The weather is crazy all over the U.S. and here it has been very unpredictable. 72 degrees Tuesday morning, violent weather moved in, and by bedtime it was plunging into the 30’s. Of course the lights went out after several episodes of flickering on and off like a scene from “The Exorcist.” Late in the evening I had been talking to Christy and she was telling me how black the sky had gotten. I smugly said, oh it’s not like that here. Ha! I went outside and was shocked to see the entire western sky filled with massive rolls of dark blue black storm clouds moving rapidly toward us. Then all hell broke loose.

This violent weather brought tornadoes and hail in different parts of the state. Gusts of high winds blew something on the roof–or off the roof–I haven’t been outside yet to check it out. I had rushed around unplugging everything as the storm exploded. I could hear dead trees cracking like gunshots as they were broken and blown down. (It seems there will never be an end to the dead and dying trees.) The power company worked late into the night getting the power back on.

This morning at daylight the cold damp sky was dropping random snowflakes–the aide rushed in to tell me she had driven through this snow shower, but the flakes melted as soon as they fell, and by 9am the sky was clearing and the sun came out. But not being able to sleep through the “dark and stormy night,” I made up for it by sleeping a good part of the afternoon.

Bye y’all. PS The computer screen keeps warning me I have cookies etc so I don’t know how long the computer will hold out before it crashes. So if and when it does, I will miss everyone so much and be thinking about y’all. Sue