Can you sleep through a tornado?

 One of the things people think of when the Midwest is mentioned is tornadoes. Even though Missouri is not technically in "tornado alley" there are still numerous tornado warnings throughout the summer. Early Wednesday morning the first of the summer warnings hit the Kansas City area. In Liberty we have a very loud tornado warning alarm that goes off that is about one mile from us and our phones will go off when the National Weather Service sends out a tornado warning that tells you to get to a safe place away from windows and preferably in the basement. Those alarms went off around 2:00am. Everyone in our house slept right through them!  (To be fair, our phones were plugged in the kitchen and not next to our beds.) But the wind and the rain were really loud and intense. Even that didn't wake me up. We lost power sometime in the night and it was off for about 12 hours. When I walked out my front door to go on a walk Wednesday morning this is what met my eyes:

We have 8 large trees in our yard and one of the large branches many feet up sheared right off and landed within a foot of our roof and front windows. We feel very blessed that it did not hit anything. 

All of us spent the morning breaking the branches down and clearing everything away. We had some very kind neighbors who leant us a chain saw and pruners and came and helped so that it was all cleared up and taken away in a few hours. 

It was garbage pick up day and we were able to get everything bagged and on the curb by the time the compost garbage truck came by. None of our neighbor's trees were touched, but there were several trees down across the city with some having fallen on cars and mailboxes. No tornadoes touched ground near us thankfully. 

In the future I believe we will be placing our phones nearer our bedrooms!