Home alone for Logan Anderson didn’t turn out quite as carefree as it sounded at the day’s start.
Thursday was supposed to be Anderson’s “fun day,” because he had earned good grades recently and was allowed to take the last day off school.
But Thursday was anything but a hoot for the 14-year-old Windsor Middle School student.
He was home alone when the weather turned nasty. Golf-ball-size hail started pounding his house, so he called his parents at work. They told him to get down into the basement bathroom with his two dogs, Sage and Dakota, and take cover.
Then they waited it out.
“The dogs were shaking and screaming, and they went to the bathroom in the bathroom,” Logan said. “It started to smell in there.”
He said he played video games on his cellphone to distract him from the tornado passing overhead.
After the worst winds passed, Logan checked out the basement and everything looked OK, so he headed upstairs.
“All the stairs were full of insulation and there was glass everywhere,” Logan said. “Pretty much the whole roof was gone. Our whole garage was gone. Our four-wheelers flew into the driveway.”
A neighbor came to pick up Logan and the dogs, and they emerged from the house unscathed, if not unshaken.
Reflecting on what happened afterward, Logan knows he dodged a bullet.
“You think of, like, movies and all the bad things that could happen. You think I’ll never see my parents again,” he said. “It was freaky.”
Carlos Illescas: 303-954-1175 or cillescas@denverpost.com
