Tornadoes to the Left - Tornadoes to the Right!

This AM had a threatening weather forecast so we weighed anchor at the north of the 520 bridge in Cocoa and reanchored on the southwest side. By 1100 there were tornadoes sighted a few miles south of us and one to the north by Kennedy Space Center. It was 15 minutes of blinding rain, lightening, hail, thunder, and the boat heeling! The weather improved so we rowed to shore to the world's best hardware store for some odds and ends that we needed for projects. We stopped to talk to folks that came into the Marina in Cocoa "Radical Jack" who actually experienced the tornado this AM. They said they have never been in any weather to compare it to...thought they were going to die! They have been sailing for years out of Nova Scotia. They also said more weather was coming so we high-tailed it out and rowed quickly...very quickly back to Kismet! While in Cocoa we met an artist, Carolyn Seiler, that used to live and paint in Key West. Her work looked very familiar. It happens that I purchased two of her prints about 25 years ago on a trip to Key West and they hung in our house til we left NY! What a small world!