And the thunder rolls...

Yesterday Scott and I were bored, so decided to go to Barnes & Nobles to browse some books. While we were there the tornado warning siren went off in Sioux Falls so we were ushered into the back area (the employee's break room). Nothing came of it, but Scott decided that we should head home and get the cats into the basement "just in case". Lots of lightening to the west and north, but it looked like the storm was heading mostly north. We got home and I started dinner (single serve lasagna from Schawn's, YUMMY!) then went out into the back yard with Scott.

We were just watching the clouds and lightening in the distance when Scott noticed that there was a bank of clouds moving east and another bank of clouds moving north, right over Brandon. Before long those two banks converged and I've never seen anything like it. The clouds pitched and boiled together, we could see several places where the clouds were spinning, as if being swirled in a beaker. Black, angry clouds mixing with lighter gray clouds, spinning and rolling, but boiling still seems to describe it best. I started to get a little freaked out because it seemed to settle right over our back yard, so I headed back inside to get all of the animals down into the basement. Curiosity overcame my better judgment and I headed back outside to continue to watch the sky with Scott. He said that he saw two or three funnels develop, start to drop and then just as quickly dissipated. That cloud bank moved off without further incident, but then the sky opened up and it rained, and rained, for what seemed like hours it rained. It was an amazing thing to watch.