[Carriage Hill]

Dad's fine, thanks, and he only lost 1 shrub from a downed limb in the landscape. The walk/drive are unscathed, but were littered with limbs and tree debris. He said it wasn't "as bad as the Ardennes Forest"; his usual understatement, if you know from history what that hellish bombardment in the BoTB was like. He had some breakers tripped, and AC was out, so I reset them to avert his calling-in an electrician. I called him ahead of the storm's initial blast last evening, and told him to get the lapper and TV shut down quickly. It was brutal here for 15-20 mins. He and the neighbors are back-up and running just fine.

Typical damage:

[MagUSNRET]

Glad to hear all is well.
The older I get, the more I dislike tornado season being alone...but I sill smile and laugh at the years of ridicule I got (and still get) from my sons, when they see my “Tornado bag” (flashlight, radio, extra batteries, bottled water, toiler paper and a box of milk duds (I DO have my priorities!! ;-)

[MagUSNRET]

ONly bad news on my end of the screen is....I found out my baby blues now have cataracts (and with me being so young too! ;-)—Doc says we can stave off surgery for maybe a year...Hell, now I know why I kept trying to clean my glasses, when I wasnt wearing any ;-) My folks had cataract surgery in their mid 80’s.....One begins to wonder if so many years watching cardiac monitora and now using computers may have contributed to me needing it so much sooner........but...it is what it is.......and I hear men still make passes at girls who wear glasses LOL

[Repeal The 17th]

“... it wasn’t “as bad as the Ardennes Forest ...”
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few things rate