Well, it seems we have survived some more tornadoes around here, but it was pretty scary for a while there. We had about twelve extra people (friends, relations, neighbors) in our safe (?) and cozy basement. Some stayed the whole night and some stayed until about 2 in the morning when everything had [...]
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Tornado Watch
Posted in Life, Weather on February 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Homage to a Furnace
Posted in Family, Life, Weather on January 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“This is what I am talking about,” said Sharon, standing in front of the open oven door. “Real heat.”
We had been cold all day and were never able to quite get toasty enough.
“Do you remember the days of our old furnace?” I asked her, joining her at the oven door. And so we [...]
Take Heed
Posted in Life, School, Weather on February 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So there we were—a group of about a dozen strangers—weighed down with backpacks, wrapped up in coats and mufflers and mittens, red-cheeked from the cold, and wishing—yay, even praying—that the next bus would quickly COME. As everyone stood silently in his or her own little world of cold misery in the “shelter” that offered very [...]
