One of my sons has a friend who is a storm chaser and Craig wants to go with him, much to my horror. Kay In a message dated 01/29/10 10:53:21 Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: My son is just the opposite. He wants to be in a tornado, just to see what it's like. I told him if he was ever in one and lost his home and possibly other things, he would never want to be in another one. Emma > Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:07:30 -0600 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] Cyclones or tornadoes ? > > Tornados seem to carry terrible lasting memories for some people. We had a lady at the nursing home who was so afraid of any kind of storm that she would go out in the hall and sit even during mild wind and rain storms. She said if we had been through a tornado, we'd do the same. The owner finally had to trim the tree outside her window back so the branches were no where near her window. > Kay > > > > In a message dated 01/28/10 23:56:18 Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > A terrible cyclone came through Tennessee when my Mom was a little > girl...about 1917, I think. It skewed the corner of the BIG log house > Papa built when they bought the property, and blew away the two story > Sweet potato storage building { Double walled with sawdust in between} > Mama said they knelt in a circle, held hands and prayed....They found > many odd items that came in on the storm...Jeannie T > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:02:22 -0600 [email protected] (busbys martins) > writes: > > I like the story, Linda, keep it up. Did they use the word 'tornado' > in the original writing? I thought they were called 'cyclones' back > then. > ____________________________________________________________ > Weight Loss Program > Best Weight Loss Program - Click Here! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=vNa-YwqoNWTdXaqCqrLFeQAAJ1BuHtEgYfARCKX2I2eGJBW8AAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEUgAAAAA= > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message