Twisters! and we're in Sturgis

Has anyone ever seen that movie Twister where those storm chasers follow around all those crazy storms? Well, real people like that passed us on the road today twice. We had heard form many people that there'd be tornado warnings that afternoon. The sky was darkening and the wind got intense. Things started getting hairy as I watched Aaron pedal in front of me at an angle, leaning into the wind so it wouldn't nock him off the road. After deciding to stop messing around we stuck our thumbs out and eventually a most excellent lady named Bonnie and her two grandkids stopped to give us a lift. We piled our bikes and bags in the back of her truck and climbed in. We had pedaled about fifty miles away from Pierre and she took us all the way to Sturgis where we're resting our nerves. This ride put us about three days ahead of schedule and we're okay with that. Maybe some bicycle touring purists would call this cheating, but we thought it best not to get sucked into a cyclone like Dorothy.