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[elle]

Brad, 
I cannot imagine being in anything so horrific. At
least here whe hurricanes come we have plenty of
notice.
Not that we are out of the tornado loop here...Several
years ago a strong tornado flattened LaPlata, MD,
which is just across the river from here....Lee, were
you in MD then??

Thee have been others, but nothing like the midwest or
Memphis encountered the other day.

elle


--- Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Elle,
> 
> Cora is home today and I'm playing Mr. Mom.  Her
> school (five blocks from
> our house) was hit and the power is out.  I watched
> the first front come
> through, mostly on the deck, and didn't see or hear
> a thing.  Microbursts
> are very localized in nature and most of the
> windshear accidents I use as
> examples in the classroom didn't look that bad on
> radar.  Yesterday was a
> strange and eerie weather day.
> 
> In the late 70's I flew a scientist from the
> University of Chicago following
> the path of a tornado through Southern Illinois that
> finally found a trailer
> park near Mattoon, Il killing about 50.  In the
> early 80's I flew a TV
> camera crew that followed a 100 mile tornado path
> that killed several people
> in Arkansas.  The saddest thing witnessed on that
> mission was a family of
> four that crawled under their bed only to have a
> huge oak completely dissect
> their home, killing all.
> 
> After 50+ years of living from one end to the other
> in Tornado Alley, I've
> gained a great deal of respect for (and fear of)
> Mother Nature.
> 
> Fan's parents called this morning to see if we were
> OK.  The Chinese
> government is pretty quick to air footage of natural
> disasters in the US to
> take the heat off of them.  They're still trying to
> dig out from the worst
> winter weather in 100 years.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 6, 2008 10:58 AM, elle
> <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > So sad...
> >
> >
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080206/ap_on_re_us/severe_weather
> >
> > elle
> >
> > We can't change the angle of the wind....but we
> can adjust our sails.
> >
> >  1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady
> in Red)
> >
> >
> >
> > 
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We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


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