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Your Welcome ! ~ I believe your living in New Orleans hope your staying out of Harms Way from the Hurricane !Thanks for thinking of me.![]()
Your Welcome ! ~ I believe your living in New Orleans hope your staying out of Harms Way from the Hurricane !



I'm in St. Louis, not the Big Easy. I think both have weather challenges; tornado or hurricane, take your pick. Perhaps tornadoes are worse because there's little warning before one strikes.
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Tornadoes are rather like being hit by lightening -- so narrowly focused that few ever actually get hit, but if you do it's often fatal.



I have seen several funnel clouds in my time. I would never go looking for one because they can be deadly. Fortunately the ones that I saw were far away.
A few years ago we were experiencing a lot of storms over several days. Then we got word that funnel clouds had been spotted. I had my class in the library, so we had to go into the hall. (The library had a wall of windows.) My 8th graders weren't afraid, but the 6th graders who had related arts at that period were crying. I didn't make matters any better, but what shocked my students and myself were the number of parents who came to the school to get their kids. This wasn't a neighborhood school, so very few kids lived in walking distance. One of my girls said, "I'm glad my parents aren't that stupid." The winds were high and you could see debris flying everywhere.
I've only seen a funnel cloud once, and it never touched down. It was miles away to the south of me, but it kept sort of dipping down out of the mass of clouds above like it was trying to decide whether to turn into a real tornado or not.
I did once see a dust devil in a parking lot in New Mexico -- sort of a dancing funnel of dirt and dust, maybe fifty feet high, not more than a hundred feet from me. I was glad to be in a car -- it was too small to do me any harm even if it had come my way, as long as my skin wasn't exposed to what must have been a real sand-blasting.
I've never seen a dust devil except for on television. We had a major tornado here in mid to late 50s. It happened at night and if your neighborhood wasn't effected you didn't know about. My mother worked at the post office at night and my sister and I were home. I can't remember if my brother had been born or not. My mother car-pooled with 3 other people. They had to go through some of the worse parts of the city and she was a nervous wreck by the time she got home. On our way to church my stepfather drove through neighborhoods that had been leveled. There would be a block that wasn't touched and a block that didn't exist anymore.

oh thats goodI love almost all music! If I can distinguish the words and sing along, all the better. I haven't heard this one in a long time. Thanks.

oh thats goodCame to say Hi on a Sunday Afternoon
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsE37NZgVEw
can you tell I was in China Town![]()

Stopping in to say Hi need any Hugsssss![]()

