Thursday, February 7, 2008

Wrath of... Thor?

Thor, Zeus, Tlaloc, Seth, Haokah, Mother Nature, Jehovah or whoever you blame when the weather runs amok came to visit us Tuesday night. By "visit" I mean "went on a ramage of mindless destruction", of course. We had to drive through the edges of the storm cell that spawned killer tornados in our town and others on our way home from rapier practice. Not fun. Then when we got home, we spent a tense night listening for the tornado siren at the high school a few blocks from us. Everytime it would go off, we wondered if we were next on the hit list. Fortunately, the worst of it missed us by a few miles. Others were not so lucky. Nature's fury is no laughing matter and sometimes all we can do is respect it's destructive power, rebuild and move on. I'm grateful to the above list of Deities that we were spared the horror that was visited on some of our neighbors that night. Our house and, more importantly, our fragile bodies are still intact. My deepest condolences to those who can not say the same and to their families.

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