re: #136 thedopefishlives

Just heard from the fishfolk. The city of Kokomo is a wreck; 2 EF-2 tornados struck it yesterday, rendering the southern parts a veritable war zone. My family’s farm is okay, but further up the road there were trees down, roofs damaged, even barns and houses destroyed. Going home for Christmas is just a little bit more important this year, because we all came about that close to not having a home to go back to.

I’m glad your folks are ok. I know the havoc that this can bring.

I was out mowing the lawn when the phone call came in about the tornado at my grandparents’. Later that afternoon, another phone call came in and I got to go to see the Devils play for the Stanley Cup (lost that game, but won the Cup).

We were out there for 3 weeks, that summer, in a camper that slept 5 (if you were generous). The bathroom was in the house, the kitchen in the garage. The rest of the house was gutted.

I’ll never again walk my feet up the wood paneling as I fail to fall asleep because it’s too hot in the attic.