I am back in the office after a couple of days on the road. I left Tuesday afternoon for Nashville hoping to avoid the inevitable storms coming our way. Little did I know what was to come. Approximately two-thirds of the way to Nashville I called home to find out that tornado’s had been spotted close to my home and my wife was taking cover in the bathroom. I stayed on the phone with her for about an hour to make sure she was alright. I felt quite helpless talking to her and not being there to help and assure her that everything would be OK. Once at the hotel I monitored the weather via the Internet and checked on her periodically. Luckily Tennessee was playing Florida in basketball to take my mind off the fast moving storms. As the first half of the game ended, myself and other were told we had to move from the sports-bar area of the hotel to the lobby because of severe storms. Once in the lobby we were moved to the ballroom and eventually into the basement of the hotel. This was nerve-racking as I was considering begin buried below a lot a rubble if a tornado came through downtown Nashville. After returning to the lobby did I learn that Jackson, TN had been hit hard, specifically the campus of Union University. I got off the interstate yesterday on my way home and saw first hand the damage-unbelievable. It is truly a miracle that none of the students in the dorms were killed.
