30 minutes into Round #2, around 7:30 Friday evening, a good thunderstorm started moving in. Lightning lit up the atrium. Sirens started going off in the distance. A fire truck pulled up downstairs. And then the staff started shutting down this area, which apparently is standard during a tornado warning. At the same time, 1200 kids were told to pause their clocks and leave the playing hall. And then told to return. I shut down laptop, grabbed my beer and the bowl of goldfish, and along with all the other parents, converged on the playing hall, where we were told to go since it was far from the exterior walls of the building. Everyone was warned about commenting on games in progress. Most of the kids seemed to be taking it pretty well, though everyone was pretty confused.
An hour later, things were back to normal and the games resumed. A tornado may have touuched down in the suburbs southwest of Louisville, but we're not sure. Sounds like things were much more serious farther soth and west in Tennessee.
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