What do young Iowa baseball players and their families do when a tornado looms in the distance? Play ball.

At least that's what a Little League team of fifth- and sixth-graders in the eastern Iowa town of Montezuma did earlier this week.

Jamie Brennan, a parent at the game, took a video of the curious scene, which you can watch below, while the young ballplayers continued with their warm-ups as a tornado looms in the background.

"The tornado appeared very quickly and also disappeared fairly quickly as well," Brennan said. "The game before ours was canceled due to potential tornadoes. By the time it was our turn, everyone thought the storm had passed. When they were warming up, it was clear outside — there was no lightning, rain, wind or anything."

The Quad Cities National Weather Service did confirm the presence of a twister that injured a man in Poweshiek County and damaged a farmstead near Barnes City and Deep River, which would place it squarely in the Montezuma area. No other tornado-related injuries have been reported.

"I know the video appears careless, but there were many people there and no one was panicking," Brennan said, remarking on the criticism she's received on social media after filming the incident. "If I felt like it was a dangerous situation, I would have removed my child from the field immediately."

For some, just seeing a tornado may be cause to run for the nearest shelter. For these Iowans, though, a little tornado a long way off was no cause for alarm.

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