This last week I mean. Talk about happy and sad all in one short week. We had a young soldier from WI killed in Afganistan just a week or so before his first wedding anniversary. The tragic storms in the south, and then to lift the spirits the Royal Wedding. I sure hope this is enough for the year. How I pray for peace.
Reading Beth's post about the tornado's reminded me of one we had here years ago. I don't know if I blogged about it on spaces before but I'm going to now. Guess your stuck again, lol. We all stood outside watching the clouds, (it was night so the dark didn't help much) while my youngest sister kept hollering to get inside. When it was over we heard that the area on the hill east of us had some damage and only the fire dept. was there to help. It took the roof off the high school where I worked and damaged a few houses in the area near the school. Damaged the roofs on a few houses and moved a camper (travel trailer) from one side of a driveway to the other.The fireman had to stay all night (Jack was on the dept. at the time) and no one had any power up there. We didn't get anything where we were. We are tucked down between hills on both sides and I guess that helped some. I pray it always does. Well the lady that own the restuarant by us called Mom and she was making coffee for the firemen and the people around there and wonder if we could take it up. Sure, so off we went. She making the coffee, we kept taking and serving it and some of the people had donuts to serve. We kept this up all night and the next morning the lady from the Red Cross came, took all the publicity and left. I guess she didn't feel the damage was bad enough. That left me with a great deal of disapointment in the organization at that time. I'm glad to report they redeemed themselves when we had the flood.
It is so heartbreaking, the loss of life during war. I pray with all of my heart that I might live long enough to see peace on earth. That is not gonna happen.
ReplyDeleteI have little respect for that organization you mentioned. I refuse to contribute to them. I might send an email as to why rather than here.
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Yes, I have to say, it's been quite the week. Here's hoping that next week will be much kinder for everyone.
ReplyDeleteTornadoes, twisters... Mother Nature in general can be quite brutal on her worst days. I guess we shouldn't take her sunny and more blessed days for granted. Here's hoping that all those worldwide who have been affected by devasting storms, etc... find strength to move forward.
Yes, Terry, some very unfortunate weather situations up North and some down here in the lower Midwest. Let's hope the weather starts to settle down some; I still have a garden to plant.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you and your kind-hearted friends were there to help when your neighbors needed you most.
It must be so worrying living in the path of these tornadoes, it makes us realize how lucky we are in UK, though we complain so much about the weather, it's because it can vary so much, though it's unpredictable it's never too extreme. keep well.
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