We were anxious to get back to Chicago after being away for almost two weeks but the weather just wasn't cooperating. We turned the radio on while traveling through Minnesota because the sky just kept getting blacker and blacker. Normal programing was replaced with storm warnings. The radio listed towns and counties with possible funnel cloud sightings or flash flood warnings.
They'd say a city and I'd ask Doc, "Don't we travel through La Crosse?" "Don't we go by Osage?' He never would really answered me.
Around 4:30 p.m. Doc said, "I think we better pull over and stay at the next town possible. " We were about 10 more miles west of Albert Lea, MN. We stopped earlier than I expected but I'm glad we did. I don't recall ever seeing the sky so black. During the evening the storm raged. We awoke several times to thunder, lightening and strong wind.
The next day we drove into Chicago in rain but nothing like the severe weather they experienced the day before. Many of the western suburbs had tornados that had touched down. I also learned when we were traveling in MN we were about 20 miles North of the towns that the radio was warning to take shelter from tornado and flash flooding! Doc just didn't want to upset me.
And I thought winters in the Midwest were tough!
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