We only wish it hadn't begun at the exact moment we were getting ready
for bed. No tornadoes, just some extraordinary thudner and lightning.
One of the neighbors must have lost a spooked dog, because we heard
someone calling out for something/someone. I would NOT have wanted to
be wandering around in that rain -- or maybe hail. Whatever it was, it
sounded like big, hard drops of wet. The precipitation was actually
hitting our bedroom window, so it had to have been raining more or
less horizontally.
We've got a wind advisory until 7pm today, winds gusting up to 45mph.
There seem to be a lot of wind advisories out here. That, and Fog
Alerts, with much greater frequency than either of us is used to. If
it's not snow, it's got to be something, I imagine.
I found this link about Delaware
County's tornado history. You'll have to scroll down just a screen
or two to get to the Delaware County listing. (All the weather stats I
looked at seemed to only go through 1995.) Local legend has it that
the Indians built Muncie at this particular site along the White River
because they believed a tornado wouldn't cross such a bend in the
river. We hope they were right!
I taught a class on iconic short stories this spring at our homeschool co-op. I don't know how many of my former English teachers may have passed since, but any that have are rolling in their graves at this news. I find teaching especially stressful but this class exceeded my expectations in basically every way and that might have made it worthwhile. We read 20 short stories, which I was free to choose primarily on the basis of how much I liked them. I organized them based on loose associations. Table of Contents (We never officially read this, but it was so short, I included it in case I needed to read it aloud during that first class.) One Summer Night , by Ambrose Bierce Short Story Elements To Build a Fire , by Jack London Irony The Necklace , by Guy de Maupassant The Gift of the Magi , by O. Henry The Ransom of Red Chief , by O. Henry Irony - American The Veldt , by Ray Bradbury The Lottery , by Shirley Jackson Setting - Irony - Foreign The Sniper , by Liam O'Flah...
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Root for UCLA tonight. If they win, I win the basketball pool at school