- Good morning you guys,
I hope you're having a great day.
Oh my gosh, Cory just came home
and said the biggest storm of the year is headed our way.
So he's, oh geez!
He said it was gonna be like 80 mile an hour winds.
(wind blowing) (trees rustling)
Oh wow, okay.
Okay, we're gonna go outside, okay.
Oh my god, (laughing) I can't even close the door.
Ah, okay!
You guys cannot see the magnitude of this yet,
but look at our flag going.
Okay it is, welcome to Oklahoma weather.
That's all I'm gonna say, it is raining like crazy.
Windy, very, very windy, leaves are flying everywhere.
Oh, our flag pole!
Can you guys see how it's, like bending back and forth?
Now the wind is going all different directions.
Holy cow you guys, (gasps) oh my gosh, oh my gosh!
Okay, where's my husband?
Where's my husband?
Cory?
I'm going back inside, our kids are both asleep.
I don't want to wake them up,
but I need to find my husband.
Okay, there he is, he's out this door.
Let's go see.
(wind rustling trees) This is crazy Cory!
- I told you.
- [Kristen] Oh, my goodness!
- I said 80 mile an hour winds are coming.
The neighbors gave us a warning,
they're like everything you can grab buckle it down,
make sure it doesn't blow away.
- [Kristen] You were not kidding.
- Yeah, and it just happened like that. (snaps)
And it's still coming, we're not quite there yet.
(Kristen groans) - Yeah.
- Okay, well Cory is videoing because we have this tree,
if you guys don't know this tree right here
has a huge, huge crack in it.
And we're expecting it to fall anytime.
So this might be the storm to take that tree out.
He's gonna record that.
Don't stop recording.
- I'm not. (laughing)
- 'Cause that would be amazing to see.
I kinda wanna go look out the front yard again,
because that was crazy.
Oh my gosh, so windy!
What do you think of all this, Sparta?
No big deal for you huh?
Yeah, you're a cat.
And Penny what are your thoughts?
Not too worried either?
Okay, that's good, that makes me feel better.
I feel like animals can sense things before people can.
So if my animals aren't worried, then I'm not too worried.
The wind is just like a funnel in this front area.
It's crazy how difficult this door is.
Okay, now its easy.
Ah, the wind stopped for a little bit.
This is good, our poor flag is all twisted around that poll.
That is crazy.
(rustling wind) Gosh, you guys.
This is Oklahoma for you, the weather here is wild,
the wind goes insane.
Even if there's not a tornado coming,
it can still be crazy, crazy windy.
The thing that has me a little worried,
the reason I know this is going to be a crazy storm
is because it is cold outside.
It has been hot, it is the middle of summer,
but right now, it is cold.
Look at this, I have goosebumps, or goose pimples,
or whatever you wanna call them.
It's cold out.
Whenever the weather goes from really hot to really cold,
you know something crazy is coming.
Oh my gosh, it's so cold!
The wind just whipped all the rain in here
and (squeals) it's cold.
Look how crazy that tree over there looks.
Its' branches are just like goin' all wild.
It's like the person with the wild haircut.
Oh, it kinda looks like Atlas.
Speaking of Atlas, let's go see how he's doing.
Okay, we have to be super quiet,
because I don't want to wake him up.
But he's napping in Cory and I's bed.
Aw, look how cute he is.
And Chell is up in her room just goofin' off.
Playin' on her own.
And for a moment, it is perfectly still.
That's always scary to me,
when the wind just kind of stops in the middle of a storm.
'cause that usually means something big
is gettin' ready to happen.
Oh, check it out, somebody cool came up to our porch
to get sheltered from the rain.
Look at that guy, he is huge.
You can hang out here, buddy.
I won't bother ya.
He is easily like, the size of my palm.
I don't want to get my hand too close
because I'm gonna freak him out but he's huge.
Cory, look at this huge grasshopper.
- [Cory] Oh, awesome!
- Isn't he cool lookin'? - Wow!
- [Kristen] I don't wanna, oh see, Cory's like, brave.
- [Cory] Oh, he's not going to do anything.
- [Kristen] Well, I just didn't want to scare him. (screams)
- [Cory] He's just trying to get some.
- [Kristen] He flew away.
- [Cory] Yeah, sorry guy.
- [Kristen] Oh, there he is I see him still.
- [Cory] He's found some leaves to hang out under.
Dude, this is so crazy. - I know!
- It said it just turned into tornado weather.
- [Kristen] Did it really, Cory?
- Yes, it did. - Cory?
- What? - Oh my goodness.
- I don't hear sirens.
- [Kristen] I know.
- And were outside we're looking up I don't see any.
- [Kristen] We probably should prepare, we're prepared.
- We're prepared. - We're prepared.
- Well, I guess the worst part of the storm is still coming.
- [Kristen] Oh, good.
- That was the wind in front of it,
and I guess like in the middle its got like,
they said quarter sized hail.
(Kristen gasps) - It's coming.
- What did I just tell you guys
about when everything gets really still?
It freaks me out.
I will say though, I love hail.
That was one of my favorite things about storms growing up.
Have you ever seen like good hail?
- I've seen 'em maybe the size of a BB.
That's the biggest I've ever seen.
- Oh, well here we get some hail.
Okay, Cory's amazing weather app on his phone,
shows that it's 68 degrees out.
Which is a lot colder than it was earlier.
Yeah, look at that, it's comin' right for us.
- [Cory] Yeah, so right now we're right there.
- [Kristen] Yeah.
- [Cory] So it's like the start of it,
and then it's just gonna keep building
and that's the presumptive.
- [Kristen] Yup.
- [Cory] What's gonna happen,
then its gonna be gone at 6:10 it says.
- Whoa, we got some time.
Okay, so if a tornado comes our way,
our plan is, I'll grab the kids.
- I'll grab the cameras.
- (laughing) And the animals.
- And the animals.
- And we will meet in our closet in our bedroom,
because that is the most central place in the house.
Oh, that rain!
And it is the safest place so.
- Yeah. - That's what we'll do.
- Yeah, we're gonna take it seriously too,
like we'll take cameras into the closet with us.
- We've got this stuff, and that's always on us.
Yeah, I wanna work, I'm supposed to be working today.
- You are, he's like so work focused,
he's been up in his office like all day,
and then he went to the store to grab a drink
and came back and the neighbor was like dude, listen.
- Buckle down. - Yup.
- It's gonna be crazy.
Although it was crazy for like a couple minutes.
- I know its not too bad. - But now I'm just I wanna,
I don't want to see a tornado here, but I.
(loud thunder cracking)
- Still going!
- But I wanna see a tornado like,
I would love to see a tornado just pick up
one of our trees individually and take it away.
- I don't think that's how they work.
- Well, actually if I could pick,
I'd like it to pick up that tree in the backyard.
- That's already fallen down.
- And take it over to like maybe
the middle of a lake somewhere,
so fish could have a shelter.
- Aww, that's so nice. - Yeah, that would be nice.
- Yeah. - Yeah hey,
storm, if you could do that, that would be amazing!
- Guys, I'm so dumb,
I'm sitting here doing laundry
of all the stuff I bought in yesterday's vlog.
Which I'm really excited about.
And I hear this loud thumping noise
and I'm like oh, what is it, a tornado, is it just thunder?
I don't know.
It's Chell, in her room.
Her room is right up there.
Right above where I currently am.
And so yeah, I think she's ready to get up. (laughing)
Just look at the clouds outside.
How crazy does that look?
They're a little ominous but, man they're so pretty.
So, so pretty.
Where's Chell?
There's Chell!
(Chell mumbling)
Where you going?
- She came to see me.
- Yeah, Penny came to say good morning.
(humming)
Well, we are downstairs and it is now sunny outside.
You gotta love Oklahoma weather.
Well, we did not get any tornadoes,
or epic hail, that is okay.
(Chell humming) - I'm just holdin' my kids.
- [Kristen] Yeah, it's a perfect way to end the day.
(baby fussing)
- [Kristen] Chell, you wanna say goodbye?
- Goodbye.
- Say, Goodbye!
- Goodbye!
(chuckling)