Storm chasers

So we pulled into a gas station in Colby, Kansas today only to be immediately followed into the parking lot by a caravan of STORM-CHASERS! After about an hour of driving through heavy rains, crosswinds, and some nasty-looking clouds in western Kansas, our worries were confirmed by the presence of bona fide storm chasers. Their vehicles had all of the instruments on top...just like in the movie "Twister." And the fact that they quickly filled up with gas and then peeled out of the parking lot didn't exactly inspire confidence in the weather.

You know how, sometimes, in a narrow aisle of a grocery store, you might have to turn sideways to squeeze by another person also trying to come down that same narrow aisle? That's exactly how we were today with the tornadoes. Only instead of a narrow aisle, it was Interstate 70. By the grace of God we narrowly missed all of the madness. And now we're safe in a hotel in north Denver. We were going to try to make it farther today, but apparently there's still some nasty weather in the exact direction that we need to go......so we'll just wait until the morning.