Poison Gas Clouds and Stuff

I should have known. Weird stuff follows us. For instance:
*Kristin and I lad lived in Seymour for six months. They'd never had a tornado. We go to the church to be safe from a possible tornado, only to miss being in the gym when one actually hit by about 30 seconds.
*Six months before we left Seymour, softball sized hail turned the entire town into a disaster area. Every home in town got a new roof, but we missed the worst. Still, Kristin and I huddled in the hallway with the girls as God dribbled basketballs on our roof for about 15 minutes.
*This past November, College Station got about 3-4 inches of snow, most in twenty years according to some.

So last blog was about the "tornado." That was about a week and half ago. Then around noon yesterday, a chemical plant caught fire in southwest Bryan, about 4 miles from where I work. As the afternoon progressed, an acrid, poisonous smoke started to filter into the downtown area. Itchy eyes and irritated throats soon popped up in my office and evacuation orders started flowing. See the chemical was ammonium nitrate, and they couldn't put the fire out because ammonium nitrate + H20= BOOM. Instead, we had to get out. So, our house was safe and (for the time) out of the path of the prevailing winds, so I headed there and made a call to Wally, because we were supposed to have Conversations ( our small group) at his house, which was now Poison Cloud's destination. Since we didn't want to hang out with him, we moved it to our house. Kristin and I set about cleaning when I get a call from Wally- some of his co-workers needed to find a place to crash while the smoke cleared- literally.
Before the evac orders lifted around 8, we had 16 people (including 5 kids 4 and under)in our house, we'd put off the Bible Study, and devoured 60 tenders from Wings-N-More.
So the moral is: If you don't like weird weather and disaster stuff to happen around you- don't ask the Lehrmann family to live near you.