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Standingstone

Standingstone

The Shire
Could you please remove the first post listed as 'pending'? I was delayed because of the weather yesterday so posted a quick note to let folks know that the post was coming along once weather had settled down. It did and I posted my first post later in the day. It's no longer necessary and no one has responded to that of course....could you make it disappear? Thanks!
 
And it's okay to be a bit "delayed" when it's your discussion week in the RR, there's no exact time schedule! If you think you'll be a couple of days delayed, then you can just PM the person doing the scheduling so he or she is aware of it.

I was watching those "red spots" move through your area yesterday! Hopefully you didn't get more than very windy downpours.

The storm is in my area now, but it's reduced to normal heavy rain and thundershowers. Hopefully it will all be out of the area by the time of our Memorial Day Parade this afternoon! [:)]
 
My family lives in Battle Creek and that area got hit pretty hard. I haven't heard, yet, how any of them fared. I think some cousins are pretty close to areas I'm seeing on the city's newspaper website.
 
Everything ended up south of us and we had lots of wind and branches down. The news for Battle Creek and Kalamazoo show a lot of wind damage, as of noon-time news they hadnt determined if it was straight-line winds or other. All of my sons were home for Sunday dinner and one of them lives in Kazoo. He was getting all kinds of warnings on his phone and his friends were all in storm shelters. Home Depot and Sears put folks into 'red alert' mode which is good but scared the college kids good, considering the recent activity down south. In the end it ended up extending my company while we all 'sat tight'....and that was pretty sweet~love those grown sons of mine!
Very sorry for the folks who've had to deal with clean up and insurance claims but thankful that there were no fatalities.
 
Thanks for your help and good advice. We ended up with a great wind blowing in a warm front today. It's in the 90's today and very humid. Contrasted with night time lows in the 40's just a few days ago....what a strange spring it's been! We're all working outside in the gardens today and I stepped indoors for a potato salad break ;0) I hope that it's cleared up for you as well....our Memorial Day parades are usually so nicely attended. Our local VA post has the Honor Guard play taps at sunset in our lovely Township cemetary...it's .hauntingly beautiful.
All in all, a productive day, heat not withstanding, and my new rock garden is coming along nicely! I had to laugh when one of my adult sons recognized something I said as we were hauling rocks around....'Eat earth! Dig deep! Drink water!' says I.....' Nerd moment mom, didnt Bombadil say that?' I'm not sure what I like more; the fact that one of my sons enjoys landscaping with me or that he remembers obscure LOTR quotes!
Stay cool and thanks again.
 
I grew up in Battle Creek. Moved to East Lansing when I was 21. And then moved to Kalamazoo with my Elf-man so he could go to school at WMU. We were there for the 1980 Tornado that ripped through town. I worked at the State Hospital Children's Unit and that building had very thick walls and the room we were in had only small glass brick windows. So we were all a bit oblivious to what had actually happened until my shift got off work at 11 pm. I lived just minutes from the SH (I had been known to walk to work) and it took me over an hour to drive home as I couldn't find a route not covered with downed trees. We lived 1 block from Mountain Home Cemetery which was in the path of the tornado. So our home was that close to it. The large trees in the cemetery as well as monuments came down. One person - a friend of a coworker - was killed in a laundromat a few blocks from our house.

I tell you, the memory of that still provokes a visceral reaction in me 30 years later. I can remember how the trees looked.. all stripped of their leaves and small branches (it was an F2). I can remember the empty spaces left by all the lovely old trees that had fallen. I can remember how the insulating rubber on the power lines hung in shreds.

Those are all things I've seen here in Minneapolis with the number of instances of tornadoes and straight line winds. It was almost a year before I didn't feel ill driving through the park near my house that lost a lot of large trees.

The one bright spot for the 1981 tornado that came through the south side of Minneapolis: As they cleared away the large trees that feel near Lake Harriet, they found the remnants of an old rock garden. The garden has since been restored and is designated as a peace garden.

In this year of bad weather, no fatalities is a good thing.
 
as far as my cousins, I sent an email to one that I think was quite close to some damage I found on the Battle Creek Enquirer's website. She hasn't answered but then, she doesn't check email all the time. And, if she had power out or has to deal with damage, I'm sure emails are the last thing she's thinking about. The other two cousins I'm not in close contact with but I may email one tonight.

I'm a bit more worried about my mother and brother. My mother has been quite ill and is now in a nursing home. The last time I tried calling her she was not responsive enough to talk on the phone. I'm sure the nursing home is fine or dealing with any damage they might have adequately. My brother, who lives with my mother is disabled from a stroke and cannot easily talk on the phone. They don't have internet or a computer so emails are out. My geography of BC is fuzzy after almost 35 years gone and the reports don't show all the areas affected.

My brother has people around to help so I'm not too worried for his immediate safety... but if there is damage to the house it will be a terrible added stress to my sister and I... mostly my sister who has been driving up from Kentucky trying to deal with my mother's situation. To be honest, we haven't been the closest family so this decline in my mother's health has the added dimension of that stress on it.
 
it sounds like there are no fatalities. How difficult for you and your family with all those health problems, and your sister having to drive up from so very far away! (I assume she's not up there right now?)

You all have my prayers . . .[unsure]
 
Just a note to let you know that WOOD-TV is the local station for West Michigan. You may find more info regarding damage and support on their website as well. I hope that everything turns out 'well' for you and yours.
 
Geeky sons are wonderful (I know, I have one of my own)! [heart]

Any morning parades around here were washed out, but our afternoon parade had sunshine, and it didn't get too hot; good for all the Little League teams and school groups walking the mile route, and for the veterans who were being driven in decorated convertibles (I didn't realize we had a Pearl Harbor survivor in town!).

Sounds like you had quite a storm in your area, I'm glad you got through it with no serious damage!
 
After all of the trauma and damage, restoring a rock garden and renaming it a Peace Garden is fitting. I remember the tornado in Kazoo...there are a few of those events that folks around here give a name to; The Palm Sunday tornado when I was younger is a memory not soon forgotten though I was very young. It's sobering to see how powerful nature is and know that in a blink of an eye such damage can be done....the straight line winds in 98 blew 13 mature trees down in my yard at 5 in the morning. Frightful memories and a moment of panic with my children, it's no wonder that you remembered so vividly through the years.
 
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