Tornado coming at us!!!

This afternoon we had quite the experience! My friend Shandi and I were sitting inside our house talking when her heard tornado sirens going on. We, like everyone else, did exactly what you should not do in a situation like this... we hurried outside to get a closer look! There it was right in front of us! We watched as it moved quickly in our direction, swirling and swirling. Danny's brother James was just pulling up to our house and the two of them hurried to get the kids inside. It was raining hard out and then the hail started up. I ran back and forth through my porch trying to collect as many of my flower pots as I could to save them... that's over a hundred dollars after all!!! It started getting pretty rough outside so we closed up the door and stayed inside. We got crazy amounts of golf sized hail! It was so loud and it got real dark outside. Everything passed after about 20 minutes. We heard that the tornado touched down about 4 miles north of us and again about 1 mile east of us. Seems like it twirled right around our house! We talked with my parents and Danny's parents who both live in the same neighborhood. They both got some damage but luckily everyone was home at the time and okay. Each of Danny's, James's, and Shandi's trucks got some hail damage. We spoke to Shandi's mom who was working at a store in the shopping center the tornado touched down in and she saw it pretty close up! She said she passed houses driving home that had the roofs blown off! Pretty crazy! We could not believe how close it was! Now our lawn is covered in broken branches and fallen leaves. So we've got a mess to clean up. But it sure was uper exciting!!!