It's a twister! It's a twister!

Here is the scene earlier this week, waiting out a tornado warning in our basement for an hour at 1am. Please note that Brad is reading a book, Christina and Hillary are huddled in semi-terror, Greg decided to save a bag of Flaming Hot Cheetos in case our house blew down. Sam was pretty "salty" the whole time (in the words of Christina). For Phil this was pretty much old hand since he's from Missouri. Diana was involved in a riveting game of 20 questions with me. And at one point Drew fell asleep standing up. Thanks, Gaby, for this video:

We managed to drag ourselves out of bed 6 hours later to get cracking on our last full week of trail building:


Maple 4: getting things done for America... and braving the elements!