Arkansas Tornadoes, in the neighborhood

Some of you may have heard about the Thursday night tornadoes in Little Rock.  We are fine. Frog and Monkey were in bed when the weather started getting bad. We checked the weather before this and during but no reports of tornadoes close, just thunderstorm warnings. Still something didn't feel quite right. Sirens started going off and on. Still no tornado coverage on the weather channel and local news. Then MIL called and said there was a tornado IN our neighborhood. She lives in another city but saw it pinpointed on a satellite channel.

Monkey was already up because the lighting and thunder kept crashing but Frog had dozed off.
My husband grabbed her and we all went downstairs under the house...dogs included. Monkey was worried that we couldn't find Sarah, our cat. I think she was hanging out at the door by the bottom of the stairs so she would have been fairly safe there.

We had gone on a walk earlier and grabbed a roll of berber that someone was replacing to make a taller scratching post for Sarah. The kids had no shoes and were in pjs so we unrolled it and put it on the ground.  That was our spot to wait out the storm. I had bought dh a solar powered and crank radio flashlight for Christmas.  That came in handy.

I didn't see much damage in the morning but not many streets away it was a disaster zone! Trees snapped off and pulled out by the roots. It is odd to see a whole section of the neighborhood treeless.
We tried to drive through Cammack Village/Heights today, our old neighborhood area. Several areas are blocked off and the military is there. Baker Park, where I took a young Frog every morning after I dropped Monkey off at school, is supposed to be pretty messed up.

The wind was incredibly quiet. You would think we would have heard something. I did step out to see if what we heard was the sirens going off, the lightning was crashing so loud, and heard a weird whistling sound in the distance. That may have been the tornado!

 More severe weather is coming this week.