Just getting to my messages today, and I want to reply to your message Lynn, about the thunder and lightning show, and the ball of orange that you saw...and the hairs standing up on your arms. When I was a young girl, we were visiting my Grandma Bowyer here in WV (our family was living in Columbia, SC at the time while my Dad was stationed at Ft. Jackson), and my sister and I were sleeping in the back bedroom with our aunt....well, this terrific storm came, and we saw 3 HUGH fireballs bounce along the posts on the back porch located outside the bedroom we were in!. They were literally balls of fire, and they just hit one post after another in a flash!! We sat up, looked at each other in amazement! I will never forget that!! My mom came over yesterday to have Sunday dinner with us, and she told me about the time that a fierce storm came at the farm of my Dad's "old home place', the same place where the fireballs hit.....and the house was picked up and completely turned around....nobody in side was hurt, and nothing was damaged! Pretty amazing story! My mom said that from that day on, the house was completely looking in another direction. That seems just unbelievable! If anybody wants to see some sites of the property where the house stood, there is a winery there today that shows the rolling farm land that my grandparents...the Bowyer's owned. You can go to www.wolfcreekwinery.com. My uncle says that the tree in the one shot is the same one that all of the kids played on when they were growing up. The climate and soil must produce some awesome grapes since they have won several awards already. Now why didn't we know that? We could have all been wine producers today!(And there is a legend that there is gold hidden somewhere on the property. The kids all heard about it when they were growing up there.) Lynn, I sometimes have the hair stand up on my arms too....I wonder if it has anything to do with certain people being more perceptive than others...kind of like what they call ESP....I seem to have it happen when nobody else does. I know that I am a very sensitive person. Hope there aren't any storms in anyone's area today!! May the sun shine down on all of us!! Sheila in WV p.s. Richard, you are in Florida....do you have any storm stories to share with us? --------------------------------- Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool.

Wow! What a storm story! Wow-wow-wow! That is incredible, Sheila. Smiles, Anna -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sheila Kline Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 11:35 AM To: PaDutch-Life@rootsweb.com Subject: [PD-LIFE] FIREBALLS OF LIGHTNING Just getting to my messages today, and I want to reply to your message Lynn, about the thunder and lightning show, and the ball of orange that you saw...and the hairs standing up on your arms. When I was a young girl, we were visiting my Grandma Bowyer here in WV (our family was living in Columbia, SC at the time while my Dad was stationed at Ft. Jackson), and my sister and I were sleeping in the back bedroom with our aunt....well, this terrific storm came, and we saw 3 HUGH fireballs bounce along the posts on the back porch located outside the bedroom we were in!. They were literally balls of fire, and they just hit one post after another in a flash!! We sat up, looked at each other in amazement! I will never forget that!! My mom came over yesterday to have Sunday dinner with us, and she told me about the time that a fierce storm came at the farm of my Dad's "old home place', the same place where the fireballs hit.....and the house was picked up and completely turned around....nobody in side was hurt, and nothing was damaged! Pretty amazing story! My mom said that from that day on, the house was completely looking in another direction. That seems just unbelievable! If anybody wants to see some sites of the property where the house stood, there is a winery there today that shows the rolling farm land that my grandparents...the Bowyer's owned. You can go to www.wolfcreekwinery.com. My uncle says that the tree in the one shot is the same one that all of the kids played on when they were growing up. The climate and soil must produce some awesome grapes since they have won several awards already. Now why didn't we know that? We could have all been wine producers today!(And there is a legend that there is gold hidden somewhere on the property. The kids all heard about it when they were growing up there.) Lynn, I sometimes have the hair stand up on my arms too....I wonder if it has anything to do with certain people being more perceptive than others...kind of like what they call ESP....I seem to have it happen when nobody else does. I know that I am a very sensitive person. Hope there aren't any storms in anyone's area today!! May the sun shine down on all of us!! Sheila in WV p.s. Richard, you are in Florida....do you have any storm stories to share with us? --------------------------------- Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sheila in WV says, "Richard, you are in Florida....do you have any storm stories to share with us?". Assuming that I am the Richard in Florida to whom you speaking, let me say this about that. When we get a storm here in Florida, they call it a hurricane; and it gets in all the papers; and you hear about it as soon as we do. I remember Charlie, even though I was in PA when he took the shingles off my roof. I fixed the roof; sold the house; and moved two doors away from my daughter and son-in-law. The one had nothing to do with the other; my daughter says my wife and I are too old to be left alone. Everything's quiet so far this year. I don't even have my storm shutters up yet. My son-in-law takes care of that for me; isn't that why I moved. Here's hoping he won't have to install them this year - or ever. Vinsh uns glick (Wish us luck). Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ps and I thought "balls of fire" was an expression, not to be taken literally!