Hi everyone

could you keep Curious, and all others who were in the path of those nasty tornado spawning storms yesterday, in your prayers please

Has anyone heard from Curious or Julie? Prayers going up...thanks Chemar.

Just heard from Curious.....lots of trees down and that kind of damage but they and house/cars etc are safe

anyone wanna come help clean the leaves and branches out of my pool?

thank you for the prayers.

oh...i really want to give kudo's to the tv stations here. they predicted these tornados the day before. we had lots of warning., and like julie posted about on another thread...they track it street by street. they were right on the money. i think it saved many lives.

Curious and Julie

I'm glad you're both okay. I agree with you about the tracking system. Who would have thought those nerdy weathermen would turn out to be such heroes, huh?

I mentioned on another thread we had an F4/5 hit our town on my 9th birthday. It killed 33 people and injured hundreds. Our local library is holding a 40th anniversary memorial on my birthday this year. Maybe I'll bring a cake and celebrate our survival with them.

Back then we had no tracking system or alarms - not even a forecast of rain. It was a beautiful day (sunny and 70s), and my grandfather was visiting from Denmark - first time I'd ever met him. He and my mother were drinking a glass of wine and watching the storm brew outside. Mom told grandpa not to worry because it was just a typical thunderstorm. She changed her tune when the windows blew out. Grandpa never visited the U.S. again - said our weather is too violent.

One "blessing" for me on that day was the fact that my father took off work early because it was my birthday. If it were any other day, he would have been stuck in traffic at the same time and same intersection where the tornado did the most damage.

We didn't know the extent of the damage until the following day. It was such a strange site because everything was covered with a fresh layer of snow - and the National Guard were everywhere. It was amazing to see a huge city bus flipped over on top of the bus station. Another amazing site was someone's wedding photo in a frame wedged halfway into a tree.

hope the clean up is going smoothly, curious

the aerial shots coming in from the damaged area around you is

now there is a report of a massive nor'easter baralling down too....werid werid weather this year!

Sounds dreadful. ugh Weather is crazy lately.

Glad to see that Curious and Julie have posted, although I've not seen Julie's post yet, but figure she's ok from what you've said here. I hope everyone else is alright.

Curious

Glad to see you are still up and swinging. I am sure there quiet a number of us that will love to come and help clean your pool and get a reward for when warmer weather gets here and decides to stay.

I am happy for our kids live down there just out of Dallas. I heard all they had was golf ball size hail there.

Darlene

hi curiuos im glad youre ok