I felt the concussion & heat from when it ignited from over 150 feet! I did get my camera out during the light rain and get band pic! and some of the adult fun! then duck back into the pavilion to protect my camera! about 8pm we started getting severe weather reports! from there on it was of and on rain! the band continued to play no matter what! I don't know if they help a stage show but if they did it was raining hard enough I wasn't taking my camera out in it!  at some point we were getting mile by mile how close the tornados were away from us as it got closer! there were reports of tornados on the ground in Woodward! some people went to check on things at home! lots of us just hunkered down to weather out the storms including some pretty big hail! some where around mid night the Sharon fire department came out and told us we needed to evacuate the area there was a tornado headed right at us! we piled into vehicles and headed to the shelter at the school! oddly enough by the time we got to the school the all clear had sounded for our area and reports of the tornado hitting down the road a half mile past us! ok so we dodged another bullet!   

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lots of us headed back to camp others went on home! by that time the party had pretty well broken up so I went to bed to the sound of rain! I know what that means but I figured I would deal with that in the morning! the next morning I got up fairly early so I could make it to the coc meeting in Lawton I packed up and was ready to go it had rained most of the night so the roads had not had a chance to dry out and the slop we all stirred up getting out the night before was real soft! Tom followed me out to make sure I made it! the only problem was where the silt was real deep and I bogged down! tom helped me get thru that and I got to the road! of course as soon as I got to the pavement the rain started again! I rode in the rain all the way to Seiling! I finally rode out of the rain there! the clouds were heavy to the south and I could see rain in the sky but just not on me! when I got to Watonga I looked south and could see more rain between me and Lawton! I called home and got  weather there looked to be about 75 miles of rain between me and it! bu the time I rode there thru the rain I would be late for the meeting!  my sister was in town so I decided I could miss one meeting! I headed home! the last 60 miles were dry! I got home a little after noon!  what an adventure this one was! 
          till next time 
                 The Picture Man
                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                      
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