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Terri9630 said:
Had to calm down the oldest. She is moving into an RV park tomorrow (until she finds a better place) and they JUST called to inform her that her dog can't be left alone for more than 2 hrs a day. We made the reservations 3 weeks ago! Told her he can stay here until we work something out. Then she called back in tears because her glasses broke. She is blind without them and most of her stuff is here so she doesn't know where her old ones are.

Kids...... I'm going to go back to enjoying the flu now.
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The manager of the rv park just called the kid. Aparently the guy that called my daughter was just fired and called all incoming reservations try in to sabotage them. She said the dog is fine as long as he's well behaved. Friggin idiot!!
 
Walked around town at 6:30 this morning as it will be too cold for me until Friday morning to do that again, although I may walk during the day once or twice. At Church to make soup and heat other foods at 8:30 this morning. Set up, cooked, served and then cleaned up. Didn't leave until close to 2:00 pm. Had 10,000 steps in at 2 pm. Came home and haven't done much since.
 
Yesterday was Sunday for us and we started off the morning with studying our scripture lessons for the day together and also made a cheesecake for dessert for a few days.

We went on an afternoon out together to the RSL club and had a good time speaking to some of the locals. In the evening we had a friend come over to visit us and see our new home and it was good to catch up.

Last night's dinner was a bit of a rush before our friend arrived as we were doing a bit of a tidy up so we had eggs on toast and dessert was some of our homemade cheesecake. Our guest who was coming from a meeting we gave him some watermelon and some cheesecake too.

Round 1 of today so far DH started off the morning and got all the pipework from the grapeyard vineyard down and while he did that I put on a load of washing in the washing machine and hung it on the clothes line to dry.

Then I caught up with a few friends via email and sent some emails to people as DH and I have been assigned to do the ward church newsletter in which we are getting to know people in games of Cluedo in the newsletters.
 
Good... @timmie liked my first post about the tornadoes... I didn't even notice! Guess I'm slow tonight! It looks like Lee county got hammered. An old friend I lost contact with a decade ago lived in Lee county... Hope he and his are okay.

Lee county is a rare place for tornadoes... they weren't prepared. Most Alabama tornadoes are much further north. :(
 
Patchouli said:
I don't know What this means, @Terri9630 but I think it's not good to pass out.
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The test is to try to cause the symptoms while she is hooked up to the monitors. If she hadn't reacted on the first try they would have given her a med that I can't remember now and done it again. They said the avg test takes 1/2hr to 45min but to be ready for it to take a couple of hrs.
 
Real cold today, didn't do much of anything. just watched the local news. There were actually 4 tornadoes in the eastern edge of the state yesterday. The one that did the most damage was an EF-4, 170 mph winds.

The death toll is now as 23 with a few people still missing. I saw on the news that in all of 2018 there were only 10 tornado deaths nation wide.
 
Spent all day talking with software engineers and technical support over an Apple mail problem, which they now suspect might actually be a software bug from their end. Several days invested so far on my part, firstto convince them there was a problem, then to show them that every part of the equation except them worked properly. I am far from being a tech whiz, but it seems virtually every piece of software or app I use I manage to stumble across the one place “it can’t do that” or “it’s not supposed to do that”. Spent days recently with issues on our channel manager (the program that coordinates all the calendars of our online travel agencies) because we hit a glitch, and wanted to do some things difeferent from their norm. We offer free stays during our off season as retreats for pastors. The concept of free made all the wheels fall off for them.
 
Weedygarden said:
I saw some of the damage on the news. Do you have a storm cellar that you use during tornadoes and other serious storms? It would be my excuse to have an underground shelter and call it a storm cellar.
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The damage on the news footage can seem overwhelming. But the camera doesn’t begin to show the raw power of an EF-4. For starters such storms are in a constant state of change, this storm wasn’t an EF-4 for 50 miles. It might be an EF-4 for a mile, then an EF-3 for 2 miles then an EF-5 for 3 miles…

What the camera doesn’t show is the subtle things I’ve seen… like dry brown pine needles driven with such force they look like darts sticking out of the bark of a red oak tree, unbroken. Or a feed trough made from 1/4 inch steel plate wrapped around a sapling 4 inches in diameter, yet the sapling wasn’t damaged.

When the winds get into the 150mph to 200mph range unbelievable things begin to happen. In ’74 the roof of someone’s house landed in our front yard. We never found out who’s roof it was. Had they lived within 10 miles we’d have known by the shingles and paint color. This roof came from 20 to 30 miles away.

With the big tornadoes it’s debris that kill people, other people’s houses, cars, tractors, machinery or an entire forest. A few thousand broken tree limbs traveling at 200mph… shrapnel!

One thing I’ll never forget about ’74… My dad had a ford work truck painted several different colors. A 2x4 was driven trough the wall of the truck bed, was pulled back out then driven through the door, pulled back out again, then driven through the windshield, dash, steering wheel, seat and into the gas tank. We could tell by the holes and the paint colors on the 2x4.

The EF-4 was almost a mile wide, at times I’m sure it was over a mile wide. Some of the people in this rural area had 6 minutes notice… This is flat land… few have storm cellars.

Obama had rural storm shelters built… the one near me… some folks have to drive 25 miles to get to it. This EF-4 was traveling at 60mph and the people had 6 minutes of warning… do the math!

The only safe place from one of these monsters is cinderblock walls reinforced with re-bar and cement, and pray a bulldozer doesn’t fall out of the sky.

I feel so bad for these folks, most didn’t have a chance! :(
 
Today we started off the morning relaxing and then went to a small country town near us to look for some meat at a reasonable price. Previously we went to one store and got meat really cheaply on clearance but sadly the markdowns were not good enough this time. We did find some champagne leg ham, discounted burrito kits, potato chips, cheese and sausages on special at the other small supermarket so now we will have a freezer full of sausages and mince we got last time. Just need some bacon and chicken when we go shopping next month along with the usual staples.

This afternoon DH whipper snipped the area where the grape vines were in the enclosure we pulled down to find out what was under there and it seems it has a lot of built up grass clippings and gravel. We were hoping there would have been soil in there but sadly not.

Tonight's dinner was toasted ham and cheese sandwiches with desserts of yoghurt and the remaining cheesecake in the fridge. Shortly we shall pack all the sausages and ham into meal sized portions in the freezer.
 
Good to hear that the storm missed you @timmie.

@Peanut no the people in that area with 6 mins warning had not a hope and I heard on the news that most don't have storm shelters either. Surely the people giving out the warnings had more warning than the 6 minutes they gave the residents ? or do they happen that fast there. We normally get 1 - 2 hours of warning with ours over here about a severe storm front coming and enough time to batten down the hatches.
 
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Peanut said:
The damage on the news footage can seem overwhelming. But the camera doesn’t begin to show the raw power of an EF-4. For starters such storms are in a constant state of change, this storm wasn’t an EF-4 for 50 miles. It might be an EF-4 for a mile, then an EF-3 for 2 miles then an EF-5 for 3 miles…

What the camera doesn’t show is the subtle things I’ve seen… like dry brown pine needles driven with such force they look like darts sticking out of the bark of a red oak tree, unbroken. Or a feed trough made from 1/4 inch steel plate wrapped around a sapling 4 inches in diameter, yet the sapling wasn’t damaged.

When the winds get into the 150mph to 200mph range unbelievable things begin to happen. In ’74 the roof of someone’s house landed in our front yard. We never found out who’s roof it was. Had they lived within 10 miles we’d have known by the shingles and paint color. This roof came from 20 to 30 miles away.

With the big tornadoes it’s debris that kill people, other people’s houses, cars, tractors, machinery or an entire forest. A few thousand broken tree limbs traveling at 200mph… shrapnel!

One thing I’ll never forget about ’74… My dad had a ford work truck painted several different colors. A 2x4 was driven trough the wall of the truck bed, was pulled back out then driven through the door, pulled back out again, then driven through the windshield, dash, steering wheel, seat and into the gas tank. We could tell by the holes and the paint colors on the 2x4.

The EF-4 was almost a mile wide, at times I’m sure it was over a mile wide. Some of the people in this rural area had 6 minutes notice… This is flat land… few have storm cellars.

Obama had rural storm shelters built… the one near me… some folks have to drive 25 miles to get to it. This EF-4 was traveling at 60mph and the people had 6 minutes of warning… do the math!

The only safe place from one of these monsters is cinderblock walls reinforced with re-bar and cement, and pray a bulldozer doesn’t fall out of the sky.

I feel so bad for these folks, most didn’t have a chance! :(
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That is so dangerous! No wonder the death count was so high.

Is there a problem with digging a hole in the yard and building a root cellar / storm cellar? We had one when I was growing up. We played in it on hot summer days. I know the water table can be one issue.
 
Drinking coffee.
Took out trash after gathering it all up.
Done first bit of dishes.
Will do second bit after clean refrig.
Getting ready to go to laundrymat for the weeks laundry.
Deep cleaned underneath the bathroom vanity, straighten, sorted and it needed it.
Restocked the house, car,my sons first aid kits. also first responder's kit all I need for supplies there is hemostats, neosprin.
When I get home from laundrymat, get that put away, will start on drawers in kitchen I think there are 7 or 8 of those.
But at least can set in chair to do those. Then will be on floor doing lower kitchen cabinets.
Hope to finish the kitchen by Friday.
First wave of out of town company comes in Sunday.
They will leave Wednesday. Then the second wave of company will be here Friday.
They will also leave by Wednesday if not sooner.
Strawberry is whiny today. She's been out several times taking care of business.
Now she is walking around whining.
Tried to play with her, she's not interested, fed her,nope not interested, got new toy out for her, nope not interested.
Checked her over with fine tooth comb, can't find anything wrong with her.
But she interested in new neighbors Male Boxer. And I say the way he's acting he's interested too.
But atlas she fixed, whew!
Everybody have a nice day.
 
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