Yes, we do share a common bond...we just had our ten-year rememberance a couple of days ago. I remember I wanted to help (I'm an RN) but couldn't, I was getting near my due date with my oldest son.
Heh! I can understand your daughter's curiousity...the weather here is truly awesome to observe. Last year I was trying to get home with a storm coming, managed to pull into a parking lot and was just getting out of the truck to go inside a building when the roof from the house across the street blew off, flew across the parking lot and whizzed right past me! I jumped back in the truck and struggled to get the door shut and got all hunched down in the seat.
It was a wind shear, not a tornado. It blew the door off the building I was trying to get in to!
I shook for an hour after that!
We have storm shelters here, we call them "fraidy holes", as in "I'm afraid, I'm going underground". Even the weather guys on the news call them fraidy holes! LOL I don't have one, but my neighbor does and it's pretty well open to anyone who needs one.
The F5 tornado that hit the OKC area a few years back was so strong that it scoured the pavement off the streets. My husband helped with the cleanup from that and it was so dreadful that he couldn't speak of it without getting upset.
Just incredible.
After the OKC bombing and after that tornado, I was pretty well convinced that the people of Oklahoma are the best on earth. I really love living here. Would like to visit NYC and other places in the world, but Oklahoma is home.
(And that's saying a lot, because I grew up in Texas!)
I started composing a reply yesterday -- I think I didn't post for fear that others wouldn't be interested -- I was surprised that Passover came so far after Easter....if I understand correctly the distance shall tend to grow farther apart after centuries...but the Orthodox Easter is May 1 this year.
I did find some good websites on the Hebrew Calendar though. If my calculations are correct the average Hebrew month is 29.53059414 days, as opposed to the actual lunar month of 29.53058796 days. That amounts to one day's difference every 162,000 years.
Although it looks that the Hebrew year is 365.2468222 days, as opposed to the Gregorian 365.2425 days, meaning one day's difference every 231 years -- I guess that could be a problem in several centuries.
But I don't mean to spoil anyone's Passover -- Shalom.
Wow! What an experience...and you say that was not a tornado, but a windshear??? Goodness! My daughter is eight and watches Storm Stories every night..I get a kick out of it because I don't know many eight year old girls that are that into bad weather, but it's better than "Fairy Odd Parents" or some of the other junk kids watch.
Most of the folks I've met from Oklahoma (ok, the song is in my head now "Oklahoma where the wind comes whipping down the plain")and Texas have been very fine people; one day I will visit both states and go to Galveston, to see the Memorial to the thousands of peole who died in the 1900 Hurricane.
I remember watching the storm story about the F5 and reading about it. Some people were debating on whether there could be an F6 based on that storm. Horrific.
Can't wait to tell my Emily about the "fraidy holes" though. She'll get such a kick out of it.
Take care, and blessings upon you and yours