When I first visited to Missouri I was asked by my girlfriend's father to go buy a farm for him. It was raining like crazy that night. I went over to the Realtor's office to make the offer and found he could not run the computer or draft a contract (and he was a broker!). So just as I was sitting down to typed up my first American offer myself the tornado siren went off. Never having lived in a tornado zone before I asked what we should do and the broker just said to finish the contract so that's what I did. Got the deal too

Later I went back to the house and we settled in the basement for a while.