Good morning to all fellow listers, While doing some research last month at the library, I came across a few articles of interest from the 1871 Nashville Journal. This one is about a "Terrible Tornado" that roared through East St. Louis in March 1871. As the widow of a weather forecaster who specialized in this type of storm, I can say that this is a little early for tornadic activity, but they can form at any time of year if the conditions are right. To any who have contacted me for obits and such -- I am still having major back problems and can only sit for a few minutes at a time. I have every request printed and will go through the list as quickly as I can in the next two weeks. My time at the library is limited by my back, responsibilities to the children who live with me and full-time duties at work. Since Kinko's was just acquired by FedEx, I now must attend a class on FedEx shipping in April. My list of requests numbers over 30 at the moment. I do try and get all that I can for each person who writes and I do apologize for being slow -- but I'm thorough and I'm free, so I hope you'll continue to be patient. I will send a few more brief mentions in my next post. Donnell Redlingshafer Wisniewski