Yesterday at about 9am I hear that bad weather is headed this way and that the schools in the tricounty area were going to close at noon. I immediately call my mom to go get my daughter at her preschool. I assume that BM is going to take care of SS. I hear later that his school is not going to close early. Around 3:30pm the weather gets really bad in that area. I call his house to see if he has gotten home yet. I don't get an answer. I call DH who is sleeping at home because he is working nightshift and ask him to try to get in touch with him to make sure he is alright. The reason I am worried is because she gets the mother of one of his school friends to take him home after school and he stays by himself until she gets home after 6pm. I thought to myself, surely she would take off work and go get him and either take him back to work with her or stay at home with him or at the very least, ask the mother who picks him up to take him to her house until she came to get him just so he would not be alone in bad weather. He is 11 years old, and although I feel he is mature enough to stay by himself for an hour or two after school, staying alone in bad weather is a completely different story. A high school was hit by a tornado close to us, and that same storm was headed our way. High school age kids DIED in a school with adults around. That's enough to make me worry about my kids. DH finally gets in touch with SS, and he is at home ALONE. I call him and ask him would he like for me to come get him so he won't be alone, but it was 5:45pm when I finally got in touch with him, and he said that his mom had just walked in. I was just so upset that she was not more concerned for his safety, and that the mother who dropped him off didn't think a thing about leaving him alone when the weather siren was going off. DH finally got in touch with BM while she was at work and all she was worried about was swapping weekends because she is getting married for the third time and she was complaining that they would not get to go to Hawaii for their honeymoon because they could not afford it. She seemed angry about it, like she was expecting this guy to pay for everything, and now she is mad that he is finally getting some sense in his head. If he had good sense he wouldn't marry her. He has already bought all new appliances for her house which she says they are going to sell and build a new one. He has taken them to Disney World, and he is paying for this big wedding they are putting on. I would feel sorry for the guy, but, come on, how stupid can you be? I am just glad that he was ok, but that was just luck. What if the tornado had hit his house while he was there alone? If anything had happened to her, I would have wanted to kill her, and her mama, who could have picked him up, and for that matter, her sisters, and especially the mother who dropped him off to stay at his house alone. How can you be so careless about a force as strong as weather in light of all the devastation that has been occurring?