Joplin which is in the news though is just 3 hours away from where we are and they were hit with a major tornado. We have a good bit of Ozark hills which seem to keep us fairly protected by the times storms come across from the Mid-West to our area. We did sleep downstairs last night though.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/us/24weather.html
We will have more thunderstorms coming through tonight and tomorrow. They remind me of a reunion when we were up on the "top" of the Colorado mountains and it thundered and boomed all night. The storms almost all seem like that—in your face—and if you didn't believe in God you better repent. They seem very powerful and are amazing, but a bit scary. I say a lot of prayers to get a pulse on our situation. I usually get an okay and so I don't worry. Yet, I always feel nervous, well nervous until I get the "you'll be alright". Then it is just a matter of getting through the feeling of helplessness during the power of the storm as the lightning cracks and the thunder booms.
The Queen doesn't take storms very well at all. However, it is what it is and we live with it.
What is amazing to me is that the area is used to all the water coming down in this area and so it moves on out and has a place to go. Then the sun comes out and it dries up quite a bit and you are "back to normal" minus a bit of your dirt road or drive way washed down the hill.
Monday, May 23, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Stories just my size
Reading is fun especially when they are made for your hands. Pierre and his "I don't care" episode garnered the most reading. Maurice Sendak wrote many fun stories.
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