-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [HOWELLS-SOUTH] Early Co., GA Fireball Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 18:23:52 -0600 Resent-From: HOWELLS-SOUTHERN-L@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:23:41 GMT From: arthurus@juno.com Reply-To: HOWELLS-SOUTHERN-L@rootsweb.com To: HOWELLS-SOUTHERN-L@rootsweb.com Have you ever seen a fireball lightning? It is a round moving ball of fire, usually caused by lightning. My HOWELL great grandparents lived in Blakely, Early Co., GA on the main street that faces the Blakely Cemetery. They were William "Hiram" HOWELL and his lovely wife Annie "Seabie" THOMPSON HOWELL. I don't know what it was about that location, but twice in our family history a FIREBALL rolled through that house. In about 1933, my dad was playing with brothers, cousins and neighbors in the yard outside the house. A loud crash of thunder sent them scurrying for the house. As they ran for the porch, a ball of fire beat them there, went through the screened door, through the living room, dining room and kitchen before exiting the back screen door. There was no other lightning or thunder that day and it did not rain. Both screen doors had scorched circles on them and there was a fine layer of ash in a path through the house. The cook threw her apron over her head and refused to work for the rest of the day. She thought haints were coming out of the cemetery. Later, in 1956, on Thanksgiving Day, we had just begun eating dinner when we heard distant thunder. It was a hot day and the doors and windows were open. As my mother and grandmother began to close windows against approaching rain, the front door slammed back against the wall and a fireball raced through the house and out that same back door. Once outside, it disappeared. It was quite frightening to this small girl, especially all of the screaming grownups. Dot in FL ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ==== HOWELLS-SOUTHERN Mailing List ==== Need to reach Colleen, the discussion coordinator? Send her an email at <ladyaudris@earthlink.net>. ============================== 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