Tornado Alley

You wake up to a cloudy but blue morning. The town of Rolla is a large farming community southwest of St. Louis. The city is up with the birds and down with the sun. People are really friendly and the surrounding area is beautiful!!

As you drive down the freeway you see many lakes and ponds. The farms are lush and oh so green. The trees are mostly hardwoods and many are thick based oaks.

You see many turtle along your route. Some are lucky enough to make it across, but others aren't so lucky. You remember reading about turtles in Missouri. They are mostly box turtles but some are snapping turtles. They cross the roads to go to different bodies of water.

You go through Springfield which just seems to be an obstruction compared to the beauty around it. The fluffy, white clouds and the blue sky turns gray. 

It starts raining after you get out of Springfield. About and hour later you get to Joplin. The town was ravaged by a tornado in 2011. Now, 4 years later, there is little sign of the destruction. You watch out the window as the rain falls and hits the pavement around you. The buildings fly by at 60 mph. It gone too fast.

You enter Oklahoma And the rain let's up a little. The land is beautiful buto slowly turns more yellow as you travel. You go around Oklahoma City but you can still see the buildings in the distance.

The darkness has swallowed the land around you before you reach the border of Texas. The rain is coming down in sheets and it is still 80 degrees out. You know there is a zero percent chance of seeing any spiders unless it's not raining in Amarillo, TX. About an hour