fireman's hose - or rather, that's what it looked like! The rain was absolutely torrential, the street was a river and there was continual thunder and huge (and close) lightning bolts. It was certainly a severe storm - probably the worst we've seen since we've been here. Our power flickered and stayed on but there are around 30,000 houses in the VA region without power, and as many again directly across the Potomac.

Of course, we had no food in the house having just come back from hols, so we had to make a dash for the shops in between storm fronts. We figured that a dozen beers, a couple of bottles of wine and a dozen bottles of water would see us through....oh and a loaf and some goodies from Balducci's just in case things got really bad!!