Nancy, Great Scott!!!! You've certainly had a week. I agree with you. A tornado did touch down.. Stay safe!!! Olivia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Parr" <nancparr@bellsouth.net> To: <GAWARE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [GAWARE] What's Happin > At 05:06 PM 3/15/02 -0500, you wrote: > >Hey Y'all, > > > >I've been looking and looking and nobody is saying anything. Where is > >everybody.? > > > >Guess Savannah is overcrowded!!!! > > > >Olivia > > Hi Olivia and All, > Hard to believe it's St. Patty's weekend already :-) This year is > flying by. The 1st day of Spring is coming up soon, too.....March 20th; > next Wednesday. Is it me or is Spring Break early this year??? And Easter > is just two weeks away. The dogwood trees better get to blooming soon :-) > We've had a scare; our future son-in-law is going through 'boot > camp' at Ft. Jackson, SC and had to be rushed to the hospital at Ft. Gordon > in Augusta, Ga this past Wednesday. He became quite ill and his kidneys > went down to 20% useage. Our daughter was able to get into the hospital to > see him and I think she was good medicine for him because he seems to be > past the initial crisis and will be going back to the hospital at Ft. > Jackson tomorrow or Sunday. Prayer works wonders :-) > We had a storm here in Valdosta last Tuesday night. Although the > weather services swears not, I do believe a tornado touched down in our > neighborhood. We had several large pine trees uprooted and lots of tops > broken out (not in our yard but all along the street right behind us). > It was pretty scary; the day had been nice and I had several windows up > airing out the house when all of a sudden it became very, very dark. The > local news cut in with a tornado warning and I went outside to move my > wrought iron picnic table & chairs closer to the house; a storm several > years ago lifted the table and sent two of the chairs tumbling in the yard > so I always move them close to the house if the wind picks up now -) > Had gotten back inside and remembered the windows were open so ran down the > hall to close them; put my hands on the sill of the one in the bedroom when > I heard this incredible sound (like a train) and then heard trees cracking > and the transformer at the back of our yard sent sparks out all over our > yard. That scared the heck out of me :-) I grabbed our black lab and we > got on the floor in the hallway until it was over. > We were without power from 6:30 until 2:30 a.m.; had the candles > going and my police scanner turned on :-) Drove around in the neighborhood > the next morning and saw all the trees uprooted and all those tops down > everywhere. We were lucky in that we only had a few limbs down and tons of > pine cones. The neighbor directly behind us wasn't so lucky; they had two > large pines on top of their house. And our next door neighbor had one > uprooted in his back yard (that's the one that hit the transformer). All > we've heard the past couple of days is chain saws :-) And it's been fun > watching the tree surgeons take down the pines with the tops out :-) > That's our week in review :-) Hope everyone has a safe and great > weekend !!! > Regards, > Nancy E Parr > > > ==== GAWARE Mailing List ==== > To Unsubscribe:send mail to > GAWARE-L-request@rootsweb.com ..change the "L" to "D" for Digest > with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. > Judy Roberts- Co-Manager- j2roberts@sum.net > Sharon Wright- List Manager- shadri@perry.gulfnet.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.333 / Virus Database: 187 - Release Date: 3/8/02