Jim used to get so tired of my constantly saying, "I miss James Spann giving me the weather report!" when we were in Oklahoma and Texas. Even as we were driving home last weekend, we passed a billboard of James Spann and I commented, "Thank God I can get good weather reports now!"
OK........Thank you, James Spann for welcoming me back to Alabama with your wonderful, informative weather updates, but.......enough is enough! I enjoy watching you give the weather reports during news time, but I am getting just a little bit tired of seeing you break-in to my regularly scheduled programs to inform me of the severe thunderstorm warnings and tornado warnings in our area!
I have told everyone that I am a late sleeper. So, don't call me before 10:00 a.m. unless Krisha is in the car, ready to deliver. Yesterday morning, my phone rang at 6:30 a.m. Krisha was calling to inform me that we were under a severe thunderstorm warning. (Remember, I am currently living in an aluminium box, but a pretty one!) So, I get up, throw on my shorts so that Eli and I can head over to Krisha's house. The thunderstorm passes through and I go back to the Cabin (that's what we call the rv, the Cabin).
Then, a hour or so later, we are under another severe thunderstorm warning, the clouds looked very weird, and the wind really started to pick up, so I shout to Eli, "Head for the car!" We fought the wind to get back over to Krisha's house. It was scary. It wasn't confirmed if we actually had a tornado or straight line winds, but it caused damage!! (The same storm system did produce a tornado in Jasper)
Along with the storm taking down several trees and throwing outside furniture around the yard, it also took out our power........for many, many hours.
Of course, when I told Jim about our storm, his reply was, "That's nothing, I rode out Hurricane Ike!" Yes, he did. But, he also has stated that he will never ride out another one!Eli and I miss Jim very, very, very, very much.
(The top picture is of my official "storm watcher".)
0 comments:
Post a Comment