We all fear storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, cyclones, whatever we call them because they are all so unpredictable as to the damage they can cause. Living in Southern California for so many years, I went through many quakes/shakes without much personal damage but the damage to my nerves and fear for my kids in school or away from home for other reasons was another side oof it. They had set up a contact system between parents and schools in case of a really bad 'shake.' 1952 in Georgia, a series of storms hit, one in our area near Atlanta. I lost a lawn chair and my garbage can from the back yard, my neighbor's can was not touched. The same day one came down in Columbus, Ga. where my sister lived, turned over several big semi trucks at a loading dock. Ripped out the backyard gym set at my sister's house, wrapping it around a tree. Left a bowl of pecans untouched on the picnic table on the patio, no damage to the house. Strange!! We once got caught in a sand storm on the California desert, had to replace the badly pitted windsheild. We were having moving along the highway, just slowly following the car lights in front of us, scary before we had passed out of it. Belle

It is amazing how the wind touches one spot and not another. Several years ago, straight line winds (whatever that is) tore lots of shingles off my mom's house and no one else's around her. Kay In a message dated 01/29/10 16:32:00 Central Standard Time, [email protected] writes: We all fear storms, earthquakes, tornadoes, cyclones, whatever we call them because they are all so unpredictable as to the damage they can cause. Living in Southern California for so many years, I went through many quakes/shakes without much personal damage but the damage to my nerves and fear for my kids in school or away from home for other reasons was another side oof it. They had set up a contact system between parents and schools in case of a really bad 'shake.' 1952 in Georgia, a series of storms hit, one in our area near Atlanta. I lost a lawn chair and my garbage can from the back yard, my neighbor's can was not touched. The same day one came down in Columbus, Ga. where my sister lived, turned over several big semi trucks at a loading dock. Ripped out the backyard gym set at my sister's house, wrapping it around a tree. Left a bowl of pecans untouched on the picnic table on the patio, no damage to the house. Strange!! We once got caught in a sand storm on the California desert, had to replace the badly pitted windsheild. We were having moving along the highway, just slowly following the car lights in front of us, scary before we had passed out of it. Belle ------------------------------- 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