Way WAY Too Close!

I officially survived the scariest moment of my life! Here is the whole terrifying story.

We spent the morning running errands so we never listened to the weather reports coming in. We left WalMart and Gus decided that he needed to go out to the new church property to check on something. It is only about 1.5 miles from our house so headed down Hwy 96. As we approach the property I see a cloud that looks pretty dark and is really low to the ground. It is partially hidden behind a huge hill so I can't see the whole thing. I say to Gus, "That cloud looks really low. You should hurry up so we can get home. I don't like the way that looks." We get to the property and Gus spends about 4-5 minutes moving some things around. He jumps back in the car and we head home. As we get back on Hwy 96 to head home Gus looks in the rear view mirror and I see a funny look come over his face. He tells me, "Don't look back there". Of course I look back and then I see it. A swirling, twisting tornado is LITERALLY less than a mile behind us! I begin to panic and yell for him to hurry and get us home. We had to make a quick decision to pull over or keep going and get home. Gus decided to just go home since we were close and honestly I just wanted to get Elias inside. The whole way he kept checking behind us and telling me, "DON'T look back!" I actually had no desire whatsoever to look what was coming towards us, so I did not look. (He later told me it actually got even closer to us.) We made it home and rushed into our master bathroom (it has no windows or exterior walls) with our pillows and blankets (just in case we needed to cover our heads). Within minutes the power went out. We stayed there about 30 minutes until we were sure it had passed us. Thankfully our neighborhood did not get any damage. However only about 1 mile away houses were completely destroyed. Had the twister changed its course only SLIGHTLY we would have been directly in its path. Sadly over 100 houses were damaged in Murfreesboro today and many were people injured. It has been an incredibly terrifying day, but we are so thankful to all be safe. Gus has been at the church all afternoon helping to coordinate relief efforts and will be doing the same tomorrow. A neighborhood very near the church was completely wiped out. That is also where the 2 fatalities occurred.
I cannot believe that we came face to face with a tornado today!